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here's a taste of my classical recording.
i'm singing in BEHIND the orchestra so the balance will seem a little off. you be the judge.
the mics were placed about 20 feet from the front of the stage and were a spaced omni pair. neumann km100 mk30 capsules. into 002. no eqing or anything.
http://www3.telus.net/public/vicwind/deposuit.mov
this was recorded live in the Chan Center in Vancouver

This was recorded in the UBC recital hall. pair of nuemann omnis.
file:///Volumes/vicwind1/Music/amy.mov

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Captain Ben,
Just heard 'Just a Tenderness'...some very cool stuff in it, and those vocals are tuff. Nice mix too. Download time is veery slow at about 10kb, but I want to listen to 'Murderer' later.
-Roy

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Hey Roy, thanks for the listen. Sorry again about the D/Load time. Ive been trying to do something about getting some better hosting, but for now its free... Whattya gunna do, eh?

Anyway, yeah, the funny thing about that mix was, I did the song, spent about 5 or 6 hours mixing it, probably 2 or 3 days in a row on my home stereo system. (obviously not the best source).

AfterI got about what I think was the best I could have done with the musical material presented and the equipment I had, I emailed the guy to which the song belonged to, Ruby Ratzinger. He said that due to bandwidth reasons, and the amount of song files going through, he needed the song emailed to him at, get this, nothing greater than stereo mp3, 33kbps. I reply, "Hey, thats going to be a quite a bit muddy and underwater sounding, dont you think?" He says "send away!"
So I did, then he replies and tells me "The mix is a bit dirty, and rather inaudibly differentiating."

Well.. no $&$*... haha. Do a nice clean mix, and then he tells me to send him the file after its been processed through a "200ft UnderWater with no bass" plugin.

Oh well.. Thanks again for the listen.
As for the other song, I know youve heard the regular version before, I just decided to do this live cut for fun.

=-Ben

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here's another using that same setup. CHECK OUT "Small Stuff" i really need some critical comments about the mix. i know there's tuning issues and such, but all the tracks are one-taked. we could re-track and will, but how can i make this initial mix sound better? http://homepage.mac.com/vicwind1/Menu1.html BTW: my protools preferences have the conversion quality set at BETTER. the bounce to disc was done to mp3 at medium quality. is there a signifigant increase if one set protools conversion to TWEAKHEAD?

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Roy, I took a listen to Bigfoot...
good stuff going there..Love the bass tone.
A heavy motif, but also a very clean recording....

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Thanks guys.

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Jon Dickinson,
Just heard Fingerwolf/'softearth'...nice...very interesting synth sounds. What type of synth are you using?
thanks, Roy

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Hey Jon, At Roys mention of "Synth" I had to take a listen to Soft Earth. I must agree, that synth you are using for your Bass loop is really cool. I like the track a lot, but something about the portamento sound gets me at the end.

Nice track though, I really like what I heard.

=-Ben

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Ben/Roy, thanks for the comments - the lead sound is a Pro53, which I find an excellent Prophet simulation, I'm using it more and more these days. Funnily enough, everything else on the track comes from Reason, but I bounce each track from Reason down to a 24 bit WAV and then import into PTLE so I get all those lovely sounds but without using the Reason mixer, which I reckon is 99% of what gives Reason produced tracks their distinctive sound, so I bypass that completely:-)

The bass loop is a really meaty Malstrom sound going into the Reason Vocoder at 16 bands, being modulated by a Rex loop of some indian percussion, but with the attack and decay in the vocoder tweaked a bit to give some 'surge' to the sound.

The Rhodes is the freely available 'Matt's 8 Layer Suitcase Rhodes' going through a Scream for some mild tape saturation. Nice.

I just bought the impOSCar, FM7 and also Novation V-Station after giving them a go on a friend's rig and I'm totally immersed in some sound design on all three, so I'll post something up here when I can snap out of it and use them on some compositions!

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Hello guys,

Here's the latest version of that jazz tune I've been working on: version C

I really like it now...let me know if you hear any problem areas or anything that could use some more work.

Thanks,
Chris

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Some latin Stuff here

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/lajcjband

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Chucktoledo,
I can get your website (very nice), but the song link isn't working for me. I definitely want to hear it..... thanks, Roy





Chris Cavell,
Version 'C' of the jazz sounds superb to me.....I'll be listening to this driving along the ocean pretty soon... Just sent you an email on the 'Bigfoot' masters.
-Roy

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Chris,

hearing your music and your latest mix I think there is not much that I can say that you don't already know. Also I just came from a jam in my neighbourhood and my ears are somewhat numbed now. But it appears to me as if you did a retake on the bass, at least, it seems to have more tone definition of it's own, less 'overtalk' (what's the word, bleed?) through the mic. The overall sound is easier yet dynamic, less pressure and more space. That's how it sounds to me. Astonishing work in my ears, musically also.

Back to my guitar lessons but ......

Chucktoledo I tried to open your webpage but the link gave me a blanco IE screen. Hope to hear some of your music but right now I cannot open your page. Later I hope

Jon 'Fingerwolf', I really like the sound of the bass in the composition on your page. I like that in combination with the acoustic, live drums (being not midi). The progression of the chords makes sense to me, but I think you can do something about the melody from the piano. Could be a bit more developed, right now it seems like it lacks direction. Sounds are really nice, also the synth, but the song as a whole needs some more work. For a first PTLE product however it's really not bad, when talking in terms of good/bad/etc. Interesting to see what it's gonna be after some time.

It's been some time since I made any new stuff. http://www.xs4all.nl/~walterp5/Porn%20Funk.mp3 This I made for the Porn Funk contest. Midi bass, looped acoustic drums some times also midi drums (Waldorf PPG VST inst), some ducks from a cd and some guitar fragments. Just a snippet, but nice to have Rewire at least in Cubase for the moment. Any criticism is welcome. Hope to come up with some new stuff later, there are some ideas in my head and also there is a piece I'm working on. Meanwhile I'll be lurking around

Good luck all,

Walther

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Walther,

The bass wasn't a retake...I posted some of the methods I used to revive it over on nikki's forum if you want to check them out (look a few posts down, the one on June 28th is the beginning post for this tune):

http://www.nintheye.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=88

Thanks for the compliments,
Chris

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There ya go. It definitely sounds better, the bass, but this is caused by your mixing and not by a retake. Quite deceptive, maybe this says something about your skills as producer too. Comparing your mixes a, b & c there proves to be a lot possible only by different ways a mixing/mastering. You got me there ......

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P.S. I'll check out the link as soon as I can. Time to go to bed now, 2 o'clock at night.
C u,
Walther

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Bump!

New signature.

Goodnight all!

Walther

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hey everyone,
the soundcard on my computer has been malfunctioning, and i've just got a chance to catch up on some listening, i'll get the other stuff soon as well.

roy-bigfoot moon rocks!
ben/captain-i think Murderer is one of the best songs up here, really cool
just a tenderness is also a really really cool one. what vocal effects do you have on there? whisper track?

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Thanks, Ev...


I want to thank Chris Cavell for doing an excellent job of mastering 'Bigfoot Moon'. He gave me a choice of 2 separate master mixes, A and B. If you get a chance, listen and see which one you prefer. ('A' is definitely the best to me).
(Thanks, Chris)
-Roy


Bigfoot Moon/Mix A


Bigfoot Moon/Mix B

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Hey, Happy Canada Day, eh!

I've been quietly lurking hear, enjoying very much what I hear, thought it was about time to put up a couple of my own...



Bobo's Oboe

All Is Fair in Love and War

This is the first stuff out of my PT set up, so if I could lean on your experience...

Thanks, guys.

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Walther, thanks for the feedback - you're right about the melody, I thought I'd live with it for a while and I already know which bits I think sit well and which bits basically sound like aimless noodling, so I'll be revisiting that shortly.

Interestingly enough, the drums *aren't* live - I specifically put them together and programmed them so they would sound as like a real drummer as possible, and in your case, it appears to have worked. Groove templates and such are nice in the right context, but this stuff has absolutely no quantise on it whatsoever, it's all played in from a keyboard by my fair hand and I've manually moved quite a few notes to give it the required swing.

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Hey Roy, everybody, sorry about the link, I've been trying to get a direct link to a particular song, but somehow it doesn't let me. Any ways try the link below, you'll see two folders, In one I have the stuff I recorded with the guys in my latin band, and in the other folder, my attemp to Latin Jazz.

They are not mastered and need a lot of work on the mixing, the majority of the instruments were recorded in my home's family room with really poor acoustics, but I'm doing the best I can.

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/lajcjband

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OK, I'll throw this to the wolves.
Just a rough mix. Arrangement not set yet. A few SNAFU's in the bass line.
Looking for comments before I go any further.
Thanks

Roundabout

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This is the second time I am mistaking in telling live vs midi. It was the timing and ms. before or after the beat that made me feel the drums were played live. Not quantised, indeed. Maybe I also should also play drums via keyboard and leave it unquantised. It sure works. Good to know also that one can get by with a drummodule when no real drummer is available. My music always sounds so midi.

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Roy,
Wow, that piece just oozes with feel. What are you using for drums? The compression on them gives them a nice pop. The big guitar intro is cool too. That's the best material I've heard from you yet, IMO. Are you using ambience reverb on the drums? What's your guitar chain? Hopefully you haven't already posted the details. I haven't been reading...getting hitched in one week.

As far as which mix I liked the most. B sounds more aggressive, they are both great....I think I like A a bit more.

Chris,
I am curious as to how you approached the master. Do you do stem submixes or master a complete mixdown? What software/hardware are you using?

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Roy,

HUGE sound man! I love it! I listened through crappy little computer speakers with a POS subwoofer and it still sounds big as all outdoors. Great tune!

--joe

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Keith,

I love 'Unclaimed Baggage'. That's the kind of stuff I can listen to again and again. Once you fix the stuff you mentioned in your post (the flat vox and missed guitar notes) you will have a really great tune on your hands.

--joe

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Ahh, another Red Dwarf fan I see.

--joe

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Thanks Joe,

I figured I would post my first attempt and then hopefully when I record that tune for real, everybody could check out the difference. (I also used T-Racks for a little mastering, but was not too pleased...Have to tweak more with that)

Thanks again!

Keith

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Guit4Brains,

Shoot me an e-mail.

-Chris

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Can I gloat?

I knew they were MIDI. They are done very well; but I just noticed the dynamics/sound were the same for each piece of drumkit, and assumed they were 'fake' drums.

Great track, put together real nice, Ive been listening to it for several days now in my playlist at work. Good Job!


=-Ben

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Guit4brains...Joe...Thanks.......

Guit,
For drums on 'Bigfoot', I used a bunch of my own samples in ReDrum, and some on their own audio tracks. I did indeed use Ambience on the snare...so thanks again for the tip...
Chris Cavell did a great job mastering it, in my opinion. Thanks for the comments.
-Roy


Back to listen in a while...

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chucktoledo,
'Take Five'.....very cool...I love the Latin style percussion(is this Reason?)...sax sounds fantastic. You did a very good job on this...
-Roy

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ChuckToledo,

I really dig the rendition of Brubeck's 'Take Five'...taking it in a seriously latin direction and totally maintaining respect for the title of the tune!

Not a bad job at all of covering the number one best selling jazz single of all time...a truly difficult task to pull off musically...being such a well known song, expectations were high for me, but you met them with this arrangement...and the interlude is very cool too!

Cheers,
Chris

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Hi all,

Really diggin some of the stuff you guys put on here. I dont play in a band nor do I play any instruments, just have a little project studio and tryin to better my engineering skills. Tryin to record all types of music, dip my hand in anything that comes my way Well I have been pretty fortunate so far as recording talent goes. This jazz tune here is a musician from the group Midnight Star, and is also my instructor at school, so I got pretty lucky to add his name to my resume of people I have been able to record. Another is a guy named Monty Burns who is pretty big in the Cincinatti rap scene, he just won the Cincinnati Idiol. Hopefully you guys can check these two songs out and give me some feedback on these two tracks.

Touch (smooth jazz)
Uh oh (Rap)

Not sure about the quality (mp3s) http://briefcase.yahoo.com/sportzzz2003


Thanks
Eddie D

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chucktoledo
Take Five in 4/4. That's an interesting idea. Nice playing and recording. Sax sounds a bit honky for my taste. Recording process, not playing. How did you record it?
Are the drums midi? Nice programming if they are.

Eddie
Nice recordings. The bottom end on the rap track is a bit "splatty" in my cans through the computer soundcard.
Everything else is nace and clean.

I like touch. There's not a lot of people doing smooth jazz.
Check out Dave Duffus. He's a good mate of mine, and another smooth jazz sax artist.

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I posted this earlier but it looks like it got burried.

OK, I'll throw this to the wolves.
Just a rough mix. Arrangement not set yet. A few SNAFU's in the bass line.
Looking for comments before I go any further.
Link in signature below.
Thanks

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Mark,
'Roundabout' is very cool...nice mix, guitars and drums sound good, and Brenda sounds great as usual. So this is what you needed a V8 engine for, eh?... ...I like it...cool song indeed.
-Roy

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Hi Mark,

Thanks for checking out the tunes and commenting:). Your stuff is very cool this is the second tune I have heard from you and they both are great. When I recorded the rap track the music bed was already laid so there wasnt much I could do with the bass line to tighten it up. Ty for the link to Dave Duffus, I love Blonde in Jupiter, nothing like a relaxing smooth jazz song to set off the day or even to chill in the car on a hot summer night. Awesome stuff ty again.


Eddie D

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Bobo's Oboe

All Is Fair in Love and War

This is the first stuff out of my PT set up, so if I could lean on your experience...

Thanks, guys.

....apologies for the vocals, I'm no singer but at least you get the idea.