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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@Mladen Milojković Most of your samples sound very good. I have reservations about the mic behind you and also the farthest distance in Experiment 3. You seem to be in a fairly narrow room but you're…
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@Carlo Martins Thanks for commenting. One thing I've learned from this TWI is to be not afraid of greater distances between microphone(s) and instrument.
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@David Trevors Unfortunately, I got a 'Video Unavailable' message when I tried to view. Maybe you need to look at the permissions you set on YouTube.
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
Exercise with three microphone distances; approx 20° off to player's RHS in each case. An X-Y stereo pair configuration was used. 65 cm from instrument; 125 cm from floor 120 cm from instrument;…
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
Three microphone positions with a fixed distance of 60 cm. Height off the floor was 120 cm (to clear the music stand). First: Centre front Second: 30° to player's right. Third: 30° to player's left
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@Martin Thank you for your comments. The first position is my standard place for practising and recording in audio only (which I prefer to video recording).…
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@Jeff Parker Thank you for the comment. The audio was recorded into GarageBand and edited. A little EQ, compression and reverb were applied. The completed audio track was imported into iMovie along…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
@Jeff Parker Your sound has good presence in most cases. Not so sure about the microphone behind the player, though @martin mentioned it.
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: Improve your Recording Skills
Here is my Three-Position recording, combined into a single video, with still photographs showing the position in each case. The mic was directly in front,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 2: Sharing the Journey 🌟
@Eric Phillips Lyrical qualities are coming along nicely.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 2: Sharing the Journey 🌟
@Steve Price Very nice. Good bass line.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 2: Sharing the Journey 🌟
@Michael Shirk Very nice and even.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: A Fresh Start 🌻
@Eric Phillips Very pleasing, as others have noted.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: A Fresh Start 🌻
@joosje Very nice and impressionistic. Will be a really nice repertoire piece for you. (I tend to shy away from pieces that demand percussive effects; they never sound right for me,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: A Fresh Start 🌻
@Martin Very nice; great control and phrasing.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: A Fresh Start 🌻
@Andre Bernier Thank you for your comment. Glad you found something of value in my effort.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: A Fresh Start 🌻
@Jack Stewart Thank you. I'll need more time than the current challenge to pull all this together,
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: A Fresh Start 🌻
@joosje Thank you for viewing and commenting. Some scary sections lie ahead in the prelude.
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1: A Fresh Start 🌻
Given that I have the complete Villa-Lobos Solo Guitar works, I thought I should try to learn another piece from the collection (besides the Mazurka Chôro).…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections
@Ron Two excellent performances with everything well controlled. The recording process will always be accompanied by some tension. It just gets less as you go along.…
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections
@Blaise Laflamme A very elegant and rich rendition. Good camera work too!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections
@Barney Thank you for the comment Barney. Bringing out the top line is a major objective here. Glad you approve.
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections
@Jack Stewart Thank you for your comment. Smoothness and legato is the great challenge on the guitar. We try to be legato on an instrument that is inherently rather non-legato.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections
@Andre Bernier Thank you for your comment. Maybe I caught a lull between flights. I live nowhere near an airport but the skies locally seemed very busy when I was ready to record.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 6: Triumph & Reflections
@joosje Thank you. Your recordings encourage me to delve much more into the whole of Opus 60.
- Neil_Macmillan
- 1 yr ago
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