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| centurybrother |
Posted - 04/30/2003 : 11:22:27 PM
Alright, I know I am relatively new here, but have the mods ever thought about adding a recording/critiquing forum to the boards? Over at www.dmbtabs.com they have a good deal going there, and it would help me out alot to get some constructive critisism on some Tim stuff (or original Tim-like originals, etc.)...just a thought...in the mean time, here is a spacey improv that I made the night I got my DL-4...
www.cadenzaspell.com/downandout.mp3
tell me what you think  |
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| geekmug |
Posted - 05/22/2003 : 05:55:12 AM
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Originally posted by captain_napkins
I like the song. I have some stuff of my own I might link to but I have pretty bad recording equipment. I use Cooledit Pro and a $3 headset microphone. Any idea if there's anything I should do to help out with the quality?
I use CEP v2.. I have access to nice recording mics, but they are not mine and so when I spontaneously want to record something, more often than not I use the PC mic that I got for *free*.
There are a lot of factors that can make for bad recordings.. first of the amount of noise your sound card introduces will be a crutch that you will have constantly, so a good one will do you wonders on signal-to-noise. But, even at that, a good start is to make silence silent (manually or by a gate). CEP has something a "Hiss Reduction" that will remove such noise nicely, but it may adversly affect your sound, but do what sounds good.
Of course there's lots more you can do but your familiarity with CEP and sound engineering will determine your sucess.. Regardless, in CEP I usually feed everything through something like this, with varying configurations:
IN->Compressor->Hard Limiter->Reverb->Delay->Graphic EQ->OUT
My boredom today was enough that I recorded a "before/after" for you to get an idea of the increase is "quality" you can get just by sound engineering. The "Flat" version is minus the efx chain.. but I don't have the vocal track before I killed all the anti-silence.
http://scottdial.com/files/Move%20Along%20Flat.mp3
http://scottdial.com/files/Move%20Along.mp3
Alright, I am done ranting now..  |
| centurybrother |
Posted - 05/06/2003 : 7:10:30 PM
Cool stuff guys...thanks fo rthe input...and you are right in saying it takes too long to develope...I did it the night I got my DL-4...I'm still working on using that thing faster...most people don't/won't want to wait something out until you loop it the way you want...but I love it...thanks again |
| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 05/05/2003 : 11:21:41 PM
That song works very well for me. I don't know what exactly you wanted help with, but I really have no criticisms for it. The beginning might be a little long to be so repetitive (not saying that's bad, just suggesting...) You could at least vary that some more. My feeling is that it takes a little too long to develop.
Maybe it's just my mood right now... and the weather. There are tornados all around me, and this song just fits my mood. I'm hearing sirens right now, and I could probably be sucked out of my room at any moment...
In fact, I think this song reminds me of a song my the guy that made an album out of War of the Worlds... I can't think of his name right now... Ah, Jeff Wayne. Sounds like something he'd be reading War of the Worlds over.
Man this is freaky (not your song, just your song combined with the sirens and thinking about War of the World...) |
| GuitarGuy305 |
Posted - 05/05/2003 : 11:17:09 PM
Clique
And welcome centurybrother.
Adam |
| captain_napkins |
Posted - 05/05/2003 : 10:06:19 PM
I like the song. I have some stuff of my own I might link to but I have pretty bad recording equipment. I use Cooledit Pro and a $3 headset microphone. Any idea if there's anything I should do to help out with the quality? |
| centurybrother |
Posted - 05/05/2003 : 6:58:06 PM
Well forgive me if that sounded sour, but I just assumed after 20 some reviews that someone would understand/reply/welcome a newcomer...no offense meant there, I have just seen it too much on other boards...
Is there something I left out about adding a new forum for people's recordings to be critiqued?
In any case, I appoligise if what I said came across as rude... |
| enthuTIMsiast |
Posted - 05/05/2003 : 6:47:07 PM
Hey, no problem. In all fairness, I don't believe I even ever saw your post. So get mad if you'd like, or just realize that the board isn't really all that active at present, so just take it in stride.
It could be and likely is that no one really understood what you were talking about.
Anyway. I don't think it's necessarily fair to assume that we're a "click". |
| centurybrother |
Posted - 05/05/2003 : 6:42:04 PM
Well, thanks for the warm welcome guys...it seems "clicks" have already formed here...have fun |
