musical thoughts

I haven’t posted in a long time, but I’ve been hard at work improving my recording setup. I think the new generation of videos should speak for themselves, and what they are saying is much higher sound quality. So here’s a taste of the new way of doing things.

The Rhodes was recorded direct in stereo into my Edirol UA-25. I’ve really been happy with that box. I had the tone controls set almost flat, just a taste of treble boost. Tremolo was on at the slowest speed and lowest depth. I captured at 48kHz/24bit. I can’t hear any difference when I go high, and it chows disk space down a lot faster.

This is faded out after 4 minutes, I had a buffer underrun or something that glitched my audio out. I need to get a newer peecee to capture with, or maybe invest in a dedicated recorder. I’m perfectly happy with audacity for captures and most of my mix and editing work.

Speaking edit, you’ll see a weird jump cut in the video right as I enter. I came in and played a pretty lame first few phrases, so I dropped out and made a better entrance, which is what you hear on the vid. But I didn’t leave a whole loop (8 bars) worth of silence, so I had to jump cut the video from the 8 bar intro, which was the only 8 bars chunk where I didn’t play. Audio of course is easy to silence. I guess I could have shot a B roll of making that entrance, but it’s not that big a deal. I’m about the playing really.

What else is interesting, let’s see. This is really just Gmi9 – Abmaj9/G. I was just having some fun, I hope you enjoy it too.