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.
Comment by SwerdyJazz — October 24, 2008 @ 1:06 am
Even the allmighty Miles would comment "Tight!"
Comment by Mauday — October 22, 2008 @ 10:02 am
how can i get my right hand to start doing that funk.. can only get easy pieces
Comment by scrawfrd02 — October 14, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
wait, i'm actually right about what i said. The groove that you're talking about isn't till 2:20. Sorry about the confusion.
Comment by petzaman1 — October 12, 2008 @ 2:09 am
my degree disagrees with you, sadly.
Comment by petzaman1 — October 11, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
so you know, that wasn't Gmi9 to Abmaj. Due to the implications of your bassline, it comes off aurally as an Ebmaj of sorts. It shares plenty of common notes so its easy to see how it coulda been Abmaj, but yeah, voiceleading said otherwise.
Comment by petzaman1 — October 4, 2008 @ 6:46 pm
wrong
Comment by volvoxburger — October 4, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
actually i'm right. There are two ways you could like at it and due to your lack of roots, it's up in the air. Either you're going Gmi9 to Ebmaj, or you're going from Bbmaj with the 7th on the bottom to Gmi9. Your bass motion (the most fundamental thing you're playing due to a lack of roots) hints at a chord movement of a Minor 3rd. There's nothing to suggest that you're moving harmonically in a half-step. The lack of a Db also proves my point since i'm sure you weren't implying Abmaj #11 sorry
