OK, the previously posted Five Easy Pieces have been titted up a bit and I
have reposted them here for anyone who might be interested (??):


http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...%20Musette.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...%20Prelude.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...0-%20Poeme.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...ild%20Rose.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...-%20Minuet.mp3


Swim played the pianna and clart, I did all the recording techy bits and Don
supplied a ton of help and guidance!

Equipment/software used:
Clarts - Oktava MK319 large condenser mics
Piano - SE1A small condenser mics
Art Tube MP valve preamps
Sound Forge
Adobe Audition

They're a bit rough and ready (early days yet) but have most of the right
notes in roughly the right order (hopefully)!! :-)

Enjoy (if possible)!!

:-)

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:22:21 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


OK, the previously posted Five Easy Pieces have been titted up a bit and I
have reposted them here for anyone who might be interested (??):

Listened to "Wild Rose".

Would it be terribly rude to point out that there's little point in
polishing this recording further? You need to re-record, with the
clarinet in tune. She probably just needs to relax a bit. It's a
rather tentative "up-tight" performance, and that affects intonation.

It's not far off. She can do it. But it's far enough off to make
discussion of recording techniques rather superfluous.

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:22:21 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


OK, the previously posted Five Easy Pieces have been titted up a bit and I
have reposted them here for anyone who might be interested (??):


http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...%20Musette.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...%20Prelude.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...0-%20Poeme.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...ild%20Rose.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...-%20Minuet.mp3


Swim played the pianna and clart, I did all the recording techy bits and Don
supplied a ton of help and guidance!

Equipment/software used:
Clarts - Oktava MK319 large condenser mics
Piano - SE1A small condenser mics
Art Tube MP valve preamps
Sound Forge
Adobe Audition

They're a bit rough and ready (early days yet) but have most of the right
notes in roughly the right order (hopefully)!! :-)

Enjoy (if possible)!!

:-)




The piano seems to have developed a click in its sustain pedal - did
the tuner do that?

Here's an experiment for you. Record the piano as you are doing it
now, but do the clarinet in mono, When you are setting up a track to
record you can choose mono or stereo for each by right clicking the
button panel to the left of the track. Then once recorded you can
choose where to place the clarinet across the sound stage with the pan
control in that panel. It will sound different - much more sharply
focussed - and you may or may not like it, but give it a go.

d

--
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

"Laurence Payne" lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote in message
...
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:22:21 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


OK, the previously posted Five Easy Pieces have been titted up a bit and I
have reposted them here for anyone who might be interested (??):

Listened to "Wild Rose".

Would it be terribly rude to point out that there's little point in
polishing this recording further?


Not at all - the clarinet clips were simply practice recorded for playback
purposes alone. You can blame Don for the idea of backing them with the
piano!

Due to lack of opportunity, there is probably the greater part of two weeks
between them (clart and piano). Those (and many other pieces, hopefully)
will be recorded and re-recorded over and over again as time and opportunity
permits. It will be an ongoing *fun* thing - good to get her back into the
swing and I enjoy the techy stuff....


You need to re-record, with the
clarinet in tune.


See above.


She probably just needs to relax a bit. It's a
rather tentative "up-tight" performance, and that affects intonation.


It's called lack of practice - she is both a lapsed clarinetist and pianist
by about 10 and 20 years respectively. I would guess she has played much
less than 5 hours clarinet in the last 5 years and not a great deal more on
the piano in the last couple of years only....

"Don Pearce" wrote


The piano seems to have developed a click in its sustain pedal - did
the tuner do that?


No! :-)

I'm going to have to get round it with some spray - silicon furniture polish
will probably do it!



Here's an experiment for you. Record the piano as you are doing it
now, but do the clarinet in mono, When you are setting up a track to
record you can choose mono or stereo for each by right clicking the
button panel to the left of the track. Then once recorded you can
choose where to place the clarinet across the sound stage with the pan
control in that panel. It will sound different - much more sharply
focussed - and you may or may not like it, but give it a go.



OK, I see where you're coming from. Sounds like a good idea - the clart
isn't too well defined in the clips I posted.

A bit of an admission - *everything* except the mixdown in those clips was
done in Sound Forge! I simply haven't had the time to concentrate on
Audition yet, I will try and get on top of the relevant bits this week! (I
have your notes but suspect there will one or two more 'offlist' questions
yet! ;-)

(There is also a direct, full-screen, hands-on at waveform level aspect in
SF that I enjoy which has come in handy as there has been a little
'microsurgery' on some of the recordings, here and there!)