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Post by scripsit on Jan 4, 2018 22:48:20 GMT
I use Studio One, and like it, but it is a full-featured DAW and has a learning curve, a reasonably steep one. So does Reaper, which is popular in amateur recording circles. All of the full DAWs are a bit tricky to use at the beginning. Audacity is the easiest-to-use multitrack audio editor I know of. You won't find anything simpler in audio software, and if you choose something more obscure there won't be a mass of supporters in forums and the like to answer questions. You only have to download the extra add-on once: it is because of a licensing issue. Audacity is full open source and does not pay royalties to include patented software within itself. The extra program provides the WAV to MP3 capacity which is not built into Audacity. You could start recording without it, but you won't be able to export your finished tracks as MP3s. Edit: Download Audacity directly from the open source site to avoid unwanted extras packaged with it: www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/You can avoid downloading an extra program to go with Audacity altogether if you can find and download 'LAME Mp3 encoder': this is just a file which you place somewhere on your computer. The first time you convert to MP3, Audacity will ask you where it is. Kym
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Post by scripsit on Dec 21, 2017 23:35:20 GMT
Nice jangle, and I think that's my favourite of your tunes.
Kym
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Post by scripsit on Dec 17, 2017 22:20:52 GMT
I'm an admirer of Al Petteway's tunes and playing, and found this discussion about recording his new album interesting. What I found particularly intriguing for those of us who record at home is that the majority of the album was recorded in an untreated room, on an iPad. Mind you, the 'good microphones' that he mentions several times are likely to be very, very good and expensive ones, but the preamp is a battery powered cheapy, and iPads are not exactly top of the line computers. Most of the tunes are first and single takes, and he includes a long dissertation about his approach to improvisation, even while recording. I'm still waiting for my CD to arrive from 'Dream Guitars', but the samples sound very good. Kym
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Post by scripsit on Dec 13, 2017 0:17:15 GMT
I'm another Fred Kelly user, and have bought them in bulk so that they are distributed across various cases, coats and bags: you never know when you're out if someone will ask you to play some guitar (except they don't, in my experience).
I started using a thumb pick because Martin Simpson used one, and he seemed to be a reasonable role model. After my electric years of using a flat pick exclusively, everything about fingerstyle playing was difficult at the beginning anyway.
I've tried bare thumb playing every once in a while, but can't get a crisp thump. I'm envious of people like Al Petteway who seem to be able to develop a decent bass sound either way. And Tony McManus with his thumb triplets.
Kym
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Post by scripsit on Dec 6, 2017 7:26:39 GMT
This seems to be one of those solution to a non-existent problem type inventions.
The videos I could get to play sounded like normal flat-picking, to me.
Kym
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Post by scripsit on Dec 5, 2017 5:24:48 GMT
Al Petteway, Simon Fox, Doug Young, Ken Bonfield, Steve Davison ...
Kym
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Post by scripsit on Nov 24, 2017 23:18:45 GMT
Lovely looking guitar, Francis.
Are you doing tap tuning, as per 'the books'? I don't see carbon fibre in the bridge or provision for side weights, so I guess you are still working from your own variation of the Gore method.
Kym
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Post by scripsit on Nov 16, 2017 22:07:40 GMT
The Doors, 'Riders on the Storm'?
Kym
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Post by scripsit on Nov 15, 2017 22:51:32 GMT
Keith, thanks for that: I'd only ever heard an instrumental version of 'Rosemary's Sister'. A very moving piece.
Phil. I agree about the complexity of the ornamentation. I worked up a version of the tune from tab that Stephen Wake made available on his Facebook page some time ago and just about managed to cover it (this was a version that he posted a video of himself playing on YouTube, from memory). The album version has some much more complicated twiddles. I can't even begin to produce some of the 'Celtic triplets' in the traditional tunes: very much in Tony McManus territory.
By the way, I find his music/tab very confusing, with lots of disconnected repeats notated and musical instructions which don't produce the arrangements as they are recorded. I'm working my way through the album version at the moment and trying to reconcile what actually is played with the provided tab as I put it into Guitar Pro.
Kym
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Post by scripsit on Nov 15, 2017 8:53:07 GMT
This might already have been mentioned by someone, because the album came out earlier in the year, but I highly recommend Stephen Wake's latest instrumental album 'Ciùil Amuigh', which I only recently stumbled across. Google suggests the title means 'Music outside'. I remember Stephen's name from the old 'Celtic Guitar Talk' forum, and have had his first album for a while. His playing has more than a touch of Tony McManus, including effective and subtle use of triplets, and his arrangement of traditional tunes is very tasteful. His day job is running a recording studio in Costa Rica, so it's no surprise that the recording is very clean and professional. I find that a few dancing/upbeat trad tunes are more than enough for my taste, but he also includes some beautiful slow numbers, more akin to laments. He includes yet another of his versions of 'Rosemary's Sister', which I understand was originally a song about events in the second world war. Most of the tunes seem to be in Orkney tuning. I thought $US10 was a bargain price for this collection. stephenwake.bandcamp.com/album/ci-il-amuigh-tab-bookletKym
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Post by scripsit on Nov 12, 2017 2:43:32 GMT
I can understand the need for forum 'no religion, no politics' rules, but then there are all the people with cringingly soppy faith-based signatures that I find to be the equivalent of the people who wake you up early on weekend mornings by knocking at the door to give you little pamphlets.
There's a section at the bottom of the main page where people who really, really love guns post, too. I stumbled across this by accident one day, and particularly liked a story from a guy in an open carry state who was complaining about how twice he'd had his expensive weapons stolen from his car and he wasn't going to put up with it.
I do enjoy the endless wittering about 'runout tops', return policies for factory guitars and other discussions that prove that the customer is always right.
Kym
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Post by scripsit on Sept 29, 2017 0:02:54 GMT
Dave
Still waiting for the CD, but I've just had the first listen to the MP3s at work. Love the variety in the tunes and the passion in a couple of the more unusual ones in particular. Well done!
Looking forward to trying some of these myself.
Kym
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Post by scripsit on Sept 16, 2017 0:36:47 GMT
It looks like an exact (visual) copy of the Gibson Les Paul Recording, which at one stage in the early seventies was the most expensive of the Les Paul range. I had a (Gibson) version for a while, and it was completely crap for rock and roll. The model was designed for Les Paul's personal use and so was really set up for jazz style DI in the recording studio, as the name implies. Very low impedance pickups and a range of switches and knobs which did nothing to improve bite in a normal tube amp. Heavy as, too. Kym
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Post by scripsit on Sept 14, 2017 9:21:20 GMT
Dave
I'm looking forward to the CD, but surprised that you didn't include the piece you wrote for your father ("Arthur's Waltz"), which I heard on another forum (although the link seems to have gone defunct, now).
Was a lovely tune, as I remember.
Kym
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Post by scripsit on Sept 7, 2017 8:44:11 GMT
Missed a trick slightly by not chopping the fingerboard where the frets stop, though, both in terms of looks and in terms of leaving as much exposed soundboard as possible, in my humble opinion. I guess so, although in a Gore style falcate braced guitar there's not much soundboard real estate above the soundhole (and there's a huge neck block and associated mortise where the bolt on neck fits, similar to the Colin S design but even bigger). www.anzlf.com/download/file.php?id=16025&mode=viewSorry for hijacking the thread. Kym
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