<div>Thanks for the comments, guys.<br> </div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">@Robert: Why tarring the file?<br clear="all"></blockquote>
<div>When it's a direct link for an audio file, sometimes I have problems downloading it, as it opens in the browser window. Thus, I normally zip the files for a website. Tar? I thought I'd use an Open Source compression... <br>
<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">@Fons: - It's a very dry recording. Some room (or big open space) ambience improves it.<br>
</blockquote>I do try to avoid reverb and try to use only a minimum necessary dosage lately, as to be more faithful to the original Greek sound of the 30-40's...<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
- Don't know what you used for the backing but it doesn't sound very Greek to me. Replace this by a guitar ?<br></blockquote>
....I actually recorded one version with acoustic guitar only, and sounded too dry to me, so the I decided to add some 'glamour' to all that (thus, stopped being faithful really:-). <br>If interested, here's the first, dry, guitar-only version (I added now a bit of reverb, out of curiosity...). <br>
<a href="http://mastoridis.co.uk/temp/linux/Viktor_Mastoridis-Gm-dry_version.ogg">http://mastoridis.co.uk/temp/linux/Viktor_Mastoridis-Gm-dry_version.ogg</a><br><br><br>
</div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">---<br></blockquote>Viktor Mastoridis<br>