[linux-audio-user] YAR (Yet Another Recording)

[Austin]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 18:42 -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> The acoustic sounds like it 
> was detuned and slightly out or used a capo? Or out with the 
> piano...something sounds just a sqeak off there...

Heh.. yeah.  We broke a B string just before recording and only had a G
string to replace it with, so the higher he played on the fretboard the
more out of tune it went.  Hard to fix at 1:00 AM.

The guitar should be rerecorded anyway.  We mic'd it really close with a
large diaphram condenser (amateurs!) so it came out too boomy with no
ambiance.  And in parts it almost sounds like a banjo and I have no idea
why.  I'm also hoping to pick up an all-tube preamp/compressor before we
do that.  That was just done with the preamp on a cheap (LTO) mixer.

> I'm a less is more kinda guy...I'd keep the guitar and sink the piano 
> way back in the mix...even replace with some strings?

Well, I played the keys, so I would have kept them and put less bass and
a bit less vocals, but Joey mixed most of it without me.  ;-)

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 20:14 -0600, Reuben Martin wrote: 
> Very nice. You might want to try to turn down the reverb on the piano
>  a bit so that it has more of a crisp sound to it. (or turn down the
>  synth. I can't tell if what I'm hearing is reverb on the piano or if
>  you you have a pad syth playing the same thing as the piano) This
>  will be crucial if you apply any type of compressing in the mastering
>  stage because you might start to loose definition on the piano. Just
>  a suggestion. Otherwise very well done. :-)

It's a pad, and yes, it's too loud.  We're going to rerecord the keys
anyway, because we mad a stupid mistake during recording and ended up
recording both channels on the same track (essentially mono-fying the
beautiful Roland waveforms).  Originally, we had the voice sample (heard
in the last chorus) doubling the piano, but it was too much, so we
settled on a pad.  It's still almost too much too.  Maybe I'll go to
just very mild strings.

Thanks for the suggestions.
Austin