On 01/01/2012 05:24 PM, Folderol wrote: Just finished the album, 2 more songs :)

it's jazz ... no one will ever notice a 25ms shift ;-)) sorry, just couldn't resist ! seriously, i really really like the album very much. i have been listening to it frequently ever since you first posted it here great job ! grtz Thijs 2012/2/3 alexander &lt;axeldenstore(a)gmail.com&gt; -- follow me on my Audio & Linux blog <http://audio-and-linux.blogspot.com/> !

On 02/03/2012 10:41 AM, Gerald Mwangi wrote: I wrote, recorded, mixed and played everything myself (my ego is reaching critical mass ;)) It's taken almost precisely a year to do this, I released the first tracks january 26th 2011.. I've recently bought a cello too and my next songs will be a oneman quartet rather than a trio. It might take some time tho cause the stroke action on the cello isn't as easy to 'fake'. With this I mean that it either sounds good or _reeaallly_ horrible so you really have to know how to do it right.. Plucked instruments and the mechanical hammer action on the piano are alot more forgiving on this mather so it's alot easier to get away with not so great playing :D I also think I'll release later works in larger chunks.. we'll see what the future brings... ;D

There's not really much to it actually.. I haven't put way too much time in the mixing/mastring process.. just the usual of getting things to fit compression, eq, and some automatation... In the stuka song I have only a h4n as overheads + kick and snare but no tom mics so the sound stands out alitle from the rest on that song.. I allways emphasize the 1100hz region on the uprightbass to give more of that buzzy sound, I'm using the 4-band parametric eq... I've been refence listening alot to The Bad Plus as this is the band that has inspired me the most lately.. I use the same panning idea they've got on most of their songs, eg bass and piano to the sides and the drums !everywhere! -_- It really separates things! I also make use of the ir-lv2 plug alot, mostly for room emulation and reverbs.. I record the drums in a bad sounding, boxy garage so I put the OH's quite close to the drums and use room emulation instead.. as for mastering I really just try to get the levels sort of the same with a limiter...

It works, it's a little bit clusmy.. And the pres/converters have terrible dynamic range so if you play loud on the snare you'll clip it at lowest gain, imo it's not really noticable tho.. it has some limiting function but ifaik they're post ADC so they're not really usable as a clipping safeguard. It's noise floor is also quite high so it's not suitable for recording low SPL sounds in a quiet envoirment. You'll easily get away with an acoustic guitar tho. Nonetheless, it's a handy little device, comes with a hardcase and fits in a pocket.. Also I believe (at least the time I bought mine) the h4n was/is the only device that has simultaneous 4 channel record function.. so if you look into these things don't assume 4channels just because it has onboard mics and 2mic inputs for external mics.

On 01/01/2012 08:11 PM, Paul Davis wrote: Thank you all for your intereset! The last 3 songs, track 6, 7 and 8 wich are the earliest ones are recorded with a zoom h4n, all piano is pianoteq play, except Trace of events wich actually is the very grand piano I sampled to create the salamander piano library, it's not a very good recording of it tho, I just placed the zoom on the note stand and started fiddleing around, then found the recording a year later and decided make something of it :). I've recently bought one of those tascam dr680 multitrack recorders which I now lay down the drums with. And no, nothing is programmed(except that shaker thing in the conveyor belt song) I like the idea of being a multiinstrumentalist with drums being my main instrument ;) I do sometimes correct really major mistakes on the piano with midi but mostly I want to be able to actually play my songs, I've been thinking about relaxing this idea slightly tho(I mean, why not use the tools when they're there). It's all mixed in ardour, mostly a3 to generate some bugreports. In the way of composing it's really a project to find my way of creating music, I'm not really there yet tho... Paul; thanks for that link, I might do just that ;) oh and and even more thanks for the wonderful work on ardour, you are a true cornerstone of the world of pro-audio on linux!

On 01/03/2012 09:58 PM, S. Massy wrote: hmm, I tried to fiddle around a little. Elinks have some java script support through ECMAscript, it's not enable by default tho, with it enable BC still complains about it so no luck there...