Hi You can get some very nice cheap mics now, contrary to what some people will tell you. As for the rooom abd walls hang a few blankets and stuff, this will really make a difference. Look at some of the behringer mics ( condensers around £ 30.00!) Have a listen to: www.hearmymusic.co.uk Cheers Bob James Stone wrote:

LOL I couln't spell 'duvet' and I cant get the spellchecker working in thunderbird/debian. They work much better!! bob John Mulholland wrote:

HI I was wondering about the click! I wasnt sure I had heard it I'll remaster it. ) I master out to another machine from Ardour and I dont think I had the M audio set as slave to the Desk ( DOH) As regards the Mics it's a condensor and the room is my livving room with the mic in the center away from wall!! with a home made pop shield. I am building a studio in the cellar at the moment but couldn't wait to get Ardour and JAmin running!! Thanks Bob James Stone wrote:

**** i'd maybe get one of those pantyhose things to put in front of the mic ***** I'd make sure their news one!!!! :) Very good advice though bob Shayne O'Connor wrote:

Last Friday 29 July 2005 13:40, Daniel Payno was like: Yup and: 'Stay with your own thing' (Jimi Hendrix) cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 08:55 +0100, James Stone wrote: You're not just using those soundfonts that came with the SBLive!, are you? They suck. Google for "personal copy soundfont". Lee

pirrone <pirrone(a)localnet.com> wrote: Yep.. Was using Fluid R3 (for the hammond) and Trachtman's 80MB $5 Steinway font from: http://www.pianosounds.com/index.htm Should really have been okay, but as someone else pointed out, they don't quite sound like the real thing! James

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:07:01 -0600, Steve D wrote: Hey thanks for your comments.. The vocals (completely flat without compression or reverb) are at: http://www.jmstone.dsl.pipex.com/vocal_mixdown.flac It was pretty rough (just two takes) so I would prefer to re-record the vocals at some point, but I suppose it does give it a certain rawness... James

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:48:26AM +0100, James Stone wrote: --- --- --- Wow--I'm going to start using flac! Your vocal track, at 50MB decompressed, was only 7.8MB flac-encoded! Thank you for the track James. I will enjoy working on the piece. Best wishes, Steve D -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. -Giordano Bruno ----------------------------------------------------------------

Well, here's what I've done so far with James Stone's nice song. It's a rough draft because I have a week-to-ten-day trip tomorrow, it's after midnight (US Mountain Time, -7 UTC), and I have to get some sleep. I can't do any more until I get back home. The collaborative version is here: http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/ogg/james-stone_steve-doonan_shining-su… If anyone (who cares to hear it at all) wants to compare this with James's original version, it's here: http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/audio/ogg/james-stone_shining-sun.ogg --and also at James's site (consult LAU archive of this thread). Thank you James for letting me "have at it" with your song. I hope I didn't wreck it. I just had fun with the process. ;-) Best wishes, Steve D -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- The more severe the problem, the more obvious the solution. And if a particular course of action is not clear, then any course of action will do and each will have its own reward. ----------------------------------------------------------------

Same here. Best regards ce

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 06:33:28AM -0600, Steve D wrote: --- --- I meant 644 of course (rw-r--r--). Damn this lack of sleep-- -sd -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Even the most substantial reality starts with the merest dream. ----------------------------------------------------------------

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:44:00AM +0100, James Stone wrote: --- --- --- Yes, I resampled the voice track to 44100. ;-) If you feel like re-recording it, please do upload it (as a 44100, .wav, flac-compressed file I guess) so that I can download it and try again. Nice song James. -sd ---------------------------------------------------------------- Democracy [is] when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. -Aristotle ----------------------------------------------------------------

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:06:18PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: --- --- --- Hi Arnold-- Thanks for the compliment. I think I can do better with James's song. I was very tired, a trip was imminent, and I'm not satisfied with my piano and organ tracks. I might try another version if James re-records his vocals at 44100, and of course I could make my additional tracks available as separate .wav files, or the whole Ardour session, or whatever, for you or James or whoever. ;-) -sd ---------------------------------------------------------------- Life doesn't necessarily give us a reason to live. We provide our own reason to live. ----------------------------------------------------------------