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Mike Mazarick

27 Jun 2009 27 Jun '09

3:32 a.m.

Well, last May 17 I had some friends over to play some music in the room above my garage. I had fixed the room up to look like a bar. Suddenly, I remembered that I had an old Radio Shack boom box in one of my closets with some built in microphones that went straight to the cassette tape. I looked around and tried to find a chromium tape, but since I couldn't find one, I had to settle for the dolby noise reduction that was build into the tape deck. Last week I had remembered the tape and used my old computer with a SoundBlaster card, so I had the idea of putting the analog audio on a computer. The old computer uses a Celeron processor with about 125 mb of memory - it had linux on it so it would run at all. I think it was something like RedHat 6.X or 7.X, but I'm not sure. In searching thru the applications that might have something to do with sound, I found one called 'Audacity', which I could use to take the analog tape outputs and put them in the computer. It pretty much filled up the hard drive. I was really happy to see that it seemed to have worked, so I made an MP3 so I could put it on the web (plus, I needed the space back on my hard drive). Since it was recorded above my garage, I decided to put it on garageband.com. Here is the link: http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1GxZ2E (you may want to just download the MP3, because it seems like it skips a lot when I try to play it from GarageBand). I'd be interested in hearing opinions from any of the people on this list about how you think it sounds. -Mike Mazarick PS - Do I remember correctly that Paul Hindemith was a bebop jazz player? I can't remember if he played sax or guitar.. I was surprised he stopped by and said "Hello". I thought he had died on the bandstand of a heart attack while on a gig a long time ago.

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Ricardus Vincente

27 Jun 27 Jun

3:49 a.m.

On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 01:32 -0400, Mike Mazarick wrote: Are you being serious?

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Well, last May 17 I had some friends over to play some music in the room above my garage. I had fixed the room up to look like a bar. Suddenly, I remembered that I had an old Radio Shack boom box in one of my closets with some built in microphones that went straight to the cassette tape. I looked around and tried to find a chromium tape, but since I couldn’t find one, I had to settle for the dolby noise reduction that was build into the tape deck. Last week I had remembered the tape and used my old computer with a SoundBlaster card, so I had the idea of putting the analog audio on a computer. The old computer uses a Celeron processor with about 125 mb of memory – it had linux on it so it would run at all. I think it was something like RedHat 6.X or 7.X, but I’m not sure. In searching thru the applications that might have something to do with sound, I found one called ‘Audacity’, which I could use to take the analog tape outputs and put them in the computer. It pretty much filled up the hard drive. I was really happy to see that it seemed to have worked, so I made an MP3 so I could put it on the web (plus, I needed the space back on my hard drive). Since it was recorded above my garage, I decided to put it on garageband.com. Here is the link: http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1GxZ2E (you may want to just download the MP3, because it seems like it skips a lot when I try to play it from GarageBand). I’d be interested in hearing opinions from any of the people on this list about how you think it sounds. -Mike Mazarick PS – Do I remember correctly that Paul Hindemith was a bebop jazz player? I can’t remember if he played sax or guitar…. I was surprised he stopped by and said “Hello”. I thought he had died on the bandstand of a heart attack while on a gig a long time ago. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user

frank pirrone

5:31 a.m.

LOL! Ricardus Vincente wrote:

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On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 01:32 -0400, Mike Mazarick wrote: Are you being serious? > Well, last May 17 I had some friends over to play some music in the > room above my garage.<snip>

Julien Claassen

8:50 a.m.

Hello Mike! I loved your piece. I was astonnished to hear the quality. After your description I expected something noisy, with much room reverb and not much instruments. But this recording sounds great. It has a real nice live feel to it, although a bit more direct. But as I said: It also good, warm music, with nice soli and an overall dense sound to it. Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

Gabriel M. Beddingfield

9:42 a.m.

Mike Mazarick wrote:

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I’d be interested in hearing opinions from any of the people on this list about how you think it sounds.

Listening to the MP3... your story sounds fabricated. What does that tell you? I enjoyed listening to all 10 mins of it. Sound quality of the recording was good... and the music was fun to listen to. Peace, Gabriel

Mike Mazarick

5:39 p.m.

Thanks, guys for your advise and opinion. I appreciate your help. Someone at the party had a linux laptop and we hooked it up to an Evolution MK-461C keyboard that was laying around. I wasn't going to put this on the web, because the sound quality isn't as good, but I was going to ask if you could recognize this as being either the Bristol emulation or the Connie emulation you were talking about. You may need to turn it up to be able to hear it. Anyway, if you happen to know if this is Bristol or Connie it may help to know which one it was. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the B4 emulation. Here's the link: http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1C1Ymk Which emulation is your guess? Just like the last one, you may need to download the MP3, because the sound may skip when played with the GarageBand player (which requires Flash v.6 or better). -Mike Mazarick From: Mike Mazarick [mailto:mazarick@bellsouth.net] Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:32 AM To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: [LAU] My first Linux audio recording... Well, last May 17 I had some friends over to play some music in the room above my garage. I had fixed the room up to look like a bar. Suddenly, I remembered that I had an old Radio Shack boom box in one of my closets with some built in microphones that went straight to the cassette tape. I looked around and tried to find a chromium tape, but since I couldn't find one, I had to settle for the dolby noise reduction that was build into the tape deck. Last week I had remembered the tape and used my old computer with a SoundBlaster card, so I had the idea of putting the analog audio on a computer. The old computer uses a Celeron processor with about 125 mb of memory - it had linux on it so it would run at all. I think it was something like RedHat 6.X or 7.X, but I'm not sure. In searching thru the applications that might have something to do with sound, I found one called 'Audacity', which I could use to take the analog tape outputs and put them in the computer. It pretty much filled up the hard drive. I was really happy to see that it seemed to have worked, so I made an MP3 so I could put it on the web (plus, I needed the space back on my hard drive). Since it was recorded above my garage, I decided to put it on garageband.com. Here is the link: http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1GxZ2E (you may want to just download the MP3, because it seems like it skips a lot when I try to play it from GarageBand). I'd be interested in hearing opinions from any of the people on this list about how you think it sounds. -Mike Mazarick PS - Do I remember correctly that Paul Hindemith was a bebop jazz player? I can't remember if he played sax or guitar.. I was surprised he stopped by and said "Hello". I thought he had died on the bandstand of a heart attack while on a gig a long time ago.

James Stone

28 Jun 28 Jun

1:03 p.m.

Are you serious!!?? Sound quality is amazing - how many mics were used? Playing is great - what's the name of the band/musicians? And I really don't buy your story about the other recording - there is superb stereo separation, the drums are recorded really nicely.. So not something you could do on a boom box? Given the above, I would say the organ is probably a real B3.... :) Any chance of a picture of how it was recorded? James Mike Mazarick wrote:

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Thanks, guys for your advise and opinion. I appreciate your help. Someone at the party had a linux laptop and we hooked it up to an Evolution MK-461C keyboard that was laying around. I wasn’t going to put this on the web, because the sound quality isn’t as good, but I was going to ask if you could recognize this as being either the Bristol emulation or the Connie emulation you were talking about… You may need to turn it up to be able to hear it. Anyway, if you happen to know if this is Bristol or Connie it may help to know which one it was. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the B4 emulation. Here’s the link: http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1C1Ymk Which emulation is your guess? Just like the last one, you may need to download the MP3, because the sound may skip when played with the GarageBand player (which requires Flash v.6 or better). -Mike Mazarick *From:* Mike Mazarick [mailto:mazarick@bellsouth.net] *Sent:* Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:32 AM *To:* linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org *Subject:* [LAU] My first Linux audio recording... Well, last May 17 I had some friends over to play some music in the room above my garage. I had fixed the room up to look like a bar. Suddenly, I remembered that I had an old Radio Shack boom box in one of my closets with some built in microphones that went straight to the cassette tape. I looked around and tried to find a chromium tape, but since I couldn’t find one, I had to settle for the dolby noise reduction that was build into the tape deck. Last week I had remembered the tape and used my old computer with a SoundBlaster card, so I had the idea of putting the analog audio on a computer. The old computer uses a Celeron processor with about 125 mb of memory – it had linux on it so it would run at all. I think it was something like RedHat 6.X or 7.X, but I’m not sure. In searching thru the applications that might have something to do with sound, I found one called ‘Audacity’, which I could use to take the analog tape outputs and put them in the computer. It pretty much filled up the hard drive. I was really happy to see that it seemed to have worked, so I made an MP3 so I could put it on the web (plus, I needed the space back on my hard drive). Since it was recorded above my garage, I decided to put it on garageband.com. Here is the link: http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1GxZ2E (you may want to just download the MP3, because it seems like it skips a lot when I try to play it from GarageBand). I’d be interested in hearing opinions from any of the people on this list about how you think it sounds. -Mike Mazarick PS – Do I remember correctly that Paul Hindemith was a bebop jazz player? I can’t remember if he played sax or guitar…. I was surprised he stopped by and said “Hello”. I thought he had died on the bandstand of a heart attack while on a gig a long time ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user

Mike Mazarick

3:35 p.m.

I'm as serious as I am normally - ;) Sure, some people who were at the party posted some pictures. I'd be glad to furnish them. Here they are: http://www.flickr.com/groups/raycodringtonparty/pool/ http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2054294&id=66106565 One of my favorites is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36535750@N04/3552362333/in/pool-raycodringtonpa rty (not everyone in the picture got to play, but all of them are great musicians) I will say that it was a party "for musicians, by musician". It was an Appreciation for Ray Codrington - a local jazz musician that is a favorite of many of the jazz guys in the local area. There were about 120 people there, 97% were musicians. At any given time, there were about 80 people. I noticed that Julien Claassen has said he had listened to Eddie Harris while growing up. One of Eddie's jazz classics is a song called "Freedom Jazz Dance". Ray Codrington was the trumpet player on that recording done back in the mid 60s. One thing I will seriously share is that this really is my first Linux audio piece, and I am figuring out how to make it all work. There are probably a few steps I left out or didn't completely describe. ;) However, let me flip the tape over and see if I can somehow get another song loaded up on Garageband... I'll point to it when it becomes available. -Mike

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-----Original Message----- From: James Stone [mailto:jamesmstone@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 11:03 AM To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: Re: [LAU] My first Linux audio recording... Are you serious!!?? Sound quality is amazing - how many mics were used? Playing is great - what's the name of the band/musicians? And I really don't buy your story about the other recording - there is superb stereo separation, the drums are recorded really nicely.. So not something you could do on a boom box? Given the above, I would say the organ is probably a real B3.... :) Any chance of a picture of how it was recorded? James Mike Mazarick wrote:

Thanks, guys for your advise and opinion. I appreciate your help. Someone at the party had a linux laptop and we hooked it up to an Evolution MK-461C keyboard that was laying around. I wasn't going

put this on the web, because the sound quality isn't as good, but I

was

going to ask if you could recognize this as being either the Bristol emulation or the Connie emulation you were talking about. You may need to turn it up to be able to hear it. Anyway, if you happen to know if this is Bristol or Connie it may help to know which one it was. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the B4 emulation. Here's the link: http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1C1Ymk Which emulation is your guess? Just like the last one, you may need

download the MP3, because the sound may skip when played with the GarageBand player (which requires Flash v.6 or better). -Mike Mazarick *From:* Mike Mazarick [mailto:mazarick@bellsouth.net] *Sent:* Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:32 AM *To:* linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org *Subject:* [LAU] My first Linux audio recording... Well, last May 17 I had some friends over to play some music in the

room

above my garage. I had fixed the room up to look like a bar. Suddenly, I remembered that I had an old Radio Shack boom box in one

my closets with some built in microphones that went straight to the cassette tape. I looked around and tried to find a chromium tape,

but

since I couldn't find one, I had to settle for the dolby noise

reduction

that was build into the tape deck. Last week I had remembered the

tape

and used my old computer with a SoundBlaster card, so I had the idea

putting the analog audio on a computer. The old computer uses a Celeron processor with about 125 mb of memory - it had linux on it so

would run at all. I think it was something like RedHat 6.X or 7.X,

but

I'm not sure. In searching thru the applications that might have something to do with sound, I found one called 'Audacity', which I

could

use to take the analog tape outputs and put them in the computer.

pretty much filled up the hard drive. I was really happy to see that

seemed to have worked, so I made an MP3 so I could put it on the web (plus, I needed the space back on my hard drive). Since it was recorded above my garage, I decided to put it on garageband.com. Here is the link: http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1GxZ2E (you may want to just download the MP3, because it seems like it

skips a

lot when I try to play it from GarageBand). I'd be interested in hearing opinions from any of the people on this list about how you think it sounds. -Mike Mazarick PS - Do I remember correctly that Paul Hindemith was a bebop jazz player? I can't remember if he played sax or guitar.. I was surprised he stopped by and said "Hello". I thought he had died on

the

bandstand of a heart attack while on a gig a long time ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Ken Restivo

30 Jun 30 Jun

3:54 a.m.

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:32:17AM -0400, Mike Mazarick wrote:

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FREAKING AWESOME! Great playing. I *love* the latin choruses. Great arrangement, great playing. Downloading part 2 now. Keep it coming! -ken

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frank pirrone
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Ken Restivo
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