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Totally amateur recordings thread

#861
Joe Nerve said:
This is a little piece of an entire show I wrote and recorded on a tiny plastic sequencer, with a Kawai K4 synth when I was in college. I was fortunate to get the college's support into presenting it in the school's theater. Dancers are from Brooklyn College. I have a few other clips, but I always liked this song and arrangement the best.

Its being played off a casette tape for the performance :) .

It was based on the Gulf War.

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Nice! I had a Kawai FS610 (I think) back in the day. It was really good for the money.
 
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#866
My still wordless "country song" on my new Baritone 12 Stanley Francis copy from China:



just a phone recording, need to start getting my full rig back together soon...
 
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bholder said:
My still wordless "country song" on my new Baritone 12 Stanley Francis copy from China:



just a phone recording, need to start getting my full rig back together soon...
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Cool! I’ve enjoyed reading about your dialing in of that instrument over at TDPRI. Sounds like you’re getting around on the fretboard more easily and you have it ringing and “octave-ing” more now. Like you’re getting more comfortable on it. I can imagine that might be a tall order, what with the big strings and long scale length. I’m impressed at how you seem to be free of unwanted ringing strings, like you have gotten your string damping skills together quickly on that monster.

I’ll be interested to hear what it sounds like once you can start experimenting with different mic positions on it, to see what works and what doesn’t.

keep up the deep twangin!
 
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mexicanyella said:
Cool! I’ve enjoyed reading about your dialing in of that instrument over at TDPRI. Sounds like you’re getting around on the fretboard more easily and you have it ringing and “octave-ing” more now. Like you’re getting more comfortable on it. I can imagine that might be a tall order, what with the big strings and long scale length. I’m impressed at how you seem to be free of unwanted ringing strings, like you have gotten your string damping skills together quickly on that monster.

I’ll be interested to hear what it sounds like once you can start experimenting with different mic positions on it, to see what works and what doesn’t.

keep up the deep twangin!
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Thanks! Yeah, I cross posted here, TDPRI, and The Gear Page too, tried but did not succeed at keeping all 3 in synch lol. Just trolling for attention! hehe..

Actually, on the playability, now that I'm getting the basics nailed down, I'm finding that adjusting for scale length and string gauge isn't such a big deal, the thing that is throwing me more than anything else is the reverse "octaves on treble side" order of the strings in the pairs - at first I thought it was just an "adjusting to different feel" thing, but I'm convinced now it makes clean fingering a little bit tougher. With the octave on the other side, it's easier to get the fingertip to conform to press down enough on the octave without fretting the root string so hard it bends. It's just an easier position on the fingertips. It's harder to bring down enough pressure with the "further back" part of the fingertip flesh without causing the finger to slant and start to interfere with the next string up. But it's coming along, just needs more practice. I would consider switching the octave orders, but that would mean cutting a new nut and bridge.

It's not quite as acoustically loud as I would have expected, but I think these strings at this scale length are still a bit on the "light" side for the build of the body. I calculated the total tension, only around 210 pounds, 12ers are normally up around 250. I may order a string set with gauges adjusted upward to total out around 250, to see if that will make a volume difference.

And yeah, mic'ing it will be a learning experience too.
 
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bholder said:
I'm finding that adjusting for scale length and string gauge isn't such a big deal
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To elaborate, that's mostly due to also being a bassist, and particularly my Emerald 30" scale bass baritone 12er. Once I learned to adjust my guitar fingerpicking to that beastie, adjusting to "in between" scale lengths is less of a stretch (quite literally). Not all fingerings work, though, adjustments and accommodations need to be made sometimes.
 
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