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Post by avphile on Jan 13, 2005 9:58:31 GMT 7
Anyone involved in musical peformance? Plays musical instruments? Conducts orchestras, choirs?
If so, has anyone recorded his/her own performance, either for public or just personal use?
How was the recording? Does it sound like the real thing for you?
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Post by avphile on Jan 13, 2005 10:28:44 GMT 7
Just to start off, I used to have a better than average amateur guitar playing skills in HS and college (haven't touched the guitar for years now.) I remember recording a piece (Jobim's One Note Samba) on a portable Panasonic cassette recorder with built-in mic in HS just in my room. It was likable initially (complete with neighborhood dogs barking in the background ;D), but didn't sound anywhere like what I was trying to emulate (the sound quality of Charlie Byrd or Jose Feliciano's instrumental pop recordings).
Then I had the rare opportunity to use a professional Tandberg (or Tascam, can't recall) large format open reel tape and a studio-grade mic. Boy did it sound spaceous and airy and lifelike. My technical mistakes were more apparent and the nuances on my plucking and fingering were there though it was the sound of the solo guitar being captured exactly as it sounded in life that impressed me the most. The seeds of hi-fi urge started. (Though appreciating music playback on better gears was already there.)
For some reason, when the open reel was transcribed to cassette and I played it home, the quality that impressed me earlier just disappered. For sure it was better than my home recordings. Well, maybe that was because my very modest home system was nothing compared to the studio monitors.
There have been a few other private recording sessions with overdubs where I played 2 different guitar tracks and the result were really awesome (I must have been a very impressionable kid then.) But the cassette transcriptions that I brought home were just not as impressive. Right then I knew the cassette could never be a hi-fi medium.(Metal cassette tapes have yet to come to market.)
Finally got a copy of the large format open reel transcibed to a half-inch open reel and played it on my Dad's Teac System. It was definitely a lot better. I knew then that Hi-fidelity can only be had with open reels. It did confirm to me the wisdom of studio recordings being made on open reels. They still do, until digital recordings started.
These days, I think I can make home audio digital recordings via my PC soundcard. With a quality that can surpass open reels. Using direct signal path form my guitar (which has a line-out facility) Just haven't got the time to do it. Plus the need to resume and practice playing the guitar. ;D
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erap
Audiophyte
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Post by erap on Apr 7, 2005 16:07:17 GMT 7
Ako.. Play with Pinikpikan.. world music
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