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Wow, that's some amazing mic you got there! I've got decent mics yet unless I'm 2 inches or closer to the mic my vocals are dead silent. And your mic picks up the guitar, your vocals, and an echo of some sort on your vocal. I gotta get me one of those mics. What brand of mic are you using ? Thanks in advance for sharing, if you don't wanna give away your secret source I'll totally understand as well. Have a great evening!
Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L
KajiMa,
Please post some links to some of your songs/performances/poetry, etc..... You've aroused my curiosity. I'm pretty convinced from the content of your posts that you know what you're talking about in regards of music. I just wanna match a face and/or sound with the data you've shared with us here at Chordie. Hook us up with some stuff friend................ Cool?
Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L
This is a little off topic but maybe someone following this thread can enlighten me... What does the "Walrus" symbolize in most older songs. In song's like "The Garden Party" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_exY9ptMbA or "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOKvonLrH8 It's referred to in many other older songs as well.. -Pix
Hi Pix,
Paul was the Walrus. And I'm gonna send you a link that it not suitable for this site ( really funny) BOLO for an e-mail.
-Toney
You guys are funny, I can't stop laughing, and I'm hungry too!
Happy 4-20 to all my earthy, hippy friends out there. Here's to the future where one day soon we'll be able to "drink our tea" without big brother spitting in our cups. Have a nice evening folks.
Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L
I would establish private communication and negotiate from there. Factor your price based upon the distance of travel, how much equipment you'll need to bring, and the total perfomance time. Demand a 50% non-refundable deposit and then you'll know for sure if they are indeed serious.
From the perspective of a 42 yr old child/man( I refuse to grow up) ,texting is a fast and effective way to avoid getting detained on one's phone by that person who just doesn't know when it's time to hang up. Time is valuable and I personally don't wanna have to ask someone, "will you please stop flapping your gums about stuff that no one under the stars gives a rats patuitti about?" Texting is a great tool for those on the go with very little time to themselves...
N.A.S.C.A.R = Non Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks
Hugely popular here in the USA but personally, I'd rather watch trees grow, it's more exciting.(haha)
It's nice to see kids playing actual instruments and not that guitar hero nonsense. The kids are very good, a standing ovation from this musician!!
Here are a few of my personal favorite singers( in no specific order);
Male; Tony Bennett -just keeps gettin' better and better. He continuously hones his craft and isn't afraid to try new styles. He is the master at communicating a songs' message. His stories between the tunes are always cool too. He loves his job and it shows.
Freddy Mercury- didn't get a fair shake from many due to his sexual orientation. The dude could sing! never heard him sing a "bad" note. This man was an incredibly gifted musician. He, like so many others, left us way too soon.
Delbert McClinton- raspy, soulfull, doesn't over-sing. Not a "mainstream" artist but who cares. He's as good a singer as anyone in the business. Plus, he's got one of the grooviest names in music too!
Female; Alison Krauss-turns my "tough guy" outer shield to mush when she sings. Her voice is immediatly recognizable and her high range is unbelievable. She sounds better live than any studio recording I've heard from her. No matter which style of music she sings she always uses her natural voice, and it's a thing of beauty.
Bonnie Raitt- always dug her style, she's a cool, classy, amazingly talented musician. And her vocal vibrato, dynamic application, and elasticity of vocal folds in amongst the best. She can belt out some powerful, dirty blues and calm the most angry beasts with her sweet, gentle delivery on her "love songs."
Billie Holiday- "Lady Day" was one of a kind. A soothing and distinct voice that induces goose bumps everytime I hear her sing. She didn't have huge range and her voice wasn't overpowering but she knew her limits and worked her vocal strengths like no other. I wanna give her a big ole hug everytime I listen to her sing.
My worst guitar experience was when I was lying in a hospital bed in Charlottesville, Virginia, doped almost into a state a total unconsciousness from morphine rushing through my veins, dreaming that my dream guitar ( 1976 Fender Stratocaster) was sinking in the mud and there was nothing I could do to stop the destruction..................... I'm glad it was only a dream.
Cool song Phill, kinda of a hillbilly version of " I Shot The Sherriff". I'm not implying that you're rippin' off Bob Marley by the way. All great artists borrow from what's out there. It's been happening since the beginning of time. And I love the Bubba McDougal name. One of my nicknames for my 3 yr old son is Burr-head McCoy.( haha)
Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L
The studio itself. The best microphone in the world is still gonna sound like you're in a water tank if you're in a water tank.
"In the recording studio the current vogue is for the singer to be very close to the microphone. This helps to cut down on unwanted background noise from other instruments or 'spill' from headphones and also reduces the acoustic ambience of the room.
Given today's increasingly cheap technology such as digital and convolution reverbs you would think that it's best to get as 'dry' a recording as possible and then 'wet' it (a term for adding reverberation or other effects) with artificial reverb at the mix stage rather than to struggle with overly 'wet' recordings that are impossible to get back to a 'dry' state without obvious artefacts.
The problem with close mic'ing is that it's always a very intimate sound, every tongue, lip-smacking and breathing sound is picked up by the microphone and if the microphone is looking upwards towards the nose it can also sound a bit more nasal in tone.
The contribution of the chest cavity to a vocal sound shouldn't be under estimated, it helps to warm up the sound, so backing off the microphone by several feet will help to achieve this. This makes sense really, when you think about how you normally listen to singers, you hear them in the room, not right next to them.
The problem with putting the microphone further away is that you hear more of the room's acoustics and in a small studio or vocal booth it can sound 'boxy'. To reduce this effect you'll need to hang sound absorbent materials such as curtains or duvets behind the singer in particular, since this is where the microphone is picking up most of its sound, and on other walls until you have a suitably 'dry' sound."
"source-recording microphones.com
2+ years ago I was diagnosed with beginning symptoms of mouth cancer. Long story short; I "dipped" Copenhagen for 20+ years ( almost a can a day), the diagnosis scared me to the point of hyperventaling in the dentists' chair. I quit that day, haven't touched it since. My dental x-rays are clear of mouth cancer but my chicklettes( teeth) are royally screwed. I've dished out over 10K to fix the damage I've inflicted upon myself and I'm lookin' at that much or more to fix the rest. Wished I'd never crammed that first dip into my jaw.
I can proudly say; I don't dip, I don't smoke, and I don't chew
Not preachin', just tellin' it like it is................
http://www.tobaccofreeflorida.com/
I never quite grew all the way up.
I can relate, and damn proud to admit it. Blaaaaaaaaaggggghhhhhh....
Also if you leave the capo on too long it can create indentions on the back of the neck. I would suggest removing the capo from the fretboard when you're not playing.
And, tune your guitar without the capo. Place the capo on your guitar in a manner that requires no additional tuning. There's a "sweet spot" on each fret and it might take a little exploring to find it.
SouthPaw41L wrote:Second, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lagodigarda/100829629/
AWESOME!!!!
Doesn't that look cool? Makes me want to buy one and go fall down a lot.
- Zurf
Yeah it looks cool. I gotta get me one too so I can tick off all the blue hairs down here.(haha) And falling down on grass and dirt is much less painful than bitin' it on concrete and asphalt...... This thing would be lots of fun up in the hills of Virginia! Here's some additional info on "Mountainboarding"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountainboarding
and here's one in Ireland;
http://www.surfindirt.co.uk/index2.html
Second, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lagodigarda/100829629/
AWESOME!!!!
SouthPaw41L wrote:Florida
'Nuf said.
Florida is where tennis players go when all they have left is yelling at skateboarding punks to get off their lawns.
- Zurf
Skateboarding on lawns???? Am I missing a new craze here?
ps-"Skateboarding is not a crime"
I guess we need to throw Jimmy Buffet into the arena of discussion here;
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimmy+buff … 71967.html
And ole JB was born on 12-25. Hmmmmm......... pretty freaky huh?
Check out the Ibanez Tube Screamer pedal. This is one sweet pedal. I have no experience or opinions of the "Fat Sandwich" pedal.
Come on y'all!! Please don't think that the majority of us edu-mah-cated folk here in the USA consider sitting on our rumps down in the seat of an automobile, going round and round in circles for hundreds of miles, turning left( almost always),and mashing the gas pedal down, a sport. My father is married to a widow of a verysemi- famous pioneer of car racing and I appreciate the sacrifices and risks that car racers face. But these guys are not athletes and driving a car is not a sport. My Grandmother is 89 years old and she drives a car. There is no way my Grandmother could do Mixed Martial Arts. MMA's a real sport and it's the most rapidly inclining sport in the USA over the past 3 years.
And I'm very happy no single indivdual has had the audacity the even suggest golf as a sport. (;>}
And sorry to disagree with you Zurf ( again)but although I was a tennis player back in the McEnroe, Connors, Borg days, I do not know one single person who plays tennis, or watches it on TV today. Maybe I'm just sheltered in my paths of travel but I see dozens of tennis courts down here in sunny Florida and every one of them are empty, unless skateboarders are shreddin' on 'em.................
M.M.A.!!! Watch it, you'll dig it...
...and often I'll play a 4 hour gig and get almost no respose all night, but my tip pitcher will be full of money. Other nights I'll get applause and vocal encouragement after each and every song, but the tip pitcher is completely empty. We can't control how people react in the world of art, we can only present our art to the best of our abilities......
hi chordies it amazes me that with over 200,000 members all looking at each others posts we only get minimum replies to our work,the imput helps us to create more works of art for members to view,there is usually loads of veiws but few replies....stay cool
When one tries too hard to force a response from a viewer/listener/reader it often makes that person even less likely to reply. Don't worry about the responses or lackthereof from others just do what you do and get out what is within.......
Federal protection for "sound recordings" has been in effect, in the USA, since 2-15-1972 by an ammendment to the Copyright act of 1909. Protection applies to such recordings fixed and published on or after 2-15-1972. Until the 1976 Copyright Act, generally effective on 1-1-1978, statutory copyright did not exist in respect of unpublished sound recrdings. However, provision was made in that Act for their copyright protection.
Also, under the Copyright Act of 1909, as amended, the term of copyright protection in sound recordings is limited to 28 years from the date of publication plus a renewal period of 28 years. Sound recording which qualify for registration under the Act are entitled to the basic protection period of 56 years, plus the added 19 years provided under the 1976 Copyright Act.
Source; Hard copy of " This Business of Music" by Sidney Shemel and William Krasilovsky
I keep and have kept my nose stuck in this book for 20+years. I'm sure much of the material is outdated but it gives me a starting point at least in much of my research. It has saved my rump many o' time...............
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