I was just thinking?

[Kevin]

In these days of high technology, would it be possible for all of the membership to be able to record something for their own instrument and for it all to be put together?

I know I did it for someone else a while back with a piece for Trombone and Piano. Would it be possible for something along the same lines?

[adrianallan]

It sounds not too difficult to do, but it could present some problems, the main one being the synching of all ther tracks, or the time-scale alignmnet. The initial contributor needs to make a click track with guide melody and eveybody needs to play to that with headphones on - so we can't hear that click track, only each instrument.

The other issue being the resources of members to produce a decent recording. I can come up with a reasonable wav file of me playing guitar. However can all others do the same?

You would need somebody with very good DAW editing skills (better than mine) to align all th tracks and sonically tidy the whole thing up, matching reverbs and maybe adding some audio mastering. Is there somebody on this forum who has these skills who would be willing to do it.

So yes, it can be done, but maybe you need to ask the question to the members - do you have the technical skills to record yourself and who would like to put it all together who is very good on a DAW?

[Kevin]

Mar 13, 2011 10:35:36 GMT adrianallan said:

So yes, it can be done, but maybe you need to ask the question to the members - do you have the technical skills to record yourself and who would like to put it all together who is very good on a DAW?

That is basically what I was asking Adrian!

[steve]

I think this may be difficult for everyone. I for one haven't played in quite some time and on top of that don't really have a good set up for audio recordings. I can record, but certainly not in any kind of proper studio type sound environment. I just don't have a home studio of that caliber - i.e. sound proof room, proper mics, mike stand, etc etc. But it is an interesting idea if enough people do have the right stuff - I'd like to hear something like this.

[adrianallan]

Yes I guessed as much

count me in for contributing a part should this ever materialise, but you probably know, more than me, who is the most skilled DAW technician here to approach for putting it together.

It's actually quite common for people to make tracks on the internet in this way.

[adrianallan]

In reply to Steve, it is now very possible to do a decent-ish digital recording on an I-phone and no doubt there's an app to tidy it up.

I use a £100 portable yamaha pocketrax recorder and you get a good quality wav file from it - no need for mics, studio set up or anything else.

Remember the days when we used to record ourselves with cassette tapes and it always sounded...dreadful. These days are no more. You can do a decent recording on a £100 device in a livingroom.

You can sneak one of these in your pocket in a concert and get a good recording you'd happily listen to again and again.

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Mar 13, 2011 21:02:08 GMT adrianallan said:

In reply to Steve, it is now very possible to do a decent-ish digital recording on an I-phone and no doubt there's an app to tidy it up.

Actually...... I tried recording my own piano play in the new Garageband app for iPad and that was amazingly good and easy. You I agree; iPhone will have something I'm sure... Heck, you could even record a video and rip off the sound afterwards (plenty of software capable of that..)

[Kevin]

Okay can you all let me know what you play then we can at least make a start.

[steve]

I have added to the jukebox a recording made on my iPhone of me playing the clarinet (which hadn't been out of its case in a couple years!) with a LOT of vibrato. I learned two things today: 1 - You can get a decent recording with just an iPhone and 2 - You can play the clarinet with as much vibrato as an oboe (for better or worse)! I never knew this in all my years of playing. At times it sounds like an English Horn or a Bassoon, at other times an Oboe or even a Saxophone. A second or two sound like a muted Trumpet and once in a while it sounds like a Clarinet! ;-) I can't believe how unimaginative I was in my younger days to have never even tried this. I always played with the straightest tone possible ( and this is good to learn to do for playing in the traditional manner of course, but why didn't I ever venture out after learning to play "correctly"? No wonder I stopped playing - if I had discovered this vibrato style I may have just kept at it on a more regular basis, its so much more rewarding to me. )Anyway, it's in the jukebox.

A couple of notes: You can hear me choke out a low note early on - like I said, it's been a while! You can hear a truck outside blaring its horn half way thru - I did cut out my choice description of the truck driver and his relations with his mother to keep it family friendly...

[Kevin]

This thread bears similarity to another one. Surely it is possible for someone to be able to sync tracks that have been recorded seperately just using readily avaiable software? This way producing tracks using our own abilities would be easier that trying to hire people.