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Music, the ancient language... Group: Musicians Posts: 407 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 22 2003, 16:58 As promised yesterday: my first recording! I haven't done anything but recording it, putting it in ogg format en spending two hours thinking about which password I used for uploading. But I'm uploading it right now, for all to hear! It's a little preview of Ommadawn for Piano. It hasn't got much serious practise, so don't expect a magnificent performance. I just couldn't resist uploading it. Little question: does everyone hear noise at about 1:58, or is it just my boxes? -------------- Read everything I write at own risk. I cannot be held responsible  for depressions and/or suicide attempts of any kind, caused by reading my posts. Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: June 22 2003, 19:12 It's certainly an interesting idea, though I personally find the speed which it's played back almost disturbing! Something definitely goes wrong - the piano distorts quite heavily. I can only assume that it's distorting somewhere at the input stage then being brought down in level later (perhaps by a digital gain control?) as the level of the file is nowhere near maximum. Overall it sounds very nice, though. It has a slightly dull and distant sound (a kind of boxy quality), which you may or may not be able to improve by repositioning the microphone - I think that's mostly down to room acoustics. A tiny pinch of EQ seems to help a bit as well. Anyway, keep experimenting, you're getting good results! Back to top

Q! Group: Members Posts: 110 Joined: Dec. 2002 Posted: June 22 2003, 20:52 Oooh, nice playing, too bad I will never be able to play like that Pretty good, accept for the poor sound quality. And what's the deal with that huge bitrate? I mean, jesus christ, nominal bitrate 500kbps? you could go lossless with that. -q 0 setting is enough for previewing. -------------- http://qisgod.host.sk/ Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: June 22 2003, 21:28 80 kbps or quality 1.00 is plenty for encoding OGGs with. It's all I use on all of my tracks I've posted here. About the music....yes I think it's too fast, too. Also sounds sped up. Is that true? If not, good playing! But it's interesting hearing what you've done different with it from the original piece. GJ. -------------- BrandonBlume.com "The beauty in life is in the embracing of the variety of things. If all the world was blue there would be no colour blue." Back to top

Music, the ancient language... Group: Musicians Posts: 407 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 23 2003, 06:45 It isn't sped up. I haven't done anything with it but recording and putting it in ogg. Sorry about the bitrate. I know actually nothing about ogg, except that my codec for ogg works and the one for mp3 doesn't. It indeed sounds to fast, doesn't it. I personally think that it's due to my acceleration on the primes. It gives really a hurry feel to it. I'll try to get a constant rhythm, and if it still sounds to fast then, then I'll slow it down. I'm gonna play a bit with my mike. Cheers to everyone! -------------- Read everything I write at own risk. I cannot be held responsible  for depressions and/or suicide attempts of any kind, caused by reading my posts. Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: June 23 2003, 09:51 Download OGGDropXPD from www.vorbis.com. It's the best OGG encoder, IMO, and it's by Vorbis themselves. And it works well. Just drag and drop. -------------- BrandonBlume.com "The beauty in life is in the embracing of the variety of things. If all the world was blue there would be no colour blue." Back to top

Music, the ancient language... Group: Musicians Posts: 407 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 24 2003, 12:59 Alright. I've played a bit with the mike's position, and with the virtual equaliser, trying to let it sound less dull (mainly by giving the lower tones a boost). It's still to fast, though. But there's no noise anymore (well, almost).  I changed the link above. It also has a way lower bitrate. Anything else I should take into consideration? @ Brandon: What's so good about OGGDropXPD? Is it just that it's easy to use, or something else? -------------- Read everything I write at own risk. I cannot be held responsible  for depressions and/or suicide attempts of any kind, caused by reading my posts. Back to top

BOOsTER Group: Musicians Posts: 1024 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 24 2003, 15:00 Sorry mate I gotta say that I think that it's over bassed...and the higher tones are covered by lots of bass... :-/ anyways quite impressive playing :thumbsup: -------------- http://www.djbooster.net Back to top

Music, the ancient language... Group: Musicians Posts: 407 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 25 2003, 07:20 Glad you like my piano playing. But when you say there's to much bass, are you referring to a specific part in the song, or just in general? -------------- Read everything I write at own risk. I cannot be held responsible  for depressions and/or suicide attempts of any kind, caused by reading my posts. Back to top

BOOsTER Group: Musicians Posts: 1024 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 25 2003, 12:22 yes in general :-/ -------------- http://www.djbooster.net Back to top

Music, the ancient language... Group: Musicians Posts: 407 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 25 2003, 12:30 Hmm... didn't expect that. Anyone else has a problem with the bass tones? -------------- Read everything I write at own risk. I cannot be held responsible  for depressions and/or suicide attempts of any kind, caused by reading my posts. Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: June 26 2003, 18:03 I hate to say this, but I think that aside from the distortion, I preferred the sound of your first recording Keep going, though... Back to top

Music, the ancient language... Group: Musicians Posts: 407 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 26 2003, 18:14 Strange... subjectiveness can do strange things to people (me). I guess I'll do a third and last recording of it (the preview, that is), then. -------------- Read everything I write at own risk. I cannot be held responsible  for depressions and/or suicide attempts of any kind, caused by reading my posts. Back to top

Music, the ancient language... Group: Musicians Posts: 407 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 27 2003, 06:08 Allright, last shot. A Preview of Ommadawn for Piano. It has a quieter tempo, I didn't touch the bass, but I didn't manage to work away all of the distortion. And I tried mp3 for a change. Don't worry, this is the last one.   -------------- Read everything I write at own risk. I cannot be held responsible  for depressions and/or suicide attempts of any kind, caused by reading my posts. Back to top

Bubular Tells Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: June 2002 Posted: June 27 2003, 17:13 Very impressive. I haven't heard the previous versions but this one sounds ok. Now to wait for the full version... (Are you gonna do part 2 as well?) Back to top

Music, the ancient language... Group: Musicians Posts: 407 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 27 2003, 18:23 I don't know. Only time will tell, I guess. -------------- Read everything I write at own risk. I cannot be held responsible  for depressions and/or suicide attempts of any kind, caused by reading my posts. Back to top

ktran Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: May 2003 Posted: June 27 2003, 23:12 Very nice, sir. I love the sound of a real piano. k -------------- Khoa Tran www.suspendedseconds.ca Back to top

BOOsTER Group: Musicians Posts: 1024 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 28 2003, 06:43 Sounds good... but in a few moments there is still distortion and more ...I think I also heard some feedback noise :-/ but really impressive piano playing as I said many times before... good job -------------- http://www.djbooster.net Back to top

Music, the ancient language... Group: Musicians Posts: 407 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 28 2003, 19:40 Que? Feedback noise? What's that? -------------- Read everything I write at own risk. I cannot be held responsible  for depressions and/or suicide attempts of any kind, caused by reading my posts. Back to top

BOOsTER Group: Musicians Posts: 1024 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: June 29 2003, 06:06 it's like hmmm... a beep or something...just like overdrive feedback -------------- http://www.djbooster.net Back to top

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