What a lovely tune.

Ha! good one! What inspired that?

Just noticed an acoustic guitar in one of the images. A dynamic mic like the SM57 will be fine for recording the Peavey and some lustful signing however, OP will struggle for level with a dynamic on acoustic guitar unless that M-A interface has significantly better pre amps in terms of gain and ...

Hugh Robjohns wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 1:43 pm
... 'crushage'...

You can write that new word easily enough, but now try to say it.

(Inconsequential sidebar to your useful post.)

I’ve got a subscription to ChatGPT and find it incredible, invaluable, inspirational. Guess I’m in the minority. :beamup: I'm in the minority too, I guess, but I think it's because my use of it is so restricted - I use it just for Google searches. I've found that the Google AI offering often cuts to ...

zenguitar wrote: ↑Sat May 03, 2025 2:55 am You can think of it as a tiny part of each string that doesn't contribute to the vibrating. And this is the thing that requires intonation to correct.

Oooo, got it! Brilliant! Cheers.

'Dusty in Manhattan' doesn't sound *that* bad.

Album notes credit a 'recording engineer' (who is also credited on the Wikipedia page with playing some harmonica on the album), but no mixing engineer. The date on my copy is 1968. So if no mixing engineer, the final sound on the album was basically mics and levels in the context of the room. I ...

Super useful - thanks.

Disclosure and apology: Disclaimer: I was a bit drunk when I listened last night. Apology: Since, listening again this morning in cold-light-of-dawn sobriety, it sounds every bit as good, I'll apologise for saying that if I was your producer, I'd be leaning on you very heavily to do more songs like ...

That's right, but I thought that (back then) producers for audio projects were not hands-on, but rather at the organizational/financing level of things?

I knew there's be a double stab before the title got sung! Perfect. Really good keyboard filigree ornament. Completely unusual for you, and you got it in one.

Good work. I reckon he could sing it.

I reckon Tom Dowd mixed 'Dusty in Memphis'. Why? Well, *nobody's* credited as mixing engineer on the CD I've got, but Wikipedia lists Tom Dowd as 'audio engineer' for the album.

What daw do you use at the moment and are you sure it doesn't have some basic scoring capabilities built in? ::tapped on shoulder:: 'What?' ::Your DAW!:: 'Oh, right.' Yeah, Google AI says my DAW can handle it. Okay, this will vie with Dorico now. I know who's going to win if Google AI is right.... 😎

I think I'd prefer to hire a complete horn section to play together rather than individuals. Whenever I've recorded horns there has always been quite a bit of playing off each other. We are kind of lucky around here to have some decent horn players with experience playing in well known bands. Well ...

Your 'squadron leader' idea is spot on, I think, but I don't think that would work for a random assembly of Fiverr hires - the horns need to be in the same room, I think. Otherwise, it's charts for everybody, in the way that you describe.

Re: Openness to and flexibility about a horn part When I've worked with singers recently, I've recorded a scratch track and sung their part and sent it to them with: 'This is what I'm hearing for this part. Try it, but if you're moved to change it up, try that too.' It's an approach that's worked ...

Thanks, Alexis. That's reassuring and useful.

I'm guessing that in a real project, the sheet music/keyboard part would just be a starting point anyway, and conversations would be involved. Probably would depend a lot on the player. Some musicians are mind readers, and some are better than that, even.

I'd like to try some horn hires on Fiverr. For their parts, I could send an mp3 of me singing the horn part, or playing it on a keyboard. Or I could send a chart. Or a combination of sung/played and chart. How good are Midi to sheet music converters? Do I actually need one for working with pros, do ...

For the first years at least, studying classical music means playing from sheet music, which means everything is focussed on 'playing the right notes'. I enjoyed that experience, but it was so prescriptive. As soon as I switched to guitar and started writing my own stuff, the focus flipped wide open ...

Not necessarily a banning offense, a joke that bad. But definitely 'you've racked one up on the three strikes and you're out' scale.

"I used to be sort of ambivalent about video, but nowadays it seems to be more and more ubiquitous. Is that because of the proliferation of graphical content sites, or that music has felt a need to be represented graphically." In the case of music videos that have the artist(s) playing the tune, I ...

I went the lucky lazy route and signed up for Mike Senior's patreon, giving me access to his extensive list of mix references and his comments on each. First of all, it's ear training listening for the thing in the reference mix that he finds so instructive. Second (and this is much more global, but ...