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acmp motto 2008-08-22 18:44 UTC
"Please close your eyes, taste of sweetness sense of music by these. Let each note be injected into our soul."

  --from the first draft of a manual for the eagerly anticipated ACMP "Chineve" preamps.
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girl from ipanema 2008-08-22 04:58 UTC
Here's a cover of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Girl From Ipanema", performed by Bethany, Sophie, and me. We tracked it a couple of months ago, but I've been picking at it since then. None of us can really sing -- Sophie's voice is the only one that isn't assisted by software to be on pitch. I think Bethany's voice is very good -- she just needs pitch training so we can ditch the software. Admittedly, this isn't the easiest song to sing, because of all the key changes.

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here's the mp3 Bethany and I sang through an Oktavamod FDPE MK-319, and Sophie sang through an AKG C414B-ULS. Sophie and I recorded all the percussion with the C414, also. For the preamp, we almost exclusively used the ART Digital MPA, clocked with the MOTU Traveler using a Black Lion Audio Microclock, and the bass and guitar (red Antoniostai with P-94s - neck pickup, volume rolled slightly back) are DI into it as well. The piano and most of the drums (as opposed to the percussion) are Logic software instruments.
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some more strummn 2008-08-10 21:37 UTC
here's a few measures of mellow acoustic improv - I was messing around with some mics. This mp3 is from two tracks, each with a MC-012.

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click here to download the mp3
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collings guitar 2008-08-02 16:21 UTC
finally got to go on the tour of the Collings Guitar plant yesterday.
mold for shaping sides of acoustic

some nice maple
it was super cool - Josiah and I (and a bunch of other folks) got taken around to all the stations - they make acoustic and electric guitars and mandolins.
one day when I win the lottery, I'll probably get one of these. They play and sound better than most other guitars I've played.
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remix 2008-07-06 16:23 UTC
Here's a remix of an earlier posted song, along with a newly recorded outro:

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here's the mp3

The intro is new (re-recorded) since last time too - it's a Charvel surfaster through a Magantone Varsity amp, recorded with Naiant mics. The main part of the song is largely the same, but I added a bass track, and I tried to reinforce the thin-ish guitar track (which was recorded with just a pickup - no mic) with a miced (C414) track that I played with the Martin D-28, and then ran through a low pass filter. I had planned to just re-do the whole track, but my performance wasn't up to snuff this time, so I'll try again later.

For the outro, I used the Martin D-28, and two Oktava MC-012s in xy at about the 12th fret. Also used the Supro student lap steel direct in to the MOTU again.

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