On 20/09/2013 20:36, Monica Hall wrote:
Very nice. Love the way the two parts are quite distinct. Almost as
if you were using two different instruments. Were you?
Monica
I'm beginning to have doubts now! I chose an extremely simple little
duet (even so, I messed up a bar) - just to practice multi-tracking
which I haven't done for a while. It's the same instrument first
recorded with the top line of the duet and then recorded again,
listening to the top line and and adding the bottom line (with a little
recording machine that allows you to do this.)
In the past I've done various things in software with the two recorded
parts of a duet and the final result has never separated the instruments
much. I contacted Matthew Leigh Embleton and he gave me lots of advice.
Now if the final result is OK then it's thanks to Matthew and especially
his advice to increase the panning. I just wonder if I've broken some
fundamental rule of sound engineering and it's clumsy. Well, in that
case, that's my fault - not Matthew's!
In Rumsfeld-speak, I don't know what I don't know about sound
engineering/mastering etc. Matthew pointed out that in 'mixdown', when
adding reverb you can add it to each source or the two combined and the
software is pushing the user to add reverb to the combination of the
two. And that definitely sounds better but at the cost of losing the
separation. So I added reverb to each part before mixdown. (is this a
capital crime?)
As Monica (and someone else) has pointed out the separation I wonder if
it's just too much.
Stuart
----- Original Message ----- From: "WALSH STUART" <[email protected]>
To: "lutelist Net" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 11:43 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Thomas Thackray: Air (allegro moderato) 1772
a simple duet for two wire-strung guitars/guittars from the Georgian
era:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QV0Kd8h4YA
Stuart
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