Acoustic recording & mixing group

[JotPe]

Acoustic recording & mixing goup

Hi every body I would like to create a group for people interested in recording and mixing of
acoustic material. I would like to learn and to improve how to record acoustic instruments most authentically, how to positioned in a room, and mix them that listeners feel like sitting among the musicians. So I hope there are people around the world interested in the same and
would like to join this working group. Looking forward to see people joining. So long Jan

[glen_schneider]

Hi @JotPe, I play and record a lot of acoustic instruments and I'd like to join your group to discuss such things. I'm not too familiar with this site and design though, how do I join?

[patrickd90]

Hey guys, interested in this group as well - @glen_schneider - I've just clicked the Regular/Watching/Tracking/Muted button underneath the comments and selected Watching - it seems this will probably let us keep track of conversations in here.

[glen_schneider]

@patrickd90 thanks, looks like that is the way.

[scotbyrdcreates]

Count me in! I'm a singer/songwriter/guitarist with a home project student using Logic X.

[JotPe]

Thank you all for joining, Scot has a nice internet page with some of his material Glen and Patrick do you have material online to here? Looking forward to work and to have some fun with you. If you are interested this was my last recording project Vermillion Blue

[nadia_]

Hi, I'm interested in joining. I'm playing acoustic piano.
Thank you for creating this group!
Nadia

[Ocean8]

I'm interested in recording and mixing my own acoustic stuff. I have no real experience but am very interested to learn!

[JotPe]

Nice to see our group growing. Do all of you now know how good or bad you are in hearing
high frequencies? Today I did the test with my 15 year old niece and I was quit frustrated, she was able to hear 15.700KHz. Does it make sense to create one soundcloud account for our group for collaboration? Any experience mixing Peter Gabriels songs? I watched 2 PWYM videos about musical structure graph musical structure graph and perceived space graph which helped me to get some more value out of listening and mixing the songs. Looking forward to read your experiences.

[LaraWhitten]

Hi What I currently do is most closely related to this subject. I'm a singer with a working cover band; which, I also produce. I've never been behind the board for more than a dinner set. I am, though, a purist, it is just me and my mic. (Shure SM58's) I put up and tear down equipment all the time. I make decisions about set ups in venues (ballroom type) and outdoors. I do know some stuff about making adjustments for, say, desert high winds, etc. So far, I have no idea what's going on this class, except, I don't think doing the sonic frequency test with headphones on is a good idea:) Made my head hurt with bare ears and my laptop.

[dgohn]

Hello,
I would like to join this group. I am a drummer and always very interested in acoustic recording. I have some experience with different DAWs, but Audacity is my tool of choice most of the time. I teach music at the University of Sao Carlos, Brazil and it is fundamental that we use open software. Hope to learn a lot here!

[JotPe]

Super, now we have Drums, Bass, Piano , vocals, may be we are able to create a Song together and use the Song for the Mixing Tasks. So if some one has already a Song idea would be grate if you can share to make some music together.

[Maggie]

Hello,
I'm Margarita. I'm interested in joining. I play guitar and cello.

[yasebeli]

Hi I'd love to join in. I'm a singer/songwriter. Most of my songs are on the acoustic side though I like to meddle in other genres sometimes. Here's for a feel of my voice/music: https://soundcloud.com/yasebeli

[JotPe]

Our group is growing. So now we have guitar, cello, piano, drums bass female and male vocals and songwriter. Yasemin, I like you music on soundcloud very much, nice melodies!

So my idea is to take a song and everyone who like to participate by playing an instrument or singing records her or his part and we end up with audio tracks we can use for mixing experiences and to learn from each other.

So all of you, who like to participate on creating music together and using this for the PWYM workshop please raise your hands. If someone in our group likes to share a song idea to work on this would be great.

looking forward to get some feedback

[patrickd90]

Also have years of experience with guitar, here's a link to something quick I recorded a few weeks back with the intention to write lyrics and sing (very basically) over the top later on - https://soundcloud.com/pat-d-5/patrickd-acoustic

I'd love to contribute guitar tracks to any music we decide to collaborate together on - it's a pretty great opportunity to work with a bunch of talented people across the globe!

I've studied a few classes at uni on music production (mixing/recording etc.) so I have a fairly basic knowledge of the artform, and can certainly work my way around Logic without issue.

No experience mixing/playing with any Peter Gabriel songs however, I find remixing and 'touching up' old material (whether it's mine or someone else's) a difficult task because I find myself becoming attached to the original too much haha

[Moji]

Hi Jan, sounds good to me. I also play acoustic guitars and will be glad to contribute to something shared. Should be an interesting experience. Thanks.

[LaraWhitten]

Whatever everybody wants to do!

[yasebeli]

Thanks Jan! How shall we start this? We can...

A) choose an existing acoustic song that we really like and follow it's structure. Then the main instruments maybe starting with guitar can give us a few ideas/auditions we choose one and layer on top.
B) Pick some kind of theme like, unrequited love, snail farts...etc. here's a site that has all these different themes/ideas: http://www.squidoo.com/1000-things-to-write-a-song-about-ideas-for-songwriters-and-poetsThen go through the same process with guitar laying down some tracks and other instruments and vocalists layering on top of it. We don't necessarily have to end up with one song.
3) somebody just throw something out there?

[Moji]

Hi Yasemin, all three ideas sound good.