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Author Topic: Traces with a real saxman  (Read 11349 times)
MarioD
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« on: January 09, 2008, 11:03:33 PM »

Mick Emery, another PG musician, volunteered to play the sax lines on this song.  His expertise really made the song come to life.

Great playing Mick.

* Traces - Mick Emery on sax.mp3 (2608.98 KB - downloaded 485 times.)
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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2008, 12:53:32 AM »

It definately helped.
 Did he send audio, or midi files?
 Just curious..
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« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2008, 02:27:56 PM »

Mick sent me a MP3 file.
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« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2008, 04:34:38 PM »

Woah...what an impact with Mick's expertise on this piece.Mick really jazzed this song up so eloquently...so velvety smooth & sexy.

A beautiful collaboration here.

Thom
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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2008, 05:26:03 PM »

Thanx Thom
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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2008, 07:27:52 PM »

Good work overall, although the recording level seems very low.

The sax playing is good, but being severely mono, and with some reverb I think (or is that room accoustics?) it rather get's pushed into the background.
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« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2008, 09:52:52 PM »

Folderol, thanx for the comments. 

I’ll check the overall volume.  I thought it was high enough but I’ve been wrong many times before.

There was a tad of reverb on the sax and it is mono.  Is it too far in the background during the rifts, during the lead or both? 

Thanx - MarioD
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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2008, 07:23:44 PM »

Cool ! it really works
Very singular atmosphere

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« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2008, 07:48:11 PM »

Thanx L.R.
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« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2008, 11:51:34 PM »

Mario,

Nice one! great listen, real laid-back feeling you set here. Synthophone by Mick was great. A good production imho.

Mike
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« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2008, 01:41:32 AM »

Thanx Mike, much appreciated!
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« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2008, 08:59:54 AM »

I agree Mike is a great sax player.
And he has a friend (Bob Hunt) that is at least as good and with which i did a couple of songs.
A shame we don't see him here on the forum....

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« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2008, 09:55:34 AM »

Oh yeah,

Give Mick a decent accompaniment and some space to riff, and he'll never let you down. Always tasteful, always respectful of the existing instruments.

To my ear, the sax was nicely mixed, and the room ambience and reverb blended hapilly with existing tracks to produce a cohesive soundscape.

If you want a constructive criticism, BIAB tends to chop the ending off quite abruptly. Adding a bit of a reverb tail to the last BIAB note, and hitting an extended guitar note/chord that fades naturally in the last bar, will remedy this awkward tendency. Small point, though...

Good one, Mario and Mick!

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« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2008, 02:43:17 PM »

Thanx for that tip Oren and thanx for listening.

Mick is a fantastic musician!



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« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2008, 03:34:37 AM »

I wasn't aware (until tonight) that Mario had posted the tune here!
It was really fun to collab with him.
Thanks to all for the kind words & helpful thoughts.

Mick
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