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the birds and rainforest background is really cool and I enjoyed your vibe overall. Only criticism is with the amp hum that drones throughout. Have you tried different amps?
Originally Posted by guitarvegas
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12-07-2024 05:37 PM
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Thanks Mark. That hum is the curse of the P90 pickup in my archtop. I wish I had a better way, because I love that guitar and it's tone. Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut
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You could try a noiseless P90.
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judging by the name of this I think it sounds promising Originally Posted by Bobby Timmons
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Though they remove the hum, I heard they also kill the tone. Is this true? Originally Posted by joe2758
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It's a bit of a compromise in tone, but not everyone thinks it kills the tone. It's up to the individual if they like it or not.
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Isn't there just a way to minimize that hum inside a program like Adobe Audition or something? There must be a way. Originally Posted by Bobby Timmons
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You can also use a shielded or metal cover soldered to the baseplate. Humbucker shaped P90s like the Phat Cat have a metal cover soldered to the baseplate, so the entire pickup is shielded. They're dead quiet played clean. It's only if you turn on the distortion box that they get some noise.
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Like the old days, my kids making a ton of noise with their buddies in that background. Sorry, their bros. Nobody says buddy.
This is a brief improvisation with a theme i came up with just before. The improvisation is free and kinda makes up changes as it goes, but all in key, for the most part. Just a different way to play without a preconceived notion, I guess.
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Your kids are 100% a part of this piece.
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Jeff, lovely! I love your phrasing....absolutely beautiful, and poetic. So good. Let's keep this thread alive, for years to come. Amazing piece of work. Between you and Mark, man. The two of you can keep me going forever. Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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An instant composition of mine (long ago). Not sure how else to define it: It was "on the fly" with McCoy Tyner in mind as an inspiration.
So, free improvisation: yes but not completely... completely free is Derek Bailey, I guess; composition: yes but not previously planned/conceived; noodling: yes and no... (some at least)
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Yes, in the 70s up to the early 80s it was very popular in Europe... it got a lot of air play, too... I remember hearing for the first time the Ganelin Trio (from the USSR) on italian radio... Originally Posted by kris
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In Adobe Audition, go to the Effects menu at top, go down to Noise Reduction/Restoration, then select "DeHummer..." Originally Posted by guitarvegas
There are different presets for different kinds of hums.
I messed around with yours. I'd select 180 as the base frequency, number of harmonics=8, harmonic slope around 100%, gain -30db.
There's a little box at the bottom of the dehummer window that lets you hear the hum that's being removedl "Output Hum Only". The trick is to just have that sound be the hum, with as little of your playing as possible. Then unclick the box and render it out.
You just have to mess around with the controls until you get the best results. It will never be perfect, but it can make the hum less noticeable.
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This is 'Blowin' In The Wind' as performed by an asparagus. Just saying.
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Just did this, and it works well! No need to spend a bunch of dollars on a new pickup. Satisfying results! Thank you Originally Posted by supersoul
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I did another one today. I love exploring in this form. I guess the birds become my rhythm section.
I don't love this one as much, but you do it and move along. That is okay.
Not sure if these are interesting to you, but they are to me. BTW, I have been enjoying all of your musical posts here. Please keep them coming!
BTW, I surprisingly discovered that when playing my archtop with the buzzing P90, if I tilt the guitar upward (fretboard and top turned slightly toward the ceiling), and if positioned at a sweet spot in my room, that the hum goes away....almost completely. So that is good news.
Jam Vol 60_mixdown2.wav - Google DriveLast edited by guitarvegas; 12-08-2024 at 08:38 PM.
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Tomorrow I will play blindfolded. That will be fun.
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Most musicians I know have stopped playing free music.
This is largely due to the fact that they began to realize that they had little knowledge about music.
I once talked to a very good free jazz player... he said that everything he played before was unconscious.
To tell you the truth, I've never played free music at concerts.If I did, it was maybe 1%.
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I don't listen to or play that much free music, but every time I've played this kind of music it's been a learning experience. I've tended to do it in workshops and classes more than 'in the wild.'
Free is a bad name for it really. The other name used for 'non-idiomatic' is also quite bad.
It's not free in the sense that you can play anything - and it's also idiomatic in that there's definitely an aesthetic and approach to European free improvisation for example. When I've done classes there was an emphasis on scrubbing a lot of the usual musical idioms away in one's playing which I argue in itself creates a sort of style. But it doesn't need to be "squeaky door" stuff either.
Keith Tippett said that increasingly people were drawn to free improvisation that had no interest in jazz - they might be from a New Music background. It's no longer jazz at this point, but some sort of space between traditions.
And I have to say when I've done this type of improvisation with composers I've always felt very humbled by their awareness of texture and form. It's a different set of skills. And you could be really good at all this stuff at the same time as having relatively little conventional technique.
OTOH there's also free jazz, which I feel is different. It can swing for example, where as in "free improvisation" that isn't really a feature, maybe even consciously avoided.
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It's interesting that I grew up when there was free jazz and orthodox traditional jazz next to it.
I didn't get into free jazz, although I listened to it sometimes because there was a lot of it.
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I love free jazz. I could listen to early Ornette all day.
Bitches Brew and that vibe not so much.
What Christian calls free improvisation as distinct from free jazz I don’t listen to much at all.
I will say even the free stuff I don’t listen to much, I absolutely love to see live. Super different experience.
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This type of music is like poetry in that more people write it than read it. Also, there is a small percent of those who do it who actually put it out there. It is very easy for other people to tear it down; and, especially on the internet, they will. That sort of thing is easier for some people to take than others. I have been playing like this for years, but only just started posting it. I have already second guessed myself about doing so multiple times.
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+1! Originally Posted by pamosmusic
+ there was a time when I dived deep into it and that was my main "listening-diet".
I've never played total free sets live but it does happen that I insert sudden bursts of free improv while soloing on a tune... or, sometimes, I insert it as part of an arrangement, or in some original composition of mine. I do understand, though, that, often times, it's more enjoyable for a musician to play it than for a listener to hear it.
+ even for me it's not (or, at least, no longer) an everyday listening desire... it does require the right time, the right mood...
P.S. I love how Don Pullen uses free in his solos in non-free style tunes, for instance. It doesn't feel out of context and he still really burns!
Check out his solo, here:
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