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A bit of swing this morning for no good reason. Hope at least the visual is enjoyable, and thanks for watching.
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01-17-2025 03:56 PM
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Darn, I like that even better than the GS.....it's that economy chording ,(wink
) It's so elegant and accurate, quite amazing playing. I'm surprised that by now your posts are not getting more views , I mean this is solo guitar at it's very best. This is why we're here on this forum and you're doing this nearly every day. I'd pay to see this kind of playing.
This one is now my reference for solo guitar.
Thx
Sol
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Thanks man! Beats me why more folks don’t listen to me, but I’ll just go in no matter. Guys like you make it worthwhile posting here.
Originally Posted by SOLR
Darn, I like that even better than the GS.....it's that economy chording ,(wink) It's so elegant and accurate, quite amazing playing. I'm surprised that by now your posts are not getting more views , I mean this is solo guitar at it's very best. This is why we're here on this forum and you're doing this nearly every day. I'd pay to see this kind of playing.
This one is now my reference for solo guitar.
Thx
Sol
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Very nice version for solo guitar.
Ch.Parker's music is timeless.
Best
Kris
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Thanks for listening. I Appreciate it! Originally Posted by kris
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Downright brisk compared to the more stately approach. Very nice! Also something to work on for me, I don't believe I've ever played the melody for Scrapple up the neck like that, I usually play it in the tenor range instead of the alto range. Works better up there, naturally.
I may not always comment, but I watch 'em. I always enjoy your playing.
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You do realize you're rather arcane? Sort of the musical black arts... by any chance, is your personal physician named Dr. Strange? Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut
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Thank you very much. I feel like my fingerpicking may be on the edge of a breakthrough with speed. Stay tuned Originally Posted by Cunamara
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occult implications?? Haha- hardly! My skepticism runs deep and in all directions. Originally Posted by Mick-7
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That's what I'm talking about! Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut
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We don't have ready comparison numbers as to how many people listen to other folks who post here, so I don't know how your audience stacks up versus others. Historically musicians who focus on crowd-pleasing rather than on the Muse have a bigger audience. I don't much care about an audience, so I try to keep on friendly terms with the Muse... Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut
And, sad but true, most of the forum members seem to focus on the Gear section. Maybe you should post your videos there as gear demonstrations?
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Bird lives! Originally Posted by charlieparker
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Well, it’s all good. I mean, if popularity was the real goal we’d be playing popular styles of music. The vast majority of people who hear jazz don’t really get it at all. The rest, less than 10% (if even that much) have tastes that center in the biggest names doing the most familiar things possible- so few of them consider guitar. I could keep going but I’m afraid it leads to a conclusion that I’m lucky if 5 people tune in on any give day. Originally Posted by Cunamara
We don't have ready comparison numbers as to how many people listen to other folks who post here, so I don't know how your audience stacks up versus others. Historically musicians who focus on crowd-pleasing rather than on the Muse have a bigger audience. I don't much care about an audience, so I try to keep on friendly terms with the Muse...
And, sad but true, most of the forum members seem to focus on the Gear section. Maybe you should post your videos there as gear demonstrations?
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Hi Mark, new member here. Excellent playing on this, very enjoyable. I'm also impressed with your video production and audio quality, I'd like to do some of that myself. Can you tell us about your software/editing approach? I especially like the way you dim the background, I definitely need to hide my clutter palace.
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Happy to help. I posted the attached PDF a couple of years ago which is still pretty much how I’m doing everything, though I’ve added a few tricks and more cameras to the kit. Davinci Resolve, the video editing software that makes this possible is extremely powerful but also has a pretty steep learning curve. Still, they offer a completely free version that is fully functional with no restrictions or watermarks- so easy to give it a try. After you read my PDF let me know any questions and I’ll do my best. Guitar Recording.pdf Originally Posted by Ingo Lee
Hi Mark, new member here. Excellent playing on this, very enjoyable. I'm also impressed with your video production and audio quality, I'd like to do some of that myself. Can you tell us about your software/editing approach? I especially like the way you dim the background, I definitely need to hide my clutter palace.
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Well, I meant your playing is arcane in the sense of being non-mainstream but also that there is some musical sorcery going on. Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut
Re: atheism and sorcery/shamanism, the two are not synonymous, the latter term means the belief that beings of higher intelligence than humankind exist in the universe and that it is possible to communicate with them - communication being the hard part, e.g., the SETI project. This is obviously a much smaller leap of faith than believing in a Supreme Being who is concerned with human welfare.
A few of my favorite God quotes for you:
"If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse." - Woody Allen
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Bill Watterson
"I may be made in the image of God but the resemblance is so poor that only a very near-sighted person could mistake me for him." - Mark Twain
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I’d be happy hanging out with Dr Strange any day of the week! The mystery of playing has been my lifetime interest and pursuit, and one truth I’ve come to is that the subconscious is the best suited driver for creative musical proceedings. The conscious self is best placed into a relaxed and passive state, aware and observing, but definitely taking a back seat. It takes work to do nothing- but that’s been the key to my approach. Originally Posted by Mick-7
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Word is that the superconscious is even better than the subconscious for inspiration because the best muses reside there - deceased great composers, etc. Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut
I've been wondering what minimum amount of head trauma would be required to turn me into a sudden musical savant.
Brain Gain: A Person Can Instantly Blossom into a Savant--and No One Knows Why | Scientific American
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That's a great explanation of your audio recording Mark, thank you for that. Your results speak for themselves. I've done a fair amount of recording but I gave up on trying to get a good live (studio) sound so I just go direct to a USB interface. After applying various plugins I do like the sound I get but I'm always looking for improvement so there's that. The Roland Micro is a surprise, I never would have guessed, but obviously it works.
My sig other talked me into an iPhone and I am impressed with the video results people get with it so I've been trying to do some videos with mixed results. I was hoping to edit with iMovie but come to find out my Mac is too old (tired of hearing that!) to run iMovie and the .mov files from the iPhone won't work in a PC so I'm looking to upgrade. DaVinci looks like a good option so thank you for that, we'll see what I come up with.
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Best of luck with the experiments. You should be able to use iPhone video files in a PC within Davinci Resolve. There’s also a hand program you can run in windows that converts files called Handbrake. It will convert hvec files to mp4, for example with no degradation. Originally Posted by Ingo Lee
By the way, one change I made about a year ago is to ditch the little Roland and opted to use one of my clarus SLR amps with a Raezers Edge SE12 cabinet. This worked better for the new guitar I got around the same time. Still stereo miking it but now also blending in a little DI coming off the amp head. Evolution never stops.
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You have top notch tone combined with great playing in every video I have seen. You talked about an important point. Sound degradation. I record in wav 24/48. I then rerecord with an mp3 device. Then to get it out there, I make the video and that smushes and compresses the sound. Then loading it onto youtube and their software does its thing by compressing it and whatever again. It just loses something with all that. And its really noticeable. Yours seems to still have that liveliness to it.
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it sounds like there’s lots of steps in your signal change and “compression” happening in several possible places. Just a wild guess, but how are you re-recording your an mp3 “device” and why? I’m also recording my audio at 24/48 but when I bounce to the final output audio track I reduce to 16 bit, though it’s still an uncompressed wav file. This file is then transferred from my audio daw to my video computer and synched to the videos. It’s still an uncompressed 16/48 wav file. I use a couple of mastering plugins from within the videos software (Davinci Resolve) for noise reduction and a light touch of limiter. No compression has been used anywhere! The video software renders to an MP4 file with the 16/48 audio now embedded- which is where there is file compression occurring, but doing it this way the file size compression is almost entirely applied to the video and I really can hear any difference in the audio compared to the full resolution file I started with. For comparison, the video data I’m working with for a 5 minute video is pushing 30 gigs whereas the final wav file of audio (I never go to mp3) at full resolution is only about 70 megs. When the video sees the job it’s asked to do the audio component is but a rounding error compared with the massive amount of video data. So video compression is where all the business happens and it seems to leave the audio unscathed. Davinci has lots of rendering controls and I do separate renders for YouTube and Facebook because they seem to handle compression differently. For YouTube I upload a 4K max resolution file possible and let YouTube do its thing and the degradation appears minimal, with the audio particularly unscathed. The file I upload is about 4 gigs, so they’re whacking it way back for streaming purposes. On the other hand, a Facebook upload of 4 gigs and their compression will destroy it. The audio will be in mono! Anyway, for facebook, I do my render to rescue the file to around 200 meg but rendering as a 720P video format and when that’s uploaded it seems Facebook leaves it as is and it’s really not too bad. Originally Posted by Brian859
Anyway, if you detail your signal chain further I might be able to help. Thanks for the listening!!
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Thanks for the video suggestion. Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut
I wasn't familiar with the Clarus amp so I read that it is known for being "transparent". The traditional standard for guitar sound is live with an amp but of course many players are bypassing traditional amps altogether, especially in the studio. Do you ever record direct in?
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I’ve recorded direct and it gets decent results. A good preamp is essential. Actually, I recall recording an entire album using only a Summit Tube DI box and the sound was quite good. At this time, the videos are a blend of about 40% direct, 50% mike in speaker cab ultra close and 10% microphone on body of the guitar for just a touch air. Originally Posted by Ingo Lee
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we’ll talk again about it when this red cat with sunglasses will know how to play a few notes more properly Originally Posted by Mick-7
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