Hello Blogateers. Sorry for the long absence I have been busy with a new music project (more on that later)
I have about finished the project to set up backing tracks for cover band duties and thought I'd like to compare the results of the two players Cakewalk Sonar and the Merish 3 player. We have two short videos here which illustrate the outcome:
Beautiful Woman Sonar
Beautiful Woman Merish
They are very similar but I think Sonar just edges it. I'd be happy to gig with either but the Merish is easier to handle in a live situation. It's also more flexible in that if you have a bassist or a drummer available you can switch that track out to let the live person play that part!
I'll use either to keep my hand in doing home practice so now its time to move onto the next challenge!
Many decades ago I set about producing my own popera, with a story, music and film in mind as the end game. Very ambitious and unlikely to be ever realised! But I thought I'd have a go at the music while my fingers still work. I have rescued from an old reel to reel recording a very poor digital rendition of songs that were originally recorded in the early 1970s by me, Dan Woodman and another flatmate or two who's names escape me for now. With a very poor signal to noise ratio and a very contracted bandwidth the original recordings are not at all listenable but I can hear the songs just enough to work out the words and arrangements. So my initial aim is simply to produce some demos capturing the original flavour of the songs. I can then maybe then go on to review, rearrange and produce the songs to the best of my ability in a more contemporary style.
Although I have been very busy with family duties this Summer I found enough time on a couple of wet days to pilot the project with a new recording of one of the songs called "Cracking Fingers". I laid down a Takamine 12 string guitar track as the basis, then added a bass line using Dan's Fender Jazz. I did try using drum patterns but ended up laying down a live and loose drum track on my Roland TDK kit. A couple of vocal lines, some bells and special cracking effects later, I had a loose but listenable demo that does indeed capture the flavour of the original.
I have set up a SoundCloud account under the name Mr Mog to drop the finished products into and, risking some credibility, I offer a link to the SoundCloud recording here - enjoy?
Soundcloud: Cracking Fingers
I have about finished the project to set up backing tracks for cover band duties and thought I'd like to compare the results of the two players Cakewalk Sonar and the Merish 3 player. We have two short videos here which illustrate the outcome:
Beautiful Woman Sonar
Beautiful Woman Merish
They are very similar but I think Sonar just edges it. I'd be happy to gig with either but the Merish is easier to handle in a live situation. It's also more flexible in that if you have a bassist or a drummer available you can switch that track out to let the live person play that part!
I'll use either to keep my hand in doing home practice so now its time to move onto the next challenge!
Many decades ago I set about producing my own popera, with a story, music and film in mind as the end game. Very ambitious and unlikely to be ever realised! But I thought I'd have a go at the music while my fingers still work. I have rescued from an old reel to reel recording a very poor digital rendition of songs that were originally recorded in the early 1970s by me, Dan Woodman and another flatmate or two who's names escape me for now. With a very poor signal to noise ratio and a very contracted bandwidth the original recordings are not at all listenable but I can hear the songs just enough to work out the words and arrangements. So my initial aim is simply to produce some demos capturing the original flavour of the songs. I can then maybe then go on to review, rearrange and produce the songs to the best of my ability in a more contemporary style.
Although I have been very busy with family duties this Summer I found enough time on a couple of wet days to pilot the project with a new recording of one of the songs called "Cracking Fingers". I laid down a Takamine 12 string guitar track as the basis, then added a bass line using Dan's Fender Jazz. I did try using drum patterns but ended up laying down a live and loose drum track on my Roland TDK kit. A couple of vocal lines, some bells and special cracking effects later, I had a loose but listenable demo that does indeed capture the flavour of the original.
I have set up a SoundCloud account under the name Mr Mog to drop the finished products into and, risking some credibility, I offer a link to the SoundCloud recording here - enjoy?
Soundcloud: Cracking Fingers
1 comment:
Well done Mog! I was going to be contacting you soon to complain about the lack of blog posts then you publish a full multi-media effort! The two machines are both really good and sound different but not sure which one I like the best, in an ideal world you'd cherry-pick the best sounding instruments from each, but the Merish, with its live-use capabilities will win and will do the job very well. Good choice of song too.
Great work on the 'Popera', it has a nice psychedelic feel to it with some great harmonies, the subject matter is a little on the 'cringey' side though! Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing this set-up 'live'.
Nige x
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