Ask Stephanie (She will know)

Another masterpiece of Joe (Relativity) and Shi, to which I again tried to add a little humble groundwork type of carpet. Thanks to both for providing such gems of art on Wikiloops, I feel honoured that I could play along. Hope you like my noodling 🙂

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Musicians:

And I think that this time I even got the target loudness of -16.0 LUFS right, which is the ITU (European) recommended loudness for streaming media (like Youtube videos, music, and such):

The first export (from Ardour) is the mix, the second one my bass alone.

Thanks for listening.

An own remix

Today I did my first own remix of a song on Wikiloops to which I had previously contributed already. After receiving an HD file from Joe, who made the template for the song, I had all the parts together – and played in the bass again, since I wasn’t 100% happy with it anyway. So here’s my newer version of the song:

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Musicians’ list is the same as before, tho now I have “bass” and “mixer” as instruments:

I used an equalizer on Joe’s acoustic guitar for instance, to make it a bit less “boomy” (also, low cuts help with the general mix later):

And this is the track window before I recorded my bass again, together with an instrument tuner, an Ampeg SVT amplifier & cab simulation, and a compressor (I used a multi-band compressor on Shi’s voice as well, which you cannot see here):

Thanks for listening.

Another remix with me in it

Here’s a remix titled “The Way That Shi Moves (Take 2)” (it’s no typo but a word game on the singer’s name). ArkRockStudio had added some keys and remixed the whole track. Listen:

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Musicians:

Thanks Ark – and thanks everyone here (and/or on Wikiloops) for listening.

Edit: and another one, from a musician from Italy, domiro:

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Musicians:

Thanks for listening.

The way that she moves

A Jazzrock / slow Funk track from Acousticeg, Shi, and now me. I didn’t do that much here; just doubled the voice with my fretless bass:

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Musicians:

Oh, and just to show my recording session in Ardour, and the two exports (mixed and bass only), here are some screenshots:

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Oh, and looking at my folder with those exported files I see that this is the fifth already – and that I already have like one side of a longplay record (LP) together:

You can find them all here or on Wikiloops.

Thanks for listening.

Desperate Androids

And now for something different. Play this one loud if you can:

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Musicians:

Thanks for listening. Musicians: consider joining us there in the loops; it’s free and it’s fun (as you might have guessed already)!

Gonna support Richard

I just discovered and then joined wikiloops at the beginning of this year (2018). And I will become a supporting member as soon as I’m back home today. Here’s Richard, the founder of this cool project:

See it like this: it’s like your rehearsal room for which you pay a low monthly rent. But into this rehearsal room come people from all over the world, and they sit down and play and sing and do great stuff. Now if that isn’t fun then I don’t know what would be.

I played along my first track yesterday, and it really is a lot of fun!

Thanks for your awesome and continued work, Richard!

P.S.: rather than explaining what this is all about, watch this:

– and it even has parts of my name 🙂

Enjoy. And join us if you’re a musician, too!

Preparing the next (musical) collab

I just put one of Al’s (jonetsu; nominal6) latest pieces into my Ardour multitrack recording software – looks like this:

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Al asked me to play some bass onto that, after I suggested more collaborations. I will link to the final version or embed it here when it’s done.

I love this at least as much as photography. And who knows, maybe we’ll put up some musical collection which could then be used again for videos or whatever? We’ll see.

Thanks for reading.

A picture of my newest toy

I finally took a photo of my new bass guitar, in its case which arrived two days ago (they didn’t have it in the store, so I had to order that online). Here it is:

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Squier (by Fender) VM Precision Bass Fretless

Ok; now I’m going to use it again on the collaboration I mentioned in my last blog post.

Thanks for viewing & reading.