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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Feb 10, 2022 21:32:58 GMT
We have a local group making music that has our local community enthralled. Called "Fistful of Nickels" they play at local food and drink establishments. I bring it up as I know we have some musical types and the forum has been quiet lately. I like their earthiness and simple technology. The videos were made at Tehachapi Mountain Park and Downtown Tehachapi. Yes, you can hear a train in the background on their video made in town
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Post by brianbutler on Feb 11, 2022 0:58:24 GMT
We have a local group making music that has our local community enthralled. Called "Fistful of Nickels" they play at local food and drink establishments. I bring it up as I know we have some musical types and the forum has been quiet lately. I like their earthiness and simple technology. The videos were made at Tehachapi Mountain Park and Downtown Tehachapi. Yes, you can hear a train in the background on their video made in town
Enjoy You All Jim
Great stuff. I love the clawhammer banjo. For One Horse Town, I think a fiddle would add a lot. As currently configured, it is hard to take an instrumental "break" (i.e. solo). If they have a lot of songs like Drinker's Lament, try to imagine a flute as a lead instrument. It would be unusual but dynamite.
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Post by Jem on Feb 11, 2022 20:27:32 GMT
We have a local group making music that has our local community enthralled. Called "Fistful of Nickels" they play at local food and drink establishments. I bring it up as I know we have some musical types and the forum has been quiet lately. I like their earthiness and simple technology. The videos were made at Tehachapi Mountain Park and Downtown Tehachapi. Yes, you can hear a train in the background on their video made in town
Enjoy You All Jim
That was a fun watch! Thanks for that. How did they record the sound on that first one? Just a single mic off screen or something more high-tech? It sounded so crisp and the bass was coming through really well. Jem |
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Feb 12, 2022 2:46:07 GMT
"That was a fun watch! Thanks for that.
How did they record the sound on that first one? Just a single mic off screen or something more high-tech? It sounded so crisp and the bass was coming through really well.
Jem"
I think I see microphones attached to the instruments.
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Post by Jem on Feb 12, 2022 9:29:41 GMT
I think I see microphones attached to the instruments. I saw those too but took them to be digital tuners. |
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Post by brianbutler on Feb 12, 2022 12:42:05 GMT
I think I see microphones attached to the instruments. I saw those too but took them to be digital tuners. They are digital tuners. The instruments are not cabled and I don't see any Bluetooth transmitters. I am guessing they are using a mic out of frame. Still, it is pretty good sound (and no background noise), but the instruments actually sound acoustic, something that I find nearly impossible with any kind of pickup and amplifier setup.
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Feb 12, 2022 14:56:03 GMT
Digital tuner not a microphone; I am mystified. Of course my knowledge of music is very limited and my musical friends tell me I don't even play my stereo correctly.
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Post by Jem on Feb 12, 2022 20:32:53 GMT
I can see why you'd say that Jim. The reason I was asking is that it is a great mix/sound for a single off screen mic. But then again, back before the 4 track, all bands would record like that in a room and need to balance their instruments with vocal with a clever mic placement
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Post by Jem on Feb 12, 2022 20:41:44 GMT
I saw those too but took them to be digital tuners. They are digital tuners. The instruments are not cabled and I don't see any Bluetooth transmitters. I am guessing they are using a mic out of frame. Still, it is pretty good sound (and no background noise), but the instruments actually sound acoustic
I agree Brian. Here's a video, admittedly with an extra guitar and accordion - but I don't think they capture right balance that the Fistful of Nickels Boys get. Certainly the bass is lost here - but Mumford and Sons are from the rocky mountains of London and Costello is from the Mersey delta |
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Post by brianbutler on Feb 12, 2022 22:14:51 GMT
Microphones and mixing are mysteries to me. I played in an Irish band for a while. The acoustic guitars had under-bridge piezo pickups and the banjo/mando/bouzouki guy (me) as well as the flute/whistle/concertina gal played into microphones, as did the vocals. It sounded terrible until we hired a college-kid sound guy who stood at the back of the room, tweaked a few things, and presto - good sound. I never did find out what he did, which is just as well. I prefer to play in acoustic Irish sessions where the sound doesn't blow away the pub. Speaking of which, what if you were in a pub and this broke out? Brian |
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Feb 13, 2022 6:14:52 GMT
"Speaking of which, what if you were in a pub and this broke out?"
Cheers Jim
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Post by cusqueno on Feb 18, 2022 16:44:15 GMT
[...] Speaking of which, what if you were in a pub and this broke out? Brian I'm a bit suspicious of the emphatic hand gestures. In my universe, choral singing of folk music is discouraged and singing by a small group should preferably be conducted while looking at the floor or into the middle distance. Keeping vague time by swinging a pint of beer about is permitted, however. For high days and holidays, instrumental accompaniment by spoons or, exceptionally, a bodhran may be allowed; provided no-one takes any notice of it. (Bah! Humbug!) |
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Post by brianbutler on Feb 18, 2022 21:07:38 GMT
[...] Speaking of which, what if you were in a pub and this broke out? Brian I'm a bit suspicious of the emphatic hand gestures. In my universe, choral singing of folk music is discouraged and singing by a small group should preferably be conducted while looking at the floor or into the middle distance. Keeping vague time by swinging a pint of beer about is permitted, however. For high days and holidays, instrumental accompaniment by spoons or, exceptionally, a bodhran may be allowed; provided no-one takes any notice of it. (Bah! Humbug!) I don't think this was a spontaneous burst of singing but I still like it. I have a little tongue-in-cheek guide to Irish sessions with a glossary in the back. The entry for bodhran is "a handheld Irish drum that everyone wants to play but no one wants to hear."
Bodhrans, bones, and spoons are OK in moderation but not clinking of spoons against pint glasses.
Brian
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