Denis

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"For The Love of Music"

Born in 1960, multi-instrumentalist. started out on Guitar 1972, Bass  1983, Keyboards 1984, Classical flute Dec 07, Soprano Sax May 08, Violin March 2010,  Alto Sax October 2011, Trumpet October 2011,  various percussion, vocals.

BandAMP has been a great learning tool for songwriting, the community here is the best I know for Musicians wanting to improve bringing out the best of their abilities.

Above all I'm having so much fun creating new music and being part of the BandAMP community.  "LONG MAY IT CONTINUE"

Cheers

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4

Happy Days (Mix 2)

May 4th, 2012 + 12:05 PM  ·  Denis

Here's Mix One: http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/8815.html
I took out the Multi-Compressor - Used standard compressors on each instruments, hardly any on the drums, hence I believe sampled drums are more or less compressed and reduces the sound quality if used too much, so yeah, I'd say use compression with caution on sampled drums.
Used a different Guitar Rig pre-set for Bass guitar (fatter)
EQ'd Bass Drum,Overheads,Classical Guitar
Fine tuned levels

I prefer this mix, but I wonder what you think out of interest
10

Happy Days

May 1st, 2012 + 2:05 PM  ·  Denis

Recorded the Bass via my old Art Tube Pre-AMP > Focusrite Audio Interface > Guitar Rig Bass press-Set.
The guitar is from a recent purchase of a relatively cheap Valencia CG195 Classical Guitar (£99.99 new) - amazing how well my Rode NT5 Stereo pair mics record it - makes it sound a lot better than played live acoustically for some reason. I tried the Multi-Compressor again, and made minor tweaks.
You probably noticed that I recorded the Alto Sax twice.
I was going to add Strings, but I think it may drown out the Guitar too much.
11

Love Love Love

April 24th, 2012 + 4:04 PM  ·  Denis

Mastered mostly from Cubase 5, Used a Multi-Compressor and Limiter, don't really understand Multi-Compressors, used a pre-set called Dance or similar, which seemed to make the sound bigger. I then used another limiter in Adobe Audition 3.0 to increase the dynamics further - It sounds OK for the first mixdown, I'm just concerned I've squashed it too much
9

Watermelon Man (rendition)

April 17th, 2012 + 1:04 PM  ·  Denis

One of Herbie Hancock's first hit songs - I used to play it in a band but more funky - Think there have been some interesting renditions, even Hancock did a remake of it making it a classic fusion song which I think was very long. Herbie Hancock if you have never heard of him was one of the few composers that moved with the times, best known for playing the piano and great rhythm.

I'm playing Alto and Soprano Sax, Epiphone Les Paul  via line 6 pod(Seymour Duncan pickups which are superb) - Worth mentioning I compared this to Guitar Rig 5 -  could not get a clean sound through my focusrite interface - line 6 pod is so much better, and it cuts through the mix so well, yeah even through the layers of brass.
There is a also a Brass Section & Double Bass using Cubase HalionONE, NI Alicia Keys Piano VST (Nice for jazz and laid back stuff) and good old EzDrummer.

Needless to say had great fun
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MAYHEM

April 15th, 2012 + 10:04 AM  ·  Denis

I recorded this in 2008 - From what I can remember the majority of the world was having a hard time and I was unwell - how I managed to record this and set-up a green screen in my small bedroom was out of pure love of music and nothing else. Oh and I broke the Sax sling practicing before the shoot - if you look carefully I'm resting the Sax on my knee, I must have been mad, hence no freedom of movement.

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