Fw: [Dixielandjazz] Recording techniques

[Tom Wood]

James et al,

Just a comment about "snipping" - why not a whole chorus ?  When our group
plays most of the audience are up dancing and consequently the numbers
sometimes run into 7 minutes or more which is too long for disc jockeys when
we are recording live.  According to my good friend Bill Haesler, he will
not play any track over 5 minutes long on his jazz programmes.  So there you
have it, play 7 minutes and keep the audience happy and get your musician
sound/recording engineer to exactly snip out one or maybe two choruses.  THE
SECRET'S OUT NOW SO, GO FOR IT.  However, I have tried a few so called
recording experts with initial problems in our earlier CDs.  It must be a
musician recording engineer because of the exact beat timing required for
splicing two choruses together which can sometime become a problem when
solos are clapped.  I prefer John to ask people only to clap at the end of
the number but our fearless leader John Edser disagrees because he
orchestrates the mood of the floor for fast/slower numbers and encourages
live eruptions during numbers.

Tom (no mean snip manager) Wood


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Kashishian" <kash at ran.es>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 6:01 AM
Subject: FW: [Dixielandjazz] Recording techniques


> the recording engineer smilingly said that he could simply snip out the
> offending note and drop in the correct one guaranteeing that nobody
> would be
> any the wiser. He was right!
>
> John wrote the above.  On my Gregorian Chant restorations I have gone to
> the extent of even replacing a particularly noisy breath intake for
> another one that was cleaner.  It's the same method as cut & paste on
> the computer, only I use specialized equipment for professional audio.
>
> However, to go further with the "each track clean" method of recording
> vs. "sound bleeding into each mike" method......
>
> Amazing things can still be edited in or out on a mixed recording.  On
> our latest CD, there is a section on Dr. Jazz where the trumpet &
> trombone trade 4 bar solos.  That is not how it was recorded live.  We
> both played separate solos which were rather unspectacular, so I chopped
> 'em up and moved them around, when I was putting the CD together.  That
> was chopping & moving 8 tracks, but not 8 clean tracks.  We were on a
> small stage, and everyone is in everyone's mike.  Gobs of things can
> still be done.
>
> What I couldn't do was replace my voice on Mack the Knife when I goofed
> on the words, as the "old voice" would be present in other mikes, even
> if I replaced the voice track.  So, you have the good and the bad with
> non-isolated microphones.  No sweat!  It's the overall, swinging song
> that counts!
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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