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RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Escribano)
Tom & Pat, A brilliant piece of work. Beautifully clear, concise and to the point. Easily the best handbook I've seen on the subject, especially with it's particular focus on recording Flamenco guitar. Very professional indeed, and anyone can see the large amount of work that has gone into it's preperation.
RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Escribano)
Patrick and Tom, I just took a quick look at your book and it looks fantastic. I've downloaded and will read it carefully later. Thank you very much for taking the time to put this together. Now that I know how to record myself, is there anything you can do about my playing? Phil
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RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Phil)
Phil;
Thank you for your comments, as well as those from everyone else. We did spend a few minutes creating the document. More time was spent in editing then in creation or recording! I think we will never be satisfied, but that is life.
At the moment I am enjoying a nice glass of Sangria, from Spain. The glass was made in Italy, and it is very enjoyable! Now, I would suggest joining me in a good glass of Sangria or your favorite beverage, and enjoy yourself!
There are a few things you can do about your playing:
1. Accept what you are capable of doing and enjoy it. 2. Be serious about improvement if that is important.
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RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Escribano)
Simon;
Thank you for hosting and encouraging our effort. Our goal was to save others time and money trying to determine “what works for me”!
I walked into one store and wanted a Preamp, and was shown a $2500 unit, which had no Limiter! The Limiter was another unit of equal price. Then you bought a Equalizer of the same price, and so on.
I ended up with the ART TPS preamp with Limiter built in, for under $180 and am very happy!
I will say this: If possible, I will never again use my ESS or Sound Blaster Audio Cards. I am sold on my M-Audio equipment! But that is just me – what anyone else does is up to them.
Do you think you may be able to add one more Link on your main page, to a form which allows user contributions such as that by Patrick and myself, to be downloaded?
By the way, thank you Patrick, for all your effort! In my opinion, we worked as if we were one person. Imagine two people who never met and correspond by e-mail, being able to work together to create this document! To me it is amazing and very meaningful. It helped that the two of us had one thought in mind: Create a document of value to others. I hope we have succeeded.
RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Escribano)
I just got back from a good day of fishing and was pleasantly surprised to see the site not only back up and running, but also our document posted as well.
As Tom said, thank you all for your kind words and to Simon for encouraging us to put in the time. As Tom mentioned, we had the basic format done in a couple of weeks, but spent about three weeks or more in the editing process. It indeed is a small world, when two guys that are eight hundred miles apart can be thinking in the same direction, put together something of substance, and have friends reading it half way around the globe.
Guys, now the balls in your court. Tom and I expect to hear lots of recordings posted. You don’t need equipment like Tom and I have, just a cheap mic and away you go.
I am sure I speak for Tom, that if we can be of help, let us know. We may not have the answer, but we will do our best to get it for you.
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RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Merle)
Merle;
If you want to improve your playing of the flamenco guitar, you have to be serious.
Think for a moment: Sabicas had no teacher. Other great guitarists did have teachers – perhaps a father, brother, relative, friend or the local barber. They all shared a few things in common;
1. They lived in the environment where flamenco flourished. 2. The responsibilities these individuals had were limited. 3. They learned at a stage of life were they could concentrate on one thing – the guitar.
Now getting back to what to do to improve your playing.
1. Give up your job. 2. Leave your family. 3. Move to Spain. 4. Live with a Gitano family who will treat you like a son or brother. 5. Do nothing but play the guitar from sun up to sun down.
It sounds simple doesn’t it? Everything in life has a price. What are you willing to pay for what you want? How bad do you want it?
Perhaps a less radical approach to improvement is called for!
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From: England, living in Italy
RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Thomas Whiteley)
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Do you think you may be able to add one more Link on your main page, to a form which allows user contributions such as that by Patrick and myself, to be downloaded
As you know, anything is possible it's just time and effort, bopth of which are being used in other directions at the moment. I'll have a think.
RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Escribano)
Hi Tom and Simon:
You guys really did it!!!! This is the best article that I've read regarding recording and I apreciete it very very much. Many things, I've been just going thriough it rather quickly that I'll print it out and i'll say it in spanish "degustarlo lentamente, saborearlo despacio" is something like eating it slowlly ?
Many thanks to both of you!!, realy this is something that confirms me things and iluminate me in many other topics about recording.
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From: Livermore, CA USA
RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Jerzy)
Tom and Pat,
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and hard work. I've just downloaded the article but won't get a chance to read it for another few days, but based on everyone's feedback, looks like a winner. Much appreciated .
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From: Toronto, ON, Canada
RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Escribano)
hi Simon,
Well, I open the flamenco recording document in acrobat, and I simply click on the blue links which should play sound, but it says "Could not open file". I have several Mp3 players, like winamp, windowsmediaplayer, realoneplayer. However, it is a little confusing to me, because the document is only 96kb in size, and that seems to small for Thomas and Patrick to have put in music files.
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RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Conrad)
That would explain it. The document contains URLs to MP3s and expects them in the same directory as the pdf, so if you do save it locally, download the MP3s as well.
RE: New Article on Flamenco Recording (in reply to Escribano)
Pat and Tom, Thank you both very very much, this is a fantastic piece of work and you have both been extremely kind in sharing your experience and knowledge with us all. Invaluable! Cheers Jim.
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