Introduction to Music Production Assignment 2

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Introduction

  • Hi! I am tsaphririm, based in Berlin, Germany

  • I usually play Klezmer, East European Folk and Jazz

  • My instrument is a double bass – but I also “play” nylon + electric guitar, E-bass, simple percussion, etc…

  • For this assignment, I will record a standard of bossa nova/jazz/samba: Samba de Orpheu, from Luiz Bonfa (see Wikipedia)

  • I will be using Ardour as DAW, version 4.2.0 (“Taking Tiger Mountain”) installed in a Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela 64-bit operating system (Hardware: Lenovo T440 Octacore, SSD Hard-disc, 8GB RAM)

  • As an analog interface I used a Zoom H1, which is very simple, but allows me to record directly via USB into Jack (Link) and Ardour

  • I also used a simple “Sennheiser” headphone to monitor the recording through the Zoom H1 (picture) and a trackball to minder the click-load on my forearms

  • As for instruments: a German Höhfner nylon guitar, a “pandeiro”, and a half-tambourine (see picture)

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Recording 1

To the right:

  • You can see the innitialization of Ardour, and…

  • … the importation of MIDI data from iReal Pro corresponding to the song Samba de Orpheu

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Recording 2

To the right:

  • You can see the recording of both solo tracks, and then…

  • … the slicing of the best parts of each solo, as well as comping the best parts together

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Recording 3

To the right:

  • Now you see the recording of an accompaning track (guitar chords), and then…

  • … the extension of the accompaning track by copying it after itself

  • The MIDI-tracks are blended awas – I no longer need/use them, because I play the chords/bass myself on the guitar

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Recording 4

To the right:

  • I added a percussion track with pandeiro, and…

  • … some effect to the solo track (Phaser plugin)

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Reflection

  • I thank the colleagues for the patience and time with the evaluation of my work!

  • Here is a link to song in SoundCloud (HERE), if anyone would like to hear the results of the work shown in the slides

  • For the ones who dare to hear the link! Traditional samba may sound “broken” in rhythm for ears not used to it – this is normal for samba…

If anyone would like a direction to traditional samba to hear more from it, please contact me, I have lots of it.