Internet Folk Guitar 'Legend' seeks to Improve Quality of Field Recordings

[jacktadoussac]

My client, my client himself is me really, seeks to improve the quality of my internet recordings, both video and audio.

I'll start with a video I put up last night.


YouTube - Why I Use A Tortoise Shell Guitar Pick


Audio only has been uploaded to this 'blog':

Soundtrack -- why I use a tortoise shell pick - TheodoreStreet's blog

[Mondo]

what in the world??

[jacktadoussac]

It's true, I might be farting around: but honestly, I get more traction when I use a stiff tortoise shell pick. Once you get used to your turtle picks, well I find that my plastic pick gets caught in the strings...and I miss the note. I'm much more on top of things with the tortoise shell.

[jacktadoussac]

Two mics (EV635a/b) suspended on a Latch Lake Gizmo, cable to Beach Tek Mic Pre attached directly to the camcorder...Panasonic EZ30 Mini DV.

YouTube - Electric Guitar Plywood Drum Swiss Cymbal



Same recording rig with student's model acoustic guitar


YouTube - Collings Guitar Plywood Drum Swiss Cymbals

[chandlersonic]

I'm in, I've never heard a guitar sound that good.

[jacktadoussac]

Chandler, are you serious? Some folks in the MojoPie forum like the sound of the EV635s in this application. They think there's a folkways field recording vibe. Also certain mics have their own vibe, or colour, and might be well suited to untreated rooms, and the reduced fidelity of MP3 files or compressed video formats.

Also, different video publishers, say Metacafe versus YouTube, seem to mess with the volume level, usually setting it higher, so what sounds fine on a one's PC is different on the internet.

[jacktadoussac]

After using this You-Tube medium I thought it was high time to take my act to another level...



YouTube - Fur Hat Rant and 6 String Oud Demonstration

[theblue1]

There's nothing on the Internets tonight.

I'm going to just go read a book.

[rodge]

what is going on?

[swafford]

Really, if you want to be serious about your playing, you should be picking with a quarter. And none of that Canadian shit.

[jacktadoussac]

The tortoise shell pick is good for picking single notes. I got mine at guitar shop in Guelph called Folkway music. The pick is too inflexible for just strumming.

[polf]

Originally Posted by rodge

what is going on?

beats me!

[Herman Munster]

Are you just looking for youtube hits or something??? Odd....

[Jonboy79]

That guy makes me feel like I'm on acid.

[davebl@dircon.c]

Very strange....

[davebl@dircon.c]

Please could some one be kind enough to pop round and help this guy, make sure he's OK and not in too much distress and so on.

Whilst your there you could check on the front end of that bear that he has taken the ass out of and got stuck on his head.......

[ootle]

Originally Posted by davebl@dircon.c

Please could some one be kind enough to pop round and help this guy, make sure he's OK and not in too much distress and so on.

Whilst your there you could check on the front end of that bear that he has taken the ass out of and got stuck on his head.......

[jacktadoussac]

My infomercial touting the advantages of tortoise shell plectrums is really driving the 'channel'.



YouTube - Why I Use A Tortoise Shell Guitar Pick

[SFTPH]

f*ck that, My Rhino horn pick makes my metal riffs hard as sh*t!

[jacktadoussac]

You can strum a guitar with a trailer hitch ball or a screwdriver -- how else can Willy dig a hole into the sound-top?

[flail19]

Originally Posted by jacktadoussac

My client, my client himself is me really, seeks to improve the quality of my internet recordings, both video and audio.

Maybe use a tortoise shell mic?

[Bluzzi]

Walter, is that you?

[swafford]

Originally Posted by jacktadoussac

You can strum a guitar with a trailer hitch ball or a screwdriver -- how else can Willy dig a hole into the sound-top?

Girly fingernails made that hole.

You got the single note thing with the tortoise pick right on the head. The real talent here is to keep a thin plastic pick betwixt your pinky and ring finger for ease of switch. Otherwise, your fvcked. Now if you want to do it real folk style, clip the nails off a 4 week old dead woman and glue them to your own.

Now rock.

[jacktadoussac]

Originally Posted by swafford

Girly fingernails made that hole.

You got the single note thing with the tortoise pick right on the head. The real talent here is to keep a thin plastic pick betwixt your pinky and ring finger for ease of switch. Otherwise, your fvcked. Now if you want to do it real folk style, clip the nails off a 4 week old dead woman and glue them to your own.

Now rock.

It reminds me of the new age acoustic guitar movement that's happening in Canada -- there's been a couple of festivals and weekends...but surely a clash in styles....cementing old hag nails, or even worse, acrylic!

[swafford]

My new thing is striking the strings percussively with a dead mole. You'll need a few per performance as they start to shread after a 4-5 songs.

[jacktadoussac]

It always brings me back home to the Tortoise shell picks. Those turtles are a big mess when you do the road kill thang! All that cleaning and drying em oat on the engine block...

[swafford]

Randall, be a doer, not a talker. And you'll want to kill several varieties so you can have varied tonal colors to choose from to make your guitar sing, or thump, or just lay still and not do anything, if that's the sound you hear in your head.

[jacktadoussac]

You need a sturdy guitar if you're going to play the guitar with a whole turtle, or better than that, a whole live turtle. Because of the potential damage you can do to an acoustic guitar I'd say whack a Telly or a Les Paul Guitar with your turtle -- I think those Strats aren't built to take on head on collisions with turtlez...

[loujudson]

Guitar sounds fine. How about hiring and editor and a lighting technician? I'm so tired of amateur video. No wonder the pros get over $600 a day just to point and shoot...

Seriously, why is the light behind you, and why did you not cut out the part about the lens not pointing at you?

When you make records do you keep in the tuning and the silly questions from the band?

Sorry but I had to say it. Lighting is dramatic and lall, but can't see the subject: the pick!

Lou

[swafford]

Damn, that's some solid advice. How's about an Ovation?

I think I'd grab a turtle and go down to the local Guitar Center and test a bunch of different guitars to see what's going to work best. Always try before your buy (fvck it, pray also) and remember......

YMMV on all things musical and religious!