"Impressions of space" is not an engineering term. It's just my description of how sound works for me. Pluck a string once on a guitar and let it ring out. You will hear the initial attack, then the sound gradually die. You will also hear how the guitar body resonates, and how the sound reacts to the room, e.g. whether it sounds echoey, or whether it is dampened by carpets and curtains or whatever. In other words, you hear the note, but you also hear the space in which the note is played, and that adds depth and interest to the sound. That's what I mean by impressions of space. If you play lots of notes rapidly, then you have a different type of sound. It can be fuller, more dense. Neither is necessarily better or worse than the other, but it is dificult to determine quality of sound you compare two quite different styles , i.e. comparing dense playing with sparse playing.
This is a bad idea. Your mikes are perfectly good and are not the problem.
Hi Gecko zzed!
I see now what you mean and was influencing me to slow down while practicing yesterday resulting in a new version. I think I need not to be so concerned about shortening what will be I think a 5:30 length. The version I posted here was about 4:12 of actual song. I was too tense about playing it faster so I could cover all the ground I'd hoped to. What I posted on YouTube then deleted, my first, was actually 6:45 in song length from a posted total of 7:34... way too long. With the shorter take I posted here I think I was too hyper with it, well... among other basic problems I have as a musician, "the me part of it" ha! I realize now the open mic goers who liked my music over the 2 yrs playing the open mic sessions, that such a crowd is actually more empathetic. It's good though that I can be more objective about myself and seeing and hearing myself first time with the video takes... where my weaknesses are as a musician. I have sprained my wrist and I think finally today only very little pain after one week of recovery, that now I can practice significantly and not feel it the next morning too. I'm going to have to recover from this injury and practice for a while before I can record, but will try some practice recording sessions.
I will for the first time have my headphones on to hear myself, and my mics instead on cardioid. I will then place best I can while listening to be certain my voice is dominant with the voice mic, and with the other mic that my guitar is dominant... as very wisely advised in another thread I have. With my 59 takes I always had the mics as I did 17 yrs ago, on omni, when I was recording solo piano. That was a big mistake in this application where I now record with my voice and guitar. I learned that with one source, like my piano, omni is okay, but not so with two sources as is the case with me this time around.
Wow! If 17 more years into my future were to go by now... I'm 66 now, I'd be 83!! Life is short! I could be, if I make it to that age, pushing a walker etc, and even people my age around me in this Senior bldg pushing walkers and riding electric chairs... Three people I knew here in my bldg died in 10 days recently! I'm going to record though my original songs, give them a chance. Like when I went for a tour of the recording studio the owner saying to me, "well it's like you're leaving something behind". I guess that's part of it all. In a way though it's as someone here commented during the 3 days my video was up on YouTube, that my adventure has started. I like to think too that adventures are ever present with every turn of life, and seeing life that way makes a world of difference. My music is an adventure too, and see so many here in my bldg give up, some resort to drugs too, sad.
I try to give them (people in my bldg) happiness and do random acts of kindness like I was doing for a lady here for a good part of today who likes my piano music by giving her my very first cassette tape album I made back in 1999. I found it when sorting through old possessions. So I was back and forth retrieving a stereo set left by the dumpster and testing things and getting it ready to give to her along with a nice double cassette deck and book shelf speakers that would have gone to waste. This gets long and I better close.
In the mean time I will mail order some kind of extension cord for my headphones. As it is I will have to move my camera forward, adjust the mics with the headphones on while listening to myself, then take them off and move the camera back. I already paid that recording studio $36 and I think I'll see how their recording turns out too. The reality is since I invested so much in my equipment I better get to the task of learning and record myself.
It's strange to see others selling my piano albums, something that's continued amazingly constantly over the 17 yrs it has been since they launched. I just saw today two of them for sale used on Amazon for $32 each... but other people, not me, selling them. About this time last year a store in Japan had my album used for $85 and two weeks later it was gone! After 3 emails over time asking one of the store owners how he could sell my CD's for $45 each he finally replied, "I know how to advertise, and I know who my clients are."-- a lot I don't know ha! Thanks again for all of your cogent and lucid advice.
Top of the Day over There in the amazing Tasmania. It would be great to go there on my bucket list. I'll be gradually going around the world hopefully if I can get a good electric bike and pull a little trailer, that's if with the CoVid19 things begin to open up. The vaccinations are thousands of dollars, like the Japanese Encephalitis vaccine is $1,300 US dollars, rabies is $1,200... so I'm going to have to go on a prayer in my case ha! You, living in Tasmania, must have some great adventures under your belt! I've seen Tasmania in some documentaries, and a phenomenal place it is!!!
Top of the Day!
Winfred