2 Tunes With The Mics Clipped To My Hat

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Walter Tore said:
I recorded these a couple of hours ago in my garage. I clipped my mics onto my hat, over my ears.
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LOL - clipped on your hat - sounds damn good for that
man, I really like how you play the blues!

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groovejunkie: Thanks for listening and I am glad you enjoyed the tunes. You made me lauugh with your post. I envisioned this guy sitting with a baseball hat on, with 2 regular mics ducktaped to it. The mics are actually only about an inch long with alligator clips in them. They make me look like a high tech geek. Walter
 
Sincere performances - My Dream

When a performance is so sincere, so real, when two are in touch so deeply, (you and the resonator), that they become one, both saying an equal and balanced amount in a song, having a conversation ... it's wonderful. As I said before ... you are Americana. Very nice performance.

When a performance is so sincere, so good and real that I FORGET what I was doing in the middle of a line of code ... that's .... uhhhh ... now what was I saying ?

I think the mics are being over-driven by your vocal, as they are placed on your hat, above your sinuses, maybe it's just the upper frequencies of your vocal that are getting captured. But I hear some 'burring' in the mic ... could be wrong.

A great performance, a wonderful soliloquy on life.
 
burring or buzzing

Now, on second thought, and fifth listening ... I jammed with it on the cello providing a rudimentary blues line and that was fun ... I think the burring or buzzing in the mic might be something loose on your hat, it could be a detached piece of lining inside the hat, check the hat to make sure nothing is loose that could be buzzing in the hat.

Like a straw hat for example, the little pieces of straw could put up quite a racket with the mic so close and when you are singing full tilt and full volumen on those great long sustained held out notes ... that's a lot of vibration coming off your head alone, and the mic is physically connected via the hat to your skull ... etc ...

Might want to fashion some sort of rubber mount on the hat to 'decouple' the mics from the hat.
 
studioviols: I never played with a cello before! I here the buzz too. I think I had the levels too high. I notice this on a lot of my recordings(solo and with band). I was taught, what little schooling I did do in the mixing booths, the levels should be as hot as possible. With this digital stuff, can you just record lower, and safer, and bring it up on the cool edit without adding hiss? Core sounds offers an attenuator. Do you think this might help? Thanks Walter


PS: I clip them on my baseball cap, right in front of my ears.

http://www.core-sound.com/attenuator-cables.html
 
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it sound purty good to me bossman. The vocal is a little hotter on these. The garage sounds good. I liked that room ambience on the one just before these a bit better though. These cuts have a little more tone picked up off the instruments.
 
Recording levels - digital - hiss

If you record at a lower level, yes, when you listen back and have to turn up the volume louder you will hear the hiss, and of course this is not 'tape hiss' it is line noise.

Cool edit has a feature that will allow you to analyze that 'line noise' and then defeat the noise, in other words remove that noise from the mix.

There is a sliding scale as to how much of that line noise you want to remove as removing all of it effects the overall quality of the recording.

But you can remove just enough of the noise so you can then raise the volume of the digital recording.

In other words, as you raise the level of the recording in Cool Edit you remove more and more noise, seeking a happy medium betwee 'line noise', 'mix volume', and 'mix quality'.

Removing a little bit of the line noise does not in a noticeable way affect the quality of the recording, but you have to play with this Cool Edit feature to get used to it.

The MOST important thing to remember is that CoolEdit must have AT LEAST 2 seconds of this line noise to analyze with NO OTHER sounds occuring.

In other words, before you begin to play, let the mics run for at least 10 seconds with absolute quiet, or ... after you finish the tune, let the recorder run for at least 10 seconds more.

Then, in CoolEdit, select that 'silence' and analyze it for the noise, then you can remove the noise over the whole mix.
 
studioviols: I have messed around quite a bit with that noise reduction on cool edit. When I owned a zoom PS02, it had such a hiss to it, that it drove me crazy. The noise reduction makes the sound wabble/bubble if you add too much. I hate hiss. Is that core sounds attenuator something that will help? I don't even understand the explanation of what it says. Thanks Walter
 
Walter,
I REALLY enjoyed "My dream"! I love that slide guitar work.. Awesome! The mics.. were they the kind you're supposed to clip to your lapel? The sound was amazingly clear. That was a great idea!

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hehehe...that was a fun listen. I could just some picture some really old blind black guy sitting there picking that. Especially before the vocals came in :D.

Pretty cool
 
jagular: Thanks for the compliment. I never could sing like a black man. Just a white boy singing his blues. Walter
 
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