Imitation of the Flight of the Hummingbird

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My wife and I really liked that... thanks....
 
My wife and I really liked that
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Thanks amigo. :) Gives me an idea... I've got to start bringing my internet laptop out of the studio and putting it on our family room system to play some of the interesting stuff I find here for my wife. That way she might say, "hey, find any cool music today?" instead of "you spend too much time online."! :D :D

Glad she liked it.

Tim
 
Holy christ, that was really awesome... it was definitely worth the 99 takes because ... well .... wow.
 
yeah, amazing!

i love to hear technical playing done well ... especially on such a great tune. makes me feel all happy inside :) i might go and record some of my harder trombone studies actually...

and the guitar sounds really nice - very precise and clean.

nice one dude.

Andy
 
Nice one Tim. Nice smooth recording and great playing.
 
Shiatzu, sometimes when you’re doing take after take of a piece you wonder if it IS really worth it – so thank you for that.

Andydeedpoll, thanks buddy. Trombone… yeah! A friend of mine is a trombonist and teacher and in the years I taught down the hall from him I bet I heard every exercise and study ever written for the instrument… a cool sound and I think many of the studies would make good gtr solos.

Ecktronic, thanks. The smoothness on the track is maybe from my overuse at the time of split-band compression’s squashing of the low end! I loved the “head in the guitar” sound at the time – with close mic’ing and lots of low end compression to control the proximity effect.

Tim
 
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great playing, i don't really like the reverb though, you can hear the trails a bit too much at a couple points, just back off on the verb a tiny bit and it will be perfect!
 
Yeah a smoother verb would make it sound better.
 
just back off on the verb a tiny bit
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Can't disagree with you there. Some of the accented high notes and the ending chords are pretty wet sounding. At the time this was done I liked more reverb and asked the mastering guy for more-more-more. If I were to ever re-release it I'd use less. Good ears 47ronin and ecktronic.

Tim
 
On a performance like that, production quality almost doesn't matter. You could of recorded that with a walkman and it would sound amazing. Phew... I'm worn out just listening to it.
 
Thanks rshp1. Did the initial recording at home on a consumer Sony DAT that had a sister model that WAS a Walkman DAT!

Tim
 
Timothy Lawler said:
El Colibri

Recorded this before I became gear crazed - w/Shure BG 4.0 mic's using pre's of an old Yamaha MT3X multitrack. Composed by Julio Sagreras.

Tim
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Nice..very nice.

I studied/played traditional classical guitar for a year or so...could play a
few Sor and one Mertz piece....most of the acoustic conversion of Paganinni's
5th Caprice from Crossroads...(couldn't everyone at one time?)

I never got close to being as good as you've shown here.

I know how much more difficult traditional classical is than electric on the
whole.

Impressive.
 
Tim, I have to put in a vote for a little less reverb as well. I think that reverb is crucial in mixing a recording of this kind--here it is just a tad too much.
But it sounds like you don't have the option of remixing this. Is that right?

It really sounds quite good, we're just being a little nit-picky.
 
MAN!


.. The mans makes the guitar, then slings out something like this. I'm speechless. :confused:

GREAT JOB MAN!
 
BMG Skulk Music, thanks. Paganinni, Sor, Mertz… you did a lot on classical. As far as difficulty, I guess each type of guitar has its particular challenges.

Incanus said:
But it sounds like you don't have the option of remixing this. Is that right?
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Yeah, I could remix the reverb but guess I see the recording as somewhat ‘fixed I time’ as part of a past CD project… I like the feel of the performance on the take but I’d probably just go ahead and retrack it if I wanted a changed version, since I don’t have the same limitations with gear and room that I did then, and I like my playing a little better now. I put it up in the forum mainly because I thought it had some odd similarities with some of the metal work here, though I couldn’t describe exactly what they are...

VSpaceBoy, thanks… after making the guitar I couldn’t help but think that if I ever had to play something like El Colibri back-to-back against a John Williams or Pepe Romero (16ths at 145 BPM to my 130 :eek: ), at least I could say “Hey John… did you build that guitar you’re playing?.... no?.... too bad, man!” :D

Tim
 
Less Reverb

As suggested by 47ronin, ecktronic and Incanus, here's El Colibri with just a hint of reverb. I like it better this way especially in the occasional accented note and the last phrase. What do you think?

Tim
 
Timothy Lawler said:
As suggested by 47ronin, ecktronic and Incanus, here's El Colibri with just a hint of reverb. I like it better this way especially in the occasional accented note and the last phrase. What do you think?

Tim
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Tim, stilla beautiful tune. Can't say much more.
Ed
 
Very Sweet, Tim!

I think that is the perfect amount of reverb for a recording of this kind. It does not draw any attention to itself, but adds to the sound pleasantly. If I had not been specifically listening for it, I would not really have 'heard' it. That, to me, is ideal.

On a side note, I can't even picture in my mind where my fingers would have to go, or how they would have to move, to play the guitar like that. So good.
 
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