New to the forum, wanted to intro my music...

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Llarion

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Hello folks!

I got my feet wet in the newbie forum (having misinterpreted it to mean new to this forum, not new to home recording *blush*)...

I've been home recording in various forms since 1987, but only with a vengeance since the fall of 1999.

For a proper introduction to me and to my music, please visit my personal site at www.llarion.com. I'd love to hear what you have to say about my newest piece, Dewpoint. There are a few songs there, and a much larger block of my catalog at www.artistlaunch.com/llarion for you to peruse. Please feel free to drop a line in my guestbook, let me know you were there, and I'd appreciate any comments at all here as well.

I'm primarily a Smooth Jazz artist, but I'm also fusing Ambient music with Jazz for a special CD that I'm preparing.

I record with a Korg D1600 16 track, and a slew of other varied equipment, all of which is on display on my website too.

Great forum, thanks in advance!
 
Llarion,

I'm not qualified to offer any criticism on something this good, but I wanted to say hi, and well done. Very nice piece.

Twist
 
Welcome aboard Llarion.Im a smooth Jazz junky so Im really enjoying your tunes.You've been recording for quite awhile and it shows....Im sure you'll learn a few more things from some of the resident gurus on the board(not me:eek: ).

Smooth tunes man.
Kramer
 
Wow, thanks very much!

Thanks mucho guys! You're gonna give me a big head... :)

I'll try and swoop through tonight and listen to and comment on a bunch of the other threads... I can't from work, unfortunately...
 
Tracking...

I use a Korg D1600 for acquisition. I have a Mackie 1202VLZ mixer that I use for initial tone shaping and trim. On Dewpoint, I played Roland V-drums first, (layed down a count track first, actually) then the rhythm guitar part (Fender Strat through Zoom RFX-1000) then the bass (Peavey Foundation, no processing, direct to the recorder).

Then the Rhodes (Proteus 2000 triggered by Roland RD-500). Then the synth part, Korg Triton 61. Then the 12-string guitar (Yamaha, through the RFX-1000 again) then a 2nd high RHodes part (RD-500 DynoRhodes).

The melody was next (Strat) and I had John Kelly ( www.artistlaunch.com/johnkelly ) come in and take the middle solo (Strat again, through Zoom effects pedal this time).

Then I mix to stereo, export to WAV on CD, and pull it into Cool Edit Pro on my PC where I run it through T-Racks, and the Waves C4 multiband compressor and 10 band paragraphic EQ, and I hand clip some of the transients with Cool Edit's enveloper. Then a final normalization, and voila!

Thanks for listening! :D

Cheers!
Phil
 
Great tune and sound...
..also nice bass tone for direct recording..
...I'm a smooth jazz fan also,

Welcome,

/DMM
 
Welcome aboard, Llarion.

I like the ambiant quality of this tune. Kind of new-ageish (is that a word?) ... ah, I mean Smooth Jazz-ish ....

I like the bass sound here and the playing is top notch!

Great job all around!
 
Extremely Smooth !!

Instruments blend wonderfully !

Thanks for posting!
 
Wow!

You guys are great, thank you deeply! Nice to be welcomed into such an established community. I can't believe I've missed this place until now!

Yep, new-ageish is a word as far as I'm concerned... :D

For you folks that like Smooth Jazz, if you check my personal site in the "Llarion Likes" section, you'll find links to some of the other fantastic indie jazzers I've come across in my online travels. The internet is wonderful, it's helped me forge many friendships. One guy even came to FL from Toronto on vacation and stopped in to cut some solos for me! Never would have happened without the internet and boards like this one...
 
E X C E L L E N T...

I'm a big fan of this style. Wife hates it... she's always making fun of me when I play and write new age-ish jazzy stuff.. anywho, I loved the piece.

What kinds of amps guitars? That solo was most excellent. I love a little bit of grit in a tune like this. Jeff Golub does a little of that. Ever heard of him? If not, you need to...

Are you open to online collaboration? I have some tunes that would be greatly enhanced by your touch and mojo.
 
Hey again!

Newbie? LOL

You are way out of my league, so no criticism from me. That's some great stuff you got there Llarion, smooth and completely professional. Thanks :D
 
JR,

No amplification was involved at all. The electric guitars were all my Mexican Strat. The melody and rhythm parts were with it patch through my mixer with the Zoom RFX-1000 effects unit looped in. The solo was the strat through a Zoom 505 guitar effects pedal, it's like a Fender Tweed amp emulator that provided that grit. The guy who took that solo, John Kelly, is primarily a country player, and had exactly the same notions about a little grit in the piece that you did. :)

I've heard of Jeff Golub, yes...

I've actually done some collaborations, both online and live.

check out www.artistlaunch.com/dawnmarie to hear stuff I cowrote with the lovely country singer of the same name.

On my site, Rick Garner (the guy from Toronto I mentioned) did my solos on Footsteps and To The Summit.

I was also involved in the Independent Artists Coalition collaboration "Take My Hand", a song that was written and produced entirely via the web by 22 musicians in 8 countries. I did the drum programming for the song. go to www.javamusic.com and look for IAC (Independent Artists Coalition). The collab version is there along with a ground-up re-recordign I did by myself, with vocals shipped in by Kim Novak of Austin TX. (again, via the web)

So yeah, let's explore!

Thanks again everyone, this is terrific! :D
 
JR#97 said:
Jeff Golub does a little of that. Ever heard of him? If not, you need to...
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You've got some good taste in music JR#97.I thought I ws the only one who knew of people like Jeff Golub.I bought my second CD of him yesterday "Do It Again".The first one I bought by him is killer."Out of The Blue".He's a hell of a Blues-funk-jazz guitarist.
 
Kramer said:


You've got some good taste in music JR#97.I thought I ws the only one who knew of people like Jeff Golub.I bought my second CD of him yesterday "Do It Again".The first one I bought by him is killer."Out of The Blue".He's a hell of a Blues-funk-jazz guitarist.
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Not according to my wife... lol... Someone made me compilation CD, so that's how I heard of him. I'll have to check out Do It Again. The tune he did with Peter White, "No Two Ways About It" blow me away everytime.
 
DEWPOINT

Llarion,

yo here's a bump, man :D Sorry about that rant in the cave; I'm irritable for some reason... need drugs :) Certainly wasn't about you ;) If the clueless one figgers it out, good for him...

Your song is good for the genre, and certainly sounds professional. The first thing downloaded... tho... "Amie HiFi" had some mix, performance issues (some clams on the 12-string or something IIRC) but pretty decent... bettr'n what I'd put up here... I'm sure it's a cover (didn't read the webpage, just clicked the link :D)

Hopefully this bump will help ya a bit more.


Chad
 
Welcome Llarion!

I listened to Dewpoint.
Very nice groove,mello.

Did you write it ,real nice.

Recording is very good,I enjoyed it much.

Best to you,
Pete
 
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Llarion,

yo here's a bump, man :D Sorry about that rant in the cave; I'm irritable for some reason... need drugs :) Certainly wasn't about you ;) If the clueless one figgers it out, good for him...

Your song is good for the genre, and certainly sounds professional. The first thing downloaded... tho... "Amie HiFi" had some mix, performance issues (some clams on the 12-string or something IIRC) but pretty decent... bettr'n what I'd put up here... I'm sure it's a cover (didn't read the webpage, just clicked the link :D)

Hopefully this bump will help ya a bit more.


Chad
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Chad,

Amie is indeed a cover, of Pure Prairie League. That was an off the cuff, nearly improvised thing with my father in law and his friend who was visiting from Cleveland, neither of whom had ever recorded. Dewpoint is more representative of where I'm at musically... Thanks for bopping over! I didn't take you serious in the cave, I was just tweaking. :)

Pete, Muchas Gracias, yes, I did indeed write Dewpoint... Thanks for listening! :)
 
listened to Dewpoint

this is very good, welcome to the forum, hope you hang around, we could defenetly learn from your expetise... nothing to complain about here except maybe that clean lead tone (but I'm reaching here :) ) ... playing is superb... so tight and smooth ... top notch for me ... and I'm picky ... :D

cheers
 
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