Improvisation: Sultry Summer Day

I rescued the guitar melody from an old cassette tape of a recording I made in approximately 1993. The original sound is altered slightly due to noise reduction/audio enhancements (ain't modern technology great?)

If I remember correctly, the guitar is a Gibson Invader (a guitar I like very much) -- something of a more modern Les Paul Jr. (a little heavier) -- jacked right into my Tascam Porta-05 4 track recorder. The motor noise was terrible and the original recorder was dropped during a move and broken, so playback with the dbx noise reduction it was designed with was out of the question.

To recover the tape, I had to play the tape through a standard recorder. If you know anything about the Tascam portastudios, you know they record at 2x speed. Playback on a standard recorder sounds like half speed... With Audacity I was able to restore the audio to a normal sounding speed. I notched out the frequencies with the tape drive motor noise and tried to enhance the harmonics to restore the sound to a more natural sounding guitar... I was pleased with the results.

The tempo guesstimated at about 110 bpm (1/8 notes -- i could have gone with 55 qn/m) and added percussion samples.

Please remember this was an improvisation - I was just messing around with a simple melody. This is little more than a post-production exercise...

Category:

Music

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• music
• improvisation
• guitar
• fingerstyle

[checkabreak]

love the sound if i was you i'll go back to record to tape, sounds like a record that way.. outstanding !!