Fourth Rendez-Vous by Jean-Michel Jarre with Ghetto Leslie. Fan video

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enPOdYAjIiI&fmt=18
You know those videos where you see one guy sitting in a room by himself playing somebody else's music? This is one of those. I was at the Houston show in 1986 and loved this tune as a child. I recently got bored and started working on this because it was stuck in my head. I tried to capture the energy & spirit of the live show but put my own flavor on it, not copy what Jarre did. This was done purely for my own entertainment so I didn't really take any time in practicing or setting up stuff.

A bit about the production: All video shots are the actual takes you hear in the music. I just let the camera roll while playing. Everything in the recording was recorded with a microphone (no DIs) directly to 96KHz 24-bit. As you can see, it was shot over the course of many days just in the little spare time I have. The camera is always in the same place of my room and I changed only the angle to cover the different positions. All parts are played by me on the instruments you see.

nathanielscott suggested I make note of this: Vocals were recorded in a single take (didn't even stop the camera) with no post-production manipulation. There was no compression, EQ, editing or pitch correction. I DID use pitch correction on the synth because some of the oscillators were untunable. So Autotune was my last resort after many attempts at a proper recording. It's the first time I've actually used Autotune on a project in the 6+ years I've had it.
Visit my site at www.gcmstudio.com

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Music

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• ghetto leslie
• houston
• baldassarre
• experiment
• jarre
• rendezvous.

[Silenceville]

Its the Houston -86 version :)

[wado1942]

@Silenceville

Pretty close. I shortened some phrases and derived the vocals from the Lyon performance.

[RyanBaileyVids]

thats pretty good for a days work.. but wheres all this acoustic treatment i keep hearing about? it just looks like a garage... by the way you may know me as masamune222

[wado1942]

My live room is relatively untreated except for the odd corner, the iso booth and the ceiling. You DO get to see a diffusor behind the acoustic guitar. Large rooms generally need less treatment than small ones.

[ReallyBigFatLarry]

Possibly the best thing I've ever seen in my life.

[wado1942]

Wow, thanks.

[pdmillar]

Haha, great backup vocals

(I also record my music using split-screen effects)

[DjTemplar84]

great idea!

[wado1942]

That's just how I role! Thanks for the comment.

[benskia]

That's cool. I like how its all with real instruments!