Warmup improv

[ronde_des_sylphes]

... a bit of nonsense getting the fingers moving  

[mjames]

Wow, electric playing! Must be really fun to be able to improvise like that.

[ted]

I do not consider that sort of playing nonsense, Andrew, not even close. It has less rigidity of form than the compositions from which you derive your mastery of that particular idiom, but there are those among us who don't care about that because we experience music from one moment to the next, and you do play some beautiful moments. Perhaps you could record a whole CD of improvisation, on original motifs if you thought it necessary, for your next project ? I hear the Wright effect again in this too, that helps.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Thanks to both of you! I've improvised as a warmup or as a form of technical exercise for so long it now seems completely natural.

Ted, I've actually considered taking some of my better improvisations and getting the sound quality tidied up a bit, then putting it digitally on CD Baby. It's a bit of a niche interest of course, but it is at the back of my mind.

[caustik]

That room is great, beautiful instrument, very confident and capable performance. Good stuff!

[caustik]

Ted, I've actually considered taking some of my better improvisations and getting the sound quality tidied up a bit, then putting it digitally on CD Baby. It's a bit of a niche interest of course, but it is at the back of my mind.

If you upload an MP3 (better yet, wav or other lossless recording), I'll take a shot at tidying up the sound. I'm not a professional mastering engineer by trade, but I've spent many hundreds (if not thousands) of hours mixing and mastering. It's great fun for me to have fresh source material to work with.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

If you upload an MP3 (better yet, wav or other lossless recording), I'll take a shot at tidying up the sound. I'm not a professional mastering engineer by trade, but I've spent many hundreds (if not thousands) of hours mixing and mastering. It's great fun for me to have fresh source material to work with.

Thanks, both for your comments in the previous reply and for this, which is of definite interest to me. I do have occasional studio access (I've made cds before, but only of specific compositions) and some useful audio editing tools at home, but a second opinion is very worth getting, as far as I'm concerned.

This particular improvisation I'm not so bothered about cleaning up the sound - I've already had a go and have attached a revised mp3 (forum attachments kinda restrict size so mp3 rather than wav) for comparison. I've not reverbed it or any other type of processing - I don't think! (I have a reverbed wav version but I think I uploaded the non-reverb mp3!). I don't think the sound is perfectly noise reduced but it's difficult to induce such results when you're recording under functional circumstances rather than ideal studio ones.

If you are interested in something more problematical, this is a wav I want to use (for musical reasons) but the initial sound really is not very good in terms of commercial audio.
https://app.box.com/s/r0ot7c8wdc0rejymx7ixudl27wjp9m30 (unedited)
https://app.box.com/s/h9pxqh80j84peqy7f7r4ucu33ojv3vzj (noise reduced but still not really there imo, and that was after quite a fair bit of work on the initial file)

Anyone else who wants to comment on the audio quality of the tracks, I'd also be interested in hearing their feedback.