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Author: Fredo on March 17 2008

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--> Hi emers,

Just wanted to announce that, following last month's performance of Puss, I'm presenting my second cluster performance of Moon After Berceuse.
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A cluster performance is basically when I shoot all of the vocal parts to a song live to digital media card and then stitch the visuals and audio recordings together using Logic and AfterEffects.

Anyway, this second performance is special to me, as it is my first live duet. The fantastically talented upright bassist, Ike Sturm, joined me at St. Peter's Church. That's the one known as the "Jazz Church" for which Ike is a music director. The place has great acoustics.

We recorded each of the five voices with a stereo mic, and a shotgun places very close to both Ike and myself. There's been some debate about my mix... some folks think I should mix up the more ambient stereo mic to show more of the room. I'm really curious to know your thoughts about this, so please let me know if you have a moment.

This time I enlisted some outside help to get the sound properly recorded... Cosmod recommended his friend Patrick Ford, and he came and engineered beautifully for me.

Please come check it out if you have the time! link

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03/17/08 + adcBicycle

great stuff fredo.

i'd be interested in hearing how a more roomy mix sounds. don't really get a sense of the space itself from this mix... but the performance is excellent.

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03/17/08 + bleen

i'm speechless. i'll listen to it in the studio in a bit to really comment on the mix, but just listening on my imac it sounds great!

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03/17/08 + Fredo

thanks, guys. I had given the video to a couple folks here for a prelisten, and lowlifi's comment was just like yours, adcBicycle. He felt it needed more room. I'm trying to make it sound the way it would if you were really sitting where the camera is, so the very close performers are less roomy, etc...

On another technical subject... you will hear my levels come down quite drastically during the climax. I had to do this because with the coupling of so many high frequencies, I got the CRAZIEST distortion ever, even though all the levels were super low and not peaking alone or together! I think I could have done a more successful job of mixing that though, so any thoughts on the subject would be much appreciated!

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03/17/08 + tbeals79

im listening on broken pc speakers (@ work)
I thought exactly what adc said!

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03/17/08 + Jenoki

i named my teddy 'fredo'

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03/17/08 + Fredo

Thanks tbeals. But does it sound like what you would expect if you were sitting in the front row just about 4 feet from the lead singer and a foot from the pizzicato? It's important for me to make this a naturalistic mix.

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03/17/08 + Fredo

@ Jonoki.

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03/17/08 + tunalicker

I love it. i wanna hear the bass come out more. It might be my crap speakers. i dunno.
Great editing. My friend is running a quartet. You should work towards that maybe?
The dynamics between two parts (duet) are fantastic and I think you'd find a quartet
would have some chilling and amazing relational moments.

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03/17/08 + oxymoron

wile
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coyote,
super-genius!

Great work, fredo. It comes through very well on my crappy Altec inMotion at work. And the video is crystal-clear.

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03/17/08 + astroid

wonderful. i love these videos.

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03/17/08 + jdg

MORE ROOM SOUND.

PLEASE!

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03/17/08 + bodo

wonderful, just great!
I agree with the rest about the room sound.
It's one of the things that made the staircase video you made a while ago so great. It sort of opens up more and feels (even more) alive.

Thanks for sharing!

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03/17/08 + Fredo

ok ok! I'll add some room! JEEEZ! ;)

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03/18/08 + sickmotion

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!

03/18/08 + mrspreston

That was rather good, Fredo. Some of the mixing seemed a tiny bit off during the climax though. Not sure if it's bothersome or not. I'd like to hear how it sounds with more room as well, by the way.

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