Solar by Miles Davis and Someday My Prince will Come - jazz waltz stylee

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'Ay Up Peeps

Just made a little fretless vid (first one in ages) - it's an old standard fave of mine 'Solar' by Miles - hope you dig it (try the HQ setting as the quality is pretty sweet )



Cheers

Mike

[Bilbo]

I've done a session with that trio, too. They speak very highly of you!

All done in the best possible taste (with the worst possible phrasing)

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[quote name='bilbo230763' post='397041' date='Feb 1 2009, 05:39 PM']I've done a session with that trio, too. They speak very highly of you!

All done in the best possible taste (with the worst possible phrasing) [/quote]

Hey Rob

Great aren't they! - I use them a lot - and they work for free too...

I'll take that as a compliment and if you don't mind me saying I really enjoyed your take on it as well - lovely swinging vibe to the whole thing - better than mine. If anyone else wants a pop - post your version of Solar too - it's all good.

Nice one and thanks for watching.

Cheers

Mike

[Bilbo]

Serial solos! Anyone else up for it? Take an Aebersold MP3, import it into Cubase or similar, record your solo, export it as an MP3 and then post it here! Its like an old jam session cutting club.

Just don't tell Jamey. He'll get the a**e

[The Funk]

If Jamey's based in the US, I think we could argue educational use under US copyright law - we don't have that in the UK though.

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Hey guys - just made another one - and plugged the bass into Logic to get much better sounnd, the fretless records really well - it's another Miles favourite;

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cheers for watching

Mike

[biro]

hi mike, your playing is awesome. as usual, i dare say! anyhow, thanks for plugging your bass in logic. the sound is way cleaner than in your previous vids - which I still dig a lot. however, I've got a couple of dumb questions for you: firstly, haow did you manage to get a stereo sound on a youtube video? that's something astonishing, I even tried to watch the video in low quality on the tube, and it's keeping a really wide stereo image. that's surprising! Can I ask you how you made it? did you use the FLV conversion trick?

moreover, did you use any effects on your bass? it sounds like your bass is a bit widened. reverb and slight panned delay - perhaps with different time values for each side (to me, it sounds somehow similar to the effect you applied to the fretted bass track in "sing your own anthem" - by the way: I'm still wondering how you managed to get such a kickass sound)?

thanks!

Edited February 8, 2009 by biro

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[quote name='biro' post='403275' date='Feb 8 2009, 11:21 AM']hi mike, your playing is awesome. as usual, i dare say! anyhow, thanks for plugging your bass in logic. the sound is way cleaner than in your previous vids - which I still dig a lot. however, I've got a couple of dumb questions for you: firstly, haow did you manage to get a stereo sound on a youtube video? that's something astonishing, I even tried to watch the video in low quality on the tube, and it's keeping a really wide stereo image. that's surprising! Can I ask you how you made it? did you use the FLV conversion trick?

moreover, did you use any effects on your bass? it sounds like your bass is a bit widened. reverb and slight panned delay - perhaps with different time values for each side (to me, it sounds somehow similar to the effect you applied to the fretted bass track in "sing your own anthem" - by the way: I'm still wondering how you managed to get such a kickass sound)?

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Very kind of you Biro I appreciate your comments a lot.

Re the questions on the sound there are a couple of plugins that I like, one is called 'Stereo Spread' and it's sort of like a stereo imaging tool, the default setting does a really nice job of sending a mono track to both left and right channels, and it really does sound great. I'm pleased the audio is so good on this video too and it's something that is way overdue, it's actually easy to match up the audio track with the video in Logic as you can import the video clip and then save the new audio track to the video clip, not sure how I achieved such good stereo... but I edited it using iMovie09 and you can export the whole thing straight to Youtube, so it keeps everything perfectly intact, the file is an MV4. Re Sing Your Own Anthem, the fast fretted bass line is done with a Phaser with a slow pan effect on it... hope all that explains things.

thanks again

Mike

[biro]

hey, thank you so much. I appreciate a lot you sharing these little - and yet very useful - secrets. unfortunately I don't use logic, thus I guess I won't have the chance to experiment with those great FX very soon. but I'll try to emulate these plugins with some software I have in my VST folder. Cubase and Reper should do a pretty good job in hosting some LFO's and a bunch of automations. hopefully.

nvertheless, the youtube stereo sound thing is weird. I think I'll have to make some tests to find the right format. Thank you for the hint on the MV4!

Edited February 8, 2009 by biro