* Baroque Guitars *
I was asked to write a handful of Baroque Lute quartet pieces, and I finally had a chance to record them yesterday -- CLICK HERE to hear the fruits of my labor. Each one of these will be cut apart and used individually, but for simplicity's sake, I ran them end-to-end for you...
The process was pretty old school: I sharpened my pencil and grabbed a nice piece of manuscript paper, and ground out each one of these by hand, careful to observe all those nit-picky counterpoint rules. Then I restrung my classical guitar with fresh strings and started recording. For the particularly tweaky, I used a Neumann KM-184 on the guitar, about 6" away from the body, closer to the neck, but angled toward the soundhole. There's only one track of each of the four guitar parts, and I only had to punch in on one of these (no matter how I fingered it, there was an unavoidably loud string squeak in the middle of one of the lines, so I decided to punch in rather than live with the squeak). My classical chops aren't what they used to be, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out. Enjoy!
The process was pretty old school: I sharpened my pencil and grabbed a nice piece of manuscript paper, and ground out each one of these by hand, careful to observe all those nit-picky counterpoint rules. Then I restrung my classical guitar with fresh strings and started recording. For the particularly tweaky, I used a Neumann KM-184 on the guitar, about 6" away from the body, closer to the neck, but angled toward the soundhole. There's only one track of each of the four guitar parts, and I only had to punch in on one of these (no matter how I fingered it, there was an unavoidably loud string squeak in the middle of one of the lines, so I decided to punch in rather than live with the squeak). My classical chops aren't what they used to be, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out. Enjoy!
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