In the beginning
Guy used a Tascam DA-P1 to record. It's a Digital Audio Tape (DAT) machine the quit making over a decade ago. He also left behind a shoebox of about a dozen two hour tapes. While he was quite a meticulous note keeper, most of the tapes had no notes.
January 20, 2020 Major progress. I installed Reaper and with some clues, got it to record You-Tubes. The package will record in 1 hour chunks and automatically start a new chunk. Good thing I've plenty of disk space.
January 21, 2020 Major progress. I was able to get the DA-P1 to connect with my Motu Traveller Mk3 which I hadn't used in over a decade through the S/PIF connection. This (to me) assured I got the cleanest source of data.
01-200121_1911.wav
I recorded the first tape. He made zilcho in the way of notes of what this tape is. I believe he recorded a practice session for self examination purposes. So many songs I don't recognize.
At the 34 minute mark - Appears he took a break lowered the signal about 12 db (?). I believe when he gets all the way through a song, he has a "twang" that he ends with - Not all songs were played through to the end.
Song 1 - Rough intro Abort ending
Song 2 - Good intro Good ending
Song 3 - Good intro Abort ending
Song 4 - Good intro Good ending
Song 5 - Good intro Good ending Girl from ipanama
Song 6 - Rough intro Good ending Girl from ipanama
Song 7 - Good intro Good ending
Song 8 - Good intro Good ending
Gain adjust
Song 9 - Good intro Abort midway
Song 10 - Good intro Good ending
Song 11 - Good intro Good ending
Song 12 - Good intro Abort midway
Song 13 - Good intro Abort ending
Song 14 - Good intro Abort ending
01-200124_1904.wav - One totally filled tape...
Another practice tape. Lot's of starts & stops
Program 6
Track starting at 46 minutes appears complete
Program 7
Track starting at 55 minutes appears complete
Notes stop at 52:10
1:19
New song? Bluesy - More starts & stops
1:22 - Good start Abort End
1:26 - Good start Almost made it... Abort
1:29 - Good start 1:32 Interesting (?) ending
1:32 - Good start 1:35 another interesting ending
1:36 - Crash at takeoff
1:36 - Good start punch out
1:37 - Good start punch out
1:39 - Odd start 1:42 Landed!!!
1:42 Starting a new song - Slower bluesy number
1:46(ish) restart 1:51 finished!!!
1:51 nice start nice feel 1:56 nice landing
1:56 new song
- 1:59 end Good take off and landing - tape finished
Also noticing the rewind appears a bit balky... Keep an eye on this. Perhaps this is why he boxed up the player? That and he may have already thought he had his good material captured?
Knowing a bit now how Guy plays, I will start listening and noting the times I hear good "endings" - Listening to the entire song, crash landings and all is a be fatiguing...
01-200125
No notes. Times are for song ending
First song - Massive 50Hz Hum. A couple hesitations & clams during the song.
Second song - Massive 50 Hz Hum. Can be carved out
Third song - Hum gone. Bad start
11:34 Fourth good landing
14:15 Fifth He's singing! clams midway
17:38 Sixth song (6 minor hesitations) landed nice
21:55 Seventh Song okay
27:16 Eighth Song okay
Ninth song , sorta rough take off
tenth song
34:37 start meanderosa?
Tape appears to be an album practice session
Tape appears to restart at 1:08 (with hum)
01-200129 Practice session
Recording this and will review later
No notes
01-200131 Practice session with Felton on flute
This tape is labeled as "#2"
Seems like they used a single room mic, mainly on guitar.
Around the 51 minute mark, the signal drops waaaaaay low.
- Will likely record this a second time with gain provided - this will introduce noise.
- I had earlier given Guy a condenser mic which was still set up in the mic stand. I also spotted where he had attempted a repair on a mic XLR cable. I think this had something to do with this low level recording.
End time 26:00, new session. Audio now at 33 cre
Some notes with this one - Not totally sure what this all means yet.
Home
No comments:
Post a Comment