Am Sonntag, 3. November 2013, 21:50:03 schrieb rosea.grammostola: > On 11/03/2013 07:51 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: > > On 11/01/2013 11:00 AM, rosea.grammostola wrote: > >> On 10/28/2013 09:53 AM, rosea.grammostola wrote: > >>> Munk!, a jazz/ska/funk band from Groningen, The Netherlands, has > >>> released an album made with free software, The Magnetophon Sessions. > >>> > >>> During the hot part of summer 2013, Munk! stayed at the cultural > >>> freezone Landbouwbelang in Maastricht (The Netherlands) for a week and > >>> recorded seven new tracks in the unique and inspiring studio > >>> Magnetophon. During the recordings we played with the whole band at > >>> once, to get the most musical results. All tracks are > >>> one-take-recordings, no edits where made when mixing the album. > >>> > >>> The Magnetophon Sessions is produced with opensource and free software > >>> on GNU/Linux. > >>> Most notably: Ardour2 for recording and mixing, LADSPA plugins for > >>> mixing, Gimp for graphics, Lives for video art. > >>> > >>> Recorded& mixed by Bart Brouns at Studio Magnetophon Maastricht > >>> www.magnetophon.nl<http://www.magnetophon.nl> > >>> > >>> Video clip Off The Chart: > >>> http://www.munk050.com/ > >>> > >>> The Magnetophon Sessions, music& artwork: > >>> http://www.munk050.com/music/ > >>> > >>> Our advise on price for the digital download would be in the range of > >>> 5 -- 10 euro, but there's no minimum or maximum, so feel free, thanks > >>> for your support! > >>> > >>> Munk! > >>> > >> Some feedback on the songs and the mix would be nice! :) > > Hello Rosea, > > > > Listening to it now. Sounds way too roomy for me, I barely hear any > > close miked instruments. Not that it's necessary but the room in which > > you recorded seems to miss some warmth and atmosphere (too much > > concrete, too little wood?) so the result sounds to me like there's > > lacking some low. Also the room sounds a bit too small and it seems > > little or no additional reverb was used so the mix sounds a bit boxy. I > > also hear some badly intonated/tuned instruments, especially the guitar. > > With regard to the songs, I barely listen to jazz but I do listen to > > some bands that have incorporated jazz in their pop/rock sound like > > Tortoise (album: Standards), Karate (album: Unsolved) or The Mercury > > Program (album: A Data Learn The Language). I highly recommend giving > > those bands a listen as I have the idea Munk! is also operating within > > this scope. So I favor the tracks that lean more towards pop minus the > > Ska kind of tracks as I don't like Ska myself (except for The Specials). > > All in all nice job! > > > > > Thanks Jeremy, for your lengthly feedback. Not sure if I agree with it > all, but I'm not an experienced sound engineer. Also we lost pretty some > time for tuning the (bas)guitar, so I doubt if that one is not in tune, > maybe its the dissonant jazz sound you're not used to :) Anyway, I > didn't notice it, maybe I hear it when I listen it again. About the wood > and the room, did you see the pictures on Barts website? > http://www.magnetophon.nl/ > > It's all wood there man :) > In this article you'll find some graphs of the room, not sure how much > that tells us: > http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct10/articles/green-studio.htm > > The roomy sound was intentional, for the ska-like songs it might be > interesting to see how it sounds with a more DI/closed mic sound. > Another reason to do it this way was the heat in the studio. It was > around 35 degrees in that week, sweat all over the place, so it would be > even worse if we had to wear headphones. > > If I've Off The Chart on my headphone, I like the natural sounding, I > think it's pleasant to listen to. Also I do prefer the trumpet sound > with as less reverb as possible, I think reverb kills the sharpness of > the tones too much. I listened yesterday evening to the whole album (on headphones), and I like it a lot. I agree with Jeremy only in that (in some rare spots only) the guitar seems out of tune a bit, but not so much that it would disturb me. All in all I share how you feel about it, and I had similar thoughts going on when listening - it sounded warm, natural, transparent, and like the band had fun playing it. As soon as my wallet is getting a bit thicker again... Thanks for this, Edgar > > Regards, > \r > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
