23skidoo
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Here's a bonus entry for Tootler's train-song themed Season.... sorry if you've seen already seen it, but I didn't get it posted till after the week had ended.....
skidoo- this is wonderful. So tastefully played and sung - a perfect rendition of Norman Blake's beautiful song.
Frickin' awesome... Totally sold it. What kind of mic are you using? Any preamp. Balance sounded great between the vocal and uke and there was a great clarity to both.
Nicely done.
thanks, man - I have a couple of buddies that know a great deal about sound and recording and they've helped me figure out what little I know about it..... I'm using an MXL V250 mic running through a Studio Projects VTB-1 preamp. It picks up the ukulele pretty well, but I also captured a separate track using the pickup on the instrument, running through a Fishman Aura Spectrum DI box, so the ukulele sound is a blend of mic and pickup, about 70% mic and 30% line in. I've started recording instruments with pickups this way just about all the time. It allows me to add a bit of reverb and fatten up the ukulele's tone on the pickup track without effecting the voice or the natural acoustic sound picked up by the mic - you can also really fine tune the relative levels between the voice and instrument by adjusting the volume on the pickup track, as well.....
I enjoyed the "heck" out of that! "Super-Duper"!