Concert in Ricki’s bar, Antigua with a live recording of one of the most popular songs, the Girl from Ipanima. Still the experimental phase of sound-recording and publishing on the Internet.
Saturday night in Ricki’s bar, Antigua Guatemala
I happened to bump into Vinicio while walking around in Antigua. We came quickly to the point of playing a bit together at night.
This song, the famous “Girl of Ipanima”, also named “Chiqua de Ipanima” or “Garota do Ipanima” depending on the language was the first thing we played together.
Sound-engineering
I’m still experimenting… The Edirol works, absolutely no problem, but the sound is still not how I want it. This time I put the Edirol with the microphones away from the musicians. This I did to avoid that
my saxophone is too loud compared to the rest of the music.
I recorded on the highest quality possible, 24-bits WAV.
To my taste, the sound is a bit too dark and there is too much ‘hall’ or ‘echo’ or ‘reverb’ or something like that.
I edited the .wav file in Audacity. I cut the soundbite, normalized and equalized to acoustic and then exported it to a .mp3-file.
There are numerous possibilities in Audacity to manipulate soundfiles, but I have no detailed knowledge about all these effects. I also prefer to do a good recording and very limited editing.
Imho, if the input is good, you don’t need to do a lot of editing. More or less analog to images you make with a (digital) camera.
I’ve respect for people that can ride Photoshop or The Gimp or in this case Audacity like I can ride a bike, but in this case I just want to stay as close to reality as possible.
