Original Recordings

[markj]

I like them.  Both performances and recordings are very good.

[mike in lytle]

Mark, Kurt, George,
Thanks for the input.
I get the reverb thing. It WAS a bit much. Will tone it down, if not eliminate.
The "skillful" thing... I am hanging on to my fingernails off a cliff doing these recordings. Six months (or a year) from now they will all be perfect and smooth and polished sounding. The Larrivee group gets to hear the first acceptable version... well, there is the Fahey group that gets to hear as well, but only cause I am so spastic sounding, but there is tiny traffic there. Not that John was spastic.
Mike

[L07 Shooting Star]

Mark, Kurt, George,
Thanks for the input.
I get the reverb thing. It WAS a bit much. Will tone it down, if not eliminate.
The "skillful" thing... I am hanging on to my fingernails off a cliff doing these recordings. Six months (or a year) from now they will all be perfect and smooth and polished sounding. The Larrivee group gets to hear the first acceptable version... well, there is the Fahey group that gets to hear as well, but only cause I am so spastic sounding, but there is tiny traffic there. Not that John was spastic.
Mike

Don't sell yourself short.  You are a very good player and I don't hear a lot of things in your playing that need to be "fixed".  You are way beyond me in terms of fingerstyle playing, that's for sure.

[George]

Mark, Kurt, George,
Thanks for the input.
I get the reverb thing. It WAS a bit much. Will tone it down, if not eliminate.
The "skillful" thing... I am hanging on to my fingernails off a cliff doing these recordings. Six months (or a year) from now they will all be perfect and smooth and polished sounding. The Larrivee group gets to hear the first acceptable version... well, there is the Fahey group that gets to hear as well, but only cause I am so spastic sounding, but there is tiny traffic there. Not that John was spastic.
Mike

Mike you are way more talented with fingerstyle than myself as well.  I hear you getting better and better every time I hear a new recording you have made.  I also think that reverb (and other effects on backing tracks) adds realism when you are attempting to emulate a certain size room in your recordings.  I use it a lot...
Keep on keepin' on sir!

[mike in lytle]

 
Okay, I may be on well-deserved self-imposed time out from the group conversations in general, but I will still share music...

Top tune....
https://soundcloud.com/user-31196277


Called "Spring Marching North". I have never been able to play it without mistakes, but I did a take with the newly obtained 1995 L-10 Brazilian and it sounds pretty good. A couple flubs near the end, oh well. I haven't changed the strings on the guitar since I got it, and have never been able to "hear" it, cause it doesn't have a pickup. When I heard this recording, I thought "this is a "tonally superior guitar".

Mike

[George]

I did not hear any flubs Mike, all I heard was genuine character.  Good job sir!  and you are right, that guitar sounds tonally superb...

[ducktrapper]

My only, not criticism, suggestion would be to try to add some changes of pace. While, they're all pretty good, there's a certain sameness to the pieces, tempo wise. It seems to me that you could make things more interesting by changing tempos or adding, say, 16th notes. Again, not a criticism but a suggestion. Good stuff though.