Dear lutenists, b- and r-,
someone told me that it is something special, when you reach your 400th
playing to y-tube. Perhaps it is, perhaps not. Anyhow, I started by
several "normal" pocket digital cameras with their very lousy sound
quality, did also some (bad) video editing in those days. Then to Zoom
O3. Much better sound, but the automatic volume control spoiled
(nearly) all the tries to piano e forte... You know, what I mean...;-)
Then to the Zoom O3 HD. With that you first give your loudest sound; it
takes that as the volume level. If you do it right, it works. But if
you happen to for ex. to cough, when the recording has started, you'll
get very quiet lute sound...;-)
And then with the baroque lute I had mostly unsuccessful - but very
(too?) persistent - try on the gut strings. There are some quite
ashamed examples there in the y-tube... But I am not going to hide the
history. ;)
In the beginning I recorded many of my own arrangements - which I also
published in my pages - to show that they are playable.
There are pieces to 6-courser, 10-courser in different tunings, soprano
lute, chitarrino - renaissance guitar, theorbo in high d and two in
"normal" a, and a couple 11-coursers, ...
As easily can be seen, I really got addicted to the 11-course d-minor
lute; to me it is by far the most clever tuning to the music of its
time (second is the 6-courser in the 16th century music).
So, my 400th y-tubing is a German aria "Warum Klagstu das du dein
Leben" in the D-LEm ms. II.6.24.
And thus I am not going to complain my life! ;-)
See:
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SmHMv62K5Y&feature=youtu.be
(or [2]http://vimeo.com/68153116, but there it is not the 400th...)
Btw: I never have done any sound editing to my recordings. No echo, no
nothing, just the "living room acoustics". And since the Zoom Q3's, my
video editing has just been clipping the "before" and "after"
movements.
All the best and happy playing,
Arto
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References
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SmHMv62K5Y&feature=youtu.be
2. http://vimeo.com/68153116
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