Plugged or Unplugged?
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Plugged or Unplugged?
Hay guys,
I'm working on a small AMV/slideshow project with my own soundtrack, and I need help deciding which sound recording is more suitable for such a thing...
Here's a fragment from my "unplugged" piano recording:
http://www.geocities.com/orange_storage ... _piano.mp3
...and a fragment from my multi-track arrangement:
http://www.geocities.com/orange_storage ... 4track.mp3
If you'd be so nice and push me into one of the directions, that would be the bomb! (Pardon the sound quality; I had to compress the mp3's to fit them onto my crappy geocities site!)
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I'm working on a small AMV/slideshow project with my own soundtrack, and I need help deciding which sound recording is more suitable for such a thing...
Here's a fragment from my "unplugged" piano recording:
http://www.geocities.com/orange_storage ... _piano.mp3
...and a fragment from my multi-track arrangement:
http://www.geocities.com/orange_storage ... 4track.mp3
If you'd be so nice and push me into one of the directions, that would be the bomb! (Pardon the sound quality; I had to compress the mp3's to fit them onto my crappy geocities site!)
Orange Box
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Re: Plugged or Unplugged?
Well OB there seems to be something wrong with the second link, or it might be my computer.
Anyway, i loved the music from the first link and as far as pushing you in the right direction, i could give you a better opinion of you gave a bit more information about the actual project. maybe a snipette of the visual side would do.
if there is anything that i know how to do it is how to mix music with visual data.
hope i can help more once more is shown.
Anyway, i loved the music from the first link and as far as pushing you in the right direction, i could give you a better opinion of you gave a bit more information about the actual project. maybe a snipette of the visual side would do.
if there is anything that i know how to do it is how to mix music with visual data.
hope i can help more once more is shown.
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Re: Plugged or Unplugged?
As Laguna says, it would be easier to make a choice if we had a rough idea of the visuals. Personally I prefer the "unplugged" track which is a very nice piece (and well played!) but obviously that's based on my taste rather than it's suitability for your project! Project wise, the unplugged track might be less distracting from the visuals than the more complex multi-track but again it's a difficult choice without knowing what those visuals are.
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Re: Plugged or Unplugged?
Those are hard to compare. On the second one ("plugged"), the melody is very simple, but you added extra instruments, which is good. On the first one ("unplugged"), the piano melody is more complex and nice, but it's alone... I fail to choose between those two (though I think I liked the "plugged" version more), so I think you should try to take best from the both versions: more complex music than just simple quiet chords, and the arrangement.
And being a person which failed completely in piano play in the past, I can only sigh to this. Beautiful ability, but not for me. Good luck with the project though, I look forward to see the result.
And being a person which failed completely in piano play in the past, I can only sigh to this. Beautiful ability, but not for me. Good luck with the project though, I look forward to see the result.
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Re: Plugged or Unplugged?
I have made a couple of slideshows with music in the past, and it really depends on the subject. You can even compile the show with both tracks, and they will generate a completely different feedback. I don't think that any of them is more distracting than the other, since both are creating a certain mood. The mixed one is probably more suitable for, let's say, some holiday impressions with an evening at the beach, people who are sipping some cocktails etc., while the piano track is more suitable for an evening in the lonely wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, the full moon just rising over the crystal-clear mountain lake. But again, you could use them the other way round, and it would be an interesting experience as well.
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Re: Plugged or Unplugged?
I'm worried the piano verion is too sleep-inducing for an AMV... Maybe if I mix it with a soft shuffling beat, then it'd be a good match! I'll try to get the footage, but basically, the overall feel of the AMV should be about 25% sad, 60% unsettling/anxious, and 15% hopeful.
The piece is my own improvisation loosely based on a tune by D. Weiss, which [sissy girl]means a lot to me, and brings back sad memories[/sissy girl].
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The piece is my own improvisation loosely based on a tune by D. Weiss, which [sissy girl]means a lot to me, and brings back sad memories[/sissy girl].
Oh, and thanks a billion! You guys are #1!
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Re: Plugged or Unplugged?
Given your "mood percentages", I'd still go with the unplugged version. Depending on how long the show is, perhaps you could start off with the unaccompanied piano and then bring in the drums and/or other instruments as it progresses?
I'd be interested to hear how it turns out!
I'd be interested to hear how it turns out!
There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning....
And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave....
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave....
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas