Listen to Flame Darling

[mdlbear]

Flame Darling (Ovation CC-48). Brand-new Martin Silk and Steel strings. Let me know if you can hear the buzzing strings on loud notes. Tiny editing glitch in Paper Wings, numerous flubs, and a bit of background noise (including Colleen answering a phone call in the middle of QV), but... The point is to listen to the guitar on this one.

1	[ogg]	[mp3]	Quiet Victories (Savitzky)
2	[ogg]	[mp3]	Wheelin' (Savitzky)
3	[ogg]	[mp3]	Paper Wings (Savitzky)

The Zoom's USB storage mode seems to have abruptly stopped working; I've tried several different ways of rebooting or resetting it. The card works fine in a reader, and passed an fsck. *shrug* at least it works in the reader, and that seems a little faster, too.

Going to go re-string Plink now.

Comments

[hvideo.livejournal.com]

I listened to the MP3 of Quiet Victories, especially in the two instrumental sections near the end, and really didn't notice any string buzzing. If there's any there it's pretty small.

What struck me instead was distortion on the vocals. It sounded like you were overloading that channel and going into saturation pretty much all the way through. Oh, not too FAR into saturation - but there was that unpleasant edge to the sound that is typical of overdriving something. I'd suggest lowering the levels you're recording at. Get nice rounded sine waves instead of those ugly flat-topped ones. :)

[mdlbear]

Good to know about the buzz - thanks.

I don't think what you're hearing in the voice is clipping - looking at the waveform in Audacity, the whole thing is well under -3dB; more like -6. Conceivably overloading the microphone itself (recorded with my Zoom H2 sitting on the music stand).

More likely to be something actually in my voice. I've been having a lot of trouble with phlegm caught in my throat lately. Annoying.