Tranquil MMVII.11 [harp] Moody Suite III

After playing Megan's wedding rehearsal earlier i came home and played a few suites by myself alone in the living room at night. This is 'moody suite III'. Tommorrow i will play as the wedding guests arrive, and i will play some more as they leave. But tonight i sit alone with my harp, and i play with the lights low with the wind in the trees and the moon peeking from behind the swift moving clouds. ___ Music composition and sound recording Copyright MMVII Heath Patrie. Creative Commons 2.5 License = Attribution/NonCommercial/NoDerivs. ___ I've not had enough time to keep up with my podcasts; i apologise. I had intened to do something more 'produced' for Tranquility this year, but i'm Mr. Mom to my precocious 4-year-old, and he takes all my time, and i'm not keeping up. ... So, i've decided to put up the raw mp3 audio files (from my M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 mobile digital audio recorder which i've been using at my gigs this year). I run my harp mikes (which i've designed and installed inside my harp) directly into the recorder (which i place behind me on top of my amplifier), and then, using it as a pre-amplifier, i run its line output directly into a couple of Fostex PM 0.4 powered monitor speakers which i've bundled into a re-purposed practice amplifier case (my 'amp'). This is a much more compact and portable set-up than i used to drag around with me. I can even use it with my Rhodes stage piano. {Not that anyone's hired me to play Rhodes since i've been doing my harp.} ... Anyway... As a result of my new 'modus operandi', i have a load of raw 320 kbs mp3 from the recorder (AKA: mike pre-amp). This episode is one of those raw files. I hope 320 kbs is fine. {They do sound good.} If you want to shrink them, just convert them to a lower bit rate ('Convert Selection' in the Advanced menu in iTunes). However, i don't recommend going lower than 160. Pure sounds suffer the most from over compression, and the harp is a pretty good example of pure musical sound. I suggest 192 (which is what i was using normally). And, remember: you can always archive the mp3 files onto an 'mp3' CD (which will play in most DVD players). That way you'll always have the option to copy the original 320 kbs mp3 files into your next inevitably larger hard drive. [grin] ... To hear the Live sets from Megan's wedding this weekend: i've uploaded them to my 'Heath and Friends Alive' podcast (at http://alive.libsyn.com). {To subscribe manually: remember to tag on the "/rss" into your podcatcher. That flummoxed me in the beginning.} You can easily find all four of my podcasts by searching 'Heath-Patrie' in the iTunes Store. Share and Enjoy! Find links to my blogs and other goodies at my website: http://strandgeist.com