Moonhare
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Beautiful strap and a lovely guitar too. Feeling some guitar envy now!
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Guitar skills like this seem to creep up on TAC members over time. Great to hear this from a more experienced guitar player as it makes me realise we can all get there eventually.
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That’s a great job and yes this sort of treatment makes a huge difference to the reflections in a room with blank walls. I bought a cheap pack of acoustic panels (from that ubiquitous online trading company) as I was already building my studio desk from scrap wood and just wanted to get them up. They do the job but one day I may make my own.
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Thank you so much @Robynvictoria . I do quite a lot of YouTube tutorials for home studio users so I’m used to doing videos and actually find it easier than trying to explain in text what is going on. Always happy to help with recording questions even if I’m in no place to give guitar tips! People on TAC have been so welcoming and friendly I’m feeling really positive about the next 11 months. Hope I have progessed enough to post a performance vid on my first TACiversary.
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Yes you know I have never been more glad to be in pain! Here’s to the next year and seeing where it takes us.
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Hi there – I think the Takemine deserves a spin for sure. I am pretty much the same age as you and I think we’ve all made these empty promises over the years but once you get into TAC you realise that it can be fun learning and improving rather than a chore. Glad we are all here and getting the music therapy we so richly deserve!
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Floors can be reflective too so some rugs might help in the area you want to record in. My studio is the only room downstairs that is carpetted. All the rest are hard wood.
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I guess our mantra needs to be a little each day. I’ve no doubt in a couple of years we’ll be doing this in our sleep!
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Really all you are doing is trying to break up reflections so it depends on your room. Hanging some heavy drapes will do the job and anything like sofas, bookcases etc can help to break up a blank, hard surface wall that creates a lot of echo. Cheap trick – clap your hands and see if you get an echo. If you do that will definitely come out on recordings and muddy them up so anything you can put on the walls to absorb the sound will help.
If you have a studio set up like I do I also look at the direction my monitor speakers are pointing and put panels to catch the first reflections that bounce off the side walls and I also have panels on the back walls. But this gets a bit more technical than you’d need for just stopping a room being too ‘lively’ for recording.
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Hi there. I think we all have that issue with windows but what I did was get some drop down heavy fabric blinds for the window then if I need to record acoustic I just drop that down and the combination of the blind and the panels either side completely cuts all the reflections. (see pic)
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Thanks a lot. It’s a two-edged sword playing keys. At least you already understand music and musicality but it can make you lazy and as Tony says it is routine and consistency that will give you the results in the end.
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Thank you. Have been loving your 100 day challenge by the way. Really inspirational and congrats on finishing!
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Thanks. Yes that guiter has been played more in the last month than the last decade. Daily practice has never been so much fun.
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Thanks for that. More really useful information I can put to use. This is what you don’t get just from watching YouTube clips. I will see how I get on but enjoying the challenging stuff as much as tge things I can do with not too much worry.
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Really appreciate you taking the time out to talk through all that so clearly. Yes I can see the logic there and also psychologically speaking if I could simply get a barre chord under my belt that would really be a big step. This community is so supportive I really don’t know why I didn’t do this before. Thanks so much.