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is anyone using acoustic instruments? perhaps drums are a given, but i'm curious to know if anyone is making bluegrass, or other similarly acoustic-driven music with live.

just wondering ...

acoustronica!

I am currently working with Live, a foot controller, and acoustic instruments (guitar, bass, mandolin, drums etc.) Just getting started but I hope to be doing lots of live looping and running around soon.

Just the odd guitar for backing, but only cos recording conditions are less than satisfactory. I'd like to ditch the electric all together and replace some of the synth parts with proper piano, but alas I haven't a decent one much less the gear and space to capture it faithfully.

-Paws

i use sometimes double bass, but it is hard to have a satisfying sound

me too.
waiting for an excuse to buy golden trinity/bass max mic-and-piezo pick up from Bob Gollihur in the US.
long used a polytone pick up wired thru pre-amp and then a bass stomp box (Zoom), but still takes EQ and stuff to model sound anywhere near realistic.
check out his web site, read the reports, sounds like a good buy for recording bass.
http://www.gollihur.com/kkbass/bassmic.html

mostly doing minimal electronic stuff with bass samples manipulated in Fennesz style. But occasional slappin' rockabilly workouts just for fun.

very cool! good to know there are some of ya out there!

cheers!

Um.... I think my screen name says it all

I'm doing acoustronica, I use an acoustic, mouth organ, vocals and a foot controller to record and start/stop loops. This track was done was done all in live all played live.

http://www.reporter.uk.com/bringingitonmyself.mp3


Most of all the other tracks on there were done in live too. Have a browse.

Cheers,

www.reporter.uk.com

paul wrote:me too.
waiting for an excuse to buy golden trinity/bass max mic-and-piezo pick up from Bob Gollihur in the US.
long used a polytone pick up wired thru pre-amp and then a bass stomp box (Zoom), but still takes EQ and stuff to model sound anywhere near realistic.
check out his web site, read the reports, sounds like a good buy for recording bass.
http://www.gollihur.com/kkbass/bassmic.html

mostly doing minimal electronic stuff with bass samples manipulated in Fennesz style. But occasional slappin' rockabilly workouts just for fun.

paul,
thank you for the suggestion. i'm reading now about this pick up.
recording double bass is not easy. i use an underwood pick up, a simpson valve amp (older as me) and have tried to route the signal through all the gear i have but i'm still unsatisfied.
i've achieved the best results by using the eq and the fx of my yamaha a3000 sampler...

(will also try to route the signal through my microwaves owen )

greetz

am.

Hey stuart - loved your tracks. specially the first clip. hope you don't mind me recalling Lackluster - that's a compliment in my book.
picked up your link from neoouija and type a while back... small world.

interesting, I'll listen again with harmonica in mind.

guggenheim ep, sweet. where can I pick it up stuart?
not a lot of mouth harp on there though...

underhill wrote:acoustronica!

I am currently working with Live, a foot controller, and acoustic instruments (guitar, bass, mandolin, drums etc.) Just getting started but I hope to be doing lots of live looping and running around soon.

Do you ever play out in Dallas? I'm interested in hearing how you work...

I guess my stuff might fall into 'acoustronica'...some tracks in this thread.

kabuki wrote:

Do you ever play out in Dallas? I'm interested in hearing how you work...

I hope to be confusing Dallas soon. I am trying to get it all flowing at the moment. Reply to my PM if you like and I will send you some contact info. I'd like to compare notes.