This week I managed to mix and incorporate the Jetliner String Quartet recording for 737. I also was able to record eight phrases on my electric cello. All in all, I recorded two phrases for each of the following: 737, DC-8, 707, & 747. While I haven’t played cello regularly in nearly 40 years, I find that I am slightly better at it than playing the trombone. I’m still not particularly good at playing the instrument, but if you slap a bunch of effects on it, it does sound nice and spacey.
I’ve also been re-editing the string orchestra samples. One of the first things I did for the Rotate project was to add samples of Musiversal’s Budapest String Orchestra that I had recorded for my previous album. These samples were added right after the backing tracks were recorded. Accordingly, I added a lot of them, and now that the recordings are getting kind of thick, I want to thin out the string orchestra samples so they do not compete as much with the string quartet recordings. I managed to thin out TriStar and 737 in this manner. All in all, it was a decent amount of work accomplished for a week in which I was driving to tech rehearsals in Andover, MA for more than half of the week. It puts me a bit ahead of the game in terms of what I hope to accomplish next week.
Since I’ve been posting teasers related to the next album project over the last couple of updates, I’ll share a bit more. I’m pleased to announce that I have working algorithms for two of the six movements that I plan on recording the backing tracks for this coming summer. At the rate I’m crafting these algorithms, I could be ready to record those backing tracks sometime in early 2024. Regardless, I will start sharing examples from these algorithms in early in the new year.
As I posted a link to the new mix of DC-8 featuring the Jetliner String Quartet record, I’ll repost the string score for the movement. This is the only movement that uses quarter note arpeggiations. I’m also fond of the D# diminished chord over an E pedal at rehearsal C. I think it’s a particularly tasty harmony.
