[MusicTlk] An Acoustic Christmas link

Tue Dec 27 15:20:09 UTC 2022

Dear Rick and Anyone else Interested,

                Thank you very much for the compliments. I guess you know I use Reaper as my DAW. In addition, my guitar is a 1990 Martin D35 strung with Martin Silk & Steel extra light (.10 - .47) strings. My mic is a Blue Bird condenser mic run through a FocusRite Scarlet 2I2 interface. The only fx I used were the standard EQ, compression, reverb, and autotune Reaper stock plugins. I did all the harmonies myself – no harmonizer. The Gregorian chant in Veni Veni Emmanuel consists of 20 takes – 10 for the melody and 10 for the harmony – although, truth be told, I did several more than that which did not end up in the final mix. If you listen to We Wish You a Merry Christmas through headphones, you will be able to hear the spacial definitions of each of my three voices, left, center, and right! If anyone wants to chat Reaper stuff and/or need some help with it, please send me an email off-list to my music email address swampfox1833 at verizon.net <mailto:swampfox1833 at verizon.net> . 

For those who take interest in how one arrives at particular email addresses, I perform under the name “Marion & Martin”, a nod to my guitar. Francis Marion was known as “swamp Fox” and Martin guitars was established in 1833! I hope everyone has an incredible and prosperous New Year!

Peace!

Marion

From: Richard R. Thomas <richardrthomas48 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 8:40 AM
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Subject: RE: [MusicTlk] An Acoustic Christmas link

Hi Marion:

Nice and tastefuly done:

I liked the accuracy of the harmonies and the guitar work was good.

What did you use to lay down the tracks and other playing or recording equipment?

The sound was pretty clean and well balanced.

I am familiar with Reaper and Audacity and play a couple of instruments and do some vocals myself for fun.

At 75 I haven’t yet publish anything but play with some old-timers here in New Jersey from time to time.

I might try and use Reaper to produce something this year since I have been inspired by you and a couple of other blind players who publish their works and I do have some stories to tell.

Well, later and again, nice work.

Richard R. Thomas (Rick USA)

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From: Marion Gwizdala via MusicTlk <mailto:musictlk at nfbnet.org> 
Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2022 6:18 PM
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Subject: [MusicTlk] An Acoustic Christmas link

Dear Federation Family,

I hope you enjoy the following Christmas offering as much as I enjoyed producing it! 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13PZ-BTarBTW8uBiC75LTIpmyLtelCYH2?usp=share_link

Fraternally yours,

Marion Gwizdala

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