We need to do this: Collective Blues Project

[stan]

I'm on an Epiphone Les Paul group on bookface.
They recently did a collective blues music clip.

Take a backing track. Good old 12 bar blues is generic enough for most.
Everyone gets a minute or so each, the length of a verse/phrase to play a section.
Then it's cobbled together into a full track.
It was nice to see the different styles and tones that went into the complete effort.

No competition, no best players, no winners or losers just a fun project.

I'm sure this could be done very easily and we have plenty of tech types and players here.
You dont have to be good, just enthusiastic enough to have a go.

I'd be happy to pick a backing track and have a play but :

How do we record it, especially if some players dont have much in the way of equipment?
How do we add each piece?,,,and put it together?

I'm sure it's not hard, be we need someone more recording savvy than me to coordinate it and get it up.
I am happy to help in any way, but don't know how it's done...

So, who's in, do we want to do this??

[Andy40]

Yeah sure why not. Im pretty sure Kimbaz will know what to do.

[stan]

Yes Kimball does come to mind

[andrewdosborne]

Great idea!

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[DrNomis_44]

I reckon this is a cool idea, and it's similar to an idea I had where we all collaborate on a multitrack recording and see if we could come up with a theme song for the forum, I'd definitely be interested in being a part of this too, I've got some recording gear that I can use to record something.

[Simon Barden]

I'll just turn my amp right up, let you know when I start playing, then someone stick a mic out the window about an hour and a half later and hopefully you should record me playing. It's going to have quite a lot of natural reverb. so I won't add any on the amp.

[Simon Barden]

All you need to do is agree on a common recording format e.g. 24/44.1 wav, the key and the BPM. Then all you need is download a stereo wav file of the backing track (one version without bass but with a basic guitar for bass players, and one without guitar for guitar players) and then decide how many times through the 12-bar people get to include. Then all people have to do is send back a trimmed wav file, so that it starts at the beginning of a bar and ends say 1 bar after the 'solo' (so you can have a short reverb tail or fading delays so that it doesn't suddenly get cut-off).

You'd need to record in mono if possible (though if you've only got a handheld recorder with stereo mics, then I'm sure whoever's putting it together can make a mono track from it as long as one of the mics was pointing directly at the amp), and record any effects you want at the time, as it would be asking a bit too much for the compiler to add different effects to each track later.

Different bass parts from different players will be nice and add more variety, but there would need to be a basic bass line on the recording that set the general style of the piece.

[stan]

Cool, or we could use a single backing track, leave the bass in an a bass player could d o a solo over the top as per guitar...

[dave.king1]

Over on TDPRI there is a new homebrew backing track each month, someone puts up a downloadable backing track on soundcloud which the punters put into their own DAW record a guitar part and then post the results.

I'll put up a link to one when I get on the PC later in the morning

[Bass Guy]

I'm in for this. I'm even happy to sequence a backing track once keys, tempo, etc are agreed upon.