trombones

You can listen to the fruits of my first recording session above.  I’m starting off with trombone, and I decided to work on the two minutes of layered sound first.  Here are twenty layers of C2, C3, G2, and G3 recorded with the pinhole microphone of my laptop.  About half of the recordings were done with a cup mute down the hall from where my computer was, walking around. 

The effect I was hoping for (slight doppler shifts along with beating as I played a little with the pitch) was totally lost in the pinhole mic.  So for the second batch of recordings I stayed in the room.  I like how this trial run turned out, and I definitely think I’ll play around with this idea as I work on my layered recordings.  Felt nice to put a trombone to my face again as well!