I don't think I did anything "mean" while trying to record myself except for calling the camera bad names.

My husband thought he had this recording thing all worked out for me..he and a friend figured with a couple "good" mics and all their savvy they could make a great recording. (ha-ha) They are used to doing voice work and voice over stuff - neither had ever recorded an acoustic piano before (digitals yes). Needless to say, the mics didn't do well..anyway..

Hubby stayed in his office with the dog (whose jingely collar was removed) while I did my best with our video camera (lens cap firmly in place!).

After hearing chuckles when I would say, "Take 2, 3, 4 ..." I finally got one - not perfect - hubby says, "try again".

It's a great feeling knowing I have support. He (hubby) was actually more frustrated than I was - he wanted the recording to be really clean - oh, well. It is what it is UNTIL I GET A ZOOM!

This whole experience of recording myself is so foreign to me, but has been really good for all of us, I think.

Well I've been cursing (at some points) so I'm now going to examine a bunch of video & audio takes to see if I've managed to get one... I have to laugh at myself with the hands doing a sweeping "cut" motion over the keys (giving me my new take signal) and by the end I'm yelling "TAKE 1 BILLION AND FORTY TWO"

SC

Wow, you guys make the submission process very easy...thank you!

yep, this is the first recital I've participated in in a while, and the submission was very easy! Thanks to all who have worked so hard to put this together!

So, I re-exported my Audacity file using the 192bit encoding. With 128 (or whatever it was) the file was 5mb plus change, but at 192bit it's just over 8mb! Wonder what that's all about!

Cheers all, looking forward to listening!

192kbps-128kbps=64kbps (That's about 8192 characters of extra space per second.)

Per second, the mp3 encoder has just that much more space to store the data. This means it can be more accurate and well, cut less corners. Over several minutes of audio that extra bit adds up to a few extra MB.

And Chopin extends his lead...

Not my best work, but it's been a hard several weeks to try to get time on the piano.

Rich

^Yep. With 19 hours and a bit left it's:

Chopin (6)
Bach (4)
Debussy (4)
Nevue (4)
Lanz (3)
Schubert (3)
Clementi (2)
Satie (2)

Lanz (3)? - I double checked and see only 2 - #6, the irrepressible Mr Super-Hunky & #50, the irresitable John Frank - but my eyes aint what they used to be...should be triple checked, but it would appear that Lanz is tied at 2 with several others, including some pretender to the New Age throne named Eyenowdee or something...

JF

^Whoops. I missed a a couple of resubmits with actual piece changes.

Chopin (6)
Bach (4)
Debussy (4)
Beethoven (3)
Nevue (3)
Schubert (3)
Clementi (2)
Einaudi (2)
Lanz (2)
Satie (2)

At the rate things are changing, I might be in the first 10 submissions again.

I fear it may be more like Nevue (2.7) as I didn't quite get the entire piece.

Plus one more Bach

Jordy, I sent you an email, but just in case you're watching the forum and not your email account, there was a problem with your submission; the mp3 file you uploaded appears to be corrupt or not working. Can you try resubmitting or emailing me the mp3 file and I'll upload it from my end? It could be an issue with converting it from mp4 to mp3--if so, I'm not sure I can figure out how to fix that.

Monica, did you also see that AnthonyB's file is missing?

Edit: never mind. It's all good, folks.

Following the rule that better be late than send nothing, I have just made my submission. So, i'm in too.

the clock is ticking! I'm sifting through video & audio trying to see if I got a good take or not....

I did indeed... it's taken care of.

But Jordy hasn't responded to my email, so I'm worried she won't see that there's a problem until it's Too Late.

(Just to reassure anybody else who might be worried about whether their piece uploaded properly: Don't worry if you encounter weird playback issues like the piece stopping halfway through when you click on the 'play' button to check your submission. But if you don't hear ANYTHING, try right-clicking and saving your file back onto your computer and playing it there... and if you don't hear it then, email me the mp3 file and ask me to check into it.)

Holy cow! 58 submissions so far!

Is this a record number? If I remember correctly last recital had 52 or 53.

Since I've only been around for a few months, just wondering if there was a recital with more than 58?

Good luck and happy listening to all!

CMOHR

Copper has all the stats, but my memory is that the biggest turnout for a recital ever was 65. Looks like we'll be on target to meet or even exceed that this time.

Just resubmitted! Nothing like last minute. I didn't tell anyone at home that I was recording, because that would have just made me more nervous (and I'm not even doing video with it). So I'm recording my piece this morning, and get to the last note, and my husband yells up from the basement, "THAT SOUNDED PRETTY GOOD!" during the fade-out. Arghh. So then I told him I was trying to record, and please hold his comments till I'm done. (Luckily it wasn't worth keeping anyway.) But after that the dog was quiet, nobody started leaf-blowing outside, and now I've got one that I'm pretty satisfied with. Monica and Piano World: thanks for providing this opportunity! It's been really fun.

Is it my imagination or do we keep losing some? It seems like 2 or 3 of the recent submissions have all been #58

doo-doo-doo-do, doo-doo-doo-do (that's supposed to be mysterious-scary music)

Cathy

Mary Bee, if you think THIS is fun, just wait until the recital goes live.

Just made it in. Maybe I'm #59.

Whew! That's done. I'm in at 60. And now we have two by Grieg. I had a little hesitation halfway through, but I restrained myself from editing it out. I snuck into the church again today--had about 15 minutes to record until a group that was meeting came to the adjoining room for lunch. Can you say adrenaline?

Stop freaking me out. I've been having "video issues" but I thought the deadline was 9pm EST so 6pm. That gives me a good 4hrs left

SC

O.K. I'm in at 61.

Not really a good effort; I guess the red dot won this time. Next time...
Had to record on the electronic piano; too many people in the house for the acoustic on H4n.
So, not quite happy.

Enough complaining; can't wait to hear all Your great music.
This will be another glorious recital, I can feel it.

It is a good thing I am in. I have been working on contracts for two days and my eyes are blearing.

Reading all of the recent post is like being back stage and waiting for the anouncement...
" It's Showtime "

I'm in with "back up piece" which was my Prelude in C Major from #3. I'm hoping to get the piece I wanted to get done in but time is running out and now I have "honey-do" stuff to get done..

- SC

Will I be the last ?
I just upload a new file, the recording was ok but I didn't like the sound. I modified my mp3 with GarageBand to give more reverb and used a compressor to give more volume. Now it really sounds good.

Serge

No, TTigg has the last submission.

Grr...I got out my work laptop on Thursday and recorded my long-practiced Revolutionary Etude, finally just taking the best of the tries I made. Then I realized that I had not installed the "lame encoder" required to export mp3s. I don't have administrator privileges on the laptop, so I asked my IT guy at work to do it yesterday, but he never made it by. I tried emailing the files to myself and downloading them to my home computer, but that didn't work.

I am going to try to play the recording into my desktop microphone--where I have Audacity and LAME--and see if it sounds good enough to submit. I'm afraid there will be lots of crackles with that really bad set up, but we'll see!

Nancy