Outdoors video of my little uke song

stemshade

Recorded this yesterday.
Funny enough i used an hd camcorder that cost me $1000 10 years ago and a nikon d5000 and both suck so hard next to footage from 2 iphones.

Anyways, my “softer side”:

gabal

Nice!

LinearLineman

Sweet @vpich . Nice to put the face with the icon. Always a surprise. Good lyrics, no bullshit.

Also noticed three Creations in a row on the first page. Like seeing that. Creators Up the post! Down with Al Gore Rhythms!😈😜🙄🌝🙏

JRSIV

Very cool, love the sound of the outdoors (crickets, bird chirps, etc) that gave the track a very relaxed and "real" feel...lovely vocal that really sat well with the uke.

RajahP

Excellent...

chandroji

Nicely done! 👍
Love the Ukulele. It’s a little but beautiful sounding instrument! 😊

P.S
I play Ukulele too! Just bought an iRig Acoustic to bring the Uke into my iPad!
It’s always a good idea mixing a real acoustic instrument into all the electronic sounds which I can produce with all these amazing IOS Synths. Love the Uke for it...

stemshade

@JRSIV said:
Very cool, love the sound of the outdoors (crickets, bird chirps, etc) that gave the track a very relaxed and "real" feel...lovely vocal that really sat well with the uke.

Thanks! Those are some foreign birds i brought in, the mics didn’t pick up too much and sonce i wanted the vocal and uke to be as dry as possible i felt it really needed more birds. After i had them in i a/b’ed them and thr difference is startling.

stemshade

Thanks all,...

Ukulele is definitely not my instrument, in fact i can only really play one song on it, this one. I’ve recorded more, a couple with this singer, but i promptly forgot them. We an on doing another one next month and i’m gonna have to sit down and relearn what i did before.
My experience with mango (the singer) is truly unique, she is so talented. I had her over to record vocals on something else and pulled out the uke and told her to listen to the song and see if it was something she would like to work on. She immediately closed her eyes and the words and melody just came out. On the spot. I stopped and turned on my recorder and that demo is 95% of this final version. Verse and chorus. Crazy. I’ve hummed nonsense that turned into a final melody a few times but this shit be magic! Ha

theconnactic

So cool! Thanks for sharing!

McDtracy

It's always refreshing to see and hear music being made live without any extra frills or processing. Thanks for throwing this into the mix of IOS music. I know IOS can also be used to mix up multi-(iphone)-camera video with an audio track. The name of the App escapes me but I've seen it in action.

stemshade

@McDtracy said:
It's always refreshing to see and hear music being made live without any extra frills or processing. Thanks for throwing this into the mix of IOS music. I know IOS can also be used to mix up multi-(iphone)-camera video with an audio track. The name of the App escapes me but I've seen it in action.

Thanks yeah the reason i posted it is because i “mixed” the audio in auria, and the video was made in lumafusion, which is so great although i only use 5% of it’s power.

lukesleepwalker

well, that was just lovely; thoroughly enjoyed the song, the performance, and the video.

Quick question about the uke: it looks like you only have three strings on it, but I think I can hear four strings being played? Is there an optical illusion in the video?

stemshade

@lukesleepwalker said:
well, that was just lovely; thoroughly enjoyed the song, the performance, and the video.

Quick question about the uke: it looks like you only have three strings on it, but I think I can hear four strings being played? Is there an optical illusion in the video?

There’s four but the top is a mod, it’s a wound g, darker, one octave down so it plays more like a guitar and let’s me do that walking down bassline.

stemshade

@chandroji said:
Nicely done! 👍
Love the Ukulele. It’s a little but beautiful sounding instrument! 😊

P.S
I play Ukulele too! Just bought an iRig Acoustic to bring the Uke into my iPad!
It’s always a good idea mixing a real acoustic instrument into all the electronic sounds which I can produce with all these amazing IOS Synths. Love the Uke for it...

Hadn’t seen the irig acoustic. Looks nice although to be honest i usually hate pickups on acoustics. Mine has electronics and it makes it a totally different instrument. Although of course mine is worse, a piezo on the bridge, your placement is much better but a mic pointed at it is the best.

lukesleepwalker

@vpich said:

@lukesleepwalker said:
well, that was just lovely; thoroughly enjoyed the song, the performance, and the video.

Quick question about the uke: it looks like you only have three strings on it, but I think I can hear four strings being played? Is there an optical illusion in the video?

There’s four but the top is a mod, it’s a wound g, darker, one octave down so it plays more like a guitar and let’s me do that walking down bassline.

Ah, exactly what I suspected. That wound g sounded nice!

stemshade

@lukesleepwalker said:

@vpich said:

@lukesleepwalker said:
well, that was just lovely; thoroughly enjoyed the song, the performance, and the video.

Quick question about the uke: it looks like you only have three strings on it, but I think I can hear four strings being played? Is there an optical illusion in the video?

There’s four but the top is a mod, it’s a wound g, darker, one octave down so it plays more like a guitar and let’s me do that walking down bassline.

Ah, exactly what I suspected. That wound g sounded nice!

@lukesleepwalker said:

@vpich said:

@lukesleepwalker said:
well, that was just lovely; thoroughly enjoyed the song, the performance, and the video.

Quick question about the uke: it looks like you only have three strings on it, but I think I can hear four strings being played? Is there an optical illusion in the video?

There’s four but the top is a mod, it’s a wound g, darker, one octave down so it plays more like a guitar and let’s me do that walking down bassline.

Ah, exactly what I suspected. That wound g sounded nice!

Thanks.... and good eye