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"Live recordings, sounds, styles, mixes & movies - by Michael Brick"
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Playlist (68 instrumental takes) - Random selection 1
2 3 4 5 - Instrumentals XDigits.com - MIDI Auto-Accompaniment Systems
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This page is primarily intended for friends and acquaintances who are interested in musical and sound activities.
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The “live recordings” stored here have all been made over the course of time, and you are cordially invited to
“click” on one of the randomly selected title sequences (1-5) linked above. Depending on your installed
operating system, this (or another) web page may have to be reloaded or reactivated afterwards.
!!! It is also worth noting that browsers other than “Windows” browsers may not generally allow
the complete titles, but sometimes shorten them themselves. - What a pity !!!
In any case, a first impression of the musical activities is given by the 6 short “sample takes”,
which can be found * here *.
In addition to my notebook and my “Fender Stratocaster” guitar with GK3 pickup system, my
“Ibanez musician” electric guitar and my “Cort Western” guitar, I used my ROLAND GR-55 board
(Guitar Synth & Modeling), my ZOOM G3X board (Guitar Effects & Amp Simulator), various
VST plug-ins, an ESI audio interface and for styles and backgrounds, my own MIDI software
“RMCA Pro” (Realtime MIDI Chord Arranger Pro), which I programmed myself many years ago.
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The sound output of the now more than 10,000 “styles” with “intros”, “main and alternative parts”,
“fill-ins” and “endings” is sent to a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), to which the electric guitar
and the aforementioned effect boards are also connected. The result is an almost “studio-ready”
overall sound, which is further enriched via various VST plug-ins.
The improvisations and “takes” are partly based on “blues schemes” - but always on backing tracks
or catchy loops and were always recorded directly together with the “background”
and only reworked in terms of sound.
The entire musical material can therefore "justifiably" also be called "couch rock", especially since it was
almost always actually created "on the couch" and indeed quite spontaneously "in one go" with
guitar recorded "live" and thus freely improvised.
So no "overdupping", but completely "recorded in one piece"!
However, a CD called “Couch Rock Selection” was only released in the early summer of 2018.
ROLAND GR-55 ZOOM G3X ESI UMG96
Ibanez musician Cort Western Fender Stratocaster
All takes on this website have been recorded "live" using the following equipment:
- Arrangements & instrumentation : RMCA Pro (my own, self-programmed software).
- Drums : DrumCore 4 (software by Sonoma Wire Works)
- MIDI-SoundFont : Black Tyros24 GM Edition by JaZMan
- Guitar amp modeling : TH3 or THU by Overloud and S-Gear2 by Scuffham
- Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) : REAPER (software by Cockos Incorporated)
- All songs recorded and mastered with HP ProBook 450 G1
For the recordings I mainly used my old guitar, "Ibanez musician", from 1977.
Most takes are my own compositions, which were written in the course of time
using my software "RMCA Pro" (Realtime MIDI Chord Arranger Pro). For further information,
audio-
and video- demos, tips and tricks etc. please refer to the XDigits.com - website.
If enough time ( > 3 hours ) is available, it might be a good idea, play all takes of this page
(Playlist). Depending on the system, the correct "MP3 player" should be loaded and used.
Required
is an MP3 player that can process *.m3u files (playlists), such as the Windows Media Player
,
Foobar2000, the VCL Media-Player or AIMP. In the corresponding players at the configuration line
provided for it in the settings, e.g. under "Play location" at Foobar2000 the following entry
has to be made or transferred by "copy & paste:
http://www.xdigits.com/MyMix1.m3u
And PLEASE PLEASE: Use headphones or earbuds and then "TURN UP", if possible!
Enjoy listening and I hope that I will always have time and
fun making more shots and improving this website
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* Details *
The following playlists are only directly usable for Windows users !!!
Users of other operating systems may need an "MP3 player" that can handle *.m3u files (playlists),
like for "Apple users" e.g. "Foobar 2000" or "VCL media player". In the corresponding players,
the following entry must be made in the configuration line provided for this purpose in the settings,
e.g. under "Playback location" for "Foobar2000", or for execution with a suitable
Internet browser, observing upper and lower case, or transferred by "copy & paste":
http://www.xdigits.com/MyMix1.m3u
Own collection of titles Reverse own title compilation
Individual songs can also be played or listened * here *.
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The "special thing" about the music files - some of which were created more than 15 years ago - is that they are "mastered" in an optimal and modern way (i.e. suitable for all sound systems - no matter whether very small or very large). This applies to the uniform sound, regardless of when and how the recordings were made, as well as to the frequency response, dynamics, volume and sound, which is now essentially optimized over all years of creation and independent of the instruments and technical possibilities used, and which corresponds to the so-called "industry standard" (e.g. for studio recordings of drums, guitars, bass & keyboards).
All 68 takes of this website (Playing time: 3 h 39 min.) are available within a zip-archive as *.mp3-files and can be extracted into one directory after the download without any problems. This may be recommended, because it offers the possibility that within this directory a possible random selection refers to all songs from all periods!
Store all takes as mp3 files: [419,03 MB, 68 takes] - *Download* (extract all files into one directory !)
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Wave-files (music by Michael Brick)
It is also possible to download from here all songs as *.wav files and burn them in alphabetical order onto CDs.
For this purpose 3 CDs with corresponding capacity are required
- CD 01: [652,63 MB] - *Download*
- CD 02: [654,29 MB] - *Download*
- CD 03: [745,43 MB] - *Download*
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Play CD "Couch Rock Selection" - 13 Instrumentals: Start
Attention: The underlying "playlist" can only be used by Windows users without any restrictions. As already stated above, other operating systems may require an "MP3 player" that can handle *.m3u files". For this purpose, please copy the following direct link and paste it into the appropriate MP3 player:
http://www.XDigits.com/music/cr-selection.m3u
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Here are a few quick examples:
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Juergen is a so-called "studied professional musician" as well as a guitar
and bass teacher and can be contacted via the Internet as follows:
“Slideshows” with photos and background music by Michael Brick,
unless otherwise noted with regard to the music.
In contrast to the films listed below under “Video Clips II”,
these “clips” lack any personal reference.
1. The first example for the musical use of RMCA Pro is a slideshow of about 15 minutes about the city "Liverpool" and the "beginnings" of the so-called "Beat music" as well as about the exhibition "The Beatles Story" there.
Liverpool
2. The second example is a short slideshow of about 3 minutes about beaches and boats
in France
at the Mediterranean Sea and at the Atlantic Ocean as well as in Barcelona/Spain..
3. The third example is a slideshow of about 7 minutes about the Baltic Sea island of Rügen.
4. The fourth example is a slideshow of approx. 4 minutes about the French capital Paris.
Paris 03-2013 *)5. The fifth example is a slide show of approx. 10 minutes about the surroundings of Fuessen in southern Germany.
Fuessen 04-2011 *)*) Background music: https://www.musicfox.com/
"Slideshows" with photos by Michael Brick
With the mobile network, as is well known, mobile data can be transmitted in larger quantities and at higher speeds over the air interface. To do this, please activate your network for mobile data playback and then call up the website
http://www.topsection.com
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Many thanks for your attention and for listening and watching !
The text passages of this web page were translated into "English" with the help of the DeepL translator (free version).