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Sounds like four euphs. How come the clipping? Is that a setting that you didn't know how to fix?

I've been astonished how difficult it is to multi-track oneself playing stuff, to the point where I won't attempt it again until I have no job to go to every day. So, if you think you sound like a high school group, then I would sound like a grade-school group!

MA

My immediate take on the instrumentation is

3 euphoniums
1 bass tuba

The 3rd euph played the tenor lead and was given a more prominent volume by means of the recording mix.

One intonation oddity might suggest that the tenor lead was played in the upper range of a small bass tuba.

I am planning on making such recordings myself, so I am interested in strategies for a good result.

Did you play to midi cue tracks in the earphones, which would imply equal temperament, unless some tweaking (more advanced than my present knowledge) was involved?

For a Christmas party of a big band of a musicological faculty I made a recording on a 4-track cassette recorder. I was the boss and judge of the late night competitions’ section. One section was about reading a 4-part vocal score written in reverse, and then read it in reverse, so that the original hymn came up.

I had made a reverse recording playing the ATB lines on my Conn 28D double horn and the soprano line on my Syhre corno da caccia. Intonation wasn’t the problem, but timing was, as I had no cue track. Hence I played the bass line first with a mechanical metronome starting one bar ahead. Of course the metronome sounded silly, but I didn’t have means to filter it out.

The cassette recorder could do reverse playback from the turned around cassette. That was what gave me the original idea. So I had played without chiff on the attack and had held each note exactly to the end of the beat. That worked rather well, but the reversed metronome click starting slightly ahead of the beat, sounded even more silly on the reverse play back. Slurp -slurp- slurp.

It is said that Øystein Baadsvik gained parts of his immense sense of control by recording himself in quartets until everything was perfect.

Klaus