You thought about using flac rather than mp3 by the way?
Brian

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Back in the day, most audio enthusiasts were also keen constructors, valve
amp kits, instructions for projects from Mullard, or circuits from Wireless
World were put together on kitchen tables on rsiny Saturday afternoons
throughout the UK. Speaker building was also popular. Drawings of Tannoy
and Goodmans cabinets were available, and Kef produced Kefkits. For those
who wanted to make music, the possibilities were somewhat limited but the
Ferrograph enabled those who could sing and play guitar or piano, to record
themselves at 7.5 ips. Vortexion and Brenell tape machines offered sound on
sound, NAB reels and 15 ips, Reslo and Film Industry mics were hugely
popular and devices such as the Grampian spring reverb unit were something
to dream about.

In these digital days the DIY aspect seems to have all but disappeared and
audio has become a sedentary pastime. But digital technology has given us
all the possibility to make music. It is versatile and cheap. Every school
and college has a studio, and while larger commercial studios have decreased
in number, project studios have sprung up like mushrooms. Many people have
bought themselves "Music Minus One" CD's, beg borrowed or stolen a trumpet,
saxophone trombone or guitar and discovered talents they did not know they
possessed.

I play in a big band. We have just released our third commercial CD.
Besides a shared hobby in making music, we have players with all the skills
required for commercial CD production, portrait photography, recording,
editing, mixing and mastering, graphic design, liner notes, translation,
copyright and legal, sales and marketing etc etc. We even have our own
equipment to replicate and print CDs, so that the only thing we can not do
in house is cut, fold and print the digipack sleeve, although we can deliver
the artwork complete in the format the printer requires.

We use our CDs as project samplers, as a calling card if you like, when
approaching promoters, Our latest recording, "IDA sings ELLA" commemorates
the centenary of the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald, features the young
and very talented Ida Boucht, who is in her final year at the Vocal
Institute in Copenhagen. We have played the first two of six scheduled
concerts. Both were sold out.

Many of the arrangements used in this project are transcriptions of
originals written by the legendary Nelson Riddle. Some titles have a 24
piece string-section (classical students in their final year)in addition to
the band. Modern string players are not accustomed to the playing
techniques of the 40s and 50s. It has been an interesting learning
experience for them.

"Bewitched" by Cole Porter (1939) is one of my favourite tunes from this
project. Yours truly wrote the arrangement, co-produced and engineered the
recording, overdubbed his part in the saxophone section and also tootled the
tenor solo.

Here is an mp3.
Please Take a listen. Comments are welcome.

http://mosabackabigband.com/data/doc.../Bewitched.mp3


Best Regards


Iain