"For Emily Whenever I May Find Her" by Paul Simon (cover) - Page 3

lpa53 · #31 09-21-2017, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Glennwillow

Hi IPA! ...

Regarding my recording method, yes, I am recording the audio separately from the video and then synching the tracks up later in a video editing program. By doing this, I can get much higher quality audio, which is very important to me, personally.

I have two small diaphragm condenser mics, Rhode NT5 but with optional omni capsules used, panned full left and right on the guitar. I use a large diaphragm condenser vocal mic, an Audio Technica AT4050. These 3 mics go through tube preamps and then into an audio interface into my computer where I use Steinberg Cubase for recording the voice and the two guitar channels. I mix this down to a 2-track master as a wave file and then import that into the video editing program, which is Adobe Premier Elements.

I am using 3 canon video cameras. Once I start the audio recording program and all 3 cameras I sit down in front of the cameras and make a loud hand clap. Then I record the song. Later I can trim all the audio and video files to the very beginning of that hand clap and synchronize everything in the video editing program. Once everything is sycned up properly, I erase the audio channels from the video cameras, which sound pretty lousy compared to the Cubase audio recording.

I hope all that makes sense. If you need more information, please PM me and I will be glad to help further.

Regards,
Glenn

Thanks for the info, Glenn. I makes perfect sense. I have an old M-Audio Fast Track interface that I haven't used in a long time and that I recently discovered is incompatible with newer operating systems. Buying a new unit is on my to-do list.

Glennwillow · #32 09-21-2017, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by lpa53

Thanks for the info, Glenn. I makes perfect sense. I have an old M-Audio Fast Track interface that I haven't used in a long time and that I recently discovered is incompatible with newer operating systems. Buying a new unit is on my to-do list.

Best of luck on this IPA. I sent you a PM with considerably more detail. Let me know what you decide to do.

Thanks,
Glenn

cefobe · #33 09-21-2017, 04:12 PM

Very good work Glenn!!

Glennwillow · #34 09-21-2017, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by cefobe

Very good work Glenn!!

Thank you Marcus! I appreciate your listening and commenting!

- Glenn

ITB · #35 09-21-2017, 07:32 PM

Excellent!

MrDB · #36 09-21-2017, 07:38 PM

Just a wonderful rendition. I wore those S&G albums out in my youth, haven't given them a listen in quite a while, thanks for the memory jolt.

Oh and please don't make any more recordings with the 12 string. I have enough guitars already

Antipodean Ed · #37 09-21-2017, 08:04 PM

A beautiful song beautifully played. Takes me back too! Well done and thanks. Ed

Glennwillow · #38 09-21-2017, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ITB

Excellent!

Thank you John! Very much appreciated! I'm so glad you liked this!

And by the way, welcome to the AGF! It's wonderful to see you here and to listen to your playing here on the AGF in "Show & Tell!"

Your recordings sound great!

- Glenn

Glennwillow · #39 09-21-2017, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by MrDB

Just a wonderful rendition. I wore those S&G albums out in my youth, haven't given them a listen in quite a while, thanks for the memory jolt.

Oh and please don't make any more recordings with the 12 string. I have enough guitars already

Hi Mr DB!

Thank you so much for posting here! I'm really glad you like this rendition!

I very much appreciate the support!

Regarding the 12-string, I'm sorry, but I don't think I can help myself!

There are more songs coming with that Guild F512. What a killer 12-string! I am so happy with that guitar!

- Glenn

Glennwillow · #40 09-21-2017, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Antipodean Ed

A beautiful song beautifully played. Takes me back too! Well done and thanks. Ed

Hi Ed!

Well, thank you so much from near Aberdeen, WA, USA to Melbourne, Australia! How cool is that to be carrying on this discussion with us each on opposite sides of the globe from one another!

I am so very pleased that you like how this came out! Thanks so much for posting, and you are certainly very welcome for my part in recording the song!

- Glenn

superbitterdave · #41 09-21-2017, 09:55 PM

Wow, Glenn. I expected nothing but flawless guitar playing from you, but having watched many of your videos and having played that song about a million times on my turntable as a kid, I couldn't help think, 'Glenn's a great singer, but that Garfunkel vocal? Brave choice.' But you did a fantastic rendition. And having read all the GAS comments about 12 strings makes me happy that I asked my wife for a maple takamine 12 string 12 years ago (and she got it for me!). Cheers! Dave

J.R. Rogers · #42 09-21-2017, 10:59 PM

Nice work once again, Glenn! Really good playing. Your setup sounds good and I like the different camera angles.

JR

Glennwillow · #43 09-21-2017, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by superbitterdave

Wow, Glenn. I expected nothing but flawless guitar playing from you, but having watched many of your videos and having played that song about a million times on my turntable as a kid, I couldn't help think, 'Glenn's a great singer, but that Garfunkel vocal? Brave choice.' But you did a fantastic rendition. And having read all the GAS comments about 12 strings makes me happy that I asked my wife for a maple takamine 12 string 12 years ago (and she got it for me!). Cheers! Dave

Thank you Dave!

How nice of you to comment! I'm so glad you like this version!

Thank you very much for the kind words, Dave! They are very much appreciated!

And how wonderful of your wife to buy you that Takamine 12-string! What a sweet story!

- Glenn

Glennwillow · #44 09-21-2017, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by J.R. Rogers

Nice work once again, Glenn! Really good playing. Your setup sounds good and I like the different camera angles.

JR

Hi JR,

How nice of you to take the time to listen and comment. I know you are busy!

How rewarding to know that you recognize the efforts I have gone through to get good quality sound and interesting camera angles for the video. It's a bit of a challenge to do these videos all by myself so that I don't have to bother anyone else.

Thanks for the kind words and support, JR!

- Glenn

Superfly6928 · #45 09-24-2017, 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Glennwillow

This is my cover of Paul Simon's song "For Emily Whenever I May Find Her" from Simon & Garfunkel's third studio album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme." Some have suggested that he may have been referring to Emily Dickinson.

In their 1968 appearance on Kraft Music Hall, Paul Simon explained that "For Emily" is not about an imaginary girl Emily, but about a belief, while the song "Overs" (from the album Bookends) is about the loss of that belief. In 2014, a Rolling Stone readers poll ranked it among the duo's best compositions, with the magazine declaring, "Over the years, fans have recognized it as one of the duo's sweetest love songs."

"Belief" about love or "no belief" about love, I loved this song from the first time I heard it back in 1966. The guitar used on this video is my Guild F512, 12-string.

Thanks so much for listening! - Glenn

Great job, Glenn! Beautiful!

Chris