Larry Pattis - Hands Of Time CD - Page 2

Larry Pattis · #16 08-27-2008, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by hann

u're mean!!!

larry can u pm me the details!!!???

It's all on the "Order CDs" area on my website. I use a company called CC-Now to do secure credit card processing. The ordering process is very straightforward.

Things will be updated to include ordering for the new CD "What Tomorrow Brings" as soon as I have them in my possession.

CD-Baby & iTunes (and other digital services) have the first two albums as downloads, and the new album will be added to the digital services as soon as I can get things going.

Sunbreak · #17 08-29-2008, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by PWoolson

Why yes, yes he did. Thanks for asking.
By the way, he makes it sound spectacular on this new CD.

It's a fine instrument Paul--I was able to spend a little time with it while Larry was here for the mastering.

It fit a little "too well" in my hands.

PWoolson · #18 08-29-2008, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Sunbreak

It's a fine instrument Paul--I was able to spend a little time with it while Larry was here for the mastering.

It fit a little "too well" in my hands.

Thanks Cass,
Give me about 2 months to finish his new one and I'll bet he'll let you have the little one (for a price of course)

BTW, the mastering sounds wonderful. Nice work!

Larry Pattis · #19 08-31-2008, 04:06 PM

Perhaps a post from the AG Mag. forum would be nice to repeat here:

quote:Originally posted by jackstrat:
Larry,
I listened to your audio clips and was completely blown away by the beauty of Waltzing Maltilda. All of the songs are beautiful, but the tone of your guitar in Waltzing is perhaps the purest, most beautiful guitar recording I have heard.

Did you play a Paul Woolson to record Waltzing?

Any other recording notes you can share?

Thanks
jack
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Thanks for these very kind words, Jack.

Yes, the guitar I played for *all* the tracks on the upcoming CD ("What Tomorrow Brings") was a very small-body/short-scale (24" scale) double-top guitar built by Paul Woolson with many specific features and geometries that we discussed and agreed upon. It's a little smaller than a Larrivée Parlor, and is almost more of a travel guitar (called the "Little Parlor")...except that it's tone rivals much larger bodied handcrafted guitars, of course! Paul built a simply great guitar, and he is now building another 24" scale guitar for me, but with a larger body, just for variety. You can see a few photos of the Little Parlor at my website. The new one should be done in October or November.

Along with Waltzing Matilda there are a few other slow pieces, and then a few with slow-to-medium tempo intros...I find the tonal qualities you heard with Waltzing to be present in all of these pieces. The faster pieces have more going on, and therefore present a sound that is a bit different.

The recording was done in a fairly casual home setting, but with some Auralex foam, and office-cubicle panels to separate myself from a larger room.

I did all the recording over a two week period in July (just last month!), right after returning from the Montreal Guitar Show/Montreal International Jazz Festival.

The main thing is that one needs to start with an acoustically excellent guitar. Nothing short of excellence was going to work for me on this project. Paul Woolson provided that, for sure.

The recording equipment was simple, two Neumann KM-140 mics into a Great River pre-amp, run into a Mac G4 with a Digi002 rack using ProTools LE. I used a similar set-up for my "Hands of Time" CD, but used a Summit tube pre-amp instead of the Great River. It was a toss-up about which pre to use this time, and I felt like I wanted the crystal clarity of the GR, rather than the tube warmth of the Summit.

I did also run a Highlander IP-1 pick-up onto a track (straight into the Digi002), and we rolled off all the mids and highs and just left the lows to build up the warmth on the bass. This was the first time I had used a pick-up to augment a mic'ed recording, and for the purpose at hand I felt it worked out very well. The pick-up is probably less than 5% of the finished sound, but it adds just a little something that this Woolson "Little Parlor" guitar needed due to it's small body size. Like many small guitars it has surprisingly good volume *and* a terrific/focused bass, but I wanted just a tad more warmth for the recording, and while there are a ton of "studio tricks" that you can do to get this warmth, the easiest and most straightforward method was to plug-in and add a track!

I did go with professionals for the mix and master, Jazz & fingerstyle guitarist and music instructor (at U. of Oregon) Don Latarski here in Eugene did the Mix, and Cass Anawaty (Sunbreak Music) in Portland did the Mastering. Both Don & Cass do fabulous work, and it was a pleasure to sit with them throughout this process. My ears were involved in deciding what was ultimately done (or not done) for the final sound, but these two pros guided the entire process by offering up the utmost of their abilities...and they treated the music as if it were their own.

So I hope this is some of what you were looking for. With a great guitar, along with just a few pieces of very good gear as the complete signal-chain, and some experimenting with mic position, I find it not too difficult to get a pretty darned good raw recording...but the final result was certainly a collaboration with the two studio experts. The tools they have at their disposal (and of course their expertise in using the tools!) is what created the finished sound.

I am grateful that you listened to the clips on my website...feel free to email directly if you have any other questions, including anyone wanting to contact Don or Cass about their services.

The new album should be arriving in about 4 days. It's shipping from the manufacturer in Tennessee at the end of last week, and hopefully arriving in Oregon this coming week.

For a variety of reasons this album was delayed by about 2 years, and I'm pretty jazzed to be at this point...finally.

Brock Poling · #20 08-31-2008, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by james55

I recently downloaded Larry Pattis' CD, Hands Of Time from cdbaby.com and I am impressed, to say the least.

Very nice arrangements, soothing to the mind, crisp, clear and articulate acoustic guitar tone and sounds.

Larry is an excellent acoustic solo artist to my ears!

I will be looking for his new release, What Tomorrow Brings, on cdbaby, which I believe is coming out very soon!

Yeah, that is a great CD I have about wore it out playing it in the shop.

pg60 · #21 08-31-2008, 08:21 PM

I just downloaded "Hands of Time" from CDBaby after listening to the preview clips.

New discoveries likes this, and all the really talented members, are why this is my favorite guitar forum!

Larry Pattis · #22 09-01-2008, 11:16 PM

Thanks, guys.

The new CD ("What Tomorrow Brings) is *almost* here!

I have a few 30-40 second soundclips up on my website now, and the order page will be updated as soon as I physically have the CDs...I don't like to count my chickens until I have them in-hand, if you know what I mean...

BBWW · #23 09-03-2008, 02:45 PM

Larry's a good human and a great player. Ran into him again and actually have the new CD in my hands. Got it at the Tumbleweed Festival in Richland, Washington. (I've got my Macbook Air though and can't put in in iTunes yet.) but it sounded great in the car.

Good job Larry and it was great seeing you again. I may have a venue for you in San Francisco soon!

Keep up the good work.

Jay

Larry Pattis · #24 09-03-2008, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by BBWW

Larry's a good human and a great player. Ran into him again and actually have the new CD in my hands. Got it at the Tumbleweed Festival in Richland, Washington. (I've got my Macbook Air though and can't put in in iTunes yet.) but it sounded great in the car.

Good job Larry and it was great seeing you again. I may have a venue for you in San Francisco soon!

Keep up the good work.

Jay

Thank you, Jay. I may be headed to the Bay Area for some concerts in early December, so let me know if there is anything that we should really be chatting about, gig-wise...on extremely short notice

P.S. I really loved the original song you played for the Tumbleweed Festival contest. Talk about talent...

P.P.S. I just returned from the freight company with a few thousand CDs stacked up in my minivan.

Guess what?

They're officially for sale on my website!!

I'll make a formal announcement shortly!