A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly

Subject: A little celebration of 65 years
From: Will Fly
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 02:56 PM

I hope 'Catters don't mind a little celebratory video for my recent birthday (65) last Sunday 23rd August. I recently commissioned and had made a beautiful tenor guitar from my old friend, fellow band member, musician and luthier, Ian Chisholm. He turned up at my birthday session with an exquisite matching mandolin. So, being the shameless show-off I've always been, I put together a little video to demonstrate - not my inadequate performance - but the beauty of Ian's instrument making.

Just a bit of fun...

You Are My Sunshine

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 03:05 PM

Off for a look Mr.Fly
Congratulations and You sure you got the numerals right?

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years
From: Will Fly
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 03:07 PM

Yup, Tim - only too right! And, of course, it should be "Sunshine" - not "Sushine". It's NOT the Japanese version... :-)

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years
From: Newport Boy
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 04:29 PM

Very good, Will

Phil

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 04:36 PM

That's a great camera mate. you only look about 35!
Enjoyed the song and the instruments
cheers

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 05:26 PM

Very sweet. THanks for sharing and happy belated birthday! Pretty neat presents!

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 05:35 PM

Happy birthday, Will, and nice job!

Can you tell us a bit about the technical aspects of your recordings? What hardware and software do you use? Do you do the video only on the final "take"?

-Joe Offer, Another August Baby-

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: Beer
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 05:43 PM

You did a fine job Will.
Oh! and Happy Birthday.
adrien

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: Gervase
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 06:39 PM

Very nice! Nice playing, nice trickery-pokery and nice fibbing abut the age.
65? Yer 'avin' a giraffe!

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: Gervase
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 06:44 PM

...nd, b*gger me, I see he now has more than 2500 subscribers on his YouTube thingumy.

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 07:22 PM

Nice one Will - belated birthday greetings.

Live long, die happy.

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: Amos
Date: 27 Aug 09 - 09:23 PM

Nice job, Will. You AND th einstruments are looking good!


A

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: Will Fly
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 02:54 AM

Can you tell us a bit about the technical aspects of your recordings? What hardware and software do you use? Do you do the video only on the final "take"?

Well, first of all, many thanks for the kind wishes in the posts above - they're very much appreciated from one who's a relative newbie on the Cat.

As for the recording technique, there's a detailed set of pages about it all here, but - to save wading through it... I shoot the video for each instrument on my camcorder and simultaneously record the audio on to an 8-track, using a Shure SM58. I put the mixed-down audio stereo track into Audacity on my Mac Book Pro and clean it all up as the final audio track for the video. I then feed the audio as an mp3 file into iMovie. I then import each of the video segments as separate files into iMovie, and cut and dissolve the relevant bits to create the video - which is then topped and tailed with credits and a fade.

Then I mix it down to a reasonable .mov quality for YouTube.

Joe - I hope that's a useful résumé.

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 03:46 AM

Damn accidentally read the techy bit.
Now got head ache coming on

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: Alan Day
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 04:11 AM

Well done Mike didn't know you were making this video,
Another one for you to play when we team up at Stowmarket.
(Old Gits Club)
They do not even know we are going.
Any Mudcatter's there please say hallo. I will be the one with the concertina.
Al

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: greg stephens
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 06:40 AM

Many many happy returns. Glad to se you are older than me(by a few months). And congratulations on your mastery of authentic sounding gibberish in your post of 02.54AM. See you round soon I gather.
Greg

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: Mooh
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 08:33 AM

Mr. Fly...As usual, I'm late to the party. Happy Birthday anyway.

Nice video, I always enjoy your contributions.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 03:29 PM

In my frantic search to come up with some clever word or picture play for your birthday, I this


Many happy returns

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: Will Fly
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 03:31 PM

Tee-hee - excellent! I might have to put this on the website...

Cheers!

Subject: RE: A little celebration of 65 years-Will Fly
From: Alan Day
Date: 28 Aug 09 - 07:32 PM

You were obviously pissed when this photo was taken.
Still one of your better ones !!
Al