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the Major I dry with a new speaker layout

PostMon Aug 27, 2012 6:31 pm

Hymn - In The Garden - Multiple Speakers
by Charles Austin Miles (1912)

This is a link to the mp3 file:
http://www.leochristopherson.com/Major_ ... reverb.mp3

This is the Major I dry (with a bit of Lexicon reverb added).
I'm using a different speaker grouping here. Lots of stereo pairs (26 of them).
Is the sound as clean and undistorted as it is with the groups of 12 speakers each?

Hymn - In The Garden
The Major I (dry with reverb added)
Recorded from a live to midi file

3:59 minutes and about 7.485 MB.

Here is a beautiful, quiet hymn on the dry Major I using my multiple speaker Layout #26 which uses 26 stereo groups and 8 four-speaker groups (34 groups altogether).

Here is a link to view the EXCEL Speaker Layout #26 used in this recording:
http://www.leochristopherson.com/EXCEL_ ... ber_26.png

Here is a link to view the EXCEL table showing how the Major I ranks are mapped to all these speakers:
http://www.leochristopherson.com/EXCEL_ ... ber_26.png

Note: I can't entirely get rid of some background noise. Some of that is from the blower of the organ (though I did turn that down a lot). Most of the sound comes from the fans in the Mac Pro (loaded with the HW organ) and the Athlon PC (used to output the midi file to HW). These computers sit only about 3 feet from one of the microphones. If I turn up the HW output higher to get a better signal to noise ratio, then the room resonances begin to peak and dip here and there and the sound becomes less clear. Compromises. . . always compromises. . . oh well. . .

Lexicon reverb is added to the final recording. (settings are decay time is 3.01 seconds, and 50% wet.) This expands the sound in a nice way.

Also, the Major I ranks have their reverb tails cut to 180 ms. since the default 500 ms. gives an unnatural hollow-like sound coming from so many speakers (IMO).

Here is the registration that I used:
Piston #1: (measure 1 - 20)
Pedal: Subbas 16', Cor de Nuit 8'
Swell: Viole de Gambe 8', Voix Celeste 8'
Great: Principal 8', Bourdon 8'
Choir: (not used)

Piston #2: (measure 21 - 33)
Pedal: Subbas 16', Cor de Nuit 8'
Swell: Viole de Gambe 8', Voix Celeste 8'
Great: Double Flute 8', Spitz Gamba 8' with Gt to Gt 4'
Choir: (not used)

Piston #3: (measure 34 - 45)
Pedal: (not used)
Swell: Quintaton 16', Viole de Gambe 8', Voix Celeste 8', Flute 4'
with Sw unison off and Sw to Sw 4', tremmulant (beautiful)
Great: (not used)
Choir: (not used)

Piston #4: (measure 46 - 59)
Pedal: (not used)
Swell: Quintaton 16', Viole de Gambe 8', Voix Celeste 8', Rohr Flute 8'
with Sw to Sw 4'
Great: (not used)
Choir: (not used)

Piston #5: (measure 60 - 72)
Pedal: Subbas 16', Cor de Nuit 4'
Swell: (not used)
Great: Bourdon 8', Trumpet 8'
Choir: Claribel Flute 8', Unda Maris 8'

Piston #6: (measure 73 - 86)
Pedal: Cor de Nuit 8 with Ch to Pd 8''
Swell: (not used)
Great: Spitz Gamba 8', Block Flute 2'
Choir: Gemshorn 8', Erzähler Celeste 8'

Piston #7: (measure 87 - 99)
Pedal: Subbas 16' with Sw to Pd 8'
Swell: Quintaton 16', Viole de Gambe 8', Voix Celeste 8', Flute 4'
with Sw unison off and Sw to Sw 4', tremmulant
Great: (not used)
Choir: (not used)

Leo Chris. :)

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