I have received a number of requests asking me to post some sound samples of the TC-Helicon Voiceworks effects box. I am playing a tenor tenor saxophone in all of the samples. The first sample is bypassing the Voiceworks box and is the dry sample: [podcast]https://paulmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/tc-helicon-dry.mp3[/podcast] The second sample sample is the Voiceworks box with […]
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How often is a beginning musician asked to develop a quality sound? A new software application has been developed by a NASA engineer and it is named Audi-Graph. It turns out that the notes on our instrument consist of a fundamental frequency and a number of harmonic frequencies. The timbre of a flute playing a […]
I recently acquired a TC-Helicon Voiceworks box and even though it is advertised as a vocal harmonizer – I wanted to experiment with it and the saxophone. I am a full time computer programmer and a part-time professional musician. The first thing that struck me was that the user interface is not very user friendly. […]
A good friend of mine in Houston Texas just posted a “how to” article on constructing a nice mouthpiece stand. Many of us have collected a number of different mouthpieces over the years – it is nice to be able to see all of them rather than keeping them packed away. Its also convenient to […]
I wanted to include backing tracks for a very useful 3-5-7-9 arpeggio exercise that appears in Bert Ligon’s “Comprehensive Technique for Jazz Musicians” book. If you don’t already have a copy of Bert’s books you should invest in them. They contain a wealth of practical information to improve your jazz chops. The exercise is 2.20 […]