Thanks William – i’ve been playing now 2yrs & 4 months, and compared to my teacher i class myself as a beginner.

The reason why i class myself as a total snd complete beginner as i haven’t got to the stage where i can practice any piece of sheet music and record it fault free for recording. It took me 6 months practice to create 3 fault free pieces for a exam.

So for the purposes of any uploads until my craft has improved through more practice, there is a cut off point where i will just have to upload until i get out of the beginner stage and move into the intermediate stage.

The last lesson i had recently with the blues, i was completely blown away by hearing the colour range of a selmar sax. I can now completely understand why these pro’s pull out a selmar for world class playing. There is no way i could make my yamaha sound and complete with the ease and grace a selmar shapes a sound.

Thats a very good point JC ! It takes me about an 1 hr to get warmed up, in my case its more to do with loosing up the vocal chords, lungs & embouchure than warming up the sax. The room temperature in our house is fairly constant so luckily my sax isn’t subject to drastic temperature changes.

I have no problems with reeds as i store them in liquid which makes them play straight away. The current box of la voz reeds, every reed so far has worked straight away, touch wood.

but yep, totally agree – warm up is essential.

Good tip Kevin – Logic pro x gives me the option of having a click count in, i find it very useful for my own backing tracks that don’t have a count in.

logic pro x also has the option of increasing/decreasing volume levels of any backing track through the headphones while recording the sax – which is useful when some tracks aren’t very loud, and im listening for change in chords for timing.

JF raised a good point in the forums – record your sax without headhones along with an audible metronome click, then use that as a playalong backing track through the headphones snd record the sax agsin, so it sounds intonation wise similar to the without headphones recording, then later on delete the without headphones with click.

i did some recordings in the past where i played along to the sax player – my teacher advised me not to do thst as it meant i would end up following the sax player, better to use the backing track and follow the drums/chords etc instead – in fact try an avoid recording with a metronome altogether – as when playing live in a band, you wont be using a metronome.

Has anyone got sny equalizer/compression tips?