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TexasMusicForge · Post by **TexasMusicForge** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:37 pm

Yo y'all:

I am finishing up production of the new issue of Texas Music Forge and have some audio files left over that you might find useful.

I have posted a .zip file of around 14Mb that contains 10 .wav files of my old resonator guitar played with a thick ceramic slide. These are Acid-ized as either loops or one-shots and were made as segue and stinger music. The guitar was only in tune with itself and might possibly need a bit of pitch correction if used in combination with some other instruments.

To make this pack as useful as possible, I have included various phrases as well as full samples of the I, IV and V chords in the key of F, as well as a full verse of rhythm playing - basically, this is enough to write a song with.

Dobro is the generic name for the whole family of resonator guitars. They are the acoustic guitars with the metal plates (or made entirely of metal) played with a slide. They are sometimes played horizontally by the bluegrass players. You often hear resonator guitars in blues, country and bluegrass music, as well as film and TV scoring where it is used for atmosphere.

You'll find this set of samples useful if you're a songwriter, do production audio work for film or TV, podcast scoring, game scoring, etc. Musically, these would be really fine as seasoning for rock, country, R&B and hip hop styles like Dirty South, as well as ambient, trance and electronica tracks.

I recorded these in one take with a punchy and dry "in your face" sound with plenty of pick attack and the noise from the slide working the strings - these have no processing whatsoever on them and are available for your use under the usual Creative Commons restrictions: cool to use for your personal projects and just give me credit and/or notice if you use 'em in public.

www DOT texasmusicforge DOT com/music/samples/ResonatorGuitar.zip

Best regards to all,

Tio Ed

Max el Belga · Post by **Max el Belga** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:59 pm

Wow, wow, wow, free resonator samples 'n loops; maybe the only ones on the net !

In that case they're simply the best !

Thanks a lot, Ed !

PS : I like "Remember me" very much ! Great song !

Gregjazz · Post by **Gregjazz** » Wed May 31, 2006 7:32 pm

Cool, thanks! Downloading now.

Yossarian · Post by **Yossarian** » Wed May 31, 2006 7:46 pm

Thanks for these, Tio Ed!

Much appreciated - loved the harmonica stuff too. Looking forward to trying these in Melodyne.

/Yoss

filkertom · Post by **filkertom** » Wed May 31, 2006 7:57 pm

Most excellent! Thanks very much!

uvacom · Post by **uvacom** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:05 pm

Nice! I love me some resonator. Thank you!

TexasMusicForge · Post by **TexasMusicForge** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:09 pm

Thanks for the nods, y'all. I just now pieced a one hour show together in Sound Forge and am doing the Mp3 conversion prior to uploading it. Nothing like squeaking under a June 1 publishing deadline while battling software problems in your recording setup...

As soon as that's done, I think I've got another bunch of outtakes I can put into another .zip file. There should be some cool bass samples and loops in a "house" style and even a full reading of "She Walks In Beauty" by Lord Byron done in my best "James Earl Jones with a whiskey hangover" voiceover style. That last should be mighty amusing to cut up in a sound editor and drop into your dance, hip hop, ambient or whatever tracks.

Yours in the quest for soul and solvency,

Tio Ed

Architeuthis · Post by **Architeuthis** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:37 am

That's a lot of hype for 10 waves.

Rangtangtang · Post by **Rangtangtang** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:06 am

http://www.texasmusicforge.com/music/sa ... Guitar.zip

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:15 am

Your stuff is always great!

Canned Heat · Post by **Canned Heat** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:17 am

mellotronaut wrote:Your stuff is always great!

Really! Thanks a lot

TexasMusicForge · Post by **TexasMusicForge** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:54 pm

Thanks for the kind words, all. Now, on to the joy of dealing with the General Public:

rangtangtang wrote:

Uhhh, thanks Rangtangtang, for making sure the spambots can harvest my website from my sharing some files with everyone. You have just ensured me enough spam to make sure I can always have Viagra while watching a Paris Hilton video while I'm spending all that money I'm going to get from Nigeria. No, really, thanks...

Architeuthis wrote: That's a lot of hype for 10 waves.

Sorry for the wordiness, the urge to explain is a human fault with writers. That and I'm a mouthy S.O.B.

Canned Heat wrote: Really! Thanks a lot

Ummmmm....thanks for standing up on my behalf or whatever it was you were doing...

My mother-in-law says it's not that it takes all kinds to make a world, it's just that we have all kinds. Wait a minute, let me attach a smiley thing-y to that...

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:10 pm

Shtick Transit Gloria

Sic gloria transit monkey.

emanuelsj · Post by **emanuelsj** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:12 pm

Great, man, nice post!

Barbed Wire Kiss · Post by **Barbed Wire Kiss** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:12 pm

Thanks. I'm always interested in new sounds.

Free Dobro Loops and Samples from Austin, Texas