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After reading about the freesound project in a forum at KVR, I browsed the website and samples and am impressed with what y'all are doing here. Enough so that I decided to join the community and upload some files. I thought a quick introduction might be in order.

First the sound files: These are all outtakes from a session I did at my studio in Texas for a client on the East coast. These hard-blowing harmonica samples were for a song in the key of "C" and clock in at around 150bpm and would fit very well into faster dance styles like house, D&B, techno, etc. as well as the more traditionally harmonica-oriented styles like blues, country, gospel, etc. The samples are all 16 bit wav files and are completely dry - no FX and no EQ, so season to taste if you are cooking with them. They are offered as a sample pack called "Bent Reeds" which I've just uploaded and are apparently waiting for moderator approval before being made available for download.

About me: Longtime bandleader, writer and musician in Austin, Texas (Land O' 10,000 Guitarists With Day Jobs) and publisher of Texas Music Forge. Music has been putting dinner on my table for over 30 years, both on the road and based in New York, Chicago and New Orleans before moving to Texas in 1988. I don't do as much live gigging these days as I used to, preferring to concentrate on scoring for video and theatrical projects and assorted session work. I have a samples page on my website where I post free downloads of SFX and musical cues/samples from various recording session work. Aside from studio knob twiddling, I sing and play bass, guitars, keys, percussion and a little accordion in addition to my work with diatonic and chromatic harmonicas.

I'm always willing to share experience, opinions and info with others in the community, especially the folks who keep freesound up and running, who deserve a public thanks for keeping a resource like this available for all.

Best regards,

Tio Ed

Hi Ed!

welcome to the freesound project!
I'll go over your soundfiles in just a bit...

TexasMusicForge
First the sound files: These are all outtakes from a session I did at my studio in Texas for a client on the East coast. These hard-blowing harmonica samples were for a song in the key of "C" and clock in at around 150bpm and would fit very well into faster dance styles like house, D&B, techno, etc. as well as the more traditionally harmonica-oriented styles like blues, country, gospel, etc. The samples are all 16 bit wav files and are completely dry - no FX and no EQ, so season to taste if you are cooking with them. They are offered as a sample pack called "Bent Reeds" which I've just uploaded and are apparently waiting for moderator approval before being made available for download.

OK, before I approve the samples, are you sure you have the copyright over these samples? What I mean is, sure you might have been the instrumentalist, but the copyright (you talk about a "client") might still have copyright over the tunes...

Are you sure they are OK?

cheers!!

- bram

I moderated them to "ok" but please still let me know.

on another note, you should try to go through your samples again and edit the description: the simple reason is that you need to try to differentiate the samples in the pack. Giving them all exactly the same description is not so good for freesound as there is no way to search for one of the samples.

For example, you could describe the particular line you play in the sample. Doesn't have to be much.

The rest of the description is really fine though

being tough is my job!

- Bram

Hey Bram:

Thanks for the welcome - I definitely own the samples in question but I appreciate your concern. The client used other takes for his song, so these are basically just odds'n'sods from my cutting room floor and could just as easily have come from any of the other projects I do here. FWIW, I wouldn't jeopardize either of us by posting something that might get either of us sued. You can't be too careful these days.

Ummmmm - as to more detailed descriptions for each sample - I don't know what could differentiate the sample descriptions other than "mouth breathing" and "more heavy mouth breathing" except someone might think I'm talking about my social life :? I put them all together as a sample pack because there really isn't anything to different them since they're all in the same key and same bpm and are basically just me swinging for the bleachers.

As for the comment that being tough is your job, I think that goes with entrepreneurship, eh? Anyway, you're not going to scare a 20 year married man by claiming to be tough - you haven't met The Wife...

Best regards,

Tio Ed