After listening to my last mix of Heat Wave, I decided the tenor sax didn’t really need support on top in the form of an alto, but instead it might sound really cool to add in a lower voice from the bari sax. As luck would have it, my brother Martin loaned me his bari a while back, and it’s been just sitting there. I haven’t played bari since high school, and Martin warned me that he had intonation issues with the really low notes when we were working on the BZ album, so I was a bit hesitant to use it up till now. Well, I noodled around on the horn for a while, and found it very playable, with a good tone, and once I was warmed up I was able to get the low notes quite solidly. Easier than my tenor in fact, no leaky pads. My intonation issues were actually with the notes in the top half of the stack, G to B, but maybe that’s just a question of where I tuned the horn. Anyway, the part went down fairly quickly and came out great, and added just the right reinforcement to the horn section, and now here is a new mix. Thanks Martin!
I think this first batch of tunes is pretty much in the can now, until it’s time for final mixdown and mastering. I’ll be starting a new batch of tunes soon, but I think I’m going to change gears for a while and concentrate on origami for a spell.