I’m thoroughly enjoying both Decent Sampler and the Pianobook community (many thanks to all those involved) and decided it was time I offered something back. This pack is a sample pack of my Freshman acoustic, recorded both with a dynamic microphone, and via the guitar’s piezo pickup. There are also a few fingering-related noise samples to hopefully add a little more realism if required. The samples contain a few odd resonances and similar artifacts, but these were present in the real instrument so I didn’t attempt to remove or work around them, but left them as-is.

This is my first attempt at sampling, and I intend to improve it in time. Constructive criticism is, of course, very welcome (please maul me gently!).

Contributors

Phil Ballard

My Freshman acoustic, recorded both with an AKG dynamic mic near the soundhole, and via the guitar's inbuilt piezo pickup, into Reaper on Linux. The guitar was sampled at every E, G# and C note - i.e. every two whole tones - with a single velocity layer and three round-robins.