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OK guys ....... woo hoo dive in

Congratulations to @skankdelvar who is on a roll, and , as it happens, after doing a double, is approaching the hallowed ground of a treble! I'm no stato , but that's a rare thing. Without further ado .......... Before radar was perfected, aircraft were detected using acoustic locators which enhanced and amplified the sound of an aircraft's engine. The smallest version was a pair of acoustic mirrors which the user strapped either side of his head. Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded this month. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ No Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, the April fool's day truce now Expired. panpipes only if you have too. ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you. A line or two offering an insight to your inspiration/track choice will be good as well , it works nicely on the voting thread. The Deadline for entries is Midnight on St Georges day , Sat 23rd April good luck everyone

I have the Photo 👍 I need to pop out for a few hours and will set up the thread on my return 🎤🎤

Well played sir 👏

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again , it’s a superb set of entries , much respect to everyone who has a crack at these challenges it’s incredible what gets put together in just 24 days . Absolutely fantastic!

Many thanks Nick i could blame a tough week and getting home late and falling asleep , or I could fess up and say I shared a couple of pints in the local on the way home and forgot to tick the box on the poll 😳 it should be good now 👍

voting is go

It is time for the formalities of deciding the next monthly champion and after due congratulations to @skankdelvar , who is finding his groove with style, he chose the following image for the March challenge. It is now incumbent on the BC massive to pick their favourite 3 Your choices are as follows .... 1. @Dad3353 It was the colours that inspired, with thoughts of voices from the East; will they ever be heard again..? Where are they, right now..? To be played quite loud, to drown out the thud of cannons. 2. @Nail Soup Daffodils always remind me of a works trip to a daffodil festival. The organiser has a son with some kind of nuerotype which leads to argumentative behaviour, which is very difficult for his parents. This is one of the few works trips he didn't come on. That is one of the topics covered. 3. lurksalot A few observations put together in an oddish sort of time , reflections of simpler things maybe 4. @NickD Inspired by the colours, the times in which we live, the thought of bits of kids being sent to do a job that's not at all what they were told, and the story of a very brave old woman. 5. @Leonard Smalls Here's a bit of jazzy groove with a soporific feel. Or not! Either way, it's inspired by Frank Bough eating daffs on Nationwide 😁 6. @Nicko Inspired by the Latin name for the daffodil, Narcissus which led me to write something about those people that rate themselves too highly. 7. @skankdelvar Just a song about daffodils. They're pretty. 8. @SH73 The song is called Diedfordills , unsure if lyrics have any meaning 9. @upside downer An instrumental with a slow and steady beat, a chilled feel and the wish that we'd all kick off our tight shoes, grab a tipple of whatever takes our fancy, smell the flowers and try and enjoy our time on this crazy old world with our fellow travellers in time and space. 10. @MoonBassAlpha It's a spring-like, yearning, germinating thing. Or something! ymmv! Well that's your lot , and a jolly good lot they are too! choose your favourite 3 Voting will close at midnight on 31st March , which I believe is a Thursday,.... It is ... yes its a Thursday good luck to all

Well, the machine turned itself off last night , the chord from the external power pack barely reaches between the floor and the machine and thus strains the connection. it’s going back. I’ll have to start over again .

It might be me , but I always thought that tubleweeds tubled 😁

That was a test after last months fun and games 😉 I was probably looking at last years calendar , I do hate throwing things away 😂 yes though, as @Dad3353 suggests, we will run with 24th 👍

Oh man , I’m way off retirement, but still seem to have my dates and days in a mess 😂

As a complete contrast , the izotope and eventide products installed as sweet as a nut , not that quick to actually do it all , but much less of a faff. this might be that I got into the swing of it , or more like the instructions actually worked . game on now, on the super fast new toy 👍

way hay , a great chance of mine sounded alright then Dad , you'll be a fan soon , I'll send a signed photo When I have found out how to transfer some more FX onto my new machine, I'll run this ERA one over it as well

Weighed in , weighed in ...waves products are now loaded and working on the new machine . That was hard work but I am a novice at this stuff , and hopefully will last another 10 years or so before I have to do it again ! now for the izotope, kontact, and all the other bits and pieces of random software that I occasionally use 😂

I've kept this one light of FX to ease the load on my machine before the plunge into the new one goes past the point of no return A few observations put together in an oddish sort of time , reflections of simpler things maybe

I’ve got the old machine back up , by the same process I might get the new one running with any luck. download the offline ‘downloaded’ and install each vst ...individually 🤦‍♂️ ed to add entry now rendered 😂

I don’t feel so bad now having read that the brand is a proper pain in the arris ! the b1tch is that they were pretty much my go to FX and splashed all over this months entry , which I haven’t rendered to wav yet. now I know that the tutorials are utter bollox and I might have lost them , I will try some random approaches and see what happens. If I have less expectation, the disappointment and anger will probably be tamed a touch !

All went well .... reaper ✅ focusrite✅ ASIO✅ Waves plugins ...oh bollocks , checked all the tutorials and it seems so straightforward except non of it is doing what it should and now I can’t access the licenses or plug ins on either machine totally racked off , 4 hrs and I just want to through the f**king lot away rant will continue at some point when I can face trying again

ooh mine is 6Gb and I am upgrading to 32 with a 2TB SSD it might not improve my singing , but hey , who knows 🤷‍♂️ 🎤🎤🎤

I know , but I am at the point that the pain of using the current machine is draining the enjoyment, so I reckon the pain of setting up a new machine will put it all right again soon 😁

Watching with interest , but mine tended to glitch when random windows processes fired up , annoyed me intensely , I am using the month to set up a new machine 😁

I pulled the trigger in that new computer but.... on the model I got , there was no controls for screen brightness and contrast etc and with the screen so big I couldn’t handle it . so that’s gone back. they have however offered to replace it with a higher spec with a silent fan , and 1TB SSD , so I hoping to be relatively future proof in a wee while . I am therefore trying to keep it very simple this month 😁

OK all , we are good to go, the March challenge is up and ready

Congratulations to @skankdelvar who is finding his groove with aplomb and showing the way The image he has chosen for the March challenge is very much on topic as he explains... "The pic for March is daffodils. For me, they signal the imminence of Spring but daffodils could mean anything to anyone." Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded this month. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ No Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, the Pre-pancake day truce now Expired. panpipes only if you have too. ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you. A line or two offering an insight to your inspiration/track choice will be good as well , it works nicely on the voting thread. The Deadline for entries is Midnight on Tuesday 24th March