lurksalot

I’ll roll mine in glitter in the morning , but it did some turns itself on the way ! supposed to be a powerful skit on Adele , it drifted with the idea of ‘wish you were here’ and then plummeted via Judith chalmers into a very chilled cliff mitchelmore era ‘holiday ‘83’ type vibe. still not sure how it happened , although, as usual , I’ll do a bit , like it and save it, add some more, then like it and save it , and I guess by then, it has a life of its own 😁

I recall she has a lovely tone , looking forward to it 👍

see, we differ, I love my voice , everyone else hates it 😁

I have this stuck in my head and can’t get rid , also I am trying a new way of recording as the weather is so good I am sitting in the garden recording on an iPad , advantage I can drive off to a field in the middle of nowhere and try to sing 😉

Has she set fire to Lorraine ?

no rest for the wicked, or the tunesmiths either

That's the meteorological summer done with, and done with style by DoctorJ, who took the honours in the August challenge. So on to September it is then, with the image chosen as below... The Doc adds .."this looks ambiguous enough to allow lots of interesting interpretations" Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, there were no truces on offer worth noting this month, shame! ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline wise , we will go for Lunchtime on the 24th but I will probably be doing the voting thread in the evening to allow a little extra rolling in glitter A line or two of blurb as well for the vote thread will be lovely. Have fun

Most excellent DoctorJ , great stuff , send me a picture and I’ll set up for September. Also thanks to @Dad3353 for setting up this months voting thread in my absence, and of course for his most dependable certificate presentation 😁

I recall PeteAcademy played for Nearly Dan before his passing

I've done as much as I should and probably then, too much. still, its a melancholy ditty , It was intended as slower but sounded very durgy , a veritable winding up of the BPM eventually found a compromise. I did think that there would be a race to the moon, to strip whatever minerals would make the most profit, and leave a transparent shell ! Technical ... as if! EZ drummer , with my Ibby 6 string through some Waves Gtr3 patches , Fleabass through a couple of amp sims on Waves again , and an afterthought of piano which I probably shouldn't, still. In Reaper with a polish of Ozone 8

Say hello to the stinking bishop 😁

I had a cousin who died of leukemia , he chose that as well , and voodoo chile to leave the church with 😁

August is up and ready to go

Many thanks for the votes for the July challenge, much appreciated. As is my duty, for this month I have chosen the following photo. "whilst a bit chill, it's almost like someone has stolen the fire from the sun... so maybe chilling ! " Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, there was a truce worth noting this month, but we missed it! ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline wise , we will go for midnight on the 25th which means it will probably be sharpish on the 26th* A line or two of blurb as well for the vote thread will be lovely. Have fun * I may be away that weekend so I might have to lean on a dep to post the voting thread , but we'll see nearer the time.

Thanks again I’ve had a very busy day today so I’ve picked a bit of a chilled photo , just off to set the thread up , won’t be too long

Many thanks Douglas and also thanks to all who join in on the challenge. I’ll sort a picture out this evening 👍

My monitoring always seems spot on , just the recording seems advanced like I was playing ahead of the beat. I suspect a latency correction somewhere that over compensates. I reckon that I might find it somewhere , but in my small scale , simplistic approach , the workaround doesn’t stress me out too much 😁

Could be , but I don’t really understand the intricacies of the software , especially the vagaries of the interaction between plugins, Reaper and of course, other plugins. I just make sure to remember that I might need to reset a track occasionally and not beat myself up because my playing is ahead of the beat, because it isn’t 😁

My ‘latency’ is bizarre ! when I play along to a track, I monitor through the computer back to the interface so that any FX are sent back with the signal . it always sounds pretty tight. when I listen back , the recorded track is always early and needs retarding slightly. I guess there is a setting that auto adjusts the latency that overdoes it. this is reaper as it happens though !

Lovely bass , but the window behind it has really got me intrigued 😂

the voting is up Not only are the tunes and songs superb this month but the production on these entries is just getting better and better , It's amazing, fair play to all of you

Welcome to the end of July folks! We have another splendid crop of entries from the gang this month based on a phot provided by last month's winner @AndyTravis He offered some words of encouragement with the photo ... "Taken a good few years ago, walking home from the pub in a storm. Lightning and Street Lighting…" Here are your entries this month , please vote for your favourite 3 1 @Dad3353 A stroke of luck, a lucky strike... 2 @Leonard Smalls In my ongoing series of Songs From The Shows, here's my version of Rogers and Hammerstein's classic from South Pacific, "Happy Talk", as done by Captain Sensible. The lightning dictated the use of a vocoder and hence, the slight title change... 3 @NickD A tune about racing the weather home... probably from the pub. 4 lurksalot A bolt from the Black , I'll never get it back, did I ever have it, yakkety yak . 5 @xgsjx I'm in. 6 @upside downer Yet another drunken evening. It helps him to pass the time here. He's waiting for something, but what? He explores the skies every night but, so far, nothing. When will they come back for him? He waits and waits. It's all he can do... 7 @Doctor J I couldn't shake off the feckin Street Lightning idea so tried to make it work. Conspiracy theorists wearing tinfoil hats and attracting sky-based electrocution was the best I could do. 8 @AndyTravis all I could think of was Ride The Lightning ....and then when I set about it, I realised I haven’t played any metal, let alone early Metallica for about 25 years. 9 @Wolfram I thought I'd get back to bass-ics with this one. I present a haunting solo bass improvisation to conjure up a surreal, distant thunderstorm on a long, dark night. well pick the bones out of that lot, I reckon you'll find it very difficult. get your favourites down to 3 , then tick the boxes. superb selection I reckon Voting will close at midnight on 31st July

I'm in with lots of noise based on the photo from Andytravis. A bolt from the Black , I'll never get it back, did I ever have it, yakkety yak . EZ drummer and VGiron do the heavy lifting here , with lead guitar using Ibby 6er through Waves Gtr3 FX and my little 'Fleabass' stomping its way along the low end (warts 'n' all) . All in Reaper I tried using the Melda dynamicEQ from the free download but got lost in it., the 'tutorials' I found didn't really help me make any noticeable difference to the sound on mine , so it's probably just me

That’s mainly it , she was being massively promoted on the radio while in obvious trouble with addiction and everyone just seemed to ignore it . This song just seems to pretend that it wasn’t a problem, then it killed her.

Amy Winehouse , Rehab , absolutely loathe it