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[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1500997690' post='3341645'] Change your job. [/quote] Just had my first run through , whittled it down to 5 , so another go tommorrow to get to the 3

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1500544131' post='3338557'] If it's for you own amusement then I'd look at getting a better keyboard than your current Akai and its mini keys. Alternatively get a bigger or second monitor (your Mac will support 2), especially if you are considering moving to Logic, where you almost never have too much screen real-estate - I currently run 3 x 23" monitors and even then I could sometimes do with more space! For doing anything more, here is a cautionary tale... I've always been a home recordist. My first band in the late 70s was a recording project only. A band that had to borrow its bass guitar and had only one (10 Watt) amp and no drum kit, there was no way that we could gig, but we could fake the lack of conventional instruments on tape, so we stuck to experimenting with recording at home and got pretty good at it. Come the 80s and I joined a synth band and we had 4 track cassette recorder fed from an HH 12:2 mixing desk and a handful of guitar effects pedals. We made some fairly decent recordings with this set up, but I couldn't help but think that the need for over-dubbing to get all the instruments and vocals recorded with only 4 tracks was holding us back in terms of sound quality and production. Something that was seemingly confirmed when we booked a proper studio with racks of outboard gear to make our last recording. Then in 1990 two things happened. I inherited enough money for me to go out a buy pretty much all the gear I needed for a decent home studio set up. An 8-track cassette based recorder, 12:8:2 mixing desk, a decent sampler and synth and some outboard. At the same time I bought a house that had a suitable room for a dedicated home studio. After that I pretty much spent all my disposable income for the next decade on the studio. Over the decade I must have spent at least £30k on the room and equipment to go in it. By the end I had moved over to a Mac-based recording system with a MotU interface, 40 channel digital desk, huge Tannoy monitors, racks of onboard gear and synths. The quality of my recordings definitely improved, but no matter what I did and how much money I spent on new gear, they never really came close to sounding as good as those by my favourite bands. Also everything took much longer when time was no longer a constraint. Over the decade with various line-ups of my band I produced 3 demos, a 3-track self released CD EP, and was half way through recording a full-length album when the band split. Not a brilliant work-rate when you consider than my first band completed 5 albums worth of material in under 4 years. When I joined The Terrortones, recording at home was out of the question, because I had neither the Mics or the sound proofing to record acoustic drums, so we used a series of local studios to record our initial demos and then our debut single. One thing that struck me straight away was how quickly the engineer in each studio was able to get a great sounding track together, sometimes with significantly less equipment than I had at home. It was at that point I realised that the limiting factor in my studio wasn't the gear, but was me. I had reached the point where no matter how much more time I spent working on a track or what hot new piece of kit I went ought and bought, my recordings were never going to sound very much better. In retrospect, the band I was in during the 90s would have been much better served if I had saved up the money and spent it on a month in a good studio with a reasonably well-known producer overseeing it all (easily achievable within a £30k budget). At the end of it, if nothing else, we would have had a great sounding album with a name producer attached to it, instead of a handful of good sounding "demos" and the rest of the tracks in various states on unfinishedness. To the OP I'm not saying that you won't end up being a great recording engineer/producer, but the chances are you'll never be capable of achieving the results you hear on your favourite recordings. With what you currently have in your home studio you have the potential to produce results that are technically far in excess of what was possible when some of the greatest recordings in the history of rock music were made. It is my experience that a good engineer is far more important than the gear. Over the last 5 years I've sold nearly all my studio gear. I've down-sized to a Mac Pro a basic Focusrite interface and a hifi amp and speakers. I'm getting back into synth-based music so at some point I'll be buying a decent keyboard. I think I'm pretty good at writing and arranging music, but if I end up making music at home that I think is worth releasing to the public I'll be taking it to a proper studio for mixing. I hope that helps and is not too discouraging. [/quote] Brilliant post BRX

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1500511409' post='3338406'] Very good, I enjoyed that. Have you been taking lyric writing lessons from mr Lurksalot? Very lurksalotesque lyrics. Doesn't quite have the same ring as kafkaesque but I think the term lurksalotesque may catch on. The dictionary will describe it as 'lark a little like lurksalot'. [/quote][quote name='fingers211' timestamp='1500537755' post='3338483'] Why, thank you.. but one feels it falls short in wit,acuity and precision of phrase,to be considered as lurksalotesque.. Nige [/quote][quote name='the boy' timestamp='1500564726' post='3338745'] Noble and wise response. [/quote] ROFLMAO , Now, I have seen that phrase used and thought it pretty stupid , but gents, have I just ROFLMAO And thank you

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1500241947' post='3336481'] If you tell me which ones of mine those are, I'll send 'em to you. ... [/quote] I'd send you a list but I've just run out of ink........

I had an earth loop recently so pronounced that the tuner was picking it up , G# I think it was , now that was a noise , it eventually turned out that a new consumer unit in the garage had been fitted with the tails the wrong way around so the whole house was reverse polarity !!

A company re-visiting a policy is one thing , but when a customer is obviously genuine and spends £5K when dropping the basses off in the first place , it should surely show £30 worth of goodwill !

I'm in , with heavy cold and even heavier use of autotune , but you are welcome to have a giggle at this if you wish . [url="https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/the-tango-of-bognor-regis"]https://soundcloud.c...of-bognor-regis[/url] enjoy ed to add , ive just learnt how to use a de-esser so I put a new version up as I think it sounds a lot........... better

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1499385199' post='3331285'] You were smoking like a chimney..? [/quote] Just SSSSSmmmokin' ....................

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1499439336' post='3331592'] ----- [i]As an aside: there's a neat trick that can be done with vocals if you have an instrumental copy of a song as well as the original. Assuming both versions are identical, you can use the instrumental version to completely isolate the vocal part by inverting the waveform of one and mixing them together.[/i] [/quote] stupid question time , granted probably theoretical due to accuracy issues , but supposing you re-recorded the bass line along to the original , inverted this wave form and mixed together , would that not eliminate the bass track I'll get my coat

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1499378305' post='3331232'] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]S'not stopped you before. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]...[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]...[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color] [/quote] Maybe but those days flu

I have mine very nearly nailed now , it took a while to find a way in to it but I am just waiting for my summer cold to pass as my singing sounds a tad naff with a blocked nose, honest, my only reservation is a blocked nose

Quality , wells done dude 👍

From what I recall the 'insulation' acts as a space enhancer , it slows the sound waves enough to make the space inside the cab seem bigger. This is done to allow the cab to provide the volume to suit the driver without needing too big a cab ......I think

I started with rock , probably then a bit poppier, definitely a phase of jazz / free interpretation , and then back to rock, but I settle down a bit after the first song

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1498905270' post='3327873'] Thanks very much people. It was a good picture for ideas. Quite a diverse range of styles and different musical views entered this month. Great stuff all round. Picture on it's way to Skol. [/quote] I can hear the tap tap tapping of Dads fingers on the side of his couch , just waiting for Skol to finish his breakfast , oh he is a slow eater

Nods off !!! good grief , I can't sleep , waiting for the picture , nerves a jangling , I had a good MIDI day yesterday and need something to use my new found skills on Anyway , I am off to Crewe to pick up Lurksalittle shortly , the trains have been on hold for an incident in Rugby so she is 4 hours late Stiff upper lip and all , I think she actually talked to someone she doesn't know , progress , kind of

Bloody DOH , you sneaked in there Douglas , even 'toute suiter' than I thought

As I am still Up I shall declare it ...... WELL DONE............ [size=5]LOWDOWN [/size] [size=5][size=3]A worthy [/size][/size] [size=5][size=3][size=4]winner , I am sure Dad will be along with your certificates 'toute suite' [/size][/size][/size] Another excellent offering from everyone , If Lowdown can choose a picture and send it to Skol We can start up for JULY

It one of those last chance to vote type bumps, It's neck and neck out front it just needs a few more votes to settle it, so dive in

A driver on my brothers old round was Robin Basted

[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1498772702' post='3327022'] As for night work - not good for depression. I know its better paid but its isolating and messes with your body chemistry - and your gigging. [/quote] This , some people can take to it easily , but some just can't , I can't, I tried it for some contract work , never again. Best wishes big yin ,

top gig , well done

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1498587567' post='3325736'] To the benefit of us all..! [/quote] I am still chuckling at that .

I seriously try to have fun The trouble I have is the more I try to get my output sounding like a true pro arrangement , the more I realise I know so little on how to do it , so I have the craic and publish

Congratulations and best wishes