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Oh yes. Yummy. Delicious. Palettable? Agreeable. Delectable? Unquestionably. Perplexing? To the macs. Impressionable? Only if asked. Can't wait. Just killing time. Preferable? The anticipation is untenable. Pissed? Only a little.

"Motherfucker ... Why didn't you tell me you had a Smart car?"

have grampian electronics moved or have they gone bust? i went up there a couple of months back, it was deserted.

Don't forget your coat.

I'd say a mixing engineer is responsible for how the material is actually recorded, helping with microphone positions, singing/vocal techniques, guitar/amp choices, effects choices/compressor setups etc. for vocals. i'd say someone who masters tracks is responsible for making sure the output of the final mix is even, presentable, normalised and representative of the ideas a band took to the studio in the first place.

Yeah, I'd say a producer's role is actually quite pinnacle. You have to put a lot of trust in a producer and you need to get on with them otherwise chances are few will be happy with the end-result I'd say a producer's job is to decide what gets put through for the mix, i.e. a producer may say, "i don't like that little twiddly guitar bit, i think we should lose it", or "i really like the rustling of cutlery on the silver tray, let's keep it". then the person/people doing the mix are responsible for getting the best sound out of all the recorded parts to give a balanced well-eq'd mix. of course, these two things can be done by just one person, or in more than two stages by loads of people. i suppose it just depends on your circumstances. in our experience the producer was also responsible for mixing, but the producing really was like having another band member, and at times was really hard because compromising on something you have written and feel protective over is difficult.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3471673516&ssPageName=ADME:B:LC:UK:1 it's my mum's. yes, she does know i'm selling it. it's nice.

yeah sorry about that, kind of rambled on in a backwards direction from a programmer's point of view. anyway, found this interesting link, just thought i'd share it. http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm

i don't seem to go out saturdays much of late, if so it's only for a gig and it's most likely not at moshulu. i find drakes a hard venue to 'club' at, and even harder to get people to come along to if it's not for live music. i've never been to valhella despite rory telling me about it and me being interested in the projected playlist. if only it was in my lounge or something. maybe if i could stay the night at drakes, could take a sleeping bag and a few spare beers, it'd work out. hey, is dr drakes ever going to have a slumber party?

Yummy! Any ticket information forthcoming?

You could always try Adobe Audition, used to be cooledit. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=92&platform=Windows

I think it stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is actually little more than a protocol, it's about 20 years old as well. The MIDI protocol typically includes information about notes being played or actioned, attack velocity (how hard the note was played), transpose information (e.g. a pitch bend wheel) and modulation information (modulation wheels). Typically, you may have a MIDI controller, such as a keyboard. On its own, the MIDI controller makes no music, it simply speaks the MIDI protocol. However, if you connect the MIDI controller keyboard to a sound module, it associates sounds with the different keys pressed, and may alter the sound in different ways depending on what octave you play, whether or not you use the pitch bend/modulation, etc. etc. I think MIDI can actually be used for controlling devices as well. I'm not quite sure how this works, but it can only use the MIDI protocol as far as I know, so much the same way i suppose. For example many drum machines and/or samplers can be controlled by MIDI. However, I think they would be considered MIDI output devices as well as MIDI input devices. Say you had a drum machine that had MIDI input and MIDI output. It may be the case that you could control the drum machine from a remote MIDI console - e.g. you could program patterns and songs, start and stop playback etc. etc. using MIDI. However, you could also have the MIDI output of the drum machine coming back to your MIDI interface (a device that receives MIDI input/output signals) - this could then be translated by some computer program as a drum rhythm, from the MIDI output. So typically, you always have : A MIDI interface A MIDI input or output device As an example, if you had a MIDI controller keyboard plugged into a Midisport 2x2, which is in turn plugged into a PC running PropellerHeads' Reason, then your controller keyboard is the input device, because it is generating the MIDI protocol messages. The Midisport 2x2 would be the MIDI interface, because it is connecting the input device to something that can process the protocol messages, namely the PC running Reason. Reason will then make sounds by translating the MIDI protocol messages into the corresponding waveforms in whichever sound bank is selected. Reason could also record the MIDI protocol messages so that you try playing back your piece using different sound banks, without having to play the piece again. Some of this may not be correct, but it's a general jist of how it works.

heaven or las vegas, it's great. liz fraser's voice is spellbinding.

i have a pc100 128mb sdram chip. do you still want it?

Then shouldn't the guitar amps have been turned down if the PA was at max? There were two guitars and one bass. I've never seen a band at drakes where the drums have drowned out the band, yet have often seen guitars overwhelm the mix. At least, that's always what I've heard you moan on about

cool, do you think you could warp the mirrors like they have at the fairground? that would really perplex the intoxicated.

i must be psychic, it's been one of those kind of days. looking forward to it though, they were mightily intense last time.

Was that their name? Whence forth shall they return?

guitars: gibson les paul studio bass collection 5 string yamaha APX?A electro-acoustic tatra classical (about 35 years old) amps: marshall valvestate 40w (shite, broken) marshall VBA400 head & 4x12 cab drum machines: boss dr-550 Dr Rhythm Zoom Rhythmtrak rt-123 the vba400 sounds great, dead simple too. once had it hooked up to two david eden cabinets. i've never heard such a nice bass sound, though it was thick enough to dislodge vertebrae.

i think you have your dates wrong somewhere.

capisce

damnit, i thought this was going to be a new episode of celebrity deathmatch. in all likelihood though, they'd make up before the first round, light their cigars and celebrate the millions they made from the bookies after fixing the contest.

hmmm, the void.... they started off so well for me. i arrived on a very zed leppelinny song, perhaps the second one or something. i thought they were going to stay in that vein, but they veered off and stayed interesting. it was like prounge rock or something. it was the sort of music that there should have been very large comfy couches for, perhaps some joints and definitely sleazy women. one of the early songs was very sleazy, the rhythm guitar really stuck out as being very dirty and un-wholesome. it was good. but about half way through the set it just kind of turned sour for me, probably around the time that the guitarist's string broke. ironic really, i remember earlier in their set thinking, "wow, i can't believe how in tune those guitars sound, it's lovely". by the end of the set i was thinking exactly the opposite. i did enjoy their dabbling with the wee korg thing, just wish they'd done it a bit more and maybe went a bit more off the beaten track.

Radiohead at the lemon tree, 1995 Marilyn Manson at the barras, 1997 every therapy? gig i've ever been to except the shameless tour one the lost weekend odd, cos some of the best gigs are not by some of my favourite bands - one's i've seen but have felt disappointed by.

Yeah, I quite enjoyed it at times. Vocals could have been louder though I could tell you could sing. that's a comment on the mix, not your voice projection. sometimes i thought it would have suited you to have more clean guitar mixed in with the distorted guitar, but then you did that later on anyway. i heard bits of deftones, mudvayne, slipknot and other things less heavy too that i can't really place a name on just now. haven't really heard a band like femora for a while, will be interesting to see what you do next.