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I don't dislike the name at all.

I didn't like your earlier material I seem to remember, but I think the new track "Freedom Town" has a bit more universal appeal to it. You seem to be branching out in a more interesting direction as far as I'm concerned.

Does anyone here use free VSTs as part of their home recordings and if so where do they get them from? Any recommendations?

Oh wait, she is a sex robot!

Roxxxy the sex robot.

Lingerie supplied by Victoria's Secret, brain supplied by Dell Labs, body from Michelin (tyres) and a personality as programmed by Borat. That's nice! I like!

In the preview for the new season the new dr fires a gun...

At what though? Tennant fired a gun in the last episode remember. How do you know he wasn't just starting a race at the 2012 Olympics?

If they do, sue!

You've got to be kidding me!

YouTube - Karate Kid 2010 Trailer [HD]

You know, that's actually an excellent trailer. If the plot of the movie is as wonderfully simplistic and stays as true to the A-Team formula as that would suggest I think this could be a fairly enjoyable romp.

But will the bad guy lock them in a warehouse full of tools and equipment with no possible way of escape? Only time will tell.

I love the voice over. Keeping it simple!

Spent a bit of time sitting on the side of the bath with my bell-end in a mug of salty water whilst reading the paper.

P.S. If you're ever round at Phil's and he offers you a nice hot cup of tea, JUST SAY NO!

That picture's pretty cool.

We were speaking to our 84 year-old neighbour yesterday and she said she doesn't remember the snow ever being here this long.

Or what she had for breakfast.

It's alright, but the guy is presumably Scottish yet he sings like he's from the US. I know it's the punk style but that's something I really don't agree with, but for what it is, it is highly listenable. I saw them one night when I was in Drummonds and didn't rate them to be honest, sorry.

Each to their own, but I don't feel like the accent issue is dealt with even-handedly by those who bring it up.

For instance, take The View who don't sound Dundonian in the slightest (more Manchester influenced?) or Pearl and The Puppets (Regina Spektor anyone) who don't exactly sound like they come from Kirkintilloch.

In fact, when you come to think about it a whole decade of British pop music (The 80s) is typified by people who didn't exactly sing in their natural voice.

All these far more (in my opinion) contrived vocal styles are rarely called into question but as soon as someone rounds of their vowels in mid-atlantic twang people criticise it.

Well, that's their prerogative but I am willing to accept that artists generally tend to sound like those who influence them - so I judge a vocal by how it sounds to my ears, not by the geographical location of the singer's birthplace.

I'm not saying you're wrong, you've got to go with what feels true to you, but I just hoped you might look at this issue from a different perspective.

P.S. Really looking forward to your gig this Thursday!

Overall it sounds a lot like Blink 182 but with Green Day vocals. If you like pop-punk you can't not like that on some level.

I like the direction in which your fury is directed, but I feel like your missing what should be a relatively easy mark.

Where did you get that information?

It's on that site somewhere.

Highest salary 150. For comparison the Prime Minister's salary is 130,594 .

The director of Oxfam gets around 100,000 a year.

There's not really a lot of films coming to mind but Minority Report is one of them.

In my experience this is emphatically not the case

Well if you're willing to tell me more I'd be very happy to hear about it.

i think Robert is trying to say is that there are so many of these adverts compared to the past, and since many of the charities have similar aims, it is difficult to know which one(s) to support.

I think that's a slightly different issue, although important. For instance, I have noticed that some of the charities advertising don't operate in Scotland but neglect to make that clear in their advertising.

I disagree. I think people are fairly quick to part with their cash in the name of a good cause, but asking them to commit to continually donating again and again is different.

Successful businesses get the most out from the minimum input. Charities need effective management, dynamic personnel and all the other hallmarks of business, (obviously minus the financial profit).

Without researching further I would guess that those effective managers you speak of and at least some of those dynamic personnel collect decent wages for their efforts. Again, I don't have a problem with that as such, but it ties into my whole uneasy feeling about the way these organisations are run, how the money is collected and where it is going.

given that they represent the world's poorest and neediest

That's what I wonder.

I've been seeing a lot of adverts on TV recently with charities asking people to sponsor one thing or another.

Sponsor a Dog. Sponsor a Cat. Sponsor a Polar Bear, a child in Africa, a Panda, an abused child, sponsor Great Ormond Street Hospital etc etc. (You'd have thought the sole rights from JM Barrie's Peter Pan would put them in a better position than most hospitals, no?)

I dunno if it's just me, but the more of these adverts I see the more I become bothered by it.

I mean, isn't the word "sponsor" just a nice and fluffy way of saying, "We don't want a donation from you, we want your money every single month".

I'm all for charity, but to me charity is an act of kindness at the giver's prerogative. It should be the person dictating how much they give and when, not the charity telling me how much my current generosity bill is.

It all just makes me feel sick, dirty and disgusted with the charities involved and completely erodes my confidence in them. On an instinctual level I just feel that when a charity becomes too much like a business you should start asking questions about it.

Yamaha manuals are famously often unfit for purpose, unless you are lighting a fire.

The manual doesn't even explain how to burn a CD using the built in drive. It's atrocious.

Do you plan to use the Multitrack for the recording bit, and then working up an arrangement with overdubs etc in a DAW, and are you needing to use virtual synths/samplers

Yes to the first bit and the second bit (that seemed reasonable to me) but not really thought about the third. That's a bit beyond my understanding.

In any case, search for specialist forums discussing your specific bits of kit to see other user strategies

I did that but I thought I'd get a wider perspective. I get a feeling from the specialist forums that most people are happy working within the framework of the beast and on an instinctual level I'm not convinced. To me it's not intuitive, it's not counter-intuitive, it's just unintuitive.

Besides, it's always nice to know what other people on this forum are doing.

Would need to do a bit more research into what the machine is capable of but it's got a usb which suggests that it can be used as a sound card for your computer. I think I was looking at this or something simliar a while back when I was first getting into recording stuff.

I'd suggest choosing the DAW you want to work with if you haven't already, load in the drivers for your yamaha, set the drivers up in your DAW and see if you can start recording stuff. You'd still have multiple channels for recording and probably all the onboard effects of the mixer if you wanted to use them alongside/instead of plugins.

I had to read this a few times to follow what you were saying, but thanks, that's really gave me an idea of where to go from here.

P.S. I dunno if I've mentioned this before but I've seen SFH a good few times. You guys are great!

High time you read "The Dirt" by Motely Crue. That will explain everything about how a girl winds up losing her clothing on a stage.

Yeah Ryan, stop being such a fucking amateur!

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could give me any tips on home recording and the like.

So far I've been mucking about with a Yamaha AW1600 digital workstation which is a standalone piece of kit, but I'm thinking of hooking it up to my computer so I can edit sounds on a more visual medium (the small viewing screen is the worst thing about it) but I really don't know anything about this sort of stuff.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I should use? I can transfer files from my aw1600 to my computer without difficulty, but... erm... what now?

Does anyone know much about the synth/elctro pop sound Grandaddy created for the song that's used as the theme?

It's really cool.

Written by the rather good Steven Moffat who came up with "Blink" and "The Girl in The Fireplace" I think this season could be rather decent.

Also...

She's ginger. She's lovely.