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Hello Would anybody care to listen to these little pieces? Written and recorded as breakwaters to seperate comedy sketches, the Concept Single tracks are supposed to be short show-credit style bits. However, I hope the pretentious concept album-type sound shrunk down is not lost on the...

I think this post actualy belongs here.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What? That old junk? Yes, indeed. The Commodore 64 was a fully programmable, 3 voice and 1 noise, polyphonic, multi-effect (via extremely rapid arpeggio) 8-bit...

I think this post actualy belongs here.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What? That old junk? Yes, indeed. The Commodore 64 was a fully programmable, 3 voice and 1 noise, polyphonic, multi-effect (via extremely rapid arpeggio) 8-bit...

What? That old junk? Yes, indeed. The Commodore 64 was a fully programmable, 3 voice and 1 noise, polyphonic, multi-effect (via extremely rapid arpeggio) 8-bit semi-digital synthesiser with 1 bit 'retro' sampling facility. Plus bung in MIDI cartridges, oscillation knobs, intelligent...

Tune in to the following webpage: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.braisher/Records.htm (NB - mono online)

In London during the 1980s there was a chap who enjoyed a roaring trade because he had the idea to start fitting MIDI interfaces into older non-MIDI synthesisers. Many people didn't want their Juno 6 or Korg Deltas to be left out in the cold when it came to computer sequencing time. Is there...

In London during the 1980s there was a chap who enjoyed a roaring trade because he had the idea to start fitting MIDI interfaces into older non-MIDI synthesisers. Many people didn't want their Korg Delta or Juno 6s to be left out in the cold when it came to computer sequencing time. Is there...

See last Concept Single announcement, below, for details.

Sorry for the delay. See last Concept Single announcement below for details.

After a gap of 6 months between the pieces, I've finally finished. The irony of the delay being that it was myself complaining about the neighbours' noise, and not in a hypocritical fashion either! The track can be found at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.braisher/Records.htm. PS - make...

Why is it so damn hard to transfer data from the Amiga to the PC? I use the C64 for some of my music because of its SID. It's so nice to port my programs and files to the PC for safety/emulator use and also to be able to download the old sequencers and synth' software from the 'net and use 'em...

The Commodore 64 or Sinclair ZX Spectrum were the manufacturer's choices for automating the Studiomaster II mixing desk in the late 80s, despite the fact that the Atari ST or the PC had more resources available for the task in hand and that the software to run the process had to be loaded from...

Carpets or rugs hung from inexpensive T-Bar lighting stands make ideal sound dampeners. Particularly with foam stuck to them. Alright, these are hardly scientifically exacting manufactures but they're cheap, collapsible and very handy for those of us not able to spend a week's grocery money per...

Nice pix here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.braisher/Records.htm Well, I think they're OK anyway. Not included are some of my newer mikes, computers, mixing place and other new things because those pics are now a bit old.

So, the Beatle remix album "Love" came out in time for Christmas and opinion is divided. Some say it's an exciting new interpretation of the old faves. Others say that, particularly with the 24 bit version, that the remixes bring out more of the flavour, clarity and excitement of those heady...

If you're replacing your bed, one of those which go all the way to the floor (!), keep the wheels. These are rugged little pieces, which always outlast the rest of the bed. I've tried breaking one and the little fella just refuses to demolish. I've found that they make fab replacements to the...

One of the really decent CD players ever made was the Arcam Alpha 7se. It was built well, sounded great and had rave reviews. It cost at least 400 Pounds to my knowledge. But apparently it was substandard in its design. What HiFi once recommended that a heavy brick placed on top of it, and...

The New England company's 8 track hard disk recorder, running Soundstation 2 on its Macintosh front end, was a computer manipulative recording device, available in 1989. It consisted of a basic recording and editing package working on top of its multitracking duties. Although it could do things...

Beach Boys cognescenti have often bemoaned that it took 30 years for the Pet Sounds record to be recognised as the high artistic work that it is. I think I know why. Along with the concept that it's taken so long for people to 'get used to it', the sound quality of the original mix is quite...

Making an 8 track tape recording on a 4 track deck - with no bouncing! Do you buy, for the same money, a decent 8-track tape deck or an excellent 4-track one? I'd get the 4-track one myself. But what if I knew that I'd need to make an 8-track recording but not want to bounce? Hmmm. How to keep...