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Had a rare afternoon free last Saturday and so for the first time this year attempted some recording. Actually the first since another Christmas song last year. This is as far as I got with the time I had, don't know how it sounds to anyone. A dystopian Christmas to one and all! :)...

Hi. Not much chance to come in here much recently with focus being more on playing with the band than recording, as well as some other rather less fun stuff to deal with. I'll try and catch up on recent offerings. Anyway, here's something I pulled together over a few evenings last week in an...

Hey, I started this a few weeks ago - then I had a bunch of problems linked to the Windows 10 anniversary update and my setup got pretty messed up. As part of getting back up and running again, I moved over from an old version of Ableton to Reaper. I figured this would be as good a project...

Okay, trying to get a new recording space up and running and this is the first new thing I’ve recorded from scratch in about 2 years. New room, couple of bits of new equipment and I’ve done a bunch of things differently to try and improve the general quality. This is a cover of an old...

Been a while since I've had chance to work on anything new, and this is maybe a bit of an odd one to come back with. It's based on another tune I had in the clinic a couple of years ago which I'd originally intended to be a bit of an ambient soundscape piece, but had gone off in another...

Ok, I did this Elvis Costello/Robert Wyatt cover a while ago as a collaboration with my buddy Joe. He sent me a piano and a vocal audio file and I chopped his piano about, built some guitars, bass, a beat and crappy background vocals around it. I was kind of pitching for something a bit...

Morning all. I wanted to work on something new to contrast with endless remixing of old stuff. This was originally intended to be a bit of a low key, ambient piece. However, it turns out I'm completely incapable of restraint... Heatmiser was kind enough to help me out and provide a couple of...

I'd never heard of this guy before this weekend, but this old tune of his is currently rocking my world. Eight minutes of pretty much musical perfection (after the first 30 seconds of the video): that tone throughout... :cool:

I'm trying to pull some tunes together for a bit of an album at the moment - revisiting everything and going back to the mixes to try and improve em. A couple of years ago when I did some vocals for kcearl's album, we discussed a remix of one of my tunes, but never got round to it. Anyway, I...

Starts this week! Anyone else on here looking forward to it? South Africa was all round pretty awful with crap games, no stand out teams/players, those friggin vuvuzalas and Spain boring me to death with that endless tiki taka shit before eventually boring the opposition too into conceding a...

Hey, it's clearly odd song weekend on hr.com. Here's another one to join the party... :eek: This started out a while ago as a set of lyrics. I made a little 90 second acoustic and voice demo from them and then built this big arrangement around it. I wanted to make something that sounded a...

Hey, I've been toying with the idea of making bass traps and acoustic panels for my little recording room for a while, but I've been put off by not knowing exactly what I should be buying for the main body of them. I've kept nearly heading out to buy some acoustic panels, but I've got no idea...

Has just started a weekly two hour radio show on BBC 6 music :D Had a load of jobs to do yesterday afternoon and it saw me through nicely. All the songs hang on a loose theme each week - good mix of reggae, country, garage and some other stuff that I hadn't heard before all nicely...

I know Behringer stuff tends to provoke heated debate, but I changed my computer fairly recently and had to change my setup around as the PCI soundcard I had would no longer fit in the PCIe slot on the new motherboard. Anyway, I've been struggling with getting enough volume to my DAW from...

I needed a break from agonising over arrangements and levels on an original, so thought I'd take on an old favourite song. I'm too lazy to learn to play anything properly, so it does deviate a little from the original. I also had a cold about a month back and though it all cleared up, I'm not...

Howdy, I've completely lost perspective on this and could really do with some fresh ears. I came up with an arrangement without too much trouble, but the lyrics have been a complete pain in the arse. I wrote and binned two sets - this is the third and a halfth attempt, and I'm not even sure I...

I had a flash of inspiration when dobro made his post of the same title on here, and wrote this tune within about a day of the discussion starting. I usually agonise over writing songs for weeks, so it was quite refreshing to get something down so quickly (for me). Heat beat me to the song...

Morning all, I'd love some fresh ears on this one. It's a pretty simple tune, so I think I need to be spot on with the timing and the balance of the parts. I've now heard it far too many times to know. There are quite a few fundamentally harsh elements which I've tried to tame - but I'm not...

The Walking Dead seemed to capture the collective HR imagination recently. What other TV series are folks on here into? I'm not sure The Wire will be bettered for a long time - I watched the last series as slowly as I could to eke it out for the longest possible duration in the knowledge that...

Finally got something new finished! I'd had this tune on the backburner for a while, and every so often I'd pick it up and have a go at completing it, but could never quite make it work. I had a crappy guide beat that I didn't have the skill to replace and the whole thing was in desperate need...