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I find that for Swedish pop songs, the structure ABBA works quite well. :D Sorry...

Thanks! A lot of the problem with the vocals was simply that I didn't have a vocal mic at the time (and that I can't sing!) - I used my MR8's built in mic, which isn't particularly good. The bass was a bit out of tune, and I had a sore finger on my right hand which means that some of my bass...

Nothing to do with pitch-bend (which can however suffer from a similar phenomenon). A "steppy" filter sweep is caused by digital quantisation of the cutoff frequency - at high resonance levels a slow sweep may be heard to move up or down its range in discrete steps rather than smoothly...

I'm not a very prolific songwriter, but for me the music either comes first or comes along with the lyrical hook. I can't write serious songs, so mine are either droll/amusing or satirical. Here are two examples. About 10 years ago when my kids were about 1 and 4, I came up with a silly...

Damn - forgot my all-time favourite: Sympathy For the Devil - The Rolling Stones And it was originally played by Keef, not Bill...

Here is a fun project from last year - four songs from "The Sound of Music" performed in a variety of punk styles. Music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hammerstein Guitar, bass, Farfisa organ, rhythm programming, all vocals, arrangements and production by Simon Beck Rhythms were programmed in...

I blame the generation gap. I mean - who needs four acoustic guitars? :D Interesting thing - Thomas likes customising his non-vintage guitars. The bass has a die-cast bridge and gold speed knobs, the Tele obviously has the Bigsby and the green pearloid scratchplate, and the Harley Benton has...

I have created a website, "Simon's Hall of Electric Pianos" which details most electric pianos commercially produced from the late 1920s to the present day (I really need to update it...)

Although my first keyboard (back in 1980) was a Hohner Pianet T, I have always been a huge fan of the Wurlitzer sound. During the 1980s and 1990s I tried to get something approaching that sound using synths, then about 10 years ago I got a lot closer using a Casio WK-3000. The band I'm in...

What is your favourite type of electric piano sound?

That's how I work anyway - just not with so many tracks! I start by programming 1-bar drum or percussion patterns (count-in, main pattern, fills and breaks) using a nifty freeware drum machine called HammerHead 1.0, export them as WAVs, arrange them into a complete song in Audacity and then...

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Just had the idea of squeezing as many first-generation tracks as possible out of a Fostex MR-8 by recording four mono tracks, transferring them to Audacity, putting a rough backing mix back on the Fostex for the next set of four mono tracks, and eventually ending up with perhaps 24 or 32...

Hi! I'm new here, but I've been home-recording since 1985, originally with a Fostex X-15, then a Fostex XR-3, a PC running Audacity, and most recently a Fostex MR8. Music, lyrics, arrangements, all instruments and vocals by myself. This song is called "Genie" - it's a satirical look at modern...

For gigging: Nord Electro 3 73 (Wurly and Hammond/Leslie sounds) and Stylophone S2 analogue monosynth. Home recordings: as above plus Casio WK-3000 (very usable string, brass and other imitative sounds), Korg Volca Keys. I also play bass guitar, electric upright bass, ukulele, rhythm guitar and...

I recorded my 14-year-old son playing lap steel on my old Squier Telecaster recently. I simply miked up the amp - a no-name 30-watt solid-state 1x10 combo, using a unidirectional dynamic mic on a boom stand, pointing near the edge of the speaker cone. I think it sounds pretty good...

Black. Definitely.

Come Together - The Beatles It's Different For Girls - Joe Jackson Stir It Up - Bob Marley and the Wailers Israelites - Desmond Dekker In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf

Got the Volca Keys - an incredible little gizmo for the price. MIDI it up to a full-size keyboard and you have an amazing 3-oscillator analogue monosynth for £120.

I use an MR8 (the original red one, with an OS upgrade) alongside Audacity on my PC. What you need to do (apart from getting the English-language Wave Manager!) is to rename each WAV you want to export to the Fostex as follows; TR01.WAV, TR02.WAV... up to TR08.WAV. The wave manager does the...