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Good job with the knobs. :) You might be needing one of these too. They don't just go to eleven, they are Eleven. I have a sneaking feeling that the name is a tribute. Whatever the case they're pretty cool. Eleven Rack (click link for details)

Great job mate, especially for an early song.

Hi all, Here’s my take on the necessity of "Having an Objective View of Your Abilities" based on a great many years of experience. This is what I tell myself on those occasions that things might not be going quite as well or as quickly as I hoped. It might work for others too. A small dash...

I think that it’s overly simplistic to suggest that songs always get written either “forwards” or “backwards”. Ideas can come from any direction and apply to any part of the process. Bits and pieces can also come from a number of different people - not necessarily just a single songwriter or a...

Geez, you're a bit young to be forgetting who you are aren't you? I thought that was just my generation. ;) If in doubt, you could always check your SOS profile...

I agree with Comrade Cooke's assessment of the ultimate method of deciding what you can get away with. :) The whole issue of 'rules' in music is an intriguing one though. As Purpleb said in his post "I like to know the rules and common ways so I can tweak them, break them, and make them my...

Hi, Are you sure that you're picking where the bars actually start? That's probably the first thing to get straight. Songs don't always start at beat 1 of bar 1. It’s not that rare to start a song part the way through a bar. So the casual listener might not automatically even know where the...

Thanks very much for posting all that information about how it was made. :) I had the feeling that, one way or another, a fair percentage had possibly been played in through the board rather than a mic. But the flute did sound so much 'in the room' that I couldn't see how it could have all the...

Hi again, I've been having a lot of trouble connecting to the site lately, but did want to get back to comment and find out more about this intriguing song. When the process began the lyrics looked quite bleak and seemed to be referring to a narrator who was going through quite a dark, even...

Maybe I should have posted this first. But here’s a short version: Many things have an effects on success, including whatever ability you were born with, how much you learn along the way, and what opportunities come your way (what you might glibly call Who You Are, What You Know, and Who You...

Congratulations on doing a great job Walter. :) Thanks for posting those lovely pics of you and the kids with their artwork. Despite being on the other side of the world, those scenes look so familiar, and could almost have been taken at our own local Unit. Good luck with getting more work...

I'm currently trying hard to quit the forum habit, but dammit, here I go again... :rolleyes:... But nobody really IS saying that are they? Inventing an extreme and fairly silly point of view of view and then saying that it's wrong, doesn't make another opinion correct. Nobody involved in...

To clarify even more if I can, because this is definitely an issue with piano... I'm NOT saying - and I haven't said in any of my posts - that key weight is unimportant or it doesn't matter what you buy for your own use. I spent weeks haunting shops and friends' houses, playing every acoustic...

:) I'm not a big fan of swearing on the internet but I'm always slightly amused by the irony underlying the rationale for vigorously stamping on it, which usually invokes the innocent children who may stray into the forum and be corrupted. Fair enough too. But having spent some time on Games...

But he wasn't looking for HIS keyboard he was looking for something that could also be HER or THEIR keyboard. Wasn't that the whole point of what he was saying - that his girlfriend didn't like his current keyboards and she wanted something with more weight? No? At least that's how I read it...

Hi, Firstly, great track and great voice. Kudos for a top job. I can see why you'd be frustrated when you've got something really good going in both departments but can't quite get the match-up right. Secondly, I know absolutely squat about mixing and recording so my opinions are based only...

Fascinating to see how we all break it down. :) I’m with Frankie in that I’d add MA and ME to the list. There do seem to be a good number of people with medium level skills and moderate expectations, comfortably inhabiting the ground between the Lows and the Highs. It also seems true that...

Hi Frankie, Well I'm happy to say that I'm doing better than you. I'm pretty sure that least TWO major acts aren't going to record any of my songs, and I'm confident that there's a whole lot more just queuing up not to do them as well... :cool: Keep shooting mate..... you'll hit a duck...

Boasting is allowed, and apparently deserved too. :D It sounds like a wonderful project, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading your account of it. Taking that gospel feel and giving it the appropriate Celtic twist sounded especially intriguing. I must say that since reading your account of how you...

Hi, Why not Google their website and see? Looks like it might be just PC though (scroll down to 4.0 ) Sony Cheers, Chris