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When I first started working for myself, the name I chose East Anglian Radio Services was because back in the 90's - I was hiring radio microphones. I had a 'real' job' for a while but kept on the hire services, then went back full time. A phrase I constantly used when people asked about radio...

Here is a radio interview No idea why they wanted to interview me, but it's a bit of British chat and some music - just me rambling for most of it, but I thought I'd share it.

We lost GAK a while back and now another UK big chain of music shops had closed their doors - selling the stock to Gear4Music, but making all staff redundant. Not good to be a music retailer in the UK it seems. Our big suppliers are now all European. story here.

I downloaded a demo of synthesizer V studio 2 Pro and thought I'd see how simple it really was, rather than take the word of the youtubers and the manufacturer. It's really intuitive. I found a box marked tempo, another gave me a click. Without even setting anything, it picked up my MIDI...

This one explains how I created another of the songs - obviously the actual vocal is just a guide and was not used in the actual shows.

I think I might have posted this a couple of years ago, but it surfaced again today - a video showing how we produced the click track for a carpenters tribute show - you can hear how the individial tracks build up.

After some of the chats we've had about software synths and in another, Vangelis - I figured for a bit of fun I'd do Blade Runner. It's rough round the edges, but it was just a bit a of fun - and the synths do sounds quite ok, I think.

I've just had a royalties payment and was going through the spreadsheet. It reveals all sorts if you dig in deep. In the UK there is a big department store chain called John Lewis, and they used one of our band tracks on a radio advert campaign last year and it generated a fair bit. I also...

Following from the sax video the other day, somebody said the 4033 audio tecnica mic was thin - so I tested it along side an AKG 414 and an MXL 76 tube mic. The 4033 was by comparison far too thing and bright. Something for me to remember.

Not sure if you US folk have come across this group of people - some of the stuff is amazing (especially the Police Medley) but this one - because I liked Gary Moore, is pretty good.

In another topic we were looking at Chibsons so I dug this one out as I really like what it looks like? Plays OK too!

In the topic about your ears getting tired - yesterday I was going to say it never happens to me, but I have been working on a track today and I've gone mix-blind. It's a show track - so think female singer. I've been struggling a bit because the original is quite a powerful ballad, with quite...

I'm not posting this to take the mick out of the players, but because the two players did not know what to do. Clearly, either the sax player or the guy on keys got it wrong. I suppose the sax player could have had the music he was playing in the wrong key - but it strikes me that he was...

I found this old video lurking - in the Covid days, nothing much to do so I recorded this old George Michael track - if you listen to it, at the end I found the George Michael isolated vocal and slapped it over the top. There are a few sync issues, but it's not too bad I think.

The recent furore on the TLM or not TLM 103 mic made me not post a link to another video I made about a mic that looks like the AKG C414 - and again, actually does a good job. The link is below, but today the same manufacturer sent me another mic - a 34mm condenser, but in a housing very...

I keep finding old stuff from when I was teaching. This dates back a fair while now, but I slapped it on an old Youtube account - probably just to save it being lost again. The original things was to do with editing after completion. So a bunch of the students were given a sequence from Blade...

No matter what kind of music you like - this video is a real 'must'. Apart from the excellent recording quality, what he does is stand in front of a full size, professional orchestra, with an audience. He gives them no sheet music, but just gets them to play the notes he either hums, sings or...

The great Alan Parsons track in the Mixing Clinic made me remember a track I did years ago. I found it on Youtube. I remember I was teaching music tech and we were doing continuous controllers, fader automation and stuff like that, so this track let me try out controlling filters and resonance...

I thought I'd share this. when I find stupidly priced Chinese gear, I buy it and test it out - and I saw a TLM103, with the usual badge, and it cost £12.95 plus tx and delivery - under £20. Expecting it to be really awful, I put it up against a real one - and then had to spend ages double...

After my disaster with the Behringer Wave, I took a chance on a Korg Kross 2 - which seemed to be a new version similar to my old Triton LE. I liked this, but the combo sounds and the drums didn't quite work for me. The drum patterns were rarely quite right for me and the sound was bit sort of...