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Trying to load an MP3 And what better than with a Beatles Cover ~ fixing a hole

I saw and listened to Manslick's Bealtes cover below somewhere, and thought I would post our version of Fixing a Hole.

My musical collaborator and I had been working on a project that was our musical re-creations of odd and obscure fairy tales around the world. One of them was an Ashanti tale, "The Farmer and the Yam". We decided to do a 'live' version, each of us, at our respective places, playing new parts...

Some years ago I was given a Tascam 234 from an acquaintance who had inherited it from somewhere, did not know how to use it and indeed had no use for it. As it happened, nor did I. So it just sat here, doing nothing. However, in the corvid 19-enforced holiday, I've got some time on my hands...

Reaper 6 has a new default theme. This theme is more than just a pretty face . . . it hides more than it reveals. Explore what is possible with this video from Kenny Gioia YouTube

New Revox coming in 2017 REVOX und HORCH HOUSE vereinbaren enge KooperationÂ*- Revox - The Art Of Music

My experience with Reaper since 2008 has been generally pleasurable and trouble-free. I wasn't totally enamoured with the 5.0 interface, but happy that I could use the previous interface. But I'm bamboozled by 5.11 and 5.12. When I install either, both garble MP4 files on playback. The MP4...

For anyone with a passing interest, the fourth CD from Raine & Wageman is out. It is different to the latin-ambient-electronica-jazz that we normally do. Most of the songs stem from the early twentieth century, though there are a couple of more modern ones in the collection. Raine & Wageman ~...

Because my C drive was being cranky, I took the opportunity to clone it to two SSDs. One is XP which I had been running on the old hard drive, but the other I loaded up with Win7 then did the free upgrade to Win10. By swapping SSDs I can choose to run in XP or W10. My worry about Windows 10...

This is not so much a question, but more a tale of two notes . . . well, lots of notes, actually. I have an Evolution keyboard that I use for most of my midi stuff. It gets its power and sends midi output to PC via USB. It also has a DIN midi output. The USB connection to the keyboard has...

I don't post many mixes in the MP3 clinic. That's because I'm happy to plunder the advice given to others on their mixes and apply to mine what is relevant, and I'm generally happy with how my mixes turn out. This track, though, has driven me to distraction. I've been fart-arsing around with it...

We decided that due to our abysmal marketing abilities, we're never going to sell any more than a handful of CDs, we decide to make the tracks available for others to use under Creative Commons. "Last Port of Call" is our (Raine & Wageman) third CD. The original tracks on it are all here in...

This time I had help doing the video. My mad recording mate, Phil, decided he wanted to tackle a project like this. We decided on the shots between us. Phil used a Lumix G2 DSLR for the filming. I did the first cut in the editing, and Phil cleaned it up.

So . . . many years ago I was running a PC with first Logic, then Reaper. With Logic I used an ISIS sound card, then with Reaper I used a Presonus Firepod. All went well, and I had a noise-free system with my active monitors. Time passed, and there was an urgent need for me to replace the PC...

If anyone has a few minutes to spare, here is a video from Raine & Wageman. The piece is The Old Castle ("il Vecchio Castello") from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Miranda played all the violin parts, while I played bass and a variety of synths.

It seemed like an interesting song to tackle, so my musical friends and I decided to see what we could do with this Lou Reed/Laurie Anderson track. See what you think: https://www.box.com/s/eiu46vcryld5jmh1ml0f

I do a fair bit of live mixing, particularly for folk festivals. At one recent event, one of the acts was bluegrass band "The Company", from Queensland. They had very specific stage requirements: DI on bass, mike on a guitar, and they supplied their own mike for the rest, i.e. they gather...

For the last couple of months my PC has been running slow. A Reaper project that would render at 12 times real time was rendering at only 1.5 times real time. Similarly, rendering even low resolution videos was taking an inordinately long time. My first thoughts were that the PC had been struck...

In October I was doing sound for a show, which entailed using four radio mikes. During sound check I noted that the batteries in the mikes were running a bit low, so I went to replace them. Oops . . . no spare batteries. I normally have batteries floating around everywhere. No worries . . . I...

It had been a while since the defibs did a video, so we launched into this one for a bit of fun