2005Archive

The whole idea behind the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition was to create an album, and as soon as it was written, I saw ‘I’m back’ as being the first song on the potential CD. Lyrically, it explains the premise. Musically, it…

Yup, I’ve been on holiday. A short two week break with Ruth and our boys (and sister-in-law and nephew) and that was just in our tent.
Just in case you hadn’t guessed, it was a camping holiday, to the same…

So I bought an iPod for my birthday, and chose to get the grand-daddy 60gig iPod photo – hey it all goes on the never-never and my kids can always pay it back.
I use it as a hard disk…

After yesterday’s revelations, I’ve been tweaking my drum kit to try and match the recorded sound of Will Champion or John Bonham. There’s still some distance to go, because I haven’t started working on the mixer settings yet.…

OK. so I’m having problems actually getting any recording finished.
I’m not sure if it’s unfamiliarity with the suite of software and hardware that I bought six months ago, or just a complete lack of knowledge when it comes to…

If you could be bothered reading through the full article Distortion in time space continuum I posted in June, you’d have noticed that I’ve been updating the background music tracks which I wrote in the Nineties for a game based…

Yup, a little flurry of posts just to keep you all in the loop.
The first one is this (obviously). It only took a fortnight for the company through whom I bought this machine to order, receive and install the…

On Thursday last week, I took the plunge and installed ‘Tiger’ – Apple’s latest and greatest version of the Mac OS X operating system – on my studio iMac G5.
Everything went swimmingly at first; it archived all the user…

So, I got my ears irrigated last week.
I said, I GOT MY EARS IRRIGATED LAST WEEK!
Yup, after a week wandering about with my ears full of preparatory oil I got the wax sucked out of them by the…

Finally, I lowered the compression on the violin track an – Woah! What happened there? The air is warm! There was some kind of flicker, some kind of shift, and suddenly the air is warm…
Hang on – it’s only…