Progress

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…

So I finally got around to writing some sort of summary of the two week retreat – which was almost four months ago.
Just to refresh your memory, I went away for two weeks to a cottage on a hill,…

I’m still working on ‘Fiftieth Anniversary Edition’ (aka ‘I’m back’).
I spent most of the day testing out the mic at various settings before starting to record, in order to avoid the previous problems with ‘pop’ (“time to put that…

While you’re waiting for me to redo ‘I’m Back’ (looks like I need to re-record the vocals), and finish the ‘Keep On’ dance mix before going back and finishing ‘Keep On’ proper – not to mention the other 6 or…

So, the 51st birthday approaches, and with it, the question ‘what do I want for my birthday?’.
Well, in a lame attempt to catch up with the rest of the world, I’m considering an iPod. I mean good Grief, I…

Well, worra larf.
I spent the weekend starting from scratch, and remixing ‘I’m back’ from the bottom up. In particular, I wanted to make sure that the bottom end was heavier, the vocals more upfront in the mix and that…

Anyone else remember that quaint term for those of us who prostitute ourselves through our skills for the price of a cup of tea?
The weekend job that couldn’t be done over the weekend got finished tonight. I used Garageband…