Progress

It may have looked quiet to you, but around here the scene is a-buzzin’.
If you’ve been through this site memorising everything, then you’ll know that in the seventies I used to play in a folk rock band called Caedmon.…

I was possibly a little unfair in my previous post Drumming for Beginners, which might have given the false impression to the more trusting amongst you that I was actually an excellent drummer with a superb electronic kit.

So, what have I been up to in my long struggle to avoid actually finishing a song?
Well, I’ve decided to learn how to play the drums.
This is an ingenious and cunning plan. Instead of spending hours trying to…

Fergus gets his chance to show what he’s made of (wood, mostly) in a return match at The Clarity and Sparkle Show.

‘More music – less tech’, cry readers.

A while ago, I delighted in the fact that my little Epiphone Valve Junior 5 watt practice amp had been modded to include a line feed from the output transformer. As aficionados will know, this means that I can get…

Every cloud has a silver lining.

My big mistake was assuming that if iTunes could drive the MOTU 828 successfully, then so could Logic, because I’d already proved that when Logic couldn’t drive the MOTU, neither could iTunes. Never assume.
So I’m taking a step back…

The solution may be simpler than you think!

A holiday break culminates in my return to a broken iMac. So what is the good news?