Arpangel wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 8:13 am when we pay thousands for an interface you’re building "up" to a standard

Argue about mics and speakers if you like. They're all horribly imperfect, just in different ways - make your choice. But we've sussed amplifiers. Vastly expensive overkill really isn't necessary.

I'm not even going to listen to your tracks. A musician wants you to sing his songs. Assuming there's no payment involved (you to him) what are you arguing about? Give it a try. Have fun!

Unfortunately, we're hearing just as much whiny bollocks from the other viewpoint. Without re-hashing all the arguments, let me just say that statements that kick off with 'Computers will never...' are invariably proved wrong. I expect there will continue to be a market for 'artisan music', just as ...

Thanks for the responses, I think only on the Sound on Sound forum would a simple question about XLR leads expand into an interesting and educational technical breakdown of the leads, connectors and metals involved!!!! Yes, in this warm weather the draught from all these giant technical willies bei...

"...a noticeable loss of high end and detail" in an otherwise functioning cable of moderate length seems unlikely. Are you a believer in 'interconnects' generally? Could this possibly be audiophile price-induced delusion? Possibly 'even your wife noticed the difference'. Sorry, but it DOES...

It's actually much more straightforward than you imagine. You write down how much money you received. You write down how much you had to spend to enable you to earn that money. Just one figure goes on your tax form, the difference between the two. If you are investigated, you need to be able to show...

I refer you to my signature below :-) The trick is to kid yourself that the world DOES need your music, someone's been foolish enough to commission a song (for MONEY!) and there's a deadline. Come up with the best product you can manage by midnight tonight. Then leave it. Tomorrow, a new song. 100 d...

wasn't the NS10 designed as a home Hifi listening monitor - which is why all the studios went for them in such a big way? The story goes that they were designed as hi-fi bookshelf speakers but failed in that market, presumably because of their (over-) analytical sound and fatiguing upper-mid range ...

I'm afraid any attempt to correct either pitch or position in Melodyne mechanically is going to run into problems, particularly when working on vocals. The detected 'start point' and central frequency MAY be the ones we hear, but very often they aren't! There's still a place for operator skill (incl...

OneWorld wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 5:26 pm
Carl Orff did it with Carmina Burana, as did Ravel with his Bolero.

Maurice and Carl must be p***ing themselves in the musical Hereafter over how often they are invoked to justify mindless use of a sequencers' looping function!

Did you intend the 'piano' and pad at the beginning to be (sometimes) out of synch? I'm afraid it just sounds sloppy to me. I like the slightly asymmetric rhythm from 0'33". But then you lose me. I'm not hearing much of interest, either musically or sonically. Sorry. Maybe it's just not my style.

Early Bono and full-throttle Adele might just make it work in an unamplified concert hall but Billie Eilish and Gentle Folkie Types would start a shooshing war. I refer you back to the original question. I'm not suggesting NO amplification. Just small amplification, for instruments/voices that use ...

Sam Spoons wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:44 pm Mike's right, it's good to see you back even if it's only an occasional visit.

I'm deeply touched.

Nazard wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:52 am I would have chosen the Queen Elizabeth Hall, but the RFH is probably judged to be more prestigious.

Perhaps they thought they could fill the RFH. Did they?

In the old days, Wombat was around a lot... now a very occasional visitor, well, poster, anyway. Good to see him back, at his provocative best! :lol: The website redesign put me off for a bit :lol: It's about 60 years since I first started playing around with 'sound on sound' recording, using my El...

If you are making these with a view to legal action, remember the court will be interested in a recording of what you actually heard, the actual nuisance, not a processed and enhanced version.

A solo piano or string quartet can successfully perform unamplified in the Royal Albert Hall. Why can't a small PA system on stage be just as audible?

Drew Stephenson wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:14 pmYou see, as a non-musical person, this blows my tiny little mind.
They're the same notes! In the same order!

If you're a 'non-musical person', why are you bothering your pretty little head over music theory?

What happens next? Does it stick on a G tonal centre or go straight back to C? Maybe it overall modulated to G. But there's no need to read all the secondary dominants as modulations. | F / / / | Gb°7 / / / | G / / / | Ab°7 / / / | | A / / / | C#°7 / / / | D / / / | C / / / | Interesting choice of l...