[Lets Exchange "likes" On Facebook!]

This is a great idea--I'll be liking a bunch of your pages as well. Here is mine--it's a page about a website featuring isolated tracks from artists in all genres, searchable by decade, genre, instrument, etc. Thanks all and good luck with your projects...

http://www.facebook.com/multitrackmaster

[Recording Voice]

I'd suggest adjusting what all instruments you feed to your headphone mix. You may find you sing differently depending on what you hear. You don't necessarily need everything in there. You obviously must have already tried adjusting the level up or down as well of course. Good luck...

[Someone Like You Cover (My Version)]

You sound very good... Nice pace and somewhat original phrasing shows you are developing your own way of expressing your creativity even with well-known material like Adele. Carry on down the originality path with your own material and best of luck!

[Guitar Picks]

An English penny--because I want to sound as much like Brian May as possible!

[Tracking]

I've approached a studio about doing it the other way, tracking in the studio and then taking the tracks away to mix them (because my studio is in my flat and playing drums is out of the question). The engineer I approached refused to do it, despite the fact that I was a pro engineer at the time. What he did let us do was bring in an eight track hard disk recorder and use his acoustically treated room.

I think you'll find that some engineers would be amenable to your idea and other's not.

Agree with this approach even if you can make noise at home. It's alot easier to get the acoustics right in your "control room" to create a mix from a pair of stereo monitors than it is to get the acoustics correct to capture, say, live drums without all sorts of frequency cancellation and so forth...

[Famous Sounds]

Everything listed on my site you are welcome to.

It kind of fizzled for me as I really wasn't getting the help I needed to complete things. I've gone into the same concept for famous guitar rigs. And I've had zero outside help though lots of "hey that's a cool idea" stuff. So far I've got a lot of data on my computer that I just haven't uploaded to my site. I want a lot more and it to be better organized before I get into the next publishing phase.

Thanks much--appreciate that and I will look into what you have there. I'll probably PM you about that through your site.

The guitar idea is another good one that I think is fascinating. In my work as an engineer I was always amazed at how different guitar amp/combos sound, forgetting even about all pedals and other signal processing. Even little things like Brian May of Queen playing with an English penny that changes his tone--great stuff.

[Is Rock Music Gone?]

There are always cycles in rock. Remember the massive transition from hair metal (Warrant, Winger) to grunge (Nirvana, STP) for example? We're in a bit of a down cycle now it's true but Foo Fighters, Black Keys, The Killers and others have been keeping it alive...

[Famous Sounds]

OP--this is a great idea and you have some great info on there. As a keyboard player I've always wanted more info on patches and sounds used on my favorite recordings and this info is hard to find. I have started an isolated keyboard track section on my multitrack masters site for exactly this reason. I'm still looking for more tracks to include. Maybe we can trade some info...

[The Line You Wish You'd Written]

"Her green eyes blew goodbyes

With her head in her hands

and your kiss on the lips of another"

-Jeff Buckley "Dream Brother"

[Song Title Association Game]

Bad--Michael Jackson RIP