Rudi

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great write Tim. IT WOULD MAKE A GREAT ARTICLE ! I've had latency problems and one of my songs serves as witness. I'm not sure I 'd know how to go about some of your suggestions, which goes into areas Ive never ventured into. Id like to see this pinned as its good reference material.

I hope you had a sing song on this auspicious occasion. And recorded it for us of course

Desire - U2

Thanks man. Maybe we could manage just one final burst of max gain!? y'know, just to get a blip on the kids radar....

Do you really need to ask?

It sounds like you need a collaboration rather than lessons. Are there any jam events etc. in your area?

Antisocial - Antrax

Just Dream - Carol Decker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hok1cA6CZnk

Welcome to SongStuff Looking forward to your 2nd post!

I’m Gonna Arrive - Selena Gomez

I bet he wore a big hat and paid for your lunch.

I would never force anyone to listen to any song

They're just yanking yer chain JH. You were on the right road all along. You need to be bold and crank that amp up to No.11 man. I know it upsets people and makes dogs bark, but just square it with the missus by offering to do the washing up and tell her shes lost weight.

I've been seeing 'add tags' here on websites for ages. I still dont have the first clue what a tag is. So wot the @*%$ is a tag? and why do they need adding to messages? if they dont need adding to messages, then why are we encouraged to add them? Where does one go to procure a tag from? Its a tag a self perpetuating meme that nobody understands, but everybody pretends that they do so they wont appear stupid, gauche, unsophisticated, naive, guileless and a bit of a div? Are they something I should be concerned with or even alarmed about? I predict that whatever 'tags' are, they will be boring. If that's true, please try to present them interestingly or I'm never gonna catch on. Ta.

Pensive melancholy thoughtful contemplative brooding pondering preoccupied absorbed engrossed. Yep I’m fragile alright. The intensive shift pattern I'm working is partly to blame. So the last day of the rest period may be a Thursday, but it will feel like a Sunday because I'll begin work in the morning. If working on Sunday, I'll drive in and wonder where all the traffic went. I'll probably never see other engineers who work opposite me ever again. They are working the inverse of my shift pattern. Oddly, it may be conducive to making music though. I am making progress again despite suffering ongoing jet lag like disorientation. Having 4 or 5 days off in a row is certainly helping me record. Yesterday I completed the recording of my instrumental 'Flamingo'. This is a major landmark for me. It was begun when I was in my 20s. I'm in my 60s now. Its only 5 minutes long, but it has undergone steady changes throughout a period of about 30+ years. Parts of it came and went (were lost through neglect or purging). It was in constant a state of flux. Always changing with only a couple of core themes to anchor it to. After buying my Camps spanish guitar, I worked on Flamingo in earnest. This was the voice it needed. Within a couple more years I finally completed the tune. That is, I formed it into a fixed (well, 98%) and repeatable piece of music. Since then I tried to record it a couple of times, but its my most technically demanding instrumental, and the Camps is my most difficult to play guitar. Being a classical guitar, the Camps has a much longer scale, and I had to adjust parts of the left hand technique to suit. I even invented a new technique to straddle frets, because my fingers could no longer stretch far enough. I gave up the task of recording twice. I couldn't get a good enough take. I had another try this week and could not get the mics working successfully (a Shure SM58 and a Shure Unisphere). Before abandoning the attempt I thought I would try using the Yamaha Silent. This is a nylon strung practice instrument that uses a piezo pickup. Its still a classical guitar with the long scale & wide flat fretboard, but it isn't acoustic. I got a performance I was satisfied with (still with flaws though) in a mornings work. It was certainly easier than using the Camps, but I was unsure how the sound quality would hold up on the Yamaha. Well it doesn't sound as rich, and you can hear the piezo sound too. Being a simple single instrument, I was bolder at tweaking the EQ and choosing a mastering toolset. Reverb also helped a lot too. But I'm enjoying the way it sounds. So its done at last. True, it was always a complete mess as a composition, but then it isn't a composition. It was never written. It was never arranged. It just evolved. Maybe I should just stick to acoustic guitar instrumentals. I've been steadily turning down the gain on my electric for years now. I'm never happy with my vocals. I cant play bass, keys nor drum. It makes good sense.

I see. Ok thanks for explaining. But in my several attempts to find guitar/vocal/ etc. I went to guitar (articles/tutorials) and found this at the foot of it. They also appear to be links, but seem broken. I tried to follow one which produced the whizzy doughnut of infinity.

yep thats exactly where I looked...

I tried to find the guitar forum. I went around in circles, logged in twice but kept being directed to tutorials/articles. Is it the same for drums, keys etc? Are these forums now removed?

Its a unaccompanied guitar instrumental. Yes I have separate tracks on the song I posted the link for. Be glad to work on your song John. Will it be from here or a different part of forum?

I do have a new recording of just one guitar, though if I've done it right, should be a stereo track I can save it out as WAV I think. Any good? Otherwise I can try to do a similar thing with my recently finished guitar+vocal that I added to Showcase?

I will at least give it a try

What are those?