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GPL? LPL? or commercial? Do you have any Software programming experience?
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What's it to be, then? A Uni project or a personal interest?
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As a band manager, you will require as many communications methods that are available; remaining online while out and about should provide you with e-mail, phone and internet access for research etc. Have a look at the blackberry phone...
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Just to fortify what John said; try experimenting with effects on your vocals at an early stage. Compression & a touch of gated reverb is a nice start. What do you have planned for the timing of each track? A metronome? Sequencer?
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If a manager is doing his job properly, he will enhance every aspect of a band. This includes image, quality, integrity, persona, relationships, and wages He should also be out there promoting the band and communicating all of the above to the customer; for the cash. All too often, managers take great pride in running an establishment their own way for their own personal gratification; this could be to feed their ego, line their own pockets with cash, exploit their position for social activities, ... and so on and so on... so if anyone signs up a manager, make sure you interview him and that he signs a contract. The contract should include a clause that specifies expected targets over a period of time.
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Lovely day, Bill Withers http://invisiblesparks.vox.com/library/aud...1212bb4cd5.html
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Yeh! The points you make seem obvious, John, but I think that is because I have just read them If anything, I will be spending much more time when writing lyrics now. But I think the critique is an absolute must. The language that the critique is written in should be as diverse as possible. Maybe a musical babel fish translator could allow conversions, or maybe forum members could do the same thing? "Da bass is kikn' man" or, "The harmony and counterpoint, particularly at the lower octave regions, provided excellent tonal quality during the piano-forte section." or simply, "Turn up the f*$%&ng bass! I can hardly hear it!!"
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Spirit int The Sky, by Norman Greenbaum
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Free ones: I use the ARP2600 simulation & Rebirth. get them @ KVR
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Actually, this guitar VST is amazing! http://www.steinberg.de/169_1.html
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This one is great. http://www.vstdev.com/absolute_steinway.asp VST instruments are becoming more and more popular since they can reproduce almost any synth / real instrument at a fraction of the cost. Having a steinway for $99 can't be bad, but if you check out the prices of digital pianos and compare the sound quality; there's no comparison. If you find a plugin but don't want to pay the dosh, then search for it on ebay; it's a 90% bet it will be there! Another great site to listen to some VST demos. These guys invented VST. The column on the left has lots of different types of instruments to preview http://www.steinberg.de/687_1.html
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For popular songs: --------------------- I simply concentrated my efforts on a catchy chorus; so the words and music were constantly changing until the hook was sharp enough. The title influenced the chorus words greatly. pop choruses are normally upbeat, so to keep the mood of the listener upbeat, I kept the topic positive for a feel good factor. Then hopefully the listener would be waiting for the chorus bit. The verses, I made downbeat. And the mood was reflected as negative in the words. The final verse is all important: it has to be upbeat to bring the listener totally out of the dulldrums. The majority of pop listeners want to feel good I suppose. As an example: ------------------ Verse 1: "He's a cheating bastard" Chorus: "But I feel really good, la, la, la" Verse 2: "He picks his arse in bed and it niffs" Chorus: "But I feel really good now he's gone, la, la, la" Verse 3: "Here's how much better off I am, and why I feel good" Chorus: "But I feel really good, la, la, la" ... and fade out
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Adding any range of frequencies together can always result in what is called "beat frequencies". And some of these frequencies can be quite low. Speaker systems, however, can be classified in 2 grades for simplicity; high freq and low freq. low freq are driven by the woofer / base bin / the large cone. So 100Hz + 150 Hz will yield a meaty 50 Hz hum through the base bin. Not very nice. The same beat frequency can be created by adding 10000 Hz and 10050 Hz. But this time the beat frequency is played out of the tweeter (much lower power and also very poor response at low freq). So you wont hear it at all. Incedently, the pre-amp for the headphone socket on devices like iPods etc, use beat frequencies to give you base. The little plugs that go in your ear are too small to deliver true sub-1000Hz frequencies, so they choose 2 frequencies beyond the audible hearing range, add them together, and the result is a "beat" of the low frequency.
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Sure. I can see your point completely. But an iPod in my opinion is a fossil in the grand scheme of things and is billions of digital cycles out of date. Take a look at this device... MP4 video. I would imagine the customer will want to exploit the video capabilities of this device along with the extremely high quality sound. An WiFi gives them a great portal to other devices and the net. All musicians have to do is provide the content. http://www.archos.com/products/video/archo...bal&lang=en
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I agree that pop music uses the video/music package, which is what the customer wants; or at least the majority of the lemmings who do not have the brain capacity to diversify from the top 20 shelf in a record store. However, all musicians need to prevail. And to do this they need to sound good. And to sound good, they need to purchase good equipment. And in this current climate, to make money from music, requires biting the bullet sometimes and producing the package. There have been several indi bands that pushed their way onto the top shelf. But now the record shops may have to take a back seat while the internet provides fair trading for us all. How about looking at the video package from a completely different angle all together? The combination of artistic imagery and another musical artists' song enhances the experience of the song using more senses. But the core driving force of the package is the song itself.
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sure. hopefully my system will arrive at the weekend. Mt plan is to bind "wine" onto one processor and use the other processor for the 64studio applications. PCIE x16 should allow me to get 64 track hard disk recording. And the 'wine' side of things should allow me to run windows applications; eg cubase, VST plugins etc I remain optimistic...
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Unfortunately, this is too easy I will be using 3 mics and triangulating over a distance of up to 10m; this will allow me to add dimension to the wind effect after much processing.
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Ok. This is a really cool download. Basically, this ISO image will turn a crappy dust covered PC into a 64-Bit recording studio. Providing you have a decent audio card plugged in, you will get great results from this package. In short, it installs it's own operating system on to your computer. This operating system is not windows and has been written specifically for real-time music applications. It's a version of Linux called Debian. For best results, a new dual core AMD 64-bit processor board is required. VST instruments support too! To get it all for free you can become a beta tester. Or you can hand over a wedge ( a lot cheaper than buying Microsoft's OS + software etc. ) When I get my 64-Bit MBoard, I'll let you all know how this baby drives... woops, forgot to add the link. http://64studio.com/wiki/
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Great! Thanks, John. The tights method is a great idea; they even have grades of thickness for them. Anyway, these winds are really quite gusty and can come from all directions, so hiding round the corner is not an option. And since I want to capture all of the wind's attributes, I will be out in the open completely. Incedently, I will be recording 4 to 8 tracks of the wind real-time, so I really need a low cost solution. Thanks again.
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Does anyone have any bright ideas for recording wind? Apparently it's going to be really windy this weekend, gusts of up to 70mph. I want to record the storm outdoors but recently had no luck stopping pops in the mic. One suggestion was to put the mic in a box, but sure enough this sounded like wind in a box! Any ideas?
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Since media devices are becoming more and more available for music, video and pictures, should the artists concentrate more on video production to promote or even sell their music? Bandwidths are rising fast on technology such as WiFi which means the consumer can stream music and video together. Will music evolve into a package consisting of music and imagery due to the digital revolution?
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lots of free VST plugins... a lot of them from cover disks. The moog plugin is great! http://www.madtracker.org/plugins.php
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Sorry Lazz; virtual alcohol is still a myth
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here's the link... http://www.winehq.com/
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Hey all you Linux ppl; this download called 'Wine' is pretty cool for running Windows based applications on a Linux OS.
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