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Great stuff Finn. Do I detect an interest in writing about Music? I could swear that looks like an article in the making;) Cheers John

Thanks Nigel! I'm off to check it out....

Hey Finn Have you heard back from any more of the labels? Cheers John

Very good. I won't need to eat until 2005.

Hey Wendy Thanks for the info. I'll drop by and check it out. Did you have a good Christmas? Cheers John

Hey Wendy Sounds interesting! Is this a song plugging service. or deal brokers or something like that? I guess I wondered how the songs/artists are presented to the labels. Do you know what labels they pitch to? Labels in US, UK or elsewhere? Cheers John

Hey The SM57 can work with or without phantom power. It depends on the output connectors from your mixer, and the input to your soundcard. Assuming a standard set of connectors, your mixer outputs are 'phono' connectors, and your soundcard intputs will either be two phono left and right connectors or a stereo mini-jack (more common). In the first case you just need a phono cable. In the second case you need a phono cable and a phono to stereo mini-jack converter. Cheers John

My guess is that dumbblond is studying music technology in some form..... muisc science, not rocket science : unless of course you mean making a sound like a rocket.

Thanks Tim! I'm off for a look...

To be honest you are lucky they responded at all. Maybe I should write a new article on options, and strategies that artists could follow. As for a manager or producer, at this stage I wouldn't be too keen on giving away 10 - 20%. Just a thought. Cheers John

Finn Come on dude, what happened? Cheers John

Hi What is your favourite effect / processor, and which could you not do without? (They don't need to be the same!) Cheers John

Unlucky John I suppose at least your older material is there. In the days before CDR, and you could basically back up to floppies, I lost 3 years worth of work when my hard disk fried. I was gutted. I know I could have used the floppies, but to be honest I would have need about 300 of them, and I didn't have the cash! Or I thought the time... A sad tale I'm sure but losing you work is REALLY frustrating. Olggu, sorry you had to re-format. I feel responsible for the whole sad sorry hacking thing, after all, I coded the site (Ok not the forum, but there you go). I know there's feck all I could have done, but I still feel responsible. Obviously I'm glad you're up and running again (I believe Rudi's machine is still offline). John I hope you get your material back soon! Cheers John

Hi I found this article, which discusses wether piracy is responsible for the digital music boom... Digital Music Boom Cheers John

John Aren't PC's fun? Hope you get it sorted soon! Cheers John

Hey Katie For me it's digital. I recorded in analogue for many years, and there are aspects I miss, but the quality and flexibility of digital wins out. At the end of the day most distribution media is digital, so a digital conversion will happen anyway. The main thing I miss about analogue, in my current set up, is the tactile interface. Because many parts of the modern digital signal chain can use the same common knobs, buttons and displays as their interface, the lack of immediacy of dedicated interfaces slows down the creative flow. At least for me it does. Cheers John

Hey What about Photoshop Elements? (I think that's what it is called...) A cut down version of photoshop. BS, I use linux as a test web server, and I have soundblaster live card that I've never tried with it. Can you recommend any music applications to use in Linux? Cheers John

Woah Well spotted Nigel! I've contacted my service providers and locked down the domains. Cheers John

Hey Finn Good luck! Have you done your homework on the labels? i.e. checked the type of material they are accepting, are they accepting material at all, got the name of people in the A&R dept, tried to make an appointment? It's worth making the effort, and all it takes is a few phone calls. It could save you the cost of some promo packs and some leg work... Cheers john

The guide for me is simply, it's the end result that matters. Someone can write great songs, and still not be a great singer (Bob Dylan springs to mind...). Now if they can't sing and the end result still sucks (William Shatner :wink: ) then the humilation is usually enough to finish them off! Cheers John

Hey Just a quick post to ask how you're getting on? 'Backed up' the software yet? I think you'll be suprised at just how much you can do. Cheers John

Bong What set up are you going to go for? Cheers John

Hey Chris Dave gas made some great points but I've never had a problem playing PC tracks, and recording a live instrument to the PC. In saying that, since getting my creamware cards I've had no latency issues. Dave also mentions that they can't run VST instruments, there are however lots of synths, samplers, mixers and effects designed for creamware (a fair amount of which you get with the card), and this frees up your CPU for other tasks, including VST instruments. All in all this gives you far more scope. The only reason I mentioned the 3 DSP card is that it would give you an idea of what they can do, without the massive outlay for the larger dsp farm cards. That and if you get one of these cards, you will still be able to link it directly to your 3 dsp card. With Creamware, you can use XLink to hook 3 cards up in the same PC. I believe that also covers 3 of the 15 dsp cards! Although be aware, the more dsps, the more ventilation will be needed, which means more fan noise, so you'll need to invest in an ultra quiet cpu fan and possibly a 2 fan PC case using ultra quiet fans. Cheers John

Hey http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=73220 Cheers John

Hi Welcome to Songstuff! Ok, to have a PC based music system you'll need, or I would recommend: As powerful a PC as you can get with as much RAM as possible. A sequencer prog (Sonar, Cubase etc.) An audio sequencer (Sonar, Cubase etc.) A software sampler prog (there are lots) Software synthesiser progs (plugins for Sonar, Cubase, often called VST instruments, also stand alone progs like re-birth) An audio editing prog (Wavelab, Soundforge etc.) As good a soundcard as you can get. As you are starting out I would recommend an industry standard card, like Sound Blaster Live! or one of the newer Soundblaster cards. With this you get access to Vienna Sound Studio, a software sampler... I hope this helps. I'll drop back and give some advice on creating sounds, and using the progs, but I'm sure you'll get lots of good advice from the others here... Cheers John