Nov 13, 2024 | General, Hints and tips, Recording, Studio
I’ve been doing quite a lot more mixing for other people recently, where they are recording using a DAW, editing it themselves and then sending the mixes to me to finish. The one thing I think I’ve noticed more than anything else is bad audio edits....
Oct 30, 2023 | Music, Recording, Studio
Since moving to the Netherlands I’ve not been doing much live work; mostly to spend the first few months of post-lockdown normality learning about my adopted home country, but of course it also has to be said that 700 miles is a long way to drive for some of the...
Oct 22, 2021 | General, Hints and tips, Motorcycle
…or: “This post will only be of interest to about 6 people” After being in the Netherlands for almost four months, we finally got our belongings sent out from the UK. Along with winter clothes, boxes of family photographs and all my guitars, came...
Aug 30, 2021 | General, Public Gigs
I guess we’ve all got a 2020 story, and while there’s a lot that everyone in the world shared, I know that it affected everybody differently. Aside from the horror story of how many people have lost their lives (or their loved ones), our day to day lives...
Jul 11, 2020 | General, Hints and tips, Music, Recording, Studio
A friend of mine has just started using Audacity because his ageing hard disk recorder has given up the ghost. Audacity is a pretty good way of experimenting with digital recording and editing without the expense of a full on digital audio production program, because...
Oct 22, 2018 | Bands, General, Recording
This year has been quite a busy one for me, with three albums released to which I’ve contributed. Space Elevator II, and Blake Shake’s Funk Biscuit are out now and Toneheadz’s Taboo Guitar coming very soon. Playing live has always been my passion...
