@eclectic spOOns wrote:Not sure if my first post should be a review

I'm sure no-one would object if you only posted reviews. Not me for one anyway.

blue wrote:i highly recommend recording vox without monitoring the voice.

I had heard from somewhere that just having headphones over one ear helps the vocalist keep in tune, though I hadn't considered trying not monitoring the voice at all. I shall give it a go, I need all the help I can get

Cheers for all the feedback. I think I may continue to use the Sennheisers for vocals and 'let it bleed' until they finally clap out completely. For recording acoustic against a click track I'll follow Kamakura's suggestion and use my in-ear Sonys which I'd forgotten about.

I'm on the lookout for a new set of headphones for recording vocals. My open existing Sennheisers have got somwhat battered by many a wine-tinged recording sesion and they leaked terribly due to their open design. What I'm after is a reasonably priced set of cans that have fair reproduction and reas...

j$ wrote:I am suspicious.

I concur. I want my 5 'fans' named, shamed and punitively pilloried in public.

Nice to see the Turin Brakes naming an album after my meeting with Roymond though

j$ wrote:The Gary Wilmots -
Half-cut Is The Cheapest
An A.A.D. recorded New Year's Day, 2006

Just listened to it in amazement. I thought you were badly hungover.

Exceptional work, I really enjoyed it and particularly 4, 5 and 8. I have to say 7 made me smile hugely too.

Anti-M Nice Spartan opening to the fight. The dynamic changes are done very well with the basic instrumentation and I like the fact you didn’t feel the need to pad the song out as others have done in the past. Brent Seavers I like this a lot. Despite the logical issues raised earlier and the Cock...

The Red Door by The Masters of Grip It started deep down inside So small, no need to hide Then it grew as part of you Inch by inch, many from few Then too large to be ignored Into your mind its evil bored You looked it in the eye Is that your best I heard you cry Chorus You always knew, exactly wha...

j$ wrote:

Edge of LA wrote:Master of Grip
... Reminds me of J$

Hey, Andy, I'm not sure which of us should be more offended

Offended? I was taking it as a compliment.

melvin wrote:Of Science and Numbers: I can’t quite place where that intro/chorus melody is borrowed from

I would venture "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" by The King.

Bjam wrote:Andy Balham
The claps are pretty fun. Or whatever those things are.

They are indeed hand claps. Any rumours we were slapping our arse cheeks are way off the mark

The Masters of Grip are being wheeled out of the retirement home as we speak. Through the red door of course...

...ten!

Klownhole
I like the bit when you start corpsing after mentioning monkey’s butts. This starts to remind me of Derek and Clive’s “Worst jobs I ever had sketchâ€

nine reviews! :( Make that nine and a half :) Anti-M I like the internal rhyme on the blue in ‘blue sky’ and the little tag-on lines. The wavering instrument in the back is nice too. Is it a saw? All round a pretty song. Bjam There’s a nice mellow feel to this that is slightly broken for me w...

But on Wednesday I'm getting all my wisdom teeth and four other teeth out(that's 8 teeth, like a quarter of my mouth. Feel my pain :() I've been there too. I had to have 16 of my first teeth taken out (in two sets of eight) and then another 4 when I got my second teeth. I actually started getting u...

blue wrote:why did this get moved to monkies biz

My mistake for originally posting it in here whilst somewhat tipsy

I have a set of Yamaha DD55 rubber pads at the moment. Damn me another closet drummer. Indeed so. Did you not see me enviously eyeing the kit when we rehearsed? I'm assuming that you can't have a real kit, cause if you can and buy anything else you're nuts. Indeed I can't and indeed I would. I may ...

The Sober Irishman wrote:The TD8 kit is a great buy. My warehouse guy used one of those sets (with real cymbals swapped for the fake ones) on his album, and they sound fricking great.

They do indeed and I have a set courtesy of Mastercard! Now to keep time

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Reviews to come, responses to trollesque behaviour to cease...

I'm in for 'Other Places I Have Lived'. All I can say is J$ made me do it. Him and the spirit of the blues. Oh and some wine too.

Enjoy/endure!

Thanks for all the ongoing advice folks. As a resident of Blair's rip-off Britain I'm looking at roughly the sterling equivalent for all this stuff. That said, it sounds like the very least I want is a Roland it wish a mesh head snare. If my new company ever pay up then I might just go for the TD8 w...

Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) please. I find myself pondering how Johnny Cash or Elvis would have delivered it. Have you ever heard the Sisters Of Mercy's version? It's pretty funny. I would love to hear it as dyed in the wool Sisters fan. I've been practising it tonight in a few differe...