Here is my latest CD of my home recorded songs, called Some Day Soon. Check out my profile on Myspace. I recorded these songs on a Sony laptop, a Shure SM-58 mike, a Line 6 Tone Port, a Taylor acoustic, and a Fender stratocaster between September 2006 and June 2007. I mixed them for headphones. [...]
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I spent all morning getting the house ready for propective buyers and estate agents, and headed to the gym at 10am. Since then, I’ve been trying to improve the recording of Looking Back. The way of recording the acoustic through the mike and the Toneport just didn’t work, so I recorded a new guitar track [...]
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I just recorded another songwriting podcast, The Riff, with the latest ccMixter.org remix of my song Don’t Know What I’m Doing by Slumberlords. Also, I updated the lyrics and recording of I’m Not Strong Enough. The fourth podcast also has the seedlings of a new song.
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It’s the warmest Easter in the UK I can remember, which is great for being outdoors, but not so great for sitting at the PC blogging. Here’s my second guitar. It’s a Hohner Fender 65 strat copy from 1981, almost certainly made in Fender’s Japan factory, but I’d have to dismantle it to find the [...]
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I started podcasting The Friction Fiction Show from the basement of my home in Reading, UK February 2006. I listened to lots of podcasts, and thought that a scripted podcast about fiction on the internet was needed. A year and 37 episodes on, the show has evolved into a weekly dose of alternative music downloaded [...]
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