So I've got this really cool Digitech RP255 guitar pedal. It's even got an embedded audio interface, so I can plug it into the computer using a USB cable and record straight into Reason Essentials with very low latency. It's awesome ( Read more... )

Having lots of fun at the moment - I joined the Edinburgh Samba School's beginners course, and I'm still drumming at Puff Uproar in Falkirk.

Puff Uproar tonight was great: we're covering a modified version of Nantes by Beirut. Normally we've got three surdo (bass) drummers, but this week we only had two, so I was covering two parts by using a ( Read more... )

The festival was the Hydro Connect music festival in Inverary - thanks to my dad knowing Alex Kapranos' father, my sister and I got day tickets to the Sunday of the festival to see Franz Ferdinand play. With less than a week's notice, I somehow managed to wangle Monday morning off from work - big props to my manager for giving me that, given that ( Read more... )

Just tried Audacity for the second time. The first time I'd tried it was several years ago, when I was trying out Linux and looking for an open source audio editor. I opened it, tried a couple of simple tasks, got irritated at the primitive and ugly interface, and eventually gave up in frustration ( Read more... )

For once, I have the perfect userpic for this post :)

I just joined Fiesta Fusion, an amateur street band that I saw at the Big In Falkirk festival. They were pretty cool at the festival - and they had a guy with a sousaphone! - so I asked if they were recruiting, and was told "Give us your email address, and we'll email you when we have auditions ( Read more... )

I'm feeling pretty musical these days - having all my music stuff set up any time I want to use it helps immensely. I have two fully-produced songs to release at once, for the first time in a very, very long while ( Read more... )

Less than a week til my driving test. I'm starting to get a bad case of nerves: I've failed twice already, gave it up for years, and I've just recently picked it back up again. I really don't feel ready, not after my mock test last week where I got four major faults and a few minors. I have another mock test at 9am, I can't sleep, and since I ( Read more... )

Well, the exam went alright ( Read more... )

I mentioned a music project earlier ( Read more... )

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I'm becoming increasingly tempted to buy a violin: either from that page, or (apparently) Biggars sells second-hand violins, which I might also have a look at ( Read more... )