Sound: Now Accepting Pro Tools 11

Just about 10 minutes ago I ordered my first ever copy of Pro Tools (which I keep typing "Pro TOols"). That isn't to say that I have no experience with manipulating audio on computers. I do, and lots of it, making music and mixing multi-track recordings over the years in Cubase, Live, Reason, Reaper, Sound Forge and Audacity.

Competition entry: Mayones / Seymour Duncan

Just made a video for an entry into a competition to win a hand built Mayones Custom regius 7 string guitar with Seymour Duncan pickups. The concept is best solo wins the guitar and the top 5 get a set of Seymour Duncan pickups of their choice. The backing track was some pretty heavy metal stuff and provided by Keith Merrow.

I'm no shredder, but I'm feeling pretty good about the melodic content

Here's my video:


Thanks for watching

Taking on Windows 8

You might be asking yourself if Windows 8 is going to be the OS that you've been waiting for; with all of it's new productivity and efficiency upgrades, or, is it, with it's "Metro" UI, an incomplete transition into touch based desktop and laptop computing, which represents little of what Windows users liked about the previous OS and then also not that much of what the future may hold for Microsoft's next generation of OS?

Gear Review: Roland R-26 Portable Recorder

Just arrived this week, a shiny new Roland R-26 portable recorder. This little device has the best and most complete feature list of anything on the market in this form factor. Compared with the ubiquitous Zoom H4n, the Roland R-26 is quite simply another level above, putting it close to devices in the 4+ channel recorder segment. In my five hours with the device since I got home from work, and then charged some AA batteries, I've only been impressed with how it performs. The depth and quality of features on show is quite astounding. I would put it right at the top of the pecking order of portable recorders available right now.

Site Updates 2-10-2012

I've made a few small updates to the site:

Additions to the Photography galleries available from the link in the tab bar:

The new galleries are not the most recent photo's but should have been on here a fair while ago.

The first is a collection of images from a feature film I did sound on, called Looking over the Dragon; and two music concerts I went to quite a while ago now. ATP presents the Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. at Alexandra Palace; and Dorje with the Drills at The Boileroom in Guildford:

As a side note, all of those thumbnails were also produced using Adobe Photoshop Touch on my Android tablet. As I've stopped using "trial" versions of the desktop edition of Photoshop, this cut down £7 release does 90% of everything I need to do using Photoshop. In the coming weeks I might put together a quick review of the app as it's really a very powerful tool for creating and editing web graphics on the go.

The second update I've done is under the Services tab, where I've listed a selection of things that I can do for you. The list isn't exhaustive but should give a general idea of my skill set and what I can bring to your projects.