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Good luck, my wife’s response was why do you need a guitar pedal when you don’t play the guitar? 😂

7 days later

Here’s my rant of the week. Started rewiring my gear last week to get a proper dub mixing setup going. Works fine while jamming, but for the life of me I can’t get ableton to pull the audio from the mixer. It’s recognized, have the channels set up properly, spent probably 8 hours over a few days watching videos and reading forums trying to solve the problem.

Turns out there’s a setting in the mac security menu to give ableton access to the mic. One click, problem solved. I almost through the entire setup out the fucking window on Friday.

    303abuser …that feeling when it finally bursts through the speakers of momentary relief, and then absolute fury at the time wasted 😆

      …a couple of recent bits that I haven’t shared on here:


        23 days later

        Dan Upgraded to 4 over the holidays. The pattern player is great fun. Do I want a 909 all over every track - of course I do. I can see myself using it as an instrument - recording the performance in isolation and exporting to ableton etc.

        Am sure there are better stem splitters out there, but am absolutely going to use it a ton going forward - for production and mixing on the fly. Integrates well, as you’d imagine, with the S4 I have - with controls to filter individual stems / add effects etc.

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          apyssjw Sadly my MacBook can’t run the bugger.

          The Forever remix of Fields One sounds ace Damo!

            6 days later

            303abuser did you have a crack at the Quivver remix in the end mate?

              erik No, I didn’t have time, unfortunately. Had a label approach me about writing something for them, so I worked that out instead. I still might use the stems for something, I liked the vocals, but the rest didn’t do much for me.

              19 days later

              It took us a year, but Essentia Sound and I finally finished our 3rd album. Sent it for mastering, should be out in April or May. I love the feeling of finishing a project and hearing how it all fits together.

              I’m about half way through another solo album too. Going to try to finish that up in the next couple of months, maybe have it out by fall if things go well.

                I think I’ll have another album finished towards the end of this year, to be mastered and out for the middle of next. I’ll have a handful of single tracks out this year.

                I put this together for the recent bicep remix comp - I only had a couple of weeks, so you can imagine how I feel about it (unfinished!). Also unmastered.

                https://on.soundcloud.com/8X5TspzEXyCCR2HY8

                  apyssjw Nice, looking forward to hearing all of it. Do you find you work pretty steadily or do you finish things in bursts? I tend to need a break once or twice a year, then come back with fresh ears, finish a bunch of tracks pretty quickly, and feel like the music is better for it.

                    303abuser similar peaks and troughs. Definitely get tired of it at times. I work from home now most of the time which has helped enormously.

                    I try and work consistently on ‘music’ but not necessarily in finishing tracks.

                    There are times where I’m bouncing around maybe 10 projects or so and it’ll get to a point where I perhaps concentrate on one of those almost exclusively which will then get driven to a conclusion (until it’s tweaked again when mastering).

                      …multiple albums, crikey, you lot are prolific!

                      I can’t conceive cranking out material at that speed, the last 18 months have been the most (ahem) productive period I’ve had, I reckon I’ve around 15-17 finished tracks/remixes, and maybe 5 or 6 that are almost at the stage where I’ll push them through to completion (plus the standard 20-30 loops/ideas that may or may not ever make it past that point!).

                      Even then though, I’ve never really thought about them in album terms, pretty much all have been made individually, track-by-track… the idea of a series of productions that compliment each other or are created specifically to sit side-by-side is kinda intimidating to me.

                        Mad_Cyril Cheers, it’s a little more eclectic than the last album and not quite as heavy.

                        Henry Lol don’t over-hype it. Anything new from you soon?