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Do you mean the profit from physical sales? Or revenue from royalties? Either way ours all goes into the pot with gig money. We can afford studio time, loads of merch in stock, a few charity gigs, and we still get to take a small bit of money after every gig - the boss manages it all

I'll be there with Headsticks on Thursday and Friday... can't stay for the whole weekend unfortunately but it's such a brilliant atmosphere! I can't wait to get there! I used to love the Star & Garter but I went there to see a hardcore band and got "crowd killed" bashing my head on the floor, so every time I go back I get reminded of it... great venue though, I'll get over it 100 club is great too. Brilliant house kit!!

Well I've been getting great results doubling, tripling, even quadrupling my bass takes. I guess it depends on what sounds you're going for but this is pretty tight metal with a doomy slant and it works very well

Cool, thanks!

I can't count 1 2 3 to it at all! Weird! I figured a way to count it - nod my head as usual, and each time I nod, press a key on my keyboard. 13 key presses per repetition for me. I guess I'm nodding 1/4 notes. Me theory is not up to much so no idea what that means. 13/4 ?

I don't know if this is helpful but for a lot of my recent work I've been double tracking - taking one pass at the song with my clean sound, then another with my dirty sound. It takes a bit of concentration to play it tight enough but it's a much fatter sound than just blending clean and dirty from the same take.

We did Rock City once, supporting Buzzcocks, definitely a highlight for me, I've seen so many huge bands play there, it was quite a honour to be on the stage. I love that venue!!

Saturday night we played at the Sun Inn in Llangollen. We've played it before but I always forget how weird it is. Very friendly staff, great beer, but the crowd always seems thin until 11:30 when they start streaming in wasted. This time was better as there were a bunch in early specifically to see us. The sound on stage is awesome. It's a hollow wooden stage but quite shallow, adding the correct amount of "weight" to the drums. Brilliant night! Even if I did get home at 3AM Sunday night I was on guitar, un-rehearsed, unable to hear my amp properly (should have taken a stand), guitar wouldn't stay in tune, tuner broken, and I was knackered from the night before. The first set was definitely ropey, but after a pint at half time I seemed to pull it together somehow. I guess it helps that we have a great drummer and amazing bassist!

I'd definitely go for 16Gb RAM Any reason you're ruling out AMD CPUs? Whenever I've spec'd a new build I've saved loads of money going for high spec AMDs over Intels To record without latency you need a half decent audio interface and a fast CPU (and keep your VSTs to a minimum)

I always try to have a "riff" or phrase in my head, basically a melody that's the length of whatever the bar is. If I try to split it into sections, or count, I just make a mess of it. For example, I play drums on this track and I have no idea what the time signature is for the main riff EDIT: I'd love to know what timing this is in if anyone can tell me?

ace! Loving the funk sound clip as well

ace!

Hah, thanks

I doubt they'd be allowed left handed violins in orchestras, you'd be poking eyes out left and right!

It looks awesome! Nice one

Yewstock festival on Saturday on drums with Dandelion meow meow. It's always loads of fun with this band. The crowd was a little thin but a few were up dancing. Great sound on stage until the house-bass-amp blew. We had to cut our set short Deerstock yesterday on drums with Headsticks. Awesome sound on stage and it was going really well until they cut the sound as someone had collapsed

I'm sure they said that when I played with them over a year ago - I wonder if they just can't bring themselves to stop. Awesome band anyway

We're generally playing multi-band gigs so as the drummer it generally depends on what the soundman/promoter are forcing me to use, and how long it takes the previous guy to get off. If we're on our own I try to set up my kit while the front man clambers over me trying to put the backdrop up

I always loved his basslines and sound. I couldn't figure out how he got that weird tone until I realised he played an acoustic

There's a venue we've played at a few times, a very small room above a pub. They always promise there will be a sound engineer and a PA but every time we turn up there's 2 knackered old speakers, a 4 channel desk, and one mic, stand and cable. We have to do the sound ourselves. If people turn up it's actually not a bad gig, but we really have to keep volume down so that you can hear the vocals which is very frustrating for me on drums. We all agreed we'd never do it again but I notice it's on the gigs list again for next year

Not sure about The Voicer. On our local musicians' facebook pages we've had loads of posts asking people to audition for X Factor which I've not seen before this year. Maybe there are less applicants

My busiest band is described as Folk-Punk but in my opinion we don't do any folk or any punk. I really don't get it but we do loads of gigs on the punk scene and go down well. I play in a band doing funky dance music with some provocative lyrics, we call that Disco-Punk Another band I play with is backing up a singer-songwriter doing kate-bush style prog-pop, then I play in what I would describe as a "stoner rock band" but some people have called it "desert rock". I play in another couple of pretty heavy bands I would describe as "prog metal" but they sound very different from each other. It's all original music and quite difficult to pin it down to labels people will understand but I just tell them to listen to some and see if they like it

Friday night supporting the Wildhearts, then Saturday night doing a local benefit gig our frontman organised for a friend of ours. Both brilliant gigs but I didn't play well as I was feeling rather ill. No-one else seemed to notice so who cares?! Me! I hate making mistakes.

I got back from Ireland last night. We did 3 nights, Friday in Dublin, Saturday in Dundalk, Sunday in Cork. It all went pretty well and was loads of fun but now I'm absolutely wiped out. I didn't expect it to be so tiring!

Check out my mate's project, it's ace! https://velocity-automated-astronomical-sonic-transmissions.bandcamp.com/