I've had the Zed R16 since last May, and it absolutely rocks. Beg, borrow or steal. Using VSTs as if they're hardware inserts is sick, and mixing on it is a piece of cake. There's a big batch with a manufacturing defect, the only drawback. My firewire board died and it's getting serviced, so I've be...

How do you chaps go about promoting tracks once they're up?

the only things you probably wont have, are expensive pro-quality tube EQ's and dynamics processors How about an acoustically designed room and £10k monitors? I'm a firm believer in having my reputable mastering engineer giving a track that "last 5%" of 'in your face' sonic portability, s...

I'm not sure how having a hard on would alter the experience of seeing your mate band play though? different strokes for different folks I guess haha. I'm happy to report viagra's never had that effect on me - that would have been a slightly odd night out I agree, i find it's more of a get-up-n-go ...

I've collaborated over gmail/yousendit for composing to video, though for music I would go with setting up a Gmail drive you can both have access to and an instant messenger with voice chat capability: then you can play your low bit rate 'rough draft' "do you like this?" sounds over the IM...

ha! Didn't make any music that night, alas, instead I hoofed a viagra and went to see my friend's band play in shoreditch. I think some inspiration needs to come from collaborating. I had my friend over last week, and we were sampling Predator and playing our favourite quotes at each other on old Ya...

yeah some really groovy ideas here!
well done.

Sounds great too. Nice use of contrasts and blending.


I'd certainly like to hear some more tracks from you!

This is something that's affected me recently. Since I began making more polished compositions, it's raised my standards to the point where I just switch off what I'm working on - because I know that for the last X amount of hours, I've not pushed the track any further than the initial 20-30 minutes...