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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Supposed to be "self-learning" from home on new products I am expected to deliver training on next year. So far I have watched videos on Tibetan Sky Burial' date=' trawled Debemur Morti productions Bandcamp catalogue, done some washing and drawn one process map! Yeah, learning loads.[/quote'] How about a Sky Burial, I'm not sure what your company is into, but if you could convince them that sky burial was a good thing to get into, I could see a market for it in the west. Who would not like to have their flesh eaten by birds, it seems kind of majestic. I for one am excited about green burials, and that one seems pretty green to me. What is a Process map? Is it a sort of flow chart?
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Yes' date=' I agree! Please share some stuff.[/quote'] How much would you say a recording system and necessairy accompanying products cost? I'm trying to estimate the size of the expenses it will take to eventually make and record stuff. I've already spent 2.400USD on my new cello. Furthermore, a decent bow is going to rob me of 200-800USD and let's not forget an amp and perhaps even pedals. Anyway, once I've roughly calculated all the costs, I can start planning it out.
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How much would you say a recording system and necessairy accompanying products cost? I'm trying to estimate the size of the expenses it will take to eventually make and record stuff. I've already spent 2.400USD on my new cello. Furthermore' date=' a decent bow is going to rob me of 200-800USD and let's not forget an amp and perhaps even pedals. Anyway, once I've roughly calculated all the costs, I can start planning it out.[/quote'] If you have a computer, you'll need recording software, an audio interface, a microphone, and monitor speakers. A barebones beginner's setup with one or two channels will cost about $500-600 depending on what you choose. For a similar setup with better components that will take you longer to outgrow, more like $800-1000. The sky's the limit. What are your goals? How many people will you record at once and what will your recordings be used for? Will you be mixing all of your own material, as well? Edit - I'm looking at a Musician's Friend catalog now and you can get an entry level "bundle" of recording gear for $200. The only piece of gear in there that I'm familiar with is the microphone, which is pretty much crap, but still somewhat usable. Considering that, with tax and shipping, and a personal license for Reaper, you'd only come in around $300 to get started, I would say that it's worth it even if you did have to upgrade equipment after a couple of years. I put about a grand into recording hardware twelve or thirteen years ago, and while I still have some of the gear, the system as a whole probably didn't sound as good as this new stuff will. Technology has come a long way. You can get good results with standalone multitrack recorders, but I'd personally only recommend them if you need mobility.
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What are your goals? How many people will you record at once and what will your recordings be used for? Will you be mixing all of your own material' date=' as well?[/quote'] Those are some of the many questions to which I haven't got an answer yet. I come from a purely acoustic background, so I still have a long road to go if I really want to get familiar with recording processes and their possibilities. Time to study up...
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I'm no longer writing for Unholy Music. The reasons for that are varied and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I haven't really spoken to the site owner about it' date=' we've just stopped talking.[/quote'] Bummer. Are you still interested in writing reviews? It seems like the kind of thing I'd get burned out on fairly quickly.
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Bummer. Are you still interested in writing reviews? It seems like the kind of thing I'd get burned out on fairly quickly.
That's actually part of why I'm not doing it anymore. Remember how I talked previously about disliking putting a numerical rating on albums? Well, that grew more and more difficult for me, and then recently, I googled a band that I had given a negative review, and my review was the fourth result. It's been shared on Facebook tons and tons of times. And you know what, I felt guilty for it. Who am I to pass down judgement like I'm some kind of expert? It just started to bother me. When you combine that with the fact that I wasn't really happy with the direction the owner was taking, and especially the way he was treating certain people who would approach him asking to be reviewed on the site, it really just didn't seem worth it anymore. I'm glad I did it when I did and got a chance to interview NTNR and BAN, and I hope that helped them out some. I'd actually still really enjoy doing write-ups and interviews, but that doesn't seem to be what the owner wants.
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I quite enjoy writing album reviews. Admittedly I like most of the albums I review which makes things easier.
Right! See what I would actually really like to do is have a site where I took demo submissions and albums from lesser known groups, and only actually wrote reviews for what I liked (without numerical scores!). That way I would feel like I'm giving people exposure, not being a "music critic".
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