Colin OOOD

51. You read a thread called '40 Signs u spend too much time in your studio' and immediately think of another 10 really cool ones they missed out.

41. You don't hear the words to any of the songs on the radio because you spend all your time working out how many hi-hat samples they use and how long the patterns are. 42. You hear a whooshy noise in a club and shout 'Enigma!' 43. When your friends are DJing at a party you are constantly leaning over the DJ mixer to tweak the eq - 'just to get the best out of the sound system'. 44. When DJing you ALWAYS only run the mixer as loud as the sound engineer says you should. 45. You know exactly how GMS made that sound. 46. Infected Mushroom pester you on MSN for technical advice. 47. You have a bank of your own original sounds for the FM7. 48. You can make your computer speak without using a speech synthesis program. 49. You get to visit the Cistine Chapel and the first thing you do is clap your hands, listen and say, "Hmmmm..." 50. You know the resonant frequency of your girlfriend's foofoo.

You can but I take a while to deliver

Self-explanatory, surely?

My cut is 25%.

LOL I've seen it sell on eBay for £35 but this surprised me indeed. Gotta agree with whoever said it's not worth that much but in the end, things are worth what people are willing to pay for them... however this obviously has nothing necessarily to do with their actual value. Otto: Shhhhhh!

What's 'kecak'?

Please forgive me if this has already been commented on (couldn't find it in the search and don't remember if I discussed this here or on MSN) but: £90!!1!!!onehundredandelevenmilliononehundredandeleventhousandonehundredandsixtyfour What does this mean?

Do it do it do it... ToF put on some of the best psytrance nights in the UK; if you've been to a festival this year you've probably seen their decor. They're a lovely lovely bunch of people too.

I still say Cubase and Logic are used in as many pro studios (big ones included) as Pro Tools though... they have to cater for all their potential clients

SVCHOST is a legitimate part of XP and although it can be hijacked by viruses it often runs perfectly normal processes. On my laptop (internet and live set machine) there are 6 instances running right now; on my main music machine there are 5 instances. I do not have any viruses or trojans on my systems. Careful what you do in Regedit; it's possible to fuck your system up beyond repair (short of FORMAT C:) very easily.

Sorry you've never heard the phrase 'perceived value' or thought about how it applies to studios battling to take bookings from people with no technical knowledge but a library of catch-phrases they've picked up from other studios. And there are plenty of large professional studios who also use Cubase and Logic, as they now have to take mixing work from producers with their own home studios who often use this software rather than just relying on six week lockout album sessions. Surely you knew the features before you bought it? Perhaps something simpler would have suited you from the start? I don't much care about what Logic claims to be, as I'm a PC user, but please can you give a link to somewhere where Steinberg claim that Cubase is a mastering suite? I can find where they say that about Wavelab, but not Cubase. Cool... what Pro-Tools features in particular are you looking forward to using that Cubase doesn't have?

Cubase or Logic are not used in mastering because neither of them are mastering platforms. As for "NO pro recording studio uses Logic or Cubase" you're speaking out of your hat. Pro Tools might be more common but it has nothing to do with sound quality any more, but more to do with studios customers having heard for years about 'Tools and only wanting to book time at studios using software that they have the impression is 'more professional'. M-Audio interfaces use the same converter hardware as PTHD; Cubase SX3 knocks the socks off Pro Tools in both audio and MIDI editing - PT doesn't have offline edit history or even proper plugin delay compensation ffs.

I use PCs; I have no stability or compatibity issues. I know of one well-known producer using a dual-G5 Mac who had to reinstall lots of things and lost some samples just by unplugging a USB flash drive without ejecting it first, something that just isn't a problem on a PC. Swings and roundabouts; I can't think of a single reason why Macs are definitively better than PCs.

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Good luck Andy...

Can you list the VSTs that you found that do this?

Question: Do people buy music because it's good, or because it's been heavily marketed? What about the good music that isn't heavily marketed?

The Orb were never the same after Thrash left IMO. He was a true technical and creative genius, and his mark is all over the Orb's earlier material. True story: In 1995 or 96, Nigel calls me up before we were due to have an OOOD session at my house and asks "if my mate Kris can come and chill while we work"... turns out his 'mate' is Kris Weston aka Thrash, who Nigel has been doing some electronics work for. Kris has escaped London for a few days and is in a foul (yet polite) mood, presumably fuming at how he's been treated by Alex Paterson; he's just shaved his dreads off and wants nothing more, it seems, than to sit in my bedroom studio drinking cider while we prepare for a gig that weekend. The atmosphere in the studio is a little strained - Kris doesn't want to talk much about stuff, and when I ask him if he has any comments on what we're doing (after all, THIS IS ONE OF THE MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR U F fucking ORB!), he politely declines to venture an opinion, saying something to the effect of "hey, it's your music man, I couldn't comment". We all smoke. Kris gets drunk too, as does Nigel. That weekend Nige brings Kris along to the gig we're playing in Oxford Brookes Student Union... more cider, and Kris is seen chasing female students before disappearing for the afternoon.

I can fully recommend the Nord Modular... the Mk1 is cheap as chips now, comparatively, and sounds er... really rather good. No pitch-bend wheel though, which is a little annoying for performances.

My Ensoniq EPS16-PLUS will do transwave stuff with samples if you poke it right. Unfortunately it's been poked too hard for too long and now won't run for more than an hour without crashing

Actually both pics were of my projects - the one with 4 people was OOOD live, and the one with the didge was Voice of Cod. And yes, there are live instruments all the way with both

Do you mean like this, in a 'live act using instruments as a regular part of their show' stylee? http://triskelemanagement.com/pictures/alb...ooodtof/adj.jpg (OOOD live in Zurich, Xmas Eve 2005) Or maybe like this, in a 'live act bringing in additional performers for a special occasion' stylee? http://www.psypix.net/pix/albums/userpics/10088/100_0997.JPG (Voice of Cod at Glade 2006, featuring Paul Didge). Or do I misunderstand the question?

http://triskelemanagement.com/pictures/alb...f/adj.sized.jpg http://triskelemanagement.com/pictures/alb...n/aae.sized.jpg Sun Project live drums are off-beat hihat, snare and crash cymbals, with the occasional fill - not the most timing-critical parts! However they're one of the most 'live' acts I've seen.