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Ah yes... there's no better way to learn than by watching a step-by-step video tutorial!
If you thought TheWhippinpost had been pretty quiet this week... for good reason my friend, for good reason!
The new Windows Vista operating system from Microsoft is basically upon us now. So I've spent a fair number of hours trawling through a small mass of Microsoft techno-babble (around 2 years worth FFS!!) to get a grasp of what goodness - if any - there is in store for us computer-musicians... 'cos let's face it, sooner or later, most of us will be confirmed "Vistarians"!
Making music has just become a little easier with TheWhippinpost's latest new section, simply called; Answers.
That's right my knowledge-thirsty music-freaks with no lives; after several hours of programming, and with the help of Yahoo's freely available 'Answers' API service, TheWhippinpost fired hundreds of music-making questions at it, and gathered together all the answers - as submitted by Yahoo's community - into one place.
Kicking-off with 10 digestible nuggets of sound mixing essentials you should be practicing when either shaping sounds or balancing the mix.
You might know all, or some of these tips already - cool - They've been chosen however, because they are the ones we most-often let slide from our realm of thoughts when dancing-with-the-fairies in laa-laa-land (Note: I'm talking about you here - I've personally never been to laa-laa-land, preferring STRICTLY HETERO nightclubs instead, HTH).
In furtherance of yesterday's plea urging GoDaddy to do the right thing for Maddie, I felt it would be remiss of TheWhippinpost to not equally do the right thing and say, big-up GoDaddy.
GODADDY - MONEY ASIDE: DO THE RIGHT THING FOR MADELEINE
There is something smelly about this - The smell of money.
[UPDATE: GoDaddy did the right thing - Matter closed. Thanks to everyone who got in touch. Bo!]
90 per cent. of musicians are not millionaires—they earn about £15,000 a year from their royalties.
Michael Connarty - Labour MP, Falkirk East.
40,000 musicians and 3,500 record labels (that number seems large, to me) have apparently signed a petition to increase the length of time copyright exists on their art... and by extension, of course, the duration over which royalties are paid.
You'll rarely read posts from me urging you to check out an artist at all costs - In fact, this is the first time I believe. But when I do, you should take it seriously.
If you're reading this before Friday 30th March 07, go to Mary Anne Hobbs' BBC Radio 1 "Listen Again" page and immediately click on the "5 mins" button, four times (to fast-forward 20 minutes into the show).
Completely by chance, I got to meet with the legendary "era-defining" international DJ of house music, Jon Da Silva (Actually, it's Dasilva but you'll most likely see it written on flyers as Da Silva).
Here's a list of Windows Vista-compatible sound cards, as compiled by the good folks at IeXwiki, with comments where appropriate. I've also included what they list as incompatible - but workable - and the just plain incompatible.
