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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Captain Bubble[/i] [br]I started recording a song on an ancient and delapidated tape recorder about eight years ago, then soon after I started going with Squeak she lent me a Portastudio and I did a new version on that, drum machine, synth, ukulele and vocals, but could do no more than get it to very rough demo level. Then I bought half decent pc gear about 3-4 years ago and recorded the Porta tracks on to that and used it as the frame to build the song onto, not intended as the final song, just figuring out the parts. Worked on it as well as lots of others, but could never really get it right, and then things started going odd, tracks, disappeared, sound broke up, could not edit tracks etc., but by that time I doubted I would ever be able to recreate what I had managed to record which was starting to get close to what I wanted. Over two years I managed to restore some missing files, and others re-appeared when I turned the pc off and on again. I am not great on computers and virtually sweated bollix getting it sorted. Finally I had a quiet week end, brought in my friend to do a blistering guitar solo on the final chorus. I was very keen that he left 3 gaps at the start of the first and third lines of the chorus, and he thought this was really bad, but when he heard the mix he loved it, and wants me to produce his CD. To complete the song I added a crescendo cymbal roll and very quiet bell sounds on the fade-out, and at 8.30 pm yesterday I mixed it and finished it, the relief and exhaustion was incredible. It has huge flaws, partly due to my having to stitch various out-takes together to complete some missing tracks, and oddly the original Portastudio tracks never returned, but they served their function and are not needed now. It's over 8 minutes of pretentious Prog/Trance, but I am SO chuffed! A great week end's work, I also recorded a ukulele solo track, mixed a couple of others, and now only need to a add trumpet and/or trombone to the middle 8 of one song, then my 3rd CD will be complete...about 6 months sooner than expected. During this Titanic struggle a number of people here have helped me with good advice when things have gone all brooke-bond-divi-apeshirt, so big thanks to all! [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.