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Digital Economy Bill – Insane Law

Digital Economy Bill – Insane Law

There has been a huge surge and outcry at the pushing through of the Digital Economy Bill through parliament which was today made law!
This insane practice by the UK government, from pressure via Music Industry lobbyists has shown how corrupt the current government and inept the Conservaties and Liberal Democrats are.
This week the term #debill [...]

Stu Hamm – Bass Clinic

Stu Hamm – Bass Clinic

One of my resolutions for the past decade has been to engage myself more with the live music scene, something I desperately want to do, but find time and money to be two of my most immediate hurdles.
As a part-time hobby musician – playing bass guitar in a live band, and tinkering around with some [...]

Freakshowcial Media Mania

Freakshowcial Media Mania

Dramatic blog post titles aside, I’ve been quite busy this weekend attempting to get an OK’ish mix of 3 tracks online for the band.
I’ve been using Cubase since buying the Saffire unit, and am very happy with the results it gives me, but still find it incredibly challenging to get the mixes done satisfactorily with [...]

Audio Overload

Audio Overload

Longplayer LIVE
I’m a keen follower of many twitter users, especially those that are quite embedded within the social media movement. One of the users I’ started following soon after the G20 protests was Christian going by the twitter username of @documentally. It was through his ‘tweets’ that I responded to:
Twitter is a great medium to [...]

My Eco Wedding

My Eco Wedding

I recently got married and organised the wedding with my now wife, we wanted it to be as eco and green, so we decided on using as many Ethical Junction companies as we could for the the big day, there is a little write up about it on Ethical Pulse – the EJ [...]

Sustainable Bass Guitar Project – part 2

Eco Bass Guitar – Illustrator Overlay (A4)Originally uploaded by spiritquest
I received some sketches of the body shape this week, I’m really liking the new headstock design.
I will probably need to do some research on the ergonomics of guitars myself, along with some alterations to help find a shape that I’m totally comfortable with.
I always have [...]

Sustainable Bass Guitar Project

Sustainable Bass Guitar Project

It was on a impromptu trip to the London Music Show in 2007 that did 2 major things for me.

It got me playing the bass with my old band again.
I met Simon Lee, a guitar maker, and my road towards building a sustainable bass guitar was under way

Image courtesy of Simon Lee Guitar – Panola [...]

Bass Pedals

My Pedal Set Up Originally uploaded by spiritquest
It was a couple of weeks ago that I took this picture. I’ve always been deliberating over my bass sound. And the most ‘bass oriented’ move i’ve made in years, outside of fitting new pickups and active system on [...]

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