Have you ever had a song stuck in your head?

[sapphire]

I'm hoping the thing will just heal itself and the music will come back.

As for the music in the head thing, I did have it looked at by the most prominent ENT in Worcester. His assessment was the same old mantra: there's nothing wrong, stop whining, get back to work. I'm so not impressed. I've known for years that I'm slowly losing my hearing, but each hearing test comes back: oky dokey along with the mantra. Why waste the money if I already know the answer?

[Big and Bashful]

[... I]t is still better than just clicking on a sequencer I suppose.

B.S. Sequencers can be beautiful too. Or, Are you sequenced?

Joking aside, multi-track tape is a wonderous world to explore. I have a 4-track device that I've banged down a few times to good end for eight or ten original sources. The digital realm just makes it easier and -- if you do it right -- lossless.

I was close to ordering a reel to reel 8 track machine, but was forced to see sense, I love mechanical things but this beast makes mixing, adding effects and recording up to 8 simultaneous things ridiculously easy.
Now dug my old keyboard out and faffing about teaching myself the keyboard bits.

[Big and Bashful]

Yes, I get songs in my head, always instrumentals. However my hearing has been sort of on the fritz for ages and the music that I hear is totally the construct of my brain and ears. Totally original. When it first happened, I remember running around the house looking for a radio that had been left on. There wasn't one. It is a strange sensation, not at all unpleasant, just out of the ordinary.

At the moment I just have a very pronounced buzz in my right ear. I injured the eardrum and the music went away.

You sure there isn't a Tangerine Dream album on in the background? The symptoms would be remarkably similar!

[crfriend]

You sure there isn't a Tangerine Dream album on in the background? The symptoms would be remarkably similar!

I blow a whopping big raspberry in your general direction! Tangerine Dream is a favourite of mine.

Congrats, by the way, on the 16-channel device as it must be nice indeed. (One cannot call it 16-track as compu-bits don't have "tracks" in the way that analogue devices do.) The only question is, "How are you going to feed it all at once?" That said, and I'm going to sound like an "old fart" here, one will likely appreciate the new digital devices vastly more once one has had to fight with analogue technology -- and all the basic techniques that make analogue techniques sound good are absolutely applicable to the digital realm (just avoid ballistic-overshoot on the digital meters; that's an analogue-only technique).

[Big and Bashful]

The way I use the mixer, is to record one track at a time, or two for the keyboard which is stereo, you listen to what's on there already and add the new track. It is very easy to punch in or out to add partial tracks. It will take up to 8 simultaneous inputs so if you had a drumset or a band you could make a reasonable job of a full live recording. So far, I am very impressed at how intuitive the machine is to use, and I have hardly started. For instance, each of the sixteen channels has 8 virtual tracks, you can record up to 8 attempts at each part, then edit the best bits out of those 8 attempts to make a good track. I haven't tried that yet. So far, slightly ropy acoustic guitar track, lead and two harmony vocals and a partial keyboard track laid down, thoroughly enjoying it!
I have attached a blurry Iphone photo of mixer, vintage amp to the left (Rotel RA1412), the mixer is sitting on a Rega Planar 3 (I need racks and stands to put things on!). Why is it most of my Hi-Fi is listed as "vintage" on t'internet?

[Milfmog]

Why is it most of my Hi-Fi is listed as "vintage" on t'internet?

Because it does not have a half eaten Apple on the front panel?

Have fun,


Ian.

[sapphire]

Nope. Isn't Tangerine Dream. It started before I heard any of their music.

[skirtingtoday]

On the same theme, anyone remember the group Landscape? They did have a hit with "Einstein-a-go-go" but much of their stuff was electronic synthesised music which I liked.

I have their (LP) album "From the Tea-rooms of Mars..." and have transferred the tracks to mp3 and still enjoy them.

Here is a wiki on them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_(band) (no links to the tracks though )

[Big and Bashful]

I only ever heard that one hit from Landscape, I still like it!

[Gregg1100]

My stuck in the head tune is Shostakovich's Second Waltz, played by Andre Rieu and his orchestra. Unforgetable, by me anyway.

[straightfairy]

The Muppet Show "Mahna Mahna"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA

[Big and Bashful]

Here is one I can't forget, and don't want to, still great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

[crfriend]

Here is one I can't forget, and don't want to, still great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

I can find no words...

[kingfish]

Maybe it's a freudian slip of some sort, but I seem to find myself regularly whistling one particular tune while I'm at work.

It is the theme song to the movie "The Great Escape".

[Milfmog]

Maybe it's a freudian slip of some sort, but I seem to find myself regularly whistling one particular tune while I'm at work.

It is the theme song to the movie "The Great Escape".

Are you sure you don't work for my employer? The factory here is life a prison camp except that the security is far tighter and the architecture less interesting...

Have fun,


Ian.