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Works for me now too, but already voted from the link on EMPortal :-) Good luck David

Northern Soul

 

This is the first 2 mins of my Scary ambient EM gig in Kent UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_LYIDThf_Q&feature=youtu.be

I think it's a great track. I think you nailed the Halloween atmosphere.

Thank you my friend :-)

I find that small forums tend to be very clicky, old established members seem to get response from other old established members, new members find it very hard to get any kind of response whatever the subject matter. I think that admin members of any forum should encourage new members by adding responses to threads as a matter of course and because that doesn't happen a new member gets very despondent and eventually dry's up his visits until he/she ends their membership. I am a member of 5 small forums and also Facebook. Hypnos, EM portal are very select when it comes to encouragement of any new members to get involved or indeed adding comments to those same new members posts. Mod ESP forum is very similar although the admin there seem to keep on top of encouragement for new members and many of its members know each other in the real world too. I use Mutable instruments and Korg forums for technical advice on synths etc. that I own. Facebook is by far the best social networking site for all manner of reasons. People will eventually get fed up of visiting small forums when they find that nobody has bothered commenting on a recent post its human nature.   

Anything related to that audiophile pursuit of the best sound quality money can buy has to ultimately come down to the way the music was recorded in the first place. And that then goes deeper to what the recording studio sound engineer and producer were hearing at the time. No music system can make the music sound better than it did when first recorded, if it wasn't there when it was recorded your not going to hear it on the playback however hard you try :-)

Instruments recorded on their own independent multitrack magnetic tape and then put on a vinyl master disc are the very best format we have reached, post production does its job to put those instruments into their own specific space in the audio spectrum for the best listening on various formats (vinyl, cassette or Radio waves at that time) but the pure sound of the recording has already been lost at this point. As we are in an age where 99% is recorded digitally we are left with personal preference as to how we reproduce that recorded sound and until recording studios go back in time and start producing analogue albums once again, when you play that "Vinyl only" latest release on your thousands of pounds worth of Hi Fi equipment just remember it was a PC file before you got it :-)

Listening now, thank you for sharing :-)

Good luck with the gig Martyn

Thanks Andy 

  I have been very lucky in getting an opening spot at the next Awakenings concert in Burton upon Trent UK on the 4th July, this will be opening for Bouvetoya from Ireland and Binar England. I have recorded 3 x 10 min promo tracks to allow people the opportunity to hear the kind of thing I will be playing. My set will be a 45 minute continuous piece of music and ambient sounds and completely improvised using only Hardware instruments and FX :-)

here is a link to those tracks just in case anyone on here is interested in them

https://soundcloud.com/concept-devices/sets/burton-promo-tracks