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I've got a Sony MD recorder which does the auto track marker thing but I find it irritating. There's no control to set the level of "silence" between tracks, and unless I'm dealing with heavily compressed pop, my one frequently puts in track marks during quiet passages of music. I can go back and take out the stray track markers after recording, but then that's just the same as going through and putting them in. Maybe I've just got a duff machine. Anybody else tried it?

Good evil laugh swaabie............. Maybe we could get together sometime and attempt to kill each other in really inventive but ineffective ways, always leaving open the potential for future confrontations.

Good question! I suppose if we're to maintain a broad minded policy of encouraging creative development, we've got to accept the fact that some unscrupulous individuals will take the piss. I think it's probably a price worth paying for artistic evolution. Things would probably get really boring if we didn't take a few risks.

Having said that, well kept vinyl, spinning on a decent system still sounds the business. So why not wipe the stoor aff those slabs and play them!

I always use Steinberg Wavelab, but it's maybe a bit full on for a technophobe. Maybe something like this http://www.cfbsoftware.com/lprecorder/lprecorder.htm Looks pretty straightforward.

Thanks for hijacking that thread Bryan! Now I'll never meet Mr. wrong.........

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The Wise Monkeys at the Angling Club on boxing day of course! Not that I'm biased or anything, I'm only the drummer, so that doesn't really count as being a member of the band. Didn't Bryan look great in his sailors uniform.

Book marks?! Folded pages?! Do you all mean to say you still use paper? In this day and age!

It's a shame that the real issues are being ignored in favour of the myths and hysteria being peddled by the red tops.

No problem Mr Gear. 8O indeed! It's scary how much of what we think is reliable news is actually spin. When you compare the facts and figures in some of those articles to the related stories in "respectable" broadsheets, the differences in message are quite incredible. It really is a full time job to dig up the real story behind the headlines.

When you listen to some of the mainstream, national alternatives it probably compares not too badly as far as playlists are concerned (I haven't been able to listen to it for quite a while though, being in Glasvegas). Radio 1 have an A-list which consists of ten songs, I think, played on constant rotation through the day. You can't go more than about 45 minutes without hearing a song twice! I think the local DJ's idea is a very good one. And, as mentioned on the other thread, a bit more music of Shetland origin (MOSO awards anybody?) would not go amiss.

No. I've tried three times and never got beyond about a third of the way through. I love some of the imagery and the random but strangely logical flow of the really dense stream of consciousness bits, but it just makes my eyes hurt!!

Apparently they are "Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media". Have a read through the site, there's alot of interesting stuff.

They weren't a patch on the Edinburgh ones, which seemed to consist of the castle being pulverised into a cloud of buzzing atoms by a massive nuclear assault. I couldn't believe it was still there when the smoke cleared. Fantastic!

http://www.medialens.org/index.php There's no point discussing anything on this forum cos the news is all nonsense anyway!

Hello me boy! Greetings and good luck with the site, but I must beg to differ on the above statement!! I use numerous PC's and Macs of varying ages, processor types and OS's both at work and at home and I have to say that my experience with both platforms is pretty much the same. My main creative computer at work is a lovely big dual 2.5GHz G5 with 2.5 Gb of ram. I've been using it for about a year now and I have to say that, while it is a lovely machine to use (I agree that mac os is generally more intuitive), it crashes as regularly as any PC I've ever had. Admittedly, I'm running pretty system resource hungry video editing software like Final Cut HD, but isn't that what macs are supposed to be so much better at. This kind of performance isn't confined to that machine either. I also regularly use several older G4s to run Dataton Trax show control software and they turd themselves on a reasonably regular basis as well. Maybe it's the software I'm running, but in my experience a well set up and maintained PC system is just as stable as a mac. That's maybe the point though, macs are usable straight out of the box while a PC takes a bit of persuasion to run well.