Same boat as you Tom, heard this the other day...boom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjeVYt1XKdQ&sns=fb

Mash

Had a Minirig sent through last week, useful little speaker and shipped with it's own handy zip case.  I've even found a home in my studio for one as a 'small speaker reference'.

I appreciate the focus on portability/sound/build quality (where it should be) over Bluetooth/Airplay/Dock faffing and fancy marketing.

Would recommend,

Mash

Some crackers from the same 'person':

Wheres best for baby ear piercing? The place i took emillie to wasnt very good, there wonky!! Lol.

Just looked out the window, saw a police car pull up and the first thing i thought was 'wat have i done now'. Hahaha!!! Thank god they didnt come to me tho!!

I want another baby!!!! But i want it to be delivered to the door, sleep thru the night from day one, and be as good as gold!! Lol.

Having a little giggle to myself looking at all the down n outs in this place!! I feel like im backstage at jeremy kyle!! Lmao!! — at Parkside Police Station

Speaking as a pro musician I use both, macs for office/fun stuff (they look nice) and a RME MADI rig comprising of a couple of racks of  Win 7 Pro 64's for the pro stuff.   Mrs Mash uses fully speced Macs for her design studio purely because it's all she knows!

Mash

Sounding good

Mash

This is massively cool,

Mash

Many people questioning SOPA are smart and correct in their criticisms. Then there are others who are lazy self-justifying thieves.

Mash

One of my editors put me on to this site a few months back - trumps all of the competition.

www.wetransfer.com

Mash

I've heard Salisbury is nice, I went to Southampton once, dear god, never again, ever.

Mash

Nice place to visit, but i wouldnt want to live there.

A decent room in a house share in Clapham must be £800 month, that's more than my mortgage.

I found it quite the opposite, guaranteed headache after visiting - too much to get your head round/settle in.  The vast majority of London is hugely shit, it takes a while to work out exactly what you want from it and where to get it from - if you have the motivation to do this you'll find yourself in an extremely rewarding place.  Rent does seem intimidating at first but feel it's great value for what you can get in return (inc. money if that's your thing).

Mash

Peace an' fuckin'! 

I moved from the west country to London just over four years ago - greatest city in the world, came here as a tea boy and a year later I'm scoring films in Abbey Road...fuck yeah.

My main advice would be to walk as much as possible, I'm fairly central (just off Shoreditch High Street) and quit cars/public transport years ago - had a lovely walk to BBC Maida Vale Studios & back for a recording last night, well over ten miles but saw loads of cool stuff I would have missed out on stuck in some stinking taxi.  If you can live somewhere good within a few miles of your work defo do it so you can walk, will be really good for you mentally, physically & financially, and for short journeys save you time.

I personally avoid South London at all costs as come over in a horrid rash whenever I veer south of the river

Mash

My new side project 'Curfew'

Spooky hip hop beats with a touch of metal

Would really like to get some lyrics over this 

Curfew - Horror Hop
<a href="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F26568612" target="_blank">http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F26568612</a>

Brilliant!

Mash

<a href="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F26898370" target="_blank">http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F26898370</a>

Enjoyed this one - have added a few new tracks to my site below.

Mash

First idea for a rather epic new BBC series about history/maps.

<a href="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F25744468" target="_blank">http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F25744468</a>

Mash

Draft for opening scene to latest film,

<a href="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F24920974" target="_blank">http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F24920974</a>

Mash

Some info about privicy etc. here - http://preyproject.com/faq

Was strongly recommended this software and thought I'd pass it on!  It seems you'd be absolutely barmy not not have this installed on your laptops/phones - tiny program that sits idle on your device unless you register it stolen on Prey's website, at which point it takes a photo on its webcam, takes screen shot of desktop, gives location on gmaps, their IP address etc. every ten mins. It's completely free & hopefully you'll never even need to run it, I was burgled a few months ago & if installed on my laptops could have helped identify the cheeky little monkey.

Works on Android, for iPhone users make sure you have the 'Find my iPhone' app if you don't already.

BBC Vid - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9578867.stm

Prey success in Bristol - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/tracking-software-helps-laptop-hunt-183254211.html

http://preyproject.com/

Mash

Mrs Mash has Galaxy S2 & is annoyingly better than my Desire HD - awesome handset!

Mash

Sorry I should have worded that better, I meant producer in the professional sense (overseeing projects) vs artist/writer (music creation/program beats innit) so I can potentially forward to right people!

Do you mean 'producer' in the professional sense or artist/writer?

Cheers!

Don't miss last episode in new series - is proper jokes!

On the up side I've got me some bangin' new trainers

Stay safe my man.

Thankyou squire,

Last couple of FB posts:

"Where I'm working nr Old Street just got raided by three masked men who stole some equipment. Got threatened but no one hurt. Locked inside with shutters down!"

"Absolutely f****n mental on Bethnal Green Road! Properly kicking off! S**t loads of balaclavas & police! x"

Looks like I'm surrounded!

Is kicking off here, very very dark.

G-Tech are the only HDD's I could recommend, avoid Lacie!

Mash

My last couple of ads (Soundcloud compression seems to have bit crusherised the Castrol one a fair bit)

<a href="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F20275500" target="_blank">http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F20275500</a>

<a href="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F20275846" target="_blank">http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F20275846</a>

Mash

Dear god I forgot how cheap my west country rent used to be - £370 p/w (£1603.33 p/m) in the new digs, which is an absolute bargain!

Mash

Full length pre-titles from my latest doc with the beeb http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010fq2d

<a href="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F13642012" target="_blank">http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F13642012</a>

Mash

Acoustic Energy AE22s (actives). Don't bother with cheaper monitors, save up and get something decent. They aren't the bassiest of speaker, but you can get a sub if you really need it. But not recommended if you have close neighbours!

http://www.acoustic-energy.co.uk/Default.aspx?pagename=Pro-AE22-Active-loudspeaker

Astonishing monitors for the money, see them cropping up as 'b monitors'/references in an increasing amount of good studios - Phil Ward who designed them is a top bloke who seriously knows his shiz.

Mash

...if you don't mind a quick visit to town that is,

My dance music buddies usually go with Metropolis, a friend of mine also works there if you need a point of contact.

Mash

ITunes is one of the worst bits of software ever made, by anyone, ever.

It's up there, right with Quicktime!

Mash

<a href="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F8727509" target="_blank">http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F8727509</a>

Emotive cue from latest film...

Mash

Havn't used the Pro 14, but familiar with the Sapphire family of interfaces, which have always offered fantastic value for money (great DACs) - sure it will do the job just fine.

Mash

thanks guys am gunna look into both of these.
my friends told me to look into focusrite saphire le... any thoughts?
 

Your friends have advised you well - great little budget interface!

Mash

Well you've certainly missed the busy period...

They've unfortunately been collecting dust since I was given them when they first came out, but had it on good authority that the 'Etymotic Research ER-4' are good'ns if noise isolation is your thang.

Mash 

Something a bit different from a Soundcloud newbie

<a href="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F8543898" target="_blank">http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F8543898</a>

Was in Bath with Mrs Mash weekend just gone, King William was good, Hudson ok, Hall & Woodhouse average.  Pie/pint at The Raven still gets a thumbs up for pub stodge.

Mash

Heavy electrohouse?

<a href="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F7734727&amp;secret_url=false" target="_blank">http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F7734727&amp;secret_url=false</a>

This is really good mate

In my experience private schools breed significantly better musicians - a healthy mixture of discipline and being able to afford good teachers/instruments to inspire you from an early age, along with their more competitive nature of achievement.  Any of the music stuff (of a high standard) I was involved in at school age I was in a SERIOUS minority being from a normal school.

Mash

in my time i have purchased a fair few computers, every time giving Microsoft a chunk of money for yet anther o.s , its my opinion that they actually owe me the upgraded o.s for free (considering that most of the 'upgrade' is for their security).

this is the same with music, in my time i have bought every Pink Floyd album in every format, yet i am not allowed to down load it? i already own it? its a fucking fraud thats what it is, its obtaining money by deception imo. and nearly every facet of life has been hijacked in this way, it was once that things were built to last, now it seems they just last long enough until the next model comes out, this is not by accident.

Haha - not heard that one before 

Empathise with music licensing through - I think it's fair you should be able to download music you already own the license for for the administration/server costs (few pence).  And you must be much, much older than me to have avoided the capitalist society we live in that generates such perpetual discontent with everything that isn't the latest and greatest.  Me, I love it, new shiny expensive things are awesome.

Well if it wasn't this - http://www.software4students.co.uk/Microsoft_Windows_7_Professional_64_bit_Upgrade_Edition-details.aspx

Give MS a call and double check they can't give you an activation code that will work.  If it doesn't I also suggest you stop being a pikey and buy the correct license.  If you, or any of your family are in, or are employed by education you can buy the above legit for the price of a few beers.

I don't see the problem, the W764 upgrade license (as long as you bought the disk, not the download) upgrades from ANY version of XP/Vista.  Just back up your data, pop the upgrade disk in and get cracking.

So you've paid for Vista 32 - W7 32 Home upgrade, but meant to get W7 64?

It doesn't strike me as especially cheeky being asked to pay for software you've stolen?  

If you can't afford Windows maybe try Linux or other options?

about 2 or 3 tracks a week,
usually 20 or 30 hours apiece,
i make music every day

That's interesting. Is it quite rare for someone to be churning out that many tracks or are there lots of people that do this?

I'm don't consider myself a 'producer' (I've always known the producer role as a sort of middle manager who oversees the creation of music) but compose roughly a track a day.

Mash

http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=MRT&Number=866640

This thread makes some good points regarding PT HD Native.  The SOS review is happening in a friends studio and everything sounds really encouraging!  IMO PT LE is largely useless - yes it looks like the real thing but so many of the features that make HD so popular just aren't there.  I don't personally need PT HD as my mixers/studios have all that stuff but have considered picking up a HD3/4 in the past for when I need to import/export the odd thing from my writing rig, but couldn't really justify it for something I could do without - but PT HD Native could be just the ticket, as I'm sure it could be for many others.

Mash