h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The scary thing is, this does feel like home.

home is where the heart is, HooToo ooo Roymondo... I have a question for you... from my lodger... he wants to know the make/model of your microphone... and for the life of me I canny remember ?

'Tis an SM58, without the switch (the switch adds £50).

thats it... I remember now don't think we need a switch tis it expensive I guess?

Depends where you get 'em from! I think they're about £80 from Turnkey. Not bad for a legendary pro mic.

I'll bet it's a Shure.

Back to toast, Marmite & smut.

Now, what you need to do, my little s is take some soggy white pap, toast it until it's Golden Brown

*cue Stranglers

Then, spread it with lots & lots of butter OR margarine & put on video of Last Tango in Paris. Now, "can you tell the difference between Stork & butter?" If not, ask Lil to explain.

Then, take a sharp knife, or machete if you are so inclined & vent all your aggressions up the innocent, pale, greasy, drippy slabs that lie innocently before you.Hack them lengthwise: show no mercy.(This may require kitchen towel)

Apply Marmite to the helpless fingers & inform them they are now Soldiers & must Serve You.

All you need now is an egg. There are agencies which cater for this sort of thing.

zdt

Apparently they're £70 from Turnkey, from an RRP of £124.70. What were they smoking when they decided £124.70 was a sensible RRP?

thats the Shure microphone make... just saw em online at places for 70 squids or less (pressumbably they'll bung a few quid dilivery on top of that) hmmm.... itchy finger.... must buy... need two ... and mic stands.... and long cables... (just discovered today that the middle landing, just outside the 'studeo' between the stairs going down and the stairs going up, has a really quite nice ambient sound for acoustic guitar, and its quite a quiet bit of the house too

Terri, are you suggesting some sort of Marmite...

..hang on, I need to brace myself...

Marmite FRENCH soldiers?

Leggsy - my flat is a bus ride (specifically a 24) from Turnkey. If you want a mic it'd save postage, but if you want stands and stuff I think delivery's the way forward!

I've had no trouble with Turnkey.

A lot of variation in prices for it online, cheapest I think was under 70 quid, but I saw a couple over 80 and one nudging 90 quid I must finish off some of these recordings I've got live at the moment... in the morning

I think Turnkey is the cheapest (or at least matches the cheapest, or so they say) and I've always had great service from them. Mind you, I've always had great service from every music shop I've dealt with.

These recordings you have to finish: are they as good as the drum spectacular I heard a few weeks back?

'AS' good? buttery butterrer theres one which is either* going to end up sounding like a 70's disco thing/perhaps a bit on the ragae ragea ragee side of things, or for some strange reason sounding awfully like home town alabama the other is either aan acousticy type guitar blues rock affair, or a sabbathy type rock affair (depending on if I can get the acoustic sound right with our crapy microphone or DI box) and at some point, there is an inkling of a synth attack being directed towards the drum extravoganza you heard the other week... and theres some other ones too, but I've no idea what they are really and there less likely to be finished any time soon anyhow deadline? what deadline?

I've still got me beady eyes on nicking that drum thing. It is, in the parlance of the youth, way cool.

yep... it is isn't it? Shoudl I do some more in that vein? I can knock that kinda thing out pretty easily (its when I have to keep coming back to stuff and adding extra instruments that I loose concentration and get crap at fnishing them) actually think I've another here somewhere I did simualr to that but a bit more... acletic sn57 or sn58? whatja recon?

SM57s are better for recording high powered acoustic instruments but an SM58 is a better all round mic.

And yes, you should do more drum stuff!

will do Well its lodger who wants the mic, (though I'll get to use it of course as he'll be using my mixer and recording 'experiance', he really wants something tha t can get a good noise from his nice Spanish guitar I oughta go to bed soon I recon... it must be late.... probably... I dunno... maybe I should go see what the time is... yeh... thats fairly late Hopeing to get something nearly finished on the music front tomorrow, if not toally finished, oh... I dunno I'm out tomorrow night so maybe not so much time depending on how ineffecient I am

I should probably hit the sack too, In fact, I will.

G'night,

and I bet you've work tomorrow .. me too.. in the studeo need a name for my studeo... must think of one... yeh... bed... good plan night!

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