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cent set of scans for each item where possible as i felt the music is incomplete without it sometimes this was just not possible as a lot of my stock came from broadcasting organisations that had their own heavy card sleeves view my complete profile monday 17 april 2017 well i tried tried to regain enthusiasm to post new stuff but no go i guess this is the end of the story really blogging is dead it seems perhaps i should have never tried to re awaken this blog it was obviously a big mistake seemed like a good idea at the time to post a few new albums re vitilise a few others re post some links but the lack of comments and the inability to check the download numbers on dropbox make the exercise worthless so that s it the blog dies herewith sorry to all those that have enjoyed the music found missing treasures and been re united with old friends work it was always nice to get your emails and stories thank you gonzo posted by gonzo at 15 58 no comments labels gone no more the end sunday 22 august 2010 gonzo creates a blog of random jottings music art technical etc so not to be bound to folk music and jazz i created a random blog product of a freewheeling mind posted by gonzo at 09 24 no comments sunday 4 july 2010 avoiding clipping overload on vinyl ripping recently there has been some discussion on one of the blogs i visit about sound clipping and the distortion it causes to the music there are many examples of badly done vinyl rips leaving aside the obvious problems of old dirty and worn records which only allow certain levels of improvement there is one fundamental that should be firmly understood that of loudness when encoding from analogue to digital digital recording is just a bucket of bits once the bucket is filled any more filling is lost over the side never to be heard of again this is a simple analogy as although it would appear that what falls out of the bucket cannot be heard this is not actually true the effect of the bits falling out leaves behind unwanted bits mixed up with the wanted bits distortion the picture that saves a thousand words i hope click on the picture to magnify it for printing reading so next time you consider turning one of your precious vinyl s into something digital please take care to do it to the best possible quality with the equipment you have available most will have a record volume control please use it carefully to assist you in getting the ripping levels right here are some useful utilities retro style analogue meters these are available from the excellent vu player site here then the professional style broadcast peak program meters ppms these meters and others can be downloaded from here both these meter programs are compatible with windows 98 xp vista there are enhanced versions that run only with windows 7 i have no connection with either of the programmers i just want to spread the word because i have used them both to great advantage and am grateful to them for their labours now the words you all wanted to read they are free however donations are accepted technical words these programs use your sound card to monitor the current audio stream they can be set to monitor recording and playback by making the correct selections on your audio mixer settings most computers have a what you hear option with this enabled the meters will show exactly what you are listening to the retro meters can be quite a talking point posted by gonzo at 08 56 1 comment labels ripping vinyl tuesday 1 june 2010 how l o u d can you make your music mr record producer way back when the compact disc cd that we know today was being designed by philips sony the designers were constrained by the technology available in the period 1979 1980 digital recording was already well established in studio complexes using multi track tapes what was needed for home use was a medium that the average listener could handle easily like the move from reel to reel tape to cassette tapes made handling easier what was needed was a similar transition from the vinyl disc in analogue format to a smaller neater disc in digital format the cd was born even with the restrictions placed on the designers by the 1980 s technology the cd produced audio so clear and bright compared to the average record played on the average domestic record player the differences were obvious immediately no awkward pickup arms to place carefully on the record no rumble no scratches no stylus to wear out the cd s future was assured and after 30 years it is still a major source of recorded music for most people however the convenience of the cd its ease of production with 21st century technology has meant that the cd has become just a marketing tool for record companies to fight each other with to produce the loudest sound in the battle for attention of the younger music listeners we have lost the plot totally in this respect music real music has two principal parameters frequency the pitch key of the sound and amplitude volume of the sound the loudest instruments in an orchestra or band are probably the percussion and a front line of brass the softest sounds being made by the delicate brush work on a drum skin or the triangle in an orchestra both these sounds have their place in the music which means the space between them in volume as heard in the recording studio should be the same space as heard on the eventual recording this space is called the dynamic range the difference between the softest and the loudest sounds in the music sadly this is not happening and has not been happening for the last 15 years at least studio engineers producers are progressively reducing this dynamic range in an effort to produce the loudest overall sound to the consumer the consumer that is becoming progressively more deaf to the dynamics in music expects it this destruction of dynamics in music had not gone unnoticed by those that remember better times and better music to this end a group has been formed to try to convince the record producers that dynamics are needed in music to allow the best listening experience if you are interested in joining or just reading up on this subject might i suggest you visit the web site here you can read more and even download a program dr that you can use to check the music on your system here a brief extract from the site gives us this leader into their mission dynamic range and the end of loudness insanity the tt dynamic range meter plug in is an open source plug in vst au and rtas which is perfectly suited for many applications used in modern music production additionally we supply the tt dr offline meter software pc which will be used for the fast and convenient offline calculation of the official dr value of releases in this way anyone involved in music production has a tool for creating more dynamics in their productions this is a condition for ending the loudness war for those who are not familiar with this term here s an explanation the loudness war designates the senseless competition between record companies which involves releasing music with increasingly high amounts of dynamic compression the compression of dynamic levels so that originally quiet passages are as loud as the loudest parts of a song this results in products which are increasingly obtrusive in order to fight for the listener s attention if you are in music production or involved with mastering please remember we like to hear our music correctly with loud highs and delicate soft lows just as it would be in a concert hall not as a weapon between record companies to destroy our enjoyment and hearing phase 2 begins july 2012 by this time record companies that have signed the pledge to reduce compression in their music should be producing cd s with a dynamic range of at least 14db or on lesser ranges circa 8db music with a 6db headroom to sound the same volume as the 14db great news now all you mac owners can get dr the mac macos has long been a favourite of music makers it s range of music production tools was always way ahead of the windows platform until very recently now there is no excuse for too much compression for all you macos muso s only one change remains now for the mac users get to use spaces in file names dump that crazy underscore finally that was just a personal gripe folks posted by gonzo at 20 08 6 comments labels music industry insanity monday 28 december 2009 the lollypop man jim causley the lollipop man chorus trad verses jim causley paul wilson marilyn tucker 2007 oh the lollipop man has a great big stick and all that he charges is a penny a lick and he gets it out whenever he can he s a dirty old devil is the lollipop man who is this with his spurty spout a dribbly cone you can suck it all out and a knicker knocker glory it s the ice cream man but he cannot hold a candle to the lollipop man who is this with his grimy sack you can have it up the front or he ll shove it round the back with his sooty old nuts it s the dirty coalman but he ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man who is this with his long stiff brush he rams it up the flu with a shove and a push and he doesn t give a toss he s the chimney sweep man but he ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man and who is this with his floppy mop it s long and it s wet with a foam on top well he s squeaky clean it s the window cleaner man but he ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man who is this with a silver top it s nothing that a little blue tit can t pop with his manly jugs it s the creamy milkman but he cannot hold a candle to the lollipop man and who is this with his petticoats gay powder puff and curly wig and lingerie well it s old mollybags neither woman nor a man but she ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man who is this taking down your draws he never ever shoots and he seldom scores well it s never jackpot with the littlewoods man and he ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man to reveal the next verse drag your cursor over the text to highlight it who is this with the long bent fruit he peels back the skin and he slips on his suit well his real name s eric he s banana man but he ll never hold a candle to the lollipop man a little humour for 2010 hope you don t mind jim you can hear jim singing this hilariously funny track on the mother of all morris 2007 talking elephant records morris samples posted by gonzo at 11 46 3 comments labels folk humour sunday 19 april 2009 australian bush fires fund raising in tasmania here are a few of my tasmanian friends in a launceston mall they raised a grand total of over 700 for the appeal in just an afternoon the concertina player is an ex brit of some 30 years ago from orpington kent and is the owner of the vast topic lp collection which i have access to when i visit the guitarist with the grey beard is kerry cantley a traditional singer with a powerful deep voice he backed by the seated melodeon player bill and the bass guitarist mark has made a few recordings on cd i have one of his recordings made at a friends house in tasmania some samples of kerry from his album meander valley musings here another venerable musician and artist brian mooney seen often in the launceston folk scene was commissioned to make a painting of the group this is now hanging at the house of the concertina player michael manhire posted by gonzo at 23 23 2 comments friday 6 february 2009 scanning lp covers scanning lp covers there is nothing i know that will scan a complete 12 lp cover even a3 falls short by about 5mm each side so you need to be inventive to get a complete scan the a3 scanner does have the advantage over the a4 in this respect in that you only need two scans and the joins can be over to the edge not in the main part of the cover which means that some lp covers with a large selvage can often be scanned in one by focussing on the central part only then have the edges cloned from the main body since the edges of an lp cover will often be frayed creased or in other ways damaged you will need to do some work on the edges for the final production anyway if you are stuck with an a4 scanner you will need to be really creative sometimes you need a left and a right side scan and then a further scan to cover either the top or bottom edge or both all these parts need to be assembled in your favourite graphics editor photoshop or paintshop etc i prefer paintshop only because i was trained on that program however photoshop has similar features requirements for multiple scans the scanner needs to be well warmed up so it will produce an even intensity scan across the whole plattern this will show up when you try to join two halves or add the top and bottom strips as a boundary at the joins this needs careful adjustment of brightness and contrast for each constituent part before the final join is made joining example using paintshop load one scan left for example check the size of the canvas make sure you merge all layers of the image increase the canvas size to 20 more height and double width re merge all layers move your first image to the left of the canvas re merge layers save this new image open the right side scan as a new image and select the part you want to join to the left image make a copy control c discard this image revert back to the new canvas size image of the left select paste and option as new layer this will place the selected part of the copied right image on the larger canvas move the right part around to make a good join at some convenient place where errors show the least when you are happy with this merge all the layers to one and save as name l r from this point you can tidy the image adjust contrast etc as needed proceed the same to add the top and bottom strips remember the 20 height added to the canvas finally crop out the wanted picture from the excess canvas merge to one layer and save to a final file name i scan front pictures at 300 dpi and rear cover up to 600 dpi where there is fine text you should aim for a working resolution of 2400 by 2400 pixels during the edit you can go to 3600 by 3600 if you have enough memory in your machine but at this resolution you are working with raw files 30 60 megabytes that take some time to move around and join the final resolution for distribution and sharing need only be 1200 by 1200 and for posting as a blog picture 800 by 800 is the maximum size that will be accepted without cropping most scanners that i know will allow you to scan lp s in parts either as two vertical scans or 2 horizontal scans some scanners do not give full access across the platern from both directions so you may need to make one scan upside down you can correct this before assembly in the editor using the rotate command 180 some top models will work at 4800 pixel resolution 2400 is really quite good enough for most work the software to handle the scanner frame the image set up the scan is variable in quality i favour the suite provided with the epson range of scanners or those based on pagemaker canon there is...