For all you home recording enthusiasts out there, here’s a good and neat little (huge actually) E-Book that will be a really good item to have in your Home Recording knowledge library. Some of the info that I learned are actually things that I have done before but was just not doing it right!

Do you know that there are free realistic drum samples out there and that recording software aren’t that expensive like what Plano dentists are charging if you know what you are looking for in your recordings? This and more can be read from the FREE E-book. Click the link below to download.

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I ordered a black Irish Guinness tin whistle from a chap from Ireland on e-bay. His name is Theo. I think the whole process took me just within a week. Pretty quick! (Actually I got it since last year)

What is an irish tin whistle you might say? Well it’s a flute. Some info from Wiki:

The tin whistle, also called the tinwhistle, penny whistle [1], English Flageolet, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet[2] is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute flageolet, putting it in the same category as the recorder, Native American flute, and other woodwind instruments. A tin whistle player is called a tin whistler or whistler. The tin whistle is closely associated with Celtic music.

Here’s me trying to play to the tune of Scarborough Fair. Hmm… do I see wrinkles? I should start checking out those wrinkle serums I saw on the net.. Lol!

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What is it?

Malaysia’s ONLY all Indie music awards

More info:

Based on my understanding, you nominate your song, get yourself, nominated, and get your friends to vote for the 30% score from a microsite.

My friend Lenny Lysandra has been nominated for Best Female Vocalist (Over-all). We jammed and performed together on a few occasions. She is a great performer and a real ‘pro’ onstage and during practices.

Others that has been nominated for this category are Mia Palencia, Elvira, Amanda Imani, Prema Yi & Sam Siren (Karacoma). Listen to their song online. Some even brings your state of mind to st lucia vacation packages kind of way…..

Now please fly to the voting page and select your fav gal. Try Lenny Lysandra for a start

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Last Sunday on the 8th of November 2009, me and some friends had the opportunity to help out a friends’ bosses wedding dinner. We helped provide the music actually. The team comprises of me, on digital drums & percussion, my friends: Geaff on guitars, Walter on keys & Guitar, Leo on Bass and Vocals, Lenny on Vocals and off course my friend Regina who was the friend that I mentioned earlier who’s boss got married.

We had so much fun and the free-flow of beer made the night more interesting and so did our music. But for this time around I am going to focus more about the people in the hotel. Equatorial Hotel Kuala Lumpur to be precise. (No, Equatorial hotel did not pay me to write this blog post)

Now as a person who plays the musical instruments, performing, singing… one basic thing is to figure out how to get the sounds across so at least most of the audience will be able to hear you out. based on my little experience, a small crowd of 50-60 will still be able to hear you just by blasting your instrument amps and so forth. But having a capacity of a ballroom of 30-40 ten-seater tables that will require some help from the tech team of the hotel.

I had a recent experience with another hotel and guess what, they don’t even know what I mean by ‘Line-out’ or Mic-in. Don’t even ask me about sound check, those boys just left us and we had to perform the whole night in 40 table ballroom with just our 25 to 100 watts amps blasted as loud as possible. Those folks seating at the front facing us definitely had to go through hell!

Coming back to the folks at the Equatorial Hotel Kuala Lumpur. I would like to sincerely say thanks to those guys involved 2 especially. (I regretted not taking down their names) Firstly the banquet guy, slim, a little on the fair side. I met him first time during the bride & groom practice run as well as during dinner. Very helpful chap. He explained to me about what the hotel can or cannot do very clearly in terms of getting our instruments lined-in into the hotel’s sound system. He dedicated a big portion of his time to bring us to the ballroom and showing us around etc. He is not even from the maintenance or the Audio visual team.

Now the second guy, (I think he has a mustache or something) he was taking care of the PA System that night during the dinner. We had so much complications. We did not have cables to run into the system but eventually he did manage it for us during the final minutes. We did a quick sound check before that too. He was sharp too. I think he got this through experience. I noticed that the stage area was a little dark, so we will definitely have a hard time reading the song lyrics. But before I had a chance to ask him, he already made arrangements for a ceiling light to be placed behind us. Other little things like getting the bass and guitar amps to be Miked instead of lined-in was a BIG help too.

I have only one thing to say about the Equatorial staff team, they are a bunch of quality and dedicated people. They understand the needs of their guests and most of all, they have a BIG heart. I’d love to be involved with them again. Definitely!

p/s Those people from the banquet side was awesome too. There was this particular guy whom I believe gave excellent service. He served us beer, had a lighter when we need one, always energetic and filled with a smile. He even served the bride and groom some hot refreshing soup during our ‘acoustic jamming session’ at the end of the night when all the guest has left, sort of a relaxed moment-sitting-around-the-table, chit-chatting-kind-of session. I think that was very thoughtful of him. I think he has a spiky hair or something, also has a fair complexion, small built. (Damn… I should have taken down names)

Anyway, we had a good time. Period.

To Kenneth, may you be blessed with all the good things in life together with your new bride! Cheers……again.

Hmmm..Looking at my soon-to-be-beer-belly condition, I may have to opt for some quick fat burners remedy?

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