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Written by Dec Cluskey with a little bit of help from his friends.
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30 Oct 2006
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simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a
strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."
Eric Butterworth
MENU:An Easy Way To Help A Real Show Biz Charity?
I recently discovered what I feel is a revolution in charity giving, and doesn't cost a penny. A search engine that literally turns over loads of dosh to a named charity ... Yep, YOU name the charity.
The search engine [which is very good, by the way] is powered by Ask.com and is in line with Google. It is called http://www.everyclick.com . Simply go there, look in the toolbar, bottom of the page, for 'Supporter Tools' ... go there. You will be asked to subscribe [ for zilch ]. Fill in your Email address and give a password you like. Then look to the left of the page for 'Choose a Charity'. You will see my charity of choice 'The Grand Order Of Water Rats'. Simply name that as your charity of choice.
Will you do this to help my chosen Charity?
On their home page you can choose to have that search engine as your home page ... I find that very useful. Every time I use the search engine they pay the dosh over to the charity...simple?
I have found them honest ... I don't get pestered with S p am from them and through checks I know they have not passed on my Email address to any lists.
So just do it! ... go over to http://www.everyclick.com and help the most prestigious Show Biz organisation in the world ... members include Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Prince Michael, Michael Crawford, Mike Batt, Rick Wakeman, John Lodge [Moody Blues], Brian May [Queen] and hosts of others. Only 143 in the world ... so it is exclusive, I have been King Rat and a Trustee for twenty years. Check out Richard Joy [the drummer with Freefaller]. Our youngest member - Richard Joy of chart band 'Freefaller' - is currently enjoying huge success as the lads headline all over the country. Be sure to catch them if you can. To find out more about the band go to http://www.freefaller.co.uk
In the past we have had sadly departed legends like Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye, Bob Hope, Matt Monro, Tommy Cooper ... stunning people all dedicated to helping those in show Business in need ... and there are many out there ... great names, but some aging, lonely and forgotten. http://www.gowr.net/ is where to go to know more ...
You can even see ME in the middle of the home page welcoming Jim Marshall back after his recent illness. I was with him again last night .... try finding a large cigar for Jim on Sunday night in Kings Cross? Best I could do was Castella. I shall be with him again at a boxing evening this week. What a lovely man... the inventor of 'loud'.
Perhaps you would like to be more involved and join 'Friends of the Water Rats'? http://www.gowr.net/Friends/friendsofthewate.html go the the top left side 'Join The Friends?'
"Begin each day as if it's on purpose" - Will Smith.
Miking an upright piano
I have been inundated with production work lately and it means that my love for 'One Minute with Dec' has had to take the back seat a little .... never mind...I can pass on a lot of red hot info.
I researched a lot on recording upright piano to sound really like a Bosendorfer in Abbey Road studio. Sadly, the info was not available. We have an excellent sounding Bentley upright in the studio. I found a number of ways [after having it tuned!]:
1) Close Mic. two condenser mics. one at top end and one at bottom end over the top of the piano with small lid open : Result? Jangly, Keane/Coldplay sound with no quality.
2) Take all front off and close mic. with two condensers top and bottom end - with an ambient mic. as far away in the studio as possible: result? Very good grand piano type sound with lots of top end from the ambient mic. [raining that day, so picked up the rain sound!]. Also too much pedal noise, especially when compressed.
3) A combination of techniques I had heard of.... pull the piano into the middle of the room .... two condenser mics at back ... one at top end [high notes] and one at bottom end [low notes] ..... add mirrors at back to reflect the sound and hardboard on the carpeted studio floor .... ambient mic. quite a bit away ... result: Astonishing! It is the same technique as we use for recording a rock guitar amp .... gorgeous!
"Lie in the arms of those you love" - Will Smith
Are you afraid of failure in your music endeavours?
Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid.
It's good to be afraid occasionally [before you perform that gig?]. Fear is a great teacher. What's not good is living in fear, allowing fear to define who you are [I know many guys like that]
Living fearlessly means standing up to fear, taking it's measure, refusing to let it shape and define your life.
"Steal
away from bad company" -
Will Smith
Check out this one...
"Cheat death until it has to come" - Will Smith
Tip of the Week
Scanning Offline
It's a good idea to run your antivirus and antispyware programs while your PC is offline every once in awhile. Some spyware can alert an offsite user (you know, the bad guy) that your scan has started so he can put the malware back onto your machine as soon as the scan has completed.
Obviously, you'll want to update your definition files online before you go offline to scan your system, but scanning while offline prevents outside interference with your security measures.
Bob Osgoodby
"Sorry seems to be the hardest word" - Elton John
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