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Date: 16 June 2007 20:44:09
I've had a eureka (an eureka?) moment, a revelation, an epiphany of cosmic proportions.
It involves sidechain compression, kick drums, snare drums, hi-hats and bass.
I would happily explain further, for days on end if given the chance, but I can see you slipping into the initial stages of what appears to be a coma.
Nevertheless, it's a fabulous thing and has given me hope that the hard work I've been putting in over the last few months is bearing some kind of fruitiness.
Which leads me to the subject of women. I've dated not too many and not too few over the last while and there seems to be a common theme emerging. And what is this secret insight into the inner workings of the mind of the fairer sex which shall confound and amaze yous? It is this: that they are sooooo impatient! Now, excuse me a minute while I twist a couple of threads together - watch if you want but don't judge 'till you've seen the finished work....ok? I don't know about you, but for me it's taken 20+ years of messing around with various bits of electronic widgetry, countless soldering iron burns, endless computer crashes and system incompatibilities, hundreds of hours of painstaking experimentation and probably a few years off my life expectancy to be in blessed reception of my revelation of the holy sidechain compression with kick drums, snare drums, hi-hats and bass. Now, consider that us human being are infinitely more interesting, complex, multifaceted and unpredictable than mere software and noise making machinery. Have two humans interacting closely and the complexity increases x 1000. I guess what I'm saying is that there is a relational equivalent of my "holy revelation of the sidechain compression with kick drums, snare drums, hi-hats and bass": and this is a beautiful thing. Like anything worthwhile though, it takes time, practice, play, experimentation, lots of failure and tenacity to get to the really cool bits (no, I don't mean those bits). Lives take a lot more time to settle than a pint. Good things come to those who wait (around).