Posted by: mistrust | May 14, 2008
Here’s a word you don’t come across much these days: Mixtape. Remember? The thing you made for your friends or for listening to in your car on a long trip, taping your favourite vinyl tracks or the week’s Top 30 on Radio One. The thing you made for your mate’s party. The mixtape is now only a mythical beast since the ubiquotous CD came along. Well, I came across a website that will let you recreate your favourite mixtapes online. It’s a website called “Muxxtape”, which lets you upload upto 12 tracks to create your very own mixtape. A lot of the people who’ve signed up seem to have have made mixtapes of their favourite albums (copyright problems anyone….?) and uploaded them to the site.
Well, I thought I’d upload some of my own tracks from the last few years, seeing as though there may not be many new ones finished for a while. You can listen to my own “mistrust” mixtape by clicking the image below. There’s also an RSS feed so you can add the playlist to iTunes etc and get notified of any updates.

Add mistrust.muxtape.com to iTunes (RSS)
Don’t forget, you can listen to all my blog entries via Talkr at the Podcast Directory
Tags: mixtape, mp3, music, muxtape
Posted by: mistrust | April 29, 2008
More on the possibility of me getting a Presonus Firestudio, I’m a little bit more convinced after reading this interesting article on Recording Review’s website:
Just ordered a presonus firestudio
“So my first goal was to find an audio interface that had a powerful headphone mixing system with zero latency…..I ended up selecting the Presonus Firestudio. It has just about everything I need for $700.”
It looks like a very indepth review.
I’m trawling the web for reviews, articles, videos of firewire audio interfaces, particularly the Presonus Firestudio, to help me make my mind up. If anyone’s got any suggestions, please let me know.
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Tags: audio, firestudio, firewire, interface, presonus
Posted by: mistrust | April 28, 2008
Following on from my previous post about how I started making music with various bits and pieces of old radios and things, I posted a comment on Createdigitalmusic’s website about all it in an article about Kids making electronic music between the 60s and the 80s. I also I put in a link to “This is the Mood….”, the track I made in the mid-80s using just a Jen SX1000, Casio MT31, and a Kay Drum Machine. I was really surprised to get a reply. I maybe expected maybe a “hmmm”, or “well, it WAS the 80’s”. The reply came from the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher himself, Peter Kirn: “Excellent. Totally excellent”.
I’m convinced there’s something in some of these old tracks of mine - maybe I have a plan….
Have a look at the original article on Createdigitalmusic, with all the comments:
Kids making electronic music
Tags: 80s, old, retro, songs
Posted by: mistrust | April 10, 2008
I’ve been using Acid Pro, samples, plugins, etc for ages but I’m now seriously thinking of going “hardware” (much more fun!). Thought about getting a basic mixer but I need more flexible routing and control (MIDI/Audio), and someone recommended the Presonus Firestudio. It looks like it’s the sort of thing I need, so maybe someone who’s reading this has used one? I think it’s around £500 and seems to be worth it - it includes loads of plugins and comes with Cubase 4 LE, Reason Adapted, and loads of other stuff. I’ve already got a computer so it might be the complete package - it got a great review in MTM too! There’s an offer on at the moment where you get a rebate on the MSR remote control for the Firestudio….
Anyone else used one of these? If you have or can offer some advice, please let me know….It’s a big outlay so I want to get it right!

Tags: firestudio, MSR, presonus, remote