Category: Play

Over the years I have owned a multitude of sound interfaces for different reasons, far more than my limited recording abilities justify, but thought I would randomly blog the ones I owned and why I sold them.

MOTU 2408 – returned, didn’t work with IBM thinkpad docking station
MOTU 2408 (yes another one) – sold, didn’t work with non intel chipset
M-Audio Delta 1010 – worked, then sold as I wanted a non PCI based one
MOTU 828MkII – worked, then sold for more preamps and bus powered Traveller
MOTU Traveller – worked, then sold because the ProjectMix had a control surface and came up for cheap on asiaxpat
M-Audio ProjectMix IO – bought from John Lauden, worked accept no hot plugging, sold to Audiotraffic when changing laptop to a new MacBook with no FireWire
M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R – bought on sale, most stable driver yet, until they got bought over by Avid and the support got terrible :(
Apogee ONE – trying to downsize, but I missed a proper mic, and stereo in/out
Presonus Audiobox USB – staying small, but a bit more features than the Apogee

More promos for Dawen, this time a performance of my favourite song of his:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgHnqz4C-b8

My friend and former band mate Dawen Wang just posted an interview he did for an asian-american internet show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2jA13Jtu0Q

How long before we see an asian-american president. We are the majority of the world after all!

In other news Carlos Choi’s band Still just launched there new album, and it ROCKS!

Words that You didn’t say were haunting these pages
Faces You didn’t make were all I was seeing
The way that they painted You wasn’t a picture
of one in control – and I don’t think they know who you are

Mainstay

Just a quick one from me today. The pianist and amazing singer I used to play with in school has started performing / recording in chicago, and doing some amazing stuff. Check it out at
dawenwangmusic.com or his MySpace.

I’m loving this album right now. It started with Surely We Can Change on Repeat 1 (95 plays) then Everything Glorious (85), but now The Glory Of It All is on everywhere I go.

Neverending is cool too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ2Fvov7–s

This was something I’ve been meaning to do for ages, move things from my old site to here. I’ve started with the play section. Added – bass / dumble / fuzz / jazz 101 / music

And I’m trying to make you sing
From inside where you believe
Like it’s something that you need
Like it means everything

And I’m trying to make you feel that
This is for real, that life is happening
That it means everything
I’m just trying to make you sing

-David Crowder

Go listen to it if you haven’t…