Hi,
I would suggest taking a look at WordPress, you can either use the free
WordPress.org and pay a small hosting fee to get your own website name or
use the free WordPress.com site but it is a little more limited in that you
don't get to choose which plugins or custom themes are used.
If its all a bit to web tech, I'd be glad to offer my web services. Just
give us a call, free advice no obligation.
All the best,
John
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From: vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of DandGReay
Sent: 15 April 2015 20:50
To: vibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vibe] Re: BCAB + Articles
Hi, all,
As Clive has kindly namechecked me, I thought I'd say hello. I'm David Reay
(It's pronounced Ray, by the way) and I'm a guitarist. I mainly play jazz
these days, though I've worked in folk and rock as well.
My wife, Gay, is a singer, and we've been broadcast on Radio 2's folk show
as jazz/folk duo, Galliard. I've played the Soho Pizza Express Jazz Club
amongst other places with Canadian guitarist, Jamie Moore and do a
reasonable number of pub, club and festival dates in the year with jazz trio
"Threedom", in the band "The Strangers", as mentioned by Clive, and have a
few other projects going on. The latest band, Gypskazz, mixes gypsy jazz and
ska with a few other styles thrown in. Some links at the end, if you're
interested.
As regards tech, leaving guitars, amps and FX for another time and the
interested few, I record on a Fostex VF160 16 track hard disc recorder. When
you can't read the screen, it's a matter of writing out the menus and
counting clicks, except where there's audio feedback, which there often is.
As Clive mentioned, I'm a big fan of GoldWave for non multi-track purposes,
accessed using the JAWS screen reader on, of course, a Windows PC. For
recordings for sale I still tend to use professional studios, as I've never
spent out for a really top quality set of microphones and proper acoustic
treatment isn't ideal for our living room! Chris, I'm interested you're
using ProTools and Logic. Would that be on a Mac using Voiceover?
Things I'm interested in doing in the near future are:
1. Switching from my current website to one I can edit myself. Anyone
know of an accessible hosting service?
2. Getting recordings on downloading and streaming sites. I've been
thinking of using CD Baby for this, and I notice they also have a hosting
service, Host Baby.
Nice to meet you all. Hope to chat more in future.
More links than you could possibly want below:
Promo video Gypskazz fb page:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1453621101595023&set=vb.138591188836594
5&type=2&theater
Gypskazz Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/gypskazz
Threedom Jazz Trio, Dave Reay and Jamie Moore, ReverbNation Page
http://www.reverbnation.com/davereay
Galliard, Strangers et al, Grasshopper Promotions
http://www.grasshopperpromotions.co.uk/
FaceBook Musician Page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dave-Reay/104232833016511
FaceBook Profile
https://www.facebook.com/david.reay.754?ref=tn_tnmn
SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/dave-reay
Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/davereayguitar
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From: vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 15 April 2015 16:29
To: vibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vibe] BCAB + Articles
HiJames,
BCAB.
One of the main benefits is the 'TechABreak' weekend we hold in October.
Peter did a great session on sound recording last year, and David Reay gave
us one on Goldwave a couple of years before. Following that, he wrote a word
document taking people through what's available in Goldwave and how to do it
all with keystrokes. I believe this is still available to BCAB members in
the 'members only' area of the website. It must be said that not all of the
seminars at the Techabreak weekend would be relevant to list members, but
have a browse on www.bcab.org.uk to see more about what we do.
Articles:
I have mixed feelings on whether we should only hold articles which cover
blindness related angles, or whether we should also have more generic
articles on how to write, perform or record music. Perhaps two separate
clusters of articles could be the way to go.
Interestingly, I've been asked to give a talk next year to the European
Association of Piano teacers, because there's a lot out there about how to
teach classicl piano, and the history of classical piano music, but they're
increasingly being asked about rock and pop piano and keyboard playing, and
many of them don't know where to start.
I do think we need to present ourselves as being good at what we do first,
and visually-impaired second if we are to stand any chance of competing on
equal terms. The band I belong to also has a blind guitarist (actually the
guy who wrote the goldwave walk-through for BCAB). Recently our leader was
interviewed on a local radio station. The interviewer said something like:
"I believe it's a visually-impaired band, isn't it." To his credit he
retorted with something like: "They're in the band because I can throw any
new song at them in any key and they pick it up more quickly than anyone
else I know, and they deliver the goods", a polite way of saying we're in
the band on merit, telling the interviewer he was barking up the wrong tree.
If anyone wants to hear what our band sound like, you can search on Youtube
for "Ron Trueman Border Strangers", and you'll find quite a few live clips,
or visit www.grashopperpromotions.co.uk to hear a few samples of studio
recordings.
Best,
Clive
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From: vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Risdon, James
Sent: 15 April 2015 15:46
To: vibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vibe] Re: In Reply To: Introduction
Hi Clive,
I use Goldwave and agree it is quite easy. I also like the help files which
are, on the whole, easy to follow. I didn't know about the extra resources
for BCAB members, could you elaborate about what else is available please?
To my great shame, I am not a member, but admire their work.
Cheers, James
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From: vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 15 April 2015 15:18
To: vibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vibe] Re: In Reply To: Introduction
Goldwave's pretty good at what it does, and it's pretty near fully
accessible. All of its help fules are accessible, and if you're a British
Computer Association of the Blind member, you have access to a good Word
document giving walk-through of its features.
Best,
Clive
From: vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vibe-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Norman
Sent: 15 April 2015 15:08
To: vibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vibe] Re: In Reply To: Introduction
Hi Sarah,
I'm afraid you might be stuck with recording with guide as it's quite a
limited piece of software. Where I volunteer we teach people to use guide,
and it's got nothing so far as I am aware to record with.
That said, if computers aren't your thing, there are a lot of great hardware
units out there, from tape machines to minidisk recorders to fully-fledged
digital recording systems. I've just sent a friend of mine a message, and
I'll let you know when I get the answer, but there's a little device made by
Olympus (not sure of spelling). It's a multitrack recorder, and it's pretty
well accessible so far as I can tell... I don't think it has speech output
or anything like that, but I know my friend certainly got a lot of really
good stuff done with it.
It's got reverb and possibly other fx with it too, so you could do some good
stuff with it.
Sadly, the recording programs for computers aren't easy to use - by their
very nature they're complicated beasts. The one saving grace though, is that
you can pick your speed.
When I used to record with Garage Band, I used to use the internal
microphone on my Mac, and the On screen Keyboard (which I still love using).
So I was completely removed from the abstracts of audio devices ETC. Nowa
days I'm more hands-on, with a big audio interface, and I pick inputs,
busses etc, but the point I'm trying to make is that you can choose to
interact as little or not as you like with your chosen software of choice.
If you're interested in knowing any more, please feel free to ask and I'll
give you more info - just didn't want to spam the list with this one post if
it wasn't something you were interested in! :-)
Cheers,
Take care,
Chris Norman
On 15 Apr 2015, at 13:56, Sarah Mellor <sarah_mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
HI Chris,
It was lovely and interesting to read your email and I think its a
great idea to share things about ourselves. our musical backgrounds etc. I
sing mostly with backing tracks usually covers but I especially love singing
jazz and songs from the shows. I like singing sixties and seventies to and
some modern songs so there is something to appeal to all ages. I have a
demo which I hope to use to try and find an agent so I can get more work at
weddings parties etc and maybe even clubs but I especially enjoy recording
and would really like to find a way of doing it which is accessible with
guide but so far haven't had any luck and dolphin didn't have any advice
either. I love hearing special effects things like loop peddles etc they
are extremely clever. I'm glad you included the link to your web site which
I will certainly check out. I hope you enjoy the list as I do.
Take care and best wishes.
Sarah
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