Current name was Studio8 but later i found it to be a duplicate and common name. Any brilliant ideas will be appreciated!

Studio8T
This would save on stationary.

Studio8 Events & Ceremonies.
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Studio Events & Ceremonies
This would turn up before Studio8 in a search.

Hopefully, someone will come up with something more awe inspiring like Active Lima, If you’re stuck for inspiration, try a random word generator, they sometimes help.

Good Luck.
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Hello (:, im 14 and a girl.
I am a musician and really have a passion for it. but i want more.
when i am older i want to have my own recording studio and help artists create their tracks. i want to start this dream now!, i have been playing my guitar and keyboard and saxaphone putting little bits together and realised its time to go one step further. i dont know how to start should i get a computer, or should i get a mixer, sequencer, i dont know what order to get things in, also if you could send me a link to any good equipment that would be brilliant. i like music in the charts e.g- jls, n dubz, dappy, example, chipmunk etc..
Please help me start to achieve my dream
P.S- I dont want to be a singer, i cant sing at all, i want to own a studio and help artists become famous by creating brilliant music for them (:

The way technology advances and changes I would suggest holding off on buying equipment as your first investment. I think your money would be better spent getting an advanced education in the music and recording field to start out with. Find a band that needs one or all of the instruments you can play and get in the doorway that way.

After you have education and experience under your belt along with your at a level you can make money off your talent and pay off your schooling then I would start buying recording equipment.

If you want to rush out and buy equipment now you’ll be putting the cart before the horse. Things will be more advanced and probably cheaper by the time you are mature and smart enough to really get the most out of it.

Of course that’s all just my opinion and many don’t go that route. Some rush out and get the equipment and create their own music right up front. Maybe you have a natural talent and can do that?

If you can recommend a guitar then that would be brilliant. I have a taylor 814ce and i need to record a few acoustic tracks for a studio project and need to know how to record acoustic guitars to come out well

The best single microphone I’ve used to record acoustic guitars is an Electro Voice RE20. It’s great for home recordings. While condenser microphones pick up all background noises, this mic doesn’t. It has a very even frequency response, and is by far my most versatile mic.

I am probably going to anger a couple of people but I think Ian Astbury of the Cult sounds horrible live, but brilliant on the studio albums

Mötley Crüe. For the most part, they’re pretty good live, but Vince Neil is getting too old, drunk, and tired. It’s one thing that he runs out of breath every ten seconds, but it’s another that every time, he has the audience sing for him. I don’t go to concerts to hear a thousand drunks sing someone else’s songs.

I got an offer for a free shoot from Makeover London, however, they want a £50, promising to return it if I attend the shoot. A brilliant offer or a big scam?

The "shoot" is free, nothing else is. I don’t know that studio but the way most studios work is that the "shoot" is free - meaning you are not paying for the studio time or photographer’s time. BUT in most cases they will try to sell you overpriced photos, usually costing 3-4 times more than any photo studio you contacted on your own and they usually have a minimum buy of 10-20 pictures which can cost £500-1000. And many studios have a clause that if you don’t buy the minimum, then you have to pay the makeup artist, hairstylist, etc fees which are going to cost you over £300 anyway

Before you go send an email and get IN WRITING answers to the following questions and bring a copy with you to the shoot:
- Will I be required by buy any photos after the shoot?
- If I do not choose to buy any photos are there any charges/expenses I have to pay?
- What is your cost per 8 x 10 print?
- Does that cost include editing and printing or is that extra?
- Is there a minimum number of prints I have to buy?
- Is there a minimum spend?
- Is there any charge for the photographer, studio rental, hair stylist, makeup artist, wardrobe stylist, lighting technician or any administration fees?
- If I do not want to buy prints, what is the cost of a photo CD and how many pictures does that include?

A legitimate studio should have NO problem providing you with this info - if you don’t get a satisfactory response then I personally wouldn’t bother going. If there is nothing dodgey then they will be able to answer every one of those questions

As I said, I don’t know that studio at all but with any studio you have to ask questions before you even think of going

And you can always go but DO NOT bring any cash or credit/debit cards with you. After the shoot just tell them you will put your 50 deposit towards your pictures — it will probably not even buy you 1 photo

I don’t know which to choose between these two. I already tried both out. I play soft rock, rock, hard rock, metal, heavy metal, and all of the in between.

First up is Peavy Vypyr 75 watt amp:

Peavey Vypyr 75 Modeling Guitar Amplifier Features:
•75 watts

•Four channels with 3-band EQ, master volume and pre- and post-gain controls

•One 12" custom-voiced modeling loudspeaker

•11 editable rack effects

•11 editable stomp-box effects

•Up to 5 effects simultaneously

•Onboard looper

•Onboard chromatic tuner

•Up to 400 presets with optional Sanpera™ II footswitch

•Studio-quality USB computer interface

•MIDI In

•Tap tempo button

•Studio-quality headphone output

•Exclusive Power Sponge™ attenuator

•Patented TransTube® technology in preamp and power amp

Specification

Detail

Type

Solid State

Number of Channels

4

Power

75W

Speakers

1 x 12"

Effects

Yes

Reverb

Yes

EQ

Low, Mid, High

Amp Modeling

Yes

Number of Models

400 Presets, 24 Amps

Preamp Tubes

No Tubes

Power Tubes

No Tubes

Inputs

1 x Instrument, 1 x Aux (1/8")

Outputs

1 x Headphone (1/8")

Footswitch I/O

Yes

Effects Loop

No Effects Loop

Height

23.875"

Width

28.375"

Depth

15.25"

Weight

45 lbs.

Notes

USB Record Out Port

Next is Line 6 IV 75 Watt:

Line 6 Spider IV 75 75-watt 1 x 12" Modeling Amp Features:
•75 watts

•1×12" Celestion custom speaker

•Three-quarter closed-back cabinet for a tight, snappy response

•16 amp models masterfully dialed in by pro players

•Sparkling clean tones to high-gain metal tones and beyond

•300+ hand-crafted artist-created presets dialed in by 50 world-famous bands and rock stars

•Almost 200 dialed in song-based presets giving you legendary tones from the 50s to today

•Jangly cleans, scorching distortions, effect-laden tones, and everything in between!

•Keep your hands on your guitar and switch channels with your feet using the optional Line 6 FBV2 foot controller

•20 brilliant and easy-to-use Smart FX (4 at once)

•Effect models inspired by celebrated stompbox and studio effects

•Bass, Mid and Treble knobs like the EQ controls of each modeled amplifier

•Drive knob, Channel volume, Master volume

•Built-in tuner

•Headphone output for all-night jamming

•High-quality direct-recording output

•CD/MP3 input

The next generation of Spider is here with the Spider IV 75!

Specification

Detail

Type

Solid State

Number of Channels

4

Power

75W

Speakers

1 x 12" Custom Celestion Speakers

Effects

Yes

Reverb

Yes

EQ

Bass, Mid, Treble

Amp Modeling

Yes

Number of Models

300 Presets, 64 User, 16 Amps

Preamp Tubes

No Tubes

Power Tubes

No Tubes

Inputs

1 x Instrument, 1 x MP3 (1/8")

Outputs

1 x Direct Out/Headphone

Footswitch I/O

Yes

Effects Loop

No Effects Loop

Height

19.25"

Width

20.75"

Depth

11"

Weight

36 lbs.

You’re looking at 2 different modeling amps. I’ve been playing modeling amps since 2000, and you can’t buy them by looking at the specs. You’ve gotta try them out.

First off, Line 6 has been doing modeling a lot longer than Peavey. Their high gain and clean sounds are pretty good. What I’ve never been super crazy about is their mid-gain sounds (think AC/DC or Jet). I can get a decent mid-gain sound out of my Vetta, but that’s got about 100x the processing power of the Spider.

Peavey’s modeling amp is just the opposite…they seem to have the mid-gain stuff down pretty well, but they kind of fall apart on the high gain stuff.

So…it depends on what kind of music you want to play.

Don’t get hung up on the "300" preset thing…you’ll never use that many. After as long as I been playing the Vetta (and the AX2 before that), I use about 10 patches over the course of a night. One of them I stay on for about 60% of the night. The others are specialized patches for specific songs.

And don’t get hung up on the factory presets…they all suck. They’re over gained / over effected / and over eq’d. Totally useless in my book.

Finally, with modeling amps, you need to take into account how easy they are to navigate and program.

Try ‘em out before you buy them.

Good luck.

Greetings from Austin, Tx

Ken

Okay well im a guy, im 17 and i used to sing ALOT.
Last year up until around christmas i was singing all the time, and then for christmas i got a professional studio mic and guitar and stuff and start practising my singing and recording, and everyone said i sounded brilliant and thought i had the potential to become a famous singer.
But after christmas(last month) i stopped singing because this is a very busy year in school for me because its my final year and i have exams and stuff, and i started to sing the other day and i sounded TERRIBLE! I couldnt even sing as high as i used to! I was so embarrassed and discouraged, and now im afraid ill never be as good as i was, or even get better than i was, anyone know whats happening? am i out of practise or something? do i just need to practise all the time? someone please help because i really wanna be a professional singer.

Everyone has good days and bad days, so I wouldn’t worry about it. But, you’re right…singing is like learning a musical instrument and it will always require practice to stay at the same level or improve.

Since you have some way to record yourself, what you might want to try is recording a lead vocal, and then recording additional tracks where you try to harmonize with yourself. (This might require a rthythm guitar part or something to help accompany your vocals.)

Take a basic C chord…only 3 notes…C, E and G. If the lead vocal is singing a C, then you should learn how to hear and harmonize the notes E and G along with the C note. this will go a long way to getting better and improving your ear.

Best of luck, don’t lose hope or your dreams.

I hope you can help. For many years I have used Olympus Studio software to do this. It’s really brilliant but now it’s gone, or unobtainable due to Olympus being idiots.

So I’m looking for software that is for either Windows 7 OR Mac OS X that will allow me to select photographs and allow me the following options:

- To print 2, 4 or 9 on a page.

- To label individual pictures with text (custom or filename) if I want to (not always needed).

- To put a title on the top of the page and possibly the bottom too (such as page number), much like headers and footers in Office Word.

I’m really just hoping that someone says, "yeah, I used XXX and it does that and it’s brilliant!".

I’ve tried Picassa, but it doesn’t quite do it. I’ve tried iPhoto but it’s rubbish (in this context) and Windows 7 printing/previewing facilities don’t provide the option to print a page title at the top.

I’ve got no issue paying, currently I have CS5 (that I’m not familiar with), but I doubt that’ll do it.

Any help much appreciated!

I do that frequently in MS Word, Pages, TextEdit (Rich Text format), Seashore, KompoZer, and Photoshop. The easiest is Photoshop. The most difficult is TextEdit.

You have Photoshop, so use it. Make a new document, white background (unless you have a reason to use anotehr option), and the size of your paper.Open the images in Photoshop, change their size to what you need, select all (of one image), ⌘ C, move to the new image, and ⌘ V. Do that for all the images, move them into the grid arrangement you like, and type the labels and title with the [Horizontal / Vertical] Type Tool.

KompoZer (or other Web page editor) can do this either by style sheet (best if you want to have a template for future printing of other photos) or by tables (many lovers of style sheets just went into hysterics). It takes more time than with Photoshop, but the results can be just as good.

iPhoto is not intended to be a compositing app, so it is only rubbish if you think it is something it is not. Use iPhoto just for organizing / cataloging photos, and to order those albums if you are an album person (grandmas love that).

… who were the commentators…?

it also cracked me up when big SAM contradicted himself in the studio…. when he said it wasn’t a pen… but when asked if as a manager he would expect his forward to go down..

LoL.. at least Southgate was honest .. ‘any player at every club would do the same’…

it was a CLEAR penalty in my eyes☺

I was LMFAO …..

Brilliant PEN by Ryan Giggs…

Is ITV now ABU central

First of all, let me warn you that this may end up being a pretty lengthy post. And let me just say that the people I need advice from are those in the professional performing arts world…people who studied voice or dance in college, or those who own their own dance/performing arts studios now.

Here is my situation…
Currently, I am getting ready to enter my third year of college in a few weeks now. I am a vocal performance major, which I love so much! I have an incredible voice teacher who has helped grow my voice immensely! And I am involved in several performing groups at my school. However, I have had a very strong passion for dance and choreography that has grown so much over the last couple of years. That passion has now completely surpassed my love for singing, although i’m not quite sure I’d want to give that up completely. I never brought these thoughts to my parents because I didn’t think they would ever approve (they ALREADY don’t approve of vocal performance, there was no way I was gonna bring up dance as another option).

My original plan was to bravely talk to them and have us discuss my continuing as a voice major but seeing if it might be possible for me to start training in ballet again…catching up, getting back into shape, getting more choreography experience…really focusing in on the dance side of things as well as the music side (like i said, i don’t want to give that up completely). That way I could stay at my current college (which has no dance program) because I love it, I wouldn’t have to leave my voice teacher, and I’d be getting more dance under my belt. It sounded like a good plan…
…so that’s what I brought up. And the issue, of course (the one I was afraid of) was money. My parents don’t think I should spend time and money on a degree if it’s not really what I wanna do (and i kind of agree). They know and understand that my dream is to have my own company that I would choreograph for (or to find one)…also, there is taking into consideration that I have not been doing very well in my college classes. I have failed two classes, barely passed a few others, and retaking the ones I failed of course means repaying for classes that we have already paid for once. Part of me thinks that I can’t handle college, and my parents agree.

Having said ALL of that, my parents have said that I have to come up with a plan by this coming Sunday (August 8)!!! FAST! So here are a few of the plans that I’ve been thinking…but all of them have downfalls:

1) Staying at my current college with my current major and take dance classes elsewhere.
–> Problem: Money

2) Leaving my current college and transferring somewhere else that has both a music AND dance program.
–> Problems: This would be a very difficult thing for me to do since my whole life is practically at this college! All of my friends and involvement. Plus, I’ve already committed to many things this semester already…I’d be letting a ton of people down…especially my voice teacher. And speaking of my voice teacher, I truly think that she is BRILLIANT and it would be hard for me to find a new one that measures up to who she has been for me.

3) Stopping college to just focus on my true passion, dance, since I really don’t think I can handle the classes right now. With this option I would focus solely on where I would want to live, where I would want to open my own studio (or find one to teach at), and what road I would want to go down with my dancing.
–> Problem: I don’t really know how to go about this option. Do I NEED a degree to pursue what I want here? And if so, what kind of degree should I have? At this point, this is sounding like the best option to me, but I just want to make sure that leaving school isn’t a completely bad idea.

4) Take this fall semester…continue with current voice major, take a few dance classes where I can, get some advice from dance instructors, voice instructors alike, do my Junior Voice Recital that i’ve been working SO HARD toward…and take the time to decide what I want to do. By December, I’ll have had enough time to decide.
–> Problem: this is the one that really sounds the best to me…it’s just those classes that I’m going to completely struggle through.

Okay…that was a lot, I know. Sorry! Hopefully someone on here can help me and give me an honest opinion of what you think! I know it’s ultimately my choice, but it’s a big one…and I think I need to "pick the brains" of those who are already in these kinds of professions.

Thank you!!

My advice is to go with Option #4. I work in college and career counseling in a college and I’ve been advising college-bound dancers for over four years after successfully helping my daughter pursue a professional dance career.

(Did you notice that you said that both #3 and #4 were sounding like the best option?)

You did not actually say what style of dance has become your passion, but since you mentioned a) ballet classes and b) starting your own company, you’ve got people rightfully telling you that you’re too late to start a ballet career. However, since you are a vocal performance major, I’m going to hope that you’re feeling drawn to dance through musical theatre and thus tell you why you should go with your fourth option.

In musical theatre productions, it’s the Singers-Who-Can-Dance who are paid higher than the Dancers-Who-Can-Sing. And the kind of dancing that vocal leads do is pretty basic; it does NOT require years of intense training. Many, many musical theatre majors at the top MT college programs only start dance classes in college, as their auditions to get in were only based on their singing and acting abilities. Therefore, if you could someday get hired by shows based in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, San Francisco or Los Angeles, you would have access to professional dance studios where you could take open classes to improve your dancing while also working. Most other musical theatre work is with cruise ships, theme parks and touring productions, so you wouldn’t be in the major dance cities. But if you get those jobs (and chances are much higher that you would), you should try to work your way up in the production company in hopes of getting a "home office" job that’s involved in putting the shows together.

In terms of your college decisions, there are many reasons for staying at your current school. For one, you’ve already invested two years in your college education and, as a vocal performance major, many of your credits wouldn’t transfer. As for having to retake two classes, you also have to consider that the benefits of college are more than what you get in the college classroom. Keep in mind that you also have college friends and the knowledge of how to find your way around your school to get extra help. So think of the money you spent as "buying" support for staying in school. It would be a mistake to yank that support away and start all over again someplace else.

Secondly, you need to get your bachelors degree to survive in today’s economy. I don’t agree with the idea that you should not "spend time and money on a degree if it’s not really what I wanna do." That’s 20th century thinking and you’re living in the 21st century. Please see my answer to "Useless to Major in Dance," as the answer also applies to a vocal performance major:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj1eZ8gmggagoer1GztEHEbty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090914133058AAA6kqH
You and your parents also need to read the recent Newsweek article on "The Creativity Crisis" (July 10, 2010
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html
Businesses need creative people.

Finally, you need to stay in college because colleges are super-valuable resources. As you admitted with Option #3, you don’t even know how to set off on your own. When you return to school, you’ll need to work on getting tutoring or other academic support (such as study groups), personal counseling (to work on deciding what you want to do and how to stick with things you started - a valuable life skill), and career counseling (how to promote yourself, network, write resumes, etc). You can’t get those things as easily outside of college, so take full advantage of your school’s student services while you’re there.

So, yes, leaving school is a completely bad idea. Go with Option #4, seek out lots of advice, and work with what you’ve got (your voice) to take you to new places and opportunities within the world of musical theatre.