My knowhow inside the computer music world grow bigger every day. In a way it started off with me downloading a music studio program called KRISTAL to my laptop. The program as such was great to use, looking and working almost exactly as an old analog studio. unfortinutlyt for me the I couldnt make the timing on each channel to work, overdub was out of sync.

So a freind of mine told me to try out Adobe audition, and suddenly everything was working almost great. But the fact that this program would cost me a small fortune was disliked by me for sure.

The final sollution to my problems, caused by a to old taperecorder that sounded like shit caused by severe speed alternation. Downloaded Audacity and there it was, it was free and everything I tried out so far tells me its a Great audio-studio system. Thanks to You who made this program and let me use it for free.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

"across the atlantic"

Rewritten /

As lots of other guitarplayers I started learning how to play the guitar with a dream in mind. A dream of the day when I was listening to the approvals from an audience after playing me tunes for them on stage. A dream that did include to become a pro-musician.

I been on stage listening to the cheers of the audience but was never near the stage where I could actually live on making music. Something that a hundred years ago led me in to become a guitar teacher at evening classes. Today I can with ease tell that Im proud to have taught more then a hundred people to enjoy their musicskills in playing the guitar.

Some of my pupils gave me a good laugh during that time. As the married couple at app 35-40 whom I asked about their homepractice. The woman replied that He takes a chair and plays the homelessons while I do the dishes! Natuarly I told Him to do the dishes instead.

A group of (think it was 10) housewifes became their own group and wondered if I could teach em, and how much will they learn?

My answer was that if they did their best they could learn a couple of tunes and maybe they could learn how to play a 2-guitar version of Stanley Meyers - Cavatina! To be frank they didnt belive me at that moment.

In the pollowing spring their guitar skills was real good and maybe with the help of some beer, whine or something similar they brought their guitars on a trip to well known street Ströget in Copenhagen. As many other street musicians they performed in the street that sunny saturday with possibly 10 different tunes. In the evening they realised that they made a profit of more then 200,oo£!

Going back to the title of this blogg, it wasnt about those ladies that I wanted to write. Rather about the record shown below and the artist behind it.

A new series of classes was about to start. There I was in front of a group of wannabee guitar players, main part of em was adults. Only a few was teenagers when a sharp lookin man arrived with his the app 11-12 year old shye daughter. She was to be one of my pupils.

Could I teach Her to play the guitar? Before class even started the man dissapered and His daughter picked up a really shitty old plywood guitar from a gigbag. They guitar as such worth anything up to a maximum of 10,oo£.

It was really project impossible to teach her anything with such a shitty guitar so She had to loan another one during that class. Class was over and by then I knew that Her father was a golf-pro. He arrived back and at this moment nothing could stop Me from telling Him a few facts in a very harse manner. A bit mad I tild Him that He could afford to buy Her daughter a proper guitar if He wanted Her to learn how to play.

At the next lesson a week later Sarah arrived and seamed very happy. From a case she picked up a brand new 200,oo£ plus Yamaha and looked very proud.

A couple of years later my role as Her guitar teacher was changed. Now I was rather Her musicmentor and we enjoy´d playing together as often as we could. A young girl and a much older man, both of em trying to inpove their music skills. I told Her to start writing Her own music and She did. Soon we was palying Her songs where I could help Her telling what I thought about Her music.

Unfortinutly We did lost contact and the next time we met. She seam not to feel to well whe She asked me to drive Her to a palce in Malmoe (Skåne - flat state of Sweden) during the trip She told me a little about Her life, that She mowed to Canada and that She had made Her first album. An album that She gave me. Unfortinutly I lost that record somewhere but a couple of the songs is somewhere in my computer. One of the Im prety sure She wrote with me in mind.

Often Ive been wondering what happened to Her, the suddenly today I was sent a link from a freind. I found Her, there She was at least on the net, and the fact that She is at Her Second World Tour with Her band, playing Her music!

A quick search at You Tube and there She was with many different songs, You can find a link below.

Im so satisfied and proud that everything went well for Her and that Her fame already seam to be written in stars. She deserve thats for sure.

So take a look at the link and meet Sarah MacDougall, check out the other YouTube links and enjoy. Listen to Her lyrics more then once, they always have something to tell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88hc4wC9ddU

natuarly You can find all her YouTube clips if you just write Her name in the search.

a new era of recording

"home recording system 1962"

In the very very beguinning, well me first recording equipment was the old taperecorder connected to an equally old tube-radio. Something that later was improved with a stereo taperecorder.

Year´s passes by and the old gear was stored away, instead there was a 4-channel real to real taperecorder with its mixer unit.

"TEAC 4-channel taperecorder"

Later on app 15 years ago I was introduced to recording with computerbased system. A freind of mine spent truckloads of money to build a modern homestudio. All instruments was connected and recording started and ended after only a couple of minut´s of playing. To be honest I didnt like that at all. So I went back to me taperecorders.

The reel to reel recorder was unfortinutly caused by its huge size replaced with a by then more modern 4-channel portastudio. Suddenly all was included, a taperecorder and mixer in one and the same unit. Easy to handle and with a sound quality that at least could be called fair.

"Fostex portastudio"

Age took its time, and when the portarecorder suddenly started to malefunction. The speed of the unit was going up and down like crazy. Everything recorded sounded like SHIT.

"KRISTAL soundstudio downloaded"

It was about time for this ole man to enter the computerworld. A free studiorecording program called KRISTAL was downloaded to the laptop. A great program that seamed to work, but soon I relised that it wasnt in sync. The overdubbs was kind of delay´d and that didnt sound good at all. On the other hand as this in my veiw seams to be a great program, I will try to find its faults and kinks. Maybe Ill find a way to make it work perfectly.

Computer-pro´s among me freinds told me that I was in need of a soundgadget, the Focusright Sappire 6 unit was bought at Janssons Musik in Uddevalla and the Adobe Audition was installed. Suddenly I could enter the modern recording world and my computer was transformed to an exellent studio system.

As a first test run of the system I recorded a pair of tune´s.

Links to my Youtube channel can be found here. Both songs in recorded as instrumentals with no vocal.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Arksund?feature=mhee#p/u/0/js2gJgMlv_o

http://www.youtube.com/user/Arksund?feature=mhee#p/u/1/oCbpGaB1oII

Links to suppliers:

http://www.janssonsmusik.se/

http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/

whats music all about

Or rather, how come there is eager musicians playing for peanuts all over the world.

In almost every magasine You can read about riots of females in front of different musicians. First time I saw this happening live was at my first ever Beatles concert in Gothenburg/Sweden. Noone among the audience could hear the music, girls was screaming. Suddenly there was something called groupies. So if the musicians didnt get pay´d in cash they could at least get free sex from groupies.

So is music as such something to regard as SEX? Is that why a wannabee artist rehearse night and day and later go on stage playing for peanuts.

SEX is to be found everywhere, its the way to sell a product, the product may be music, cars, a fridge well almost everything is sold with SEX in the commercials. When did you last see an advert from a showerproducer showing an elderly man taking a shower. Never!!

In the early fifthies they sold radio/grammophones with sex, while all music played on the item was about holding hand or getting married.

Records was x-rated caused by their lyrics. A song could with ease be x-rated in the USA, then in Europe it was legal. It could also be the other was around.

Even in toy-commercials You´ll find sexy girls. Why? Maybe its supposed that the fathers should by hotwheel cars to their youngsters just because of the sexy girls in the adwerts.

Do You become eager to buy the Hagström guitar caused by the girl in the pic?

And what about the Jaguar? Maybe all the girls is included in the purchase of the new Jag.

Can it be that easy that SEX is the main tabo, that involves everyone. Even if we often tend to deny it. SEX is something hidden in the dark.

In the 60-ies even the guitar manufactor Danelectro sponsored a girl group, entering the stage with bare breast´s. sales gimmic?

I would prefer to say, that everythings is possibly about sex.... even music.