Hugh McManners

Oxford-based singer-songwriter and guitarist, with a love of the blues, psychedelic rock and the poetry of song. Past lives in Australia and the British Army; and a forty-year career as a writer.

8 New Channels: Slaving an M-Audio ProFire 2626 to a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40

Using the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 with M-Audio 2626 as Slave If you have an old micpreamp / soundcard which no longer has driver updates – or is Firewire 400, or which Mac updates have rendered obsolete, here’s an idea that worked for me. An ADAT-slaved micpreamp  will allow you to use your up-to-date 8 …

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Turning Gigs and the Internet into a Real-World Experience

Live music should be all about small gigs with great bands and enthusiastic audiences. But instead, the reality is small gigs with no audience, or massive gigs with massive audiences (and equally massive ticket prices), that are way too large for much in the way of musical communication. This interesting Wired article about legendary US promoter Peter …

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The Recording of Hendrix “All Along the Watch Tower”

This very cool article by Ray Padgett in his forthcoming book, includes recordings of early takes (including a wasted Brian Jones playing piano very badly), and Hendrix’ guitar stems. Jimi spent months agonising over ever bit of the track.  He started recording just drums and acoustic guitars, with Dave Mason on 12-string.  It was all rather struggle, …

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Magic Mushrooms Treating Depression

I went today to a lecture by Robin Cahart-Harris at the University of Oxford Psychiatry Department (where I do stuff in my guise as a research foundation director). Robin was visiting the department from Imperial College London.  The title of his talk was “Psilocybin for depression: outcomes, mechanisms and future plans”. Robin is interested in …

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