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# Music by Hugh McManners

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/blog/)
- [8 New Channels: Slaving an M-Audio ProFire 2626 to a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/8-new-channels-slaving-an-m-audio-2626-to-a-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
- [Turning Gigs and the Internet into a Real-World Experience](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/gigs-and-the-internet-as-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
- [The Recording of Hendrix "All Along the Watch Tower"](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/recording-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,
- [Magic Mushrooms Treating Depression](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/magic-mushrooms-and-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
- [Recording, New Band & PERCY!](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/recording-and-new-band/) - Just recovering from a weekend of serious music with Jez Coad producing, with Steve Turner on bass and Jeff Walker on drums. I've played with these guys over the last (ahem) thirty years, gigging and in the recording studio set up by Jez in an oast I had down in darkest Kent. Steve and Jeff played in
- [Ernie Ball Expression Pedal Series](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/ernie-ball-expression-pedal-series/) - Now this is a really good idea!! I discovered variable overdrive through using a volume pedal to swell signal into an overdrive stomp box. But I never really caught onto its possibilities until I bought my Axe FX, which allows you to control any effect using an expression pedal. In the Axe, I was able

## Pages

- [Current Projects](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/) - Linden Tree Band www.lindentreeband.com Psych'ish, modern rock-folk songs. Blues and country roots, with rock and Americana influences.
- [LISTEN](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/listen/) - The Linden Tree Band's launch was postponed by Covid. But I'm finally out, performing solo acoustic . So where are we now? Well, our EP "Phoenix Rising" is ready, with a complete album in final production. So if you sign up to the "Subscribe" page (guaranteed spam-free), I can let you know immediately it's ready -
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- [CONTACT](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/contact/) - Hugh McManners lives in Leicester LE1. If you'd like to contact him, please use the form below.
- [Home Page Archived](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/all-about-the-music/) - NEW!! Acoustic Solo and Band (please click logo to link through to website & music) LINDEN TREE Psych'ish, modern rock folk songs. Blues and country roots, with rock and Americana influences. An EP to be completed this year (2018), and also performing solo acoustic. And a bass player and drummer, for when more musical muscle is required.
- [Recording my new single with Jez Coad](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/recording-my-new-single-with-jez-coad/) - I've just got back from a couple of tiring but excellent days recording with producer Jez Coad (Simple Minds, Andrew Strong). We'd recorded live drums and bass guitar back in January, with Jeff Walker (Gutter Brothers, various TOTP chart bands and a songwriter) and Steve Turner (also Gutter Brothers and a film and television music
- [GIG DATES](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/gig-dates/) - CHINNOR BIKE DAYZ - 4th July Solo electro-acoustic-shoe-gaze rock-folk'ish set I'm on stage from 6pm to 7pm Lower Icknield Way, HP27 9QE Longwick, Princes Risborough With loads of great bikes, bands, beer and loads for kids. Camping. Raising dosh for the Air Ambulance _________________________________________________________________________________ MAIDENHEAD FESTIVAL - Saturday 25th July I'm on "early evening"
- [Playing Reggae and the Secret of Singing](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/cabstars-reggae-band/) - Folk and rock stuff, apart, I had a great year in 2016 as the bass guitarist for the now-defunct Cabstars, a three-piece reggae and ska band playing original music. A lot of energy is required to play original music really well AND find your own audience. We had one good year, but the guitarist-singer wasn't able to
- [Psychedelic Rock FX Board for Boogie Mk5](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/psychedelic-rock-fx-board-for-boogie-mk5/) - I'm building a new pedal board to go with the Boogie Mk 5. The best amp sound seems to come with the Boogie's FX loop turned off, so the board fx comes before the preamp, on a true bypass looping Musicom EFX 2 controller (which also sends midi patch changes to the Eventides). My new
- [Recording Drums](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/recording-drums/) - Recording drums is an art form all of its own. Producers often take days tuning, adjusting and miking up drum kits, to get the critical drum sound they want. Conversely, incorrectly placed microphones create phase problems that reduce the quality of the mix. Over the decades, various tricks have emerged: to get a good sound using
- [Video Review:  Revelation Axel KM Acoustic Guitar](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/review-revelation-axel-km-acoustic-guitar/) - I just bought a new guitar for gigging. I now have four Revelation 'imitations' of good guitars, the idea being that I'm not going to be too upset if something happens to one of them. The trouble is, they're all really good guitars themselves! And this new acoustic is no exception - and only £279.
- [Psychedelia, Music, Imagination - and Reading](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/psychedelia-music-imagination-and-reading/) - I've been thinking about imagination and music, in the context of psychedelic drugs and music. Both trigger our brains in such a way as to generate a very real-feeling sort of reality, but one that is so far from reality as to be... well psychedelic. It is of course a major incentive to find ways of exploring
- [Re-Stringing a 12 String Guitar](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/re-stringing-a-12-string-guitar/) - I need to re-string my 12-string electric for recording next week with Jez Coad. We're doing three tracks, and at least one has got 12-string in the guitar guide tracks. They were in fact the original strings from the Revelation factory, and the bass strings had gone pretty dead - so more than overdue. With
- [PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/psychedelic-music/) - I well remember hearing the first psychedelic tracks, from artists like Jimi Hendrix. His "Are You Experienced" is the classic for me, although his pop tune "Purple Haze" is more usually cited because that was a contemporary name for LSD - or a "brand" of acid. Sacrilege perhaps, but this live cover of "Are You Experienced" totally
- [Could Psychedelic Music Help Heal Mental Illness?](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/could-psychedelic-music-heal-mental-illness/) - My previous blog was on the use of magic mushrooms (the psychedelic drug psilocybin) to treat depression that hasn't responded to other treatments. An interesting discussion resulted from this blog. One of my very long-standing friends declared having gained greatly from micro-dosing magic mushrooms (which grow where she lives): she said: "you take just 0.2grm, so
- [Buying a Bass Rig:  Further Developments....](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/buying-a-bass-rig-further-developments/) - Unfortunately, at our first gig at The Swan Wantage, in front of a lively crowd, my brand new Ampeg SVT 7 PRO amp decided that it would sporadically cut out for a few seconds. At first nobody noticed, then Ben the singer thought I was messing about - missing cues on my first gig with
- [PHOTO GALLERY](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/gallery/photo-gallery/) - - with annotations for guitarists.... Playing bass with Cabstars at Foxton Locks Festival June 2016 Solo at Chinnor Bike Dayz: July 15th 2015 I was using my old AC30 (a 1963 Vibra-Trem), for the dry guitar sound. Even miked up , it was lovely and sweet. But despite using in-ear monitoring, the volume level had to be down
- [How to Use #AbletonLive as an Instrument in a Live Band - part two](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/667-2/) - I just created a gig-proof system of playing Ableton live as an instrument in our three-piece roots reggae ska band Cabstars. It did however take two weeks of struggling, so I hope this blog and video will save you some time if you’re trying to do something similar. Then at a rehearsal just before it's
- [How to Use #AbletonLive as an instrument in a Live Band - part one](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/all-about-the-music/how-to-use-abletonlive-in-a-live-band-part-one/) - How to use Ableton live in a live band - playing reggae and ska
- [CABSTARS new EP  "THE WORLD TO ME" - release June 2016](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/cabstars-new-ep-the-world-to-me-release-june-2016/) - CABSTARS new EP "THE WORLD TO ME" - to be released in June 2016 THE WORLD TO ME PINCH ME TO WAKE UP FLOOR SWEEPER GET FREE OF all songs written by Ben Hugh, with Lloyd Johnson on drums, Steve Rollings on keyboards, Hugh McManners on bass guitar, and Ben Hugh guitars and vocals.
- [Buying a New Bass Rig](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/buying-a-new-bass-rig/) - Oh dear... Not having played bass at a gig with a band for decades, I haven't got a bass rig. But this has to change rapidly as the reggae band I've been rehearsing with Cabstars, has a gig in two weeks. We also have a festival gig in June... I'd been banking on using my
- [Hum from Crown XLR2000 Power Amp](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/hum-from-power-amp/) - I developed a bad hum in my recording gear after adding a McOne Passive Monitoring Controller. SPOILER: the solution to my hum is highlighted at the bottom of the page for others with hums and no time to read the rest. The McOne is so I can ABC my Sonos Player 5 Gen2's, SN-10 reference
- [Every Child Should Make the Bells Ring - a Christmas song](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/every-child-should-make-the-bells-ring/) - This is Janet, at the St Louis Children's' Hospital, ringing the bell at the end of her successful treatment for a brain tumour (photo available here)
- [Silent Ones](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/listen/silent-ones/) - Once a year, a lot of people in the UK wear red paper poppies to remember those who died in war - initially in the First World War after the millions of poppies that grew each summer amid the mud of the Flanders battlefields seemed to evoke the spirits of those killed there. Most of
- [My Electronic Acoustic Rig](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/my-electronic-acoustic-rig/) - The contradiction that is my "electronic acoustic rig" has now been up-dated, following my gig at the Wittstock Festival. So, my "acoustic" guitar rig comprises: two of the classic Eventide delay and modulation units "TimeFactor" and "PitchFactor", providing a huge range of pristine "wet" stereo guitar sounds, and a Crowther Hotcake giving me a gentle overdrive for the occasional lead
- [Building a Lightweight PA / FRFR AXE FX & Acoustic Guitar Cabinet](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/all-about-the-music/building-a-lightweight-pa-frfr-axe-fx-acoustic-guitar-cabinet/) - A unashamedly geeky post this!! The intention was to build a ultra-modern full range, flat response speaker cabinet, capable of reproducing really accurately all the nuances of the Axe FX's incredible guitar cabinet emulations. These digital emulations allow you to hear the very weave of the virtual speaker cabinets through which the sound is notionally passing!!
- [Making Great Live Music Videos](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/all-about-the-music/making-great-live-music-videos/) - Sound, Picture Quality and the Importance of the Human Voice Counter-intuitively, the quality of pictures in music videos is very much less important than the quality of the sound. How many great music videos use grainy, poorly exposed pictures to create atmosphere? But listen to the sound.... The music is really well recorded - especially
- [Videos Distract from the Music](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/videos-distract-from-the-music/) - Personally I think pictures are a distraction from the music. I don't watch the pics when listening to music videos, especially with music I've never heard before. A poor storyboard, actor you don't like, or just about anything that for some reason doesn't fit with the music, adversely affects your impression of the music. Music and
- [The Distillers at Reading 2004](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/the-distillers-at-reading-2004/) - An Interview, then: The Hunger Beat Your Heart Out Drain the Blood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlgsF0nVR8w The Distillers were in finest form at Reading 2004. I've always thought this gig was fundamentally what all gigs should be; that strange chemical reaction with crowd and performers, aided of course by the engineers, their technology and The Vibe. I was
- [GUEST MUSIC](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/guest-music/) - 1. Deborah Gee and the CherryBluestorms - "Just a Kiss Away". 2. The Surfing Brides: "Everything's Fine" 3. Thomas Andrew Bennett - aka Bat 4. Rik Mayall and Jools Hollands' "Big Band" - I'm Evil 5. The Distillers at Reading 2004
- [Drinking Sunset](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/drinking-sunset/) - A song about a beach bar in North Cornwall, where the seagulls swirl - I like seagulls- and you can watch the sun go down while drinking cocktails (or pints of Italian lager). The bar, these days called the Watering Hole, was Bob Job's Beach Bar when I knew it. It sold many a deck
- [Running Out of Time](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/posters/running-out-of-time/)
- [Rainbow City Dreams](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/posters/rainbow-city-dreams/) - ©Hugh McManners 2010 - 2015
- [Listen to artists not politicians](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/listen-to-artists-not-politicians/)
- [Music and poetry blow holes through walls](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/posters/music-and-poetry-blow-holes-through-walls/)
- [Listen to Artists not Politicians](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/listen-to-artists-not-politicians-2/)
- [The Fucked-Up Universe](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/the-fucked-up-universe/)
- [GALLERYS](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/gallery/) - Photo Gallery Poster Gallery
- [POSTERS](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/posters/)
- [We're Here to Change the World](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/were-here-to-change-the-world/)
- [Politics, Religion, Spam, Dating, the Purpose of Life - and Music](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/politics-religion-spam-the-purpose-of-life-music/) - We have some political musicians, but they're usually rather lame - with the exception of singer-songwriters like Billy Bragg, or protesters like Woodie Guthrie. For example, Dave Grohl's interview with President Obama and all of Bono's bollocks are best ignored. (I otherwise admire Mr Grohl, and the interview did give his Sonic Highways series a
- [HM Band](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/hm-band/) - The HM Band has played in London, but is currently pursuing various other interests - as they say. In times of national crisis and musical need it reconstitutes itself with very great speed. Comprising: Steve Rollings on keys, Hugh McManners on guitar and vocals, Jeff Walker on drums and Nathan Rainer on bass.
- [One Black Strat](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/listen-2/) - 2005 - black Strat 2015 - same black Strat, now with the trem set up
- [Rik Mayall live with Jools Holland singing "I'm Evil"](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/rik-mayall-live-with-jools-hooland-singing-im-evil/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZBBIO7vncM
- [Thomas Andrew Bennett - aka Bat  (heavy folk)](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/thomas-andrew-bennet-aka-bat-heavy-folk/) - WHEN, WHY HOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzL6ptFEiyE#t=145 TURTLE ISLAND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCqzlFvN3LU
- [Deborah Gee and the CherryBluestorms](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/deborah-gee-and-cherrybluestorms/) - Deborah Gee - a friend from Encino California, who for reasons best known to herself travels from the balmy reaches of the Los Angeles hills to play gigs in north London and Liverpool. Glenn Laughlin her guitarist started out in the band "Stukas Over Disneyland" - from which is there was any justice in the
- [The Surfing Brides](https://music.hughmcmanners.com/the-surfing-brides/) - The creation of my friends Jez Coad and Sean Kelly. Originally a skiffle band... then named The Surfing Brides of Christ, to drop part of this memorable soubriquet in order to live without fear in the USA. They were a huge success for IRS - a record label that went bust within weeks of releasing their

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