York Illuminate Festival

Here is a video of some of the interactive Light and Digital Art exhibits at The York Illuminate Festival

New Version of Spin It Again V2.5 now available

Having tested several type of software for transferring LP's and Cassettes there is no better software than Spin It Again to make the job as easy as possible. The wizard takes you through the process in easy steps and Spin It Again has some powerful audio restoration built in to reduce annoying clicks, pops, and tape hiss.

Product features:

• Supports monitoring on USB sound devices
• Type in track and album information while recording
  
• Automatically look up track information online
  
• Great track detection based on typed or looked up information
• Record two times longer Up to 13.52 hours at CD quality
• New easy speed/rate adjuster for recording 78rpm records at 45 rpm
• Change volume of each track for geat sounding compilations
  
• Supports Vista fully
  
• Dedicated interface to easily record cassettes and records. Easily transfer your vinyl LP to CD or cassette to CD.
  
• Visual and audio wizards guide you through the recording level adjustment, hardware connections, recording and edit process.
• Automatic track detection and silence removal algorithm splits your albums into tracks ready for your iPod, MP3 or CD player.
• Automatically removes annoying clicks, pops and tape hiss.
• Create audio CDs and/or convert recordings to MP3, OGG, WMA, and hi-fi WAV files.
• For the more advanced users, easily record at hi-fi sample rates and bit depths and render out to hi-fi DVD audio ready files, if desired and supported. (48khz -> 192 khz, 24 bit audio)
• Use Spin It Again to split up previously recorded MP3s, WAVs, WMAs or OGGs into multiple tracks or burn to CD.
• Will burn tracks longer than one CD. For example, if you wanted to record a 4-tape audio book, it would burn it over as many CDs as it needed.

Hope you take a look - it works really well

Testing Electronic Components

Testing Electronic Components is an essential part of fixing any electronic piece of equipment so if you are a 'newby' to electronics this ebook will help enormously. It's full of photographs and easy to understand techniques and will walk you through the essential processes needed to fix your electronics. I service guitar amps and audio related gear and found it really useful.

Testing Electronic Components is written by Jestine Yong, a professional engineer who mainly repairs and maintains TV but the type of components used in TV are exactly the same as any other type of equipment so this is truly a universal resource. Find out more about Testing Electronic Components at my website

Creating a Professional Website the easy way

I have a couple of websites, one I designed using Dreamweaver 3 quite a few years ago (and it looks like it!) which is my www.SoundAbout.net website and the other I designed and produced using X-SitePro2. Now X-SitPro2 isn't as versatile, and doesn't have some of the advanced features of Dreamweaver but what it does do, it does fantastically well. You produce static html webpages, but you can add video, audio, Adsense, Amazon affiliate links, PayPal buttons and stacks more with a few clicks of the mouse.

Updating your site is a breeze. If, for instance you wanted to edit the navigation or indeed change the entire look, then you can carry out your edit, or even choose a different navigation design altogether and X-SitePro2 updates the whole site for you - magic.

I produced my www.about-guitar-amps.com website with X-Site Pro2 and it was a breeze! I can add images or links to the header, side panels or footer and it'll be updated site-wide in an instant. It's so easy. It's not surprising that PC Adviser gave it a glowing review - see it here

You can also check out the review I wrote on my about-guitar-amps website at http://www.about-guitar-amps.com/web_design_made_easy.html

Oh - it's a Windows only based software - Shame, I'd like a Mac version too

Thinking blog

go to http://jgnorbury.blogspot.com/

John Etheridge - guitar magic

For you guitarists out there check out http://www.johnetheridge.com playing with his band Sweet Chorus

Saw them at Thornagby and it was magic

More Bad Things About Macs - Beware!

Well I guess it was my fault but I have just deleted all my emails in my inbox on my mac.....

All I wanted to do was to delete a mail account and re-input the mail server data as, for some reason the account wasn't working properly. In MS Outlook or Express I could have done this, but in 'Mail' on a Mac, if you delete the account it takes all your emails in your inbox with it - never to be seen again, so beware.....

Funny old life isn't it