What's the news for tonight?

It's goin up in a few minutes! I just need to ask everyone to please not post in it for a few minutes I need to reserve enough posts to fit it all lol

t3h sweetness

these lessons should be stickied. now!!!

Sup guys.
Just a heads up, I'm going to be setting up a site in the coming weeks.
Basicly a big band resource site, with one difference.

It's actually going to be useful and free.

Naturally the best band 101 articles are going to be on there and some new ones.
Plus the band resource list but with more detail and ratings.
Basic DIY recording information.

A [B]worldwide[/B] listing of all venues* in differing catagories such as Good for small bands (i.e. will accept almost any band of any level of any style with limited hassle) up to venues that are much more strict with the bands they accept.



*Not all on one page though, they'll be seperated by country, state/province and finally city. Also this is obviously gonna need alot of help from you guys, I can't really supply people with information for the best venues in Alabama for a new band :P So that's going to be a user submitted database as well as all the info I can muster from UK venues.

A forum catering for as much as I can possibly think of, recording, gear questions, music news, gig swaps, general discussion e.t.c.

User submitted tips and articles.
The site won't be some geocities pile of wank, I'll be going with a properly hosted site, nicely designed e.t.c.

Do me a favour and just drop me a post letting me know if you'd give a **** about the site, and anything you could contribute or suggest to improve it. :)

sounds good dude, good luck, cant wait to see it

[QUOTE=KKKKKocaine]Sup guys.
Just a heads up, I'm going to be setting up a site in the coming weeks.
Basicly a big band resource site, with one difference.

It's actually going to be useful and free.

Naturally the best band 101 articles are going to be on there and some new ones.
Plus the band resource list but with more detail and ratings.
Basic DIY recording information.

A [B]worldwide[/B] listing of all venues* in differing catagories such as Good for small bands (i.e. will accept almost any band of any level of any style with limited hassle) up to venues that are much more strict with the bands they accept.



*Not all on one page though, they'll be seperated by country, state/province and finally city. Also this is obviously gonna need alot of help from you guys, I can't really supply people with information for the best venues in Alabama for a new band :P So that's going to be a user submitted database as well as all the info I can muster from UK venues.

A forum catering for as much as I can possibly think of, recording, gear questions, music news, gig swaps, general discussion e.t.c.

User submitted tips and articles.
The site won't be some geocities pile of wank, I'll be going with a properly hosted site, nicely designed e.t.c.

Do me a favour and just drop me a post letting me know if you'd give a **** about the site, and anything you could contribute or suggest to improve it. :)[/QUOTE]

Hey man, that sounds frickin' awesome

I duno how helpful it would be but I'm sure I could provide a lesson + pics on recording / multi-tracking for beginners (4-tracks, 8-tracks rather than PCs) etc

:( Meh

:thumb: good luck

[QUOTE=Phototropic]Hey man, that sounds frickin' awesome

I duno how helpful it would be but I'm sure I could provide a lesson + pics on recording / multi-tracking for beginners (4-tracks, 8-tracks rather than PCs) etc

:( Meh

:thumb: good luck[/QUOTE]

Yeah that'd be helpful. As for the recording side of the site I'm looking at having articles about everything from getting the best guitar tone on a recording, to making a basic set up. Something really expansive that can cater from bands who have a small budget and just need to put together a basic demo, to bands who want to produce a good quality cd.

[QUOTE=KKKKKocaine]Yeah that'd be helpful. As for the recording side of the site I'm looking at having articles about everything from getting the best guitar tone on a recording, to making a basic set up. Something really expansive that can cater from bands who have a small budget and just need to put together a basic demo, to bands who want to produce a good quality cd.[/QUOTE]

Ahhh I see, well I can at least provide pictures sometime :)

Can't wait to see the site

I'll gladly be the king of "experimental" music on ur site lawl

and i know about recording guitars and stuff

you knew you could rely on me anyway though.


Any name ideas yet? and you need to think about how you're gonna get adwords on there and get rid of any popups and banners from free providers.

google will put adwords on your site and pay you for all the little clicks...

[QUOTE=moaner]I'll gladly be the king of "experimental" music on ur site lawl

and i know about recording guitars and stuff

you knew you could rely on me anyway though.


Any name ideas yet? and you need to think about how you're gonna get adwords on there and get rid of any popups and banners from free providers.

google will put adwords on your site and pay you for all the little clicks...[/QUOTE]

I'm going to host it with the same people who did BTH's website hosting so there'll be no worries of pop up banners and unrelated stuff.
I've been looking at googleadsense and it looks pretty advanced so I might tinker with it and see how related the ads are, but I'm not gonna do any pop up advertising.

they're pretty related, and very unobtrusive.

It'd be like "Joining a band? [url]www.forming[/url] bands.co.uk" "Portastudio www.gak.co.uk", that kinda thing.

Right, I've been trawling through this thread and picking out the best articles and making some additions to them for the new site.
We're still only looking at about 15 articles though so if anyone has any articles they'd like to submit then email me at [email]bandage_these_hearts@hotmail.com[/email] and I'll make sure your works all properly credited to you, and if you have a paypal/Nochex account I'll put a little donation box on the page of your article so anyone generous enough can reward you for your work :)

I also need some help with the venue listing. It doesn't matter where you live. Just send me the venue name, as much of the address (Inc. country, and state/province) as you've got, as many contact details as you have for them. Notes about the venue (size, typical turnouts, genres that usually play, size of bands that normally play i.e. is it for new bands, established bands?) and any other details you have.

So if you know any at all, email them over to me. I'm especially interested in the small venues that cater to new and upcoming bands that you'd only really hear about via word of mouth rather than massive stadium-esque venues.

As for the actually release date for the site. Well I don't know.
I'm waiting for the bank to send my pin for my new account, and then for my wages to go in. So we're looking at 2-4 weeks to get the shell of the site running.
As always, let me know if you have any ideas for the site or anything that could help it at all. And suggestions for a name would be good too! band101.com is already taken :(

It's probably not needed, but if you want any help with all the collab'ing/formatting/scripting/etc., I'm offering :)

loooking forwed to this.

ok here are all the articles in a .txt file.

[ATTACH]15992[/ATTACH]

[QUOTE=x0dus]ok here are all the articles in a .txt file.

[ATTACH]15992[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

Thanks alot.

I plan to write a few new articles for the launch of the site.
Does anyone have any topics they'd like me to cover?

Woo! The pin came for my new account today, I just need to wait for my cheques to clear and I can start the site!

maybe some more grass roots articles like talking about what gear one might need to be able to play live with. i know its very basic but it might make your site look more 'complete' if you have guides from like the bare band basics to more advanced issues like copyright.

maybe some tips on how to keep your bandmembers happy? band leader advice or something like that..

just some suggestions. looking forward to your site!

[QUOTE=KKKKKocaine]Thanks alot.

I plan to write a few new articles for the launch of the site.
Does anyone have any topics they'd like me to cover?

Woo! The pin came for my new account today, I just need to wait for my cheques to clear and I can start the site![/QUOTE]

What about band communication when a full jam isn't able such as even talking / acoustic jamming, since it's not always convinient to make a racket

Yeah I'll try and put something together on those topics.

I've worked out how I'm going to initially finance the site and it's upkeep.
I have no intention at all of making anyone pay for any part of the site, not even making some sections free and having 'premium' areas.
To start with I'm expecting a fairly small visitor base. So I can get away with a pretty damn cheap host for the first few months. (We're talking $2.95 a month, for about 5gb bandwidth. Which I reckon will last until the site gets up and running properly.

I'll have more than enough money to pay for the first few months, the .com name. (If you have any suggestions for the url let me know! At the moment the best I've got is [url]www.band-101.com[/url] which is availible.) And the initial template for the site.

But that won't last forever so I'll be introducing the following to keep the site paying for it's hosting.

1. Google Adsense - These are pay per click. But it's pretty advanced and you'll get specific results on whatever the page you're viewing is. Not viagra adverts.

2. A search bar. This is pay per search. I'll be sticking this somewhere on the page, it just works like a normal search bar, opening a new page with your results.

3. Donations with Nochex and Paypal. Anyone who writes me anything and has a Nochex or Paypal account can have a donation box at the top or bottom of the page so people can donate directly to whoever wrote the article.

For the moment, that should happily cover my costs for the site.

The features I'm intending to have on the site are as follows,

1. Articles - The best band 101 articles, recording articles from glossaries of terms to recording techniques and setting up home studios.

2. Venue Database, a user submitted data base of worldwide venues including contact details and info on how to get a gig there. (It's going to be divided up into countries, and then into provinces/states and then cities)

3. Reviews - I'll be writing a few, and accepting user written reviews from everything from instruments, audio gear, sequencing software, commercial band CD's and DVD's, local band CD's. If you write a well constructed review I'll accept it and you can accept donations for it as well.

4. Forum, similar to MX but with less of the crap and more band orientated.
It'll have the usual instrument forums, some gig swap forums, general discussion, recording forums e.t.c.

5. The useful sites for band thread, in alot more detail with more sites and descriptions and ratings for each site. This will also be user submittable.

That's what I've got planned for now.
The second the cheque goes through I can get the site registered, hosted and get a skeleton site up.

That sounds awesome, I'm motivated to write somehting for it now :d

[QUOTE=moaner]That sounds awesome, I'm motivated to write somehting for it now :d[/QUOTE]

Damn right you will!

With time it should have enough articles and reviews to pull in a good visitor rate and manage to pay for itself.
And I can reign supreme king of the free intraweb.
Hurrah!

Sounds cool, mate.

Heh sounds awesome man:)

Just a few ideas for articles off the top of my head:

Live Sound - A must for any band
Press Kits - A nice article on what to include and such
Tour - A rough guide to going on tour and how to organise it

Maybe something about getting a good "tone" from the whole band, eg, using different amps that blend with eachother, a good bass sound etc etc.

Sounds like its going to be great:thumb:

G

[QUOTE=KKKKKocaine]Damn right you will!

With time it should have enough articles and reviews to pull in a good visitor rate and manage to pay for itself.
And I can reign supreme king of the free intraweb.
Hurrah![/QUOTE]

*Huzzah!

Review of Tascam Porta02 MKII finished

I'll send it to you on msn sometime.

kkkkokain ....

send me an e-mail paul.strohmeier @ rckimschloss.com if you are interested in getting venues from vienna...

i am doing something similar over here for local bands...

yeah - just send me an e-mail, please

cheers

FK

hey, KKKKKocaine you seem like a pretty experienced guy. I was just wondering if you or any of the other people in this forum may have some idea what's up with my recording software. I got some new drum mics, and ever since, the recordings have been acting up. It's [B]not the drum mics[/B] because it does it for guitars as well.

Basically my set up is drum mics/guitars/inputs into a Tascam preamp (if needed) then into an Edirol FA-101 and into Digital Performer on my mac. The problem is that [I]sometimes[/I] the recordings decide to go funny and sound like this [url]http://blacktopforward.com/02%20Track%202.wma[/url]

so if anybody has any idea whatsoever as to what this could be, it would be appreciated. thanks.

pretty good thread if i say so myself

Right. The money STILL hasn't come into my account yet. :angry:
I've started work on the site design and some basic pages for it, still needs a bit of work, but it shouldn't be far off, I just need to tweak the design and make sure everythings looking nice.