Metal Reviews

Welcome Back Noodles. I went on "vacation" recently myself to Indio for about a week where I met some people that spent 12 years in Medical school and didn't know the first thing about what they actually did. I hope Canada was lovely and you had a great time though.

On the downside, I have 400$ less in my bank account than I thought I did. Time to get a job.

Hungover. That is all.

British Colombia is by far the most beautiful province in Canada! Working more than 40 hours per week. Nope not saving much at all. Mostly goes towards my Visa and in addition to buying LP's. My books have found a new-found house in the new bookcase. My CD's are in the process of being organized. I've gotten around to the letter "A." Yeah I know. Massive progress. I really haven't had time because I'm basically never home. I plan to change that tomorrow, though and all of Sunday which is my day off.

Girlfriend has a summer internship close by! To make up for this, there are flood warnings in the north-west of England due to the heavy rain. When you need to be warned about English weather...

Got all choked up 'cause of Murray's speech after Wimbledon.

Found out something about my voice which explains an awful lot. My singing sounds like shit under one condition that I know how to avoid from now on. I don't wanna say too much, but my voice is capable of doing something no one else can do. My false folds overlap my real folds and there is horizontal space where the false folds are wider than the real ones for the overlap and controlling this along with the air gap between the two sets vertically means I can bias the harmonics to my voice and add frequencies that do weird shit to the signal that is generated in this additional space.

I also have to be more aware of resetting my larynx. I had to do this again last night and it has probably been a long while since it needed it. There are tendons that wrap around the parts of the larynx and long story short there are ways to change the shape of the cartilage and other things that if things get out of balance and really it's fucked up will make you sound awful. This is something I do not think most singers even know and no one does anything about it. The old myth about singing for such a time as to damage the voice is related as well as singer's getting fatigued by putting air in a part of the voice that has literally moved from where it was and they are stressing out a part that is not used to the violence and relying on the secondary vibration to work where they are used to.

I'm still working out the schematic and trying to put into words how to bias the vocal with back EMF, negative resistance and how to use hysteresis and the avalanche condition to good effect. If singer's would study Diodes, specifically Thyristors they would understand so much more about how it functions.

Nope, you're just tone deaf.

My room is organized again! Everything is in its place with the albums all on the shelf in alphabetical order. I am very happy, indeed. Now by simply spending a couple seconds I can find whatever I'm looking for without getting a neck-ache looking for it. Magnificent .

Wow, just, wow. I just got accepted into a Master's program in Human Nutrition in my hometown of Bergen. At a loss of words, didn't think my grades were good enough. Holy shit. Crossing my fingers that the GF got in as well. Her grades are better so she should be accepted.

You obviously have no clue what the term means, nor do you understand the point I have made 1000 times, which is that I do things in the most difficult manner possible including doing things that are actually the opposite of their function for the sake of being able to control every muscle both naturally and inversely. I have my own system that has given more more ability than anyone will likely ever see again. The fact that a bunch of crappy demos sound exactly like the amount of effort, care and thought that were put into them which was little, does not reflect how I choose to sound when I am in a situation where it up to me how to sound, which because I choose to practice in this manner means it can be anything. I have the freedom to do whatever I want and if someone takes those demos as other than "look at how close I can get my voice to ______" then I'm sorry, but they are mistaken. I've had reactions to the most recent demos that have surprised me because of how enthusiastic they have been when they are just me demonstrating tonal diversity and my complete insistence that they likely sound like a trainwreck if reverse engineered to eliminate the original recordings.

I've made several discoveries since the recordings were posted. This is not a surprise because my brain has a linear plan that I don't have access to regarding my voice training and conditioning and I am not allowed to access certain technique until others are taken care of. In any event, after a disappointing practice session which included a lot of throat clearing and frustration that the tone was not consistent enough to use them, I took five minutes to think about my breathing and to write some notes. A voice came to me when I was trying to figure out a specific problem and told me "Do the opposite of that and use all the dimensions."

Without going into technique or anti-technique one of the biggest problems was fixed tonight. It might not be the last problem, but I imagine tomorrows recordings will mark the end of the tone-generating era and then it will be time to tackle some originals and find some instrumental tracks that can be worked on.

Dude, you're a terrible singer. Get over it. No matter how many long winded paragrapahs you post will change it. Accept it and move on. You'll be happier in the end.

You have no idea how what you wrote would appear Devoted. It's kind of amusing you put it in those words.

Adveser, seriously mate, start a fucking blog or something.

Congrats, Thomas! Hope your gf got in too.

or better yet, record something under the ideal conditions, technically, technologically, acoustically, the whole thing, and show the world your so-called best, instead of raping people's ears with horrible Kamelot covers and making up a million excuses for it being shit.

Thomas, very happy for you. hope you'll be joined by your girlfriend soon.

Grats Thomas! Wish you both success!

+1, besides it would probably be viral and have a lot of success.

Congrats Thomas

That's brilliant. All the best.


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Chris, listen to the guys.

I always gaze at the stars when I smoke and far more often than I could ever expect I am given what I am looking for. Something out there is eager to let me know that promises will be kept.

Great job Thomas! Hopefully there will be found memories made and great success to be had.