^^^ Alistair - THAT IS AMAZING AMAZING right there!  You can just hear the vibe of the session jumping out of the speakers. Hell yeah.

This one is actually one of my personal fav bits of guitar - apart from the Vai wank factor (which I personally take a huge amount of inspiration from) - this is a beautiful and very un-obvious solo with some insanely clever modal and chordal transitions.  This guy and virt probably my two hugest influences.   

ps.  Stop it when he starts singing - it pretty much goes down hill at that point.  (apologies for it not being an embedded clip)

Blip Melbourne '12.  All of it.  COnstantly! (= mastering and editing videos)

I've been doing this for 11 years now - HUGE recommendation for everyone if you can afford it.  I keep mine off the internet too and run a dedicated RAID box for it.  So so win.  You can totally minimise all drivers, etc.  If you have a few extra bucks get it from a specialist DAW builder - they will acoustically treat the box and optimise the crap out of the OS for you.

Welcome to being "serious" about your systems!  Just wait until you get a "spider" and start callibrating your monitors to be right.  Make SURE you get an IPS panel on your monitor... it's ashame we are still 3 years from OLED.

I ended up getting this thing called a Yamaha Pocketrak a few years back and it's been a godsend.  Such a rad little unit - and way smaller than H2.  I just leave it in my pocket for entire nights out and it has a little USB plug that flips out - no cables required.  Don't know how the sound compares to the zoom but it fares well with high SPL, you can just face it one way and do a mono recording fine.  I've also had it on a table between two glossy books angled forwards and managed to get an almost binaural recording out of it :-)

Lazerbeat: I've never understood why countries allowed earthing to slip by - esp Japan of all places.  UK and Australia are hardcore as you'd know.  I have to get all my PA / AV gear tested and tagged for correct earthing once a year.  Some venues won't allow it though the door without! 

What kind of mic are you using?  I find that you can just experiment in a room - there are no rules.  My recording this week was just in the lounge room with my mic stacked on some books.  I had a couple of dunas stacked behind the mic - and just got the mic placed right. Moved around a few times.  It was only a cheap USB Podcast mic too - needed eq'ing though.

Hoooooly shiiit.  Totally forgot about making a tune earlier tonight.  Mine is 1 minute! :-P

I don't know if I can continue doing WB for too much longer.  I just have too high an expectation of my music to get something done if I've had a busy week.  I don't actually have the ability (other than improv on a piano) to get a tune done quickly.  It's starting to eat into my personal life, and most certainly eating my "get the release finished" time... so I might pull it back to a monthly thing and make that my challenge.  Tune a week = too much.  That said, if I can still enjoy it, and find a way to do some quick / fast tunes without staying up all night on the Sunday and sleeping though meetings the next day, then I'll keep going.  The second it becomes a major stress or cause problems it'll be Monthly Melodies for me. :-P  Maybe I can just do short one minute jams on a DMG or something... we'll see.