I'm Neil and this is a wee website to gather together some of the various creative projects I've done over the years. Partly it's an archive and partly it's a live works-in-progress type blog thingy.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, the title is a Mackem / Pitmatic rendering of "home-made in Sunderland"
It's a good few years since I've done any web-coding and I'm very rusty so it's likely to take a while to get this all sorted out. Plus there's quite a lot of material to be added, so please bear with 's....
19/10/26:- Delays... ech!
Well, the new album's getting put back by another week. I was hoping to get it released during this past week, but as is so often the case, finishing touches take forever. I had to take a couple of days break from it cos I was driving myself round the bend tweaking the closing track. I think I've finally got it to a point where I don't hate it, though it does go off on a tangent and do something else entirely to what I was intending, but whatever. The final mixdown has been relatively painless, other than some VSTi's getting goofy on me during rendering on a couple of tracks. That's been a fairly minor headache as these things go though. The mastering has been a bit more of a challenge however, especially as there's some fairly dramatic tonal and stylistic shifts from one song to another (and in the case of the final song, within itself), so managing the overall balance has been a bit of a bugger. Right now I'm working on the third, and hopefully final, master. There's not much chance of me getting it uploaded tonight though and I'm back at work tomorrow. It's likely to be Saturday or Sunday now before it's released. Still, that gives me a few more days to sit with it and be sure I'm happy with it. No point in hurrying I suppose.