Sidingsound

Getting started

Now I've confirmed that the mike is working---as it were---time for my first 'proper' post...

So, welcome to the Sidingsound blog---the latest in a medium-sized procession of attempts by myself to start (and more to the point, maintain) a written presence on the Web. I used to maintain a personal Web site regularly for a number of years, but getting married in 2002 (despite its many compensating benefits!) has meant a reduction in the amount of time spent in front of a monitor, in favour of giving well-deserved attention to my "real-world" family. All quite commendable :-)

So, why start a new blog? Well, partly because it may give me the impetus to build on it to revamp the rest of the www.sidingsound.co.uk webspace, as I've been meaning to do for the past couple of years but didn't get around to. Also, I thought people might be interested to find out more about (particularly) my home music recording setup and activities... and yes, there's the small matter of my brother having just started his own (very fine) blog lately, so a little good-natured sibling competitiveness could be said to have come into it!

Hopefully, before long I will find the time to apply some metaphorical WD40 to my seized-up-for-lack-of-use CSS skills and give this blog a homegrown template, instead of the mighty-fine-but-generic Dave Shea one it's sporting as I type this. In the meantime, here's a taste of what's likely to be appearing here in the near future:

• Reports on the recording I'm doing in the Sidingsound studio;
• Articles on the gear in the studio, for those interested in such things;
• Pieces on the music I'm currently grooving to (OK, cringeworthy expression, but you get the idea);
• Guitar-related items (or other instrumental, as appropriate);
• Other me-and-music-related stuff;
• The odd thing which doesn't really fit any of the above...

And this being the era of Web 2.0 and all, you might see the occasional item inserted from our Flickr photoset, YouTube and the like. Finger on the pulse of the age, you know :-)

Incidentally, I pledge that I will try my best to post here regularly, as I repeatedly promised and failed to do with this blog's predecessor! I'm going to try the "little and often" approach, with a mix of short and longer pieces, and see how long I can keep that going.

Here goes...

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posted by Tim @ 16:47