"Iain Churches" wrote in message


Audio is no longer the hands-on hobby it used to be,

Iain speaks for just himself. He's never been hands-on with recording in
his life, even though he was a minor functionary at a well known record
label. If recording had been a hands-on hobby with Iain, he would have at
least a few microphones and he has repeatedly told us he has none.

I find it amusing that after stepping in the do-do on the sidewalk with his
C1000 recommendation, Iain is actually going to get his hands a little dirty
and touch a microphone. That's a victory for me, because I think that
recording can be a very good hands-on occupation, whether at the amateur
level or even professionally. At this point Iain is neither but at least has
taken a few steps in what may be the right direction.

but this recording has been an attempt to do something
practical, as a group project.

It's a practical circle-jerk.

Let's review what happened.

Kitty posted a MP3 file and asked a leading question about it. I made the
mistake of responding honestly and sincerely with a first cut at an
approximate correction to the file that by all accounts did address Kitty's
question. Nobody claim that my proposed change stopped the file from being
"Too mellow".

Kitty probably did the best job he could of implementing my suggestion with
his limited skills and equipment, and posted the file he fabricated as
evidence as part of a trumped=up test of my recording skills.

Iain jumped right on it and gave the expected negative reaction. He further
seems to have dredged up two people are far from being UKRA regulars, to
agree with him. One never ever posted here, and the other posted once a
number of months ago. Of course they are going to deny this to retain Iain's
friendship, but the record of Google is clear- they had no significant
interest in UKRA until Iain started libeling me based on Kitty's botched
file.

So what we have is a complete misappropriation of my casual suggestion by
Iain and Kitty, Kitty fabricating evidence, Iain trying to force his
opinions on the group as part of his ongoing vendetta against me, followed
by Iain dredging up his friends to agree with him.

My advice - steer clear of the whole matter and let me have the fun of
further exposing their malfeasance.