Mick Holdsworth

Hi Mike Just noticed the previous problem I had with the unreadavle thin light text on a white background when using Firefox with Win7 has been resolved. Text is now nice and dark as before, so thank you for sorting that out.

So sad to hear this. My memories of Brian were mostly from the late seventies, early eighties at Birmingham Locarno and latter years of Wigan, amongst other places. Such a lovely man and such a loss.

There are a few. Champion demos of Gloria Jones were in both vinyl and styrene. Also the Sandy Wynns black issues of Venus are in both. DOC copies of that song were also in vinyl. It maybe that the few vinyl titles they did were mastered at Monarch but pressed elsewhere, but I don't think I've ever heard of this happening. Others may know more.

Here's the other track on the Exciters album . . . Movin'Too Slow

Cheers, I'll have to check that out. I know "Turn Me On" and another track from the RCA album were good.

About five or six months ago Tim Ashibende did a radio spot (possibly on a Dean Anderson show) playing album only tracks, and they were all excellent, and new to me. If the show is still online. it's well worth checkng out. Here's just one of them. The Spellbinders - That's The Way You Make Me Feel

Thanks Kathryn, that is better, for me atleast.

I'll try that Mike, but where can I find Dark View. Thanks.

It's an old version of Windows (Win 7), so that's probably the root problem.

Strange - I use Firefox normally, but I just tried it in Chrome and Opera and it's fine. I think the problem with Firefox is the distinction between bold and light text is lost, as if any styling is not happening. For me at least using opera is an ok workaround. Cheers Mick

Hi Mike, Regarding the display query above, I'm on a Desktop PC, and the text is very thin and light on white. making it almost unreadable. I know you said earlier that the display was being looked at, but I notice your screenshot above is much more readable than mine. Here's my screenshot . . . Cheers, Mick

Hi Mike, A couple of things I've noticed . . . We seem to have lost the sub-menu links to navigate between forums, eg AATS to Box, or Sales to Wants etc. We now have to go up a level, and back down. Also, the Sales and Feedback reputations seem to have disappeared, along with any links to members feedback. Maybe you are aware of both of these and are working on them, but I just thought I'd mention it incase they had been overlooked. FYI I'm using a desktop PC, and it may be different on a mobile.

Yes, I just wanted to clarify that the pitch of the vocal AND the backing are raised together, IDENTICALLY. Is is easy to notice a vocal that has been changed, but not so noticable with music. In this case the vocal "sounds" different (that's because it is), wheras the music may "sound" untouched (but in reality, it is different, just as different as the vocal). To demonstrate the differences in the music, here is a short clip of the two intros, First part is the intro from the Cindy thing, followed buy the same intro by Tony. Ends of the Earth intros only.wav

Both the vocal AND the backing have had their PITCH raised identically, and in each case their TEMPO remains the same or similar. In other words the track was processed as one "noise". If the vocal was processed seperately, leaving the music untouched, then it would be horribly off key. Since this was done there has been separation programs available to adjust a vocal track independently of music, and is used if the singer is off key. To make a male sound female whilst leaving the music untouched (eg. creating a duet) is also something that now available, but at the moment has a very small range. It's called Form or Formant adjustment.