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Paul is a big fan of music forums, especially fro J-Pop, Slide Guitar and Other Hobby (?) Boards.

At his request (and because my geekness is Intrepid Level), we have added an official Stormcellar message board entitled, Mr Wizards Forum! You can get there by clicking the link from the menu on your left, or by going to forum.stormcellar.com.au

 Is this a good idea? Who knows! Will it be a long lived experiment in free speech, or clogged with SPAM?

This is Mr Wizards Forum, a place to talk about us, guitars, random stuff and I might even contribute some DIY Videoclip making stuff. Moderated by Mr Wizard himself! Get on there and start posting!

After a three weekend break, we're back with new songs from the new album, at the Royal Hotel in Bondi this Saturday 23rd June 8pm!

It's time to adjust the setlist to bring in another few songs from the new album.

Yikes.

Howdy Folks.

Good gig on Saturday night, some excellent moustaches in the audience. OK, one in particular, but there you go.  Now I have moustache envy.

It took a while to get folks dancing but we got there :-)

We're still working the new songs from the album in and it looks like its time to investigate some new technology.

On 'Country radio' and 'South of the Border' I'm singing in a lower range (like in Yamanote line) and the vocals sometimes find it hard to clear the rest of the instrumentation. Pete suggested we look at a vocal compressor to keep the vocal levels up when the lower stuff kicks in.

I started looking into pedals that I can manage from stage and found all sorts of neat things, such as boxes that will boost, add effects, auto harmonise and yes, pitch correct on the fly. That's right, forget all that singing in tune nonsense, you can just gargle your way to awesome vocals using some diodes, a small piece of meteorite, a neodymium insert , some software and a 9 volt battery!

Who needs the lungs of whitney, the range of mariah, the lips of Pavarotti and the schnoz of Durante when you can plug your mike into a box and voila, instant fabulousness.

I have resisted the lure of the Dark Side of the pedal board, I mock guitarists (Ha! I mock you!) for their 55 pedal board setups, I have remained, pure, unsullied....oh....Except for the delay pedal for the harp effects, cos that's really cool and....

NOoo!!! I have succumbed!  Oh well. Once again, my credibility dissolves at the thought of new, shiny, plastic boxes with buttons. BUTTONS!!!

Where was I? oh yeah, we played at the Bald Rock, it was neat. Cheers to Big Daddy and his new flatmate, Shane, Wayne, Jane (I am not making this up) and all the folks that spent the evening with us. 

Now I want to go google vocal effects pedals.... mmm......switches and dials. (EDIT NOTE: Thanks to Rosie for hipping me to spell check fail :-)

Woot - All hail Open Source Software! Our happy little site just had a Mobile template added, so if you're reading this on a Smart phone/iPhone etc, things are going to be easier to see! Go on, whip out your device and try it! Just type our website address in to your in phone browser and marvel at the...err...same list of stuff on the main menu but with less colours (until I get a template package)..

Did I mention it was a free upgrade? 

Heh.