quiet please while ON AIR sign is illuminated

They say: "life is what happens while you're making other plans".

At the beginning of last year I thought that after relocating my home/studio to more comfortable surrounds I'd serve out the obligatory sentence getting the gear setup and my ears accustomed to the new space...

... and hey presto I'd be squeezing out product like Barry Gibb on goof balls.

Firstly; my ears didn't get used to the new space [my big ears are always causing trouble] and it seriously freaked me out for over a year, so I wasted shitloads of precious time and energy on good music that ended up in the recycle bin because I just couldn't trust how it sounded.

After selling my soul to the devil I've managed to upgrade to the stereo monitoring which went most of the way to solving the problem. Along with the recent installation of a real-time room correction system my acoustics/monitoring/mix data is sounding better than ever [so it wasn't all for nought].

One could assume my life was finally back on track... and you'd be wrong.

I'm beginning to believe my destiny is a contiguous circular upgrade cycle punctuated only by the odd explosion and minor electrical fire, at least when it comes to my music equipment anyway.

Granted I'm a serious power user that stretches the machinery of production further and subjects it to heavier loads than the average consumer, but this is getting fucking ridiculous!

Computers, amps, speakers, monitors and televisions are blowing up like frozen landmines tripped by unseen ghosts. Sit quietly and wait and you'll eventually hear the sound of a power supply going critical and a motherboard frying.

Believe it or not I actually had everything working... for about three minutes.

Honestly it was about three months 'but it felt like three minutes'.

Four music computers down in three years [two last year] provided the biggest bottleneck in the system, computer based DAW's don't look too impressive when the computer has blown up!

5.1 surround controllers were committing suicide en-mass, class A amps didn't fare all that well; and a seemingly endless list of televisions and computer monitors gave their lives in service to a higher cause.

Currently music production is on hold [again] while I sweat out the arrival and installation of a long awaited large plasma U-touch enabled monitor [of course that's not without it's own dramatic saga].

If you haven't already heard them a thousand times before there's a collection of my music in the Multimedia/Audio Media department, obviously recorded before electricity was discovered.

Otherwise hang in there and I'll attempt to release some new material before the sun runs out of fuel and my home studio is consumed by the expansion of a red giant.

WARNING:

pryceworld.com is undergoing a slow process of upgrades, while this continues some pages may load incorrectly, and features like newsfeeds, links and forums could be problematic while I'm configuring the new server.

DON'T GET ANGRY, GET REVENGE.

Pryceless.

The devil decided my soul wasn't worth the paper it was printed on; and my internal organs have been classified as 'toxic waste' so I can't even sell them to an underground chop shop. Please feel free to leave a small PayPal donation so I can purchase equipment that works and instruments that play in tune, pay internet server rental and ISP charges and buy essential foodstuffs so that I can continue making use of the other stuff.