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Congrats to Harry V for having the Mixposure.com Song of the Week!! Check out this tune!!
Born 1950 in the Netherlands,
living in Maastricht,
songs in english, dutch, french and german I write music from Europe about Children&War, Love&Life, Life&Death, Joy&Sorrow, about the Love For All People.
Wrote most of my songs for my sweet Annet who departed in 2004, not realizing many all over the world would relate to these diddies Wink
Thank God they do.
In 2009 I joined reverbnation which is still my main platform in combination with facebook.
Reverb is all about yours truly, my facebook music page is about the friends I meet, daily new encounters, all of them excellent artists whom I gladly give some exposure on my FB page.
Here too I just found a way to give exposure to what I hear on MIXPOSURE,
look in my Playlist, Holdin Dixie Close is my music, other playlists are for songs I rate
☆☆☆☆☆
with Love ♥♫
I just wanted to let everyone know that we added a small icon on the New Song Page with a small pen on it. When clicked it will bring up a window to add song reviews. This is much easier I think. I will be adding these to all of the chart pages soon also. I may need to tweak the popup size a bit since it auto resizes and I think it is a bit large on some computers. Your mileage may vary 
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Thanks,
Todd
http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21245-evh-unveils-the-stripe-series-circle-guitar
I was reading about this guitar on PremierGuitar.com and I thought I would share. For some reason I kind of like this. Thr price was not bad either at $1199.
Scottsdale, AZ (August 5, 2014) -- EVH is proud to announce the release of one of the most requested guitars Eddie Van Halen has played over the years, the EVH Stripe Series “Circles” guitar made famous by Van Halen’s 1981 “Unchained” music video.
With an otherworldly black-and-white “circles” graphic gloss finish, the EVH Circles model is without question one of the most distinctively eye-catching guitars in the Stripe Series lineup. There’s nothing alien about the rest of this high performance tone machine, though, with its sleek Strat-like basswood body, rock-solid quartersawn maple neck with oiled finish, fast and smooth compound-radius maple fingerboard (12”-16”) with comfortably rolled edges and 22 jumbo frets, a single ferocious EVH direct-mount pickup with single black plastic control knob (master volume), EVH Floyd Rose with D-Tuna bridge and locking nut, and EVH tuners.
GENERAL
Model Name:EVH® Stripe Series Circles
Series:Striped Series
Color / MSRP* / Part # :
Black and White Crop Circles Graphic
$1,199.99
510-7902-586
BODY
Body:Basswood
NECK
Number of Frets:22
Fret Size:Jumbo
Position Inlays:Black Dot
Fretboard Radius:12" to 16" Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm)
Fretboard:Maple
Neck Material:Maple
Neck Finish:Hand-Rubbed Oil
Nut Width:1.6875" (42.86 mm)
Scale Length:25.5" (648 mm)
Truss Rod Nut:Heel-Mounted Spoke Wheel Adjustment
ELECTRONICS
Pickup Configuration:H
Bridge Pickup:EVH® Wolfgang Humbucking
Controls:Master Volume
HARDWARE
Hardware:Chrome
Bridge:EVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH D-Tuna®
String Nut:Floyd Rose® R2 Locking
Tremolo Arm/Handle:Floyd Rose® FRT 02000 Locking
MISCELLANEOUS
Strings:EVH® Branded (.009-.042 Gauges)
Unique Features:"Bye See Ya Later" Graphic on Guitar Back, EVH Neckplate, Bar String Retainer, Thumb Wheel Truss Rod Adjustment Vintage-style Strap Buttons
To My Friends on Mixposure
To the bunch that visited Nothin But The Blues Yesterday.
It was Doug's Birthday. When I saw the announcement last week I thought Yes, we'll definitely go and enjoy the music, the chartroom - don't know which is more entertaining but sometimes Doug's choice of music has us all silent - and again it was great.
Changes, many, in life, we have all gone through, must be the reason why we turn to music and make it, to provide for a balance in situations that might otherwise be unbearable - and once we made it through the tough times to sing of happiness and love that is for ever and always.
In 2009 I met Junie on internet, in a game for children, Superpoke Pets, that went off line in 2012. The SPP crowd still exists, there is a bond we'll never forget, names and profiles that carry SPP in them stand out - we know these are people you can always depend on, and call on in times of need, a shoulder to lean on, a word of encouragement, prayer, count on it, we'll be there.
I his radio shows Doug has created something like that, a bunch of people who care, not just for the music but for each others company - it's great to be there and know you can talk about anything - TV will always find a way to make us laugh again. Believe me TV, a chartroom without you is like a guitar missing a string !
My sweet Junie went into hospital tuesday a week ago to have a large polyp removed from her colon, tests showed it was not malignant, praise God.
But her system fails to kick in again, the first few days she was high spirited and happy with the results, now she's on a feeding tube, not IV, but fluid foods directly into her stomach, doctors worry, her system was shocked during the surgery (of course, that'll always happen) and now it's asleep and refuses to wake up.
When I talked to her yesterday she sounded so small and poorly - I didn't want to talk much, but I really needed your company. It worked, the music was great, and the chartroom lively, you guys are terrific.
Cause, like I said, this is or must be why we make music, not just consume it, but provide for a balance in times like these.
Junie's in good hands in the hospital, and I'm in Good Company with you people.
I know there's always a place and time where we can find one another.
Especially in the middle of the night (in USA it's always afternoon or evening, but here these shows are in the sleepless hours) this is wonderful medicine.
I thank God for Friends in times of need and good fortune:
I thank God for Doug and Judi, you all know why:
I thank God that Junie is not alone, she has her family and especially her uncle Jim and aunt Judy Hillin are terrific:
I thank God for giving me a new home - today I had a moment of doubt cause this move drowned out all my finances again but God says: this way there is a balance -
I thank God for music and song:
I thank God for your being there last night, I'm not the only one who goes through motions like these, we all do or have been there.
I give thanks for Mixposure that makes this possible.
Even tho my money has run out now, rest assured I will cross the Great Divide asap and our smiles will share the same room.
God keep you, one and all.
I salute you from
Koningsbosch Netherlands,
august 6 2014
I'm not sure what happened but I posted the video for Sundown last week but then the link here said I had closed my YouTube account, which I hadn't.
So I've reposted it again.
Add a video of acoustic version of He Stopped Loving Her Today (George Jones cover).
Team - I wanted to share this with everyone. Rob has been with Mixposure for several years and has not only been a friend but I also consider his music to be some of the best Indie Music I have heard. You can find his music here on Mixposure under Visual Cliff and Trinity Music.
The music above has some samples in multiple genres for you to do a comparison on. Trust me, his music sounds amazing. If you are looking for some mastering, I would look no further.
Todd
Owner Mixposure.com
Over the last 10-15 years I have developed a proprietary process that achieves the same quality results as the major mastering houses but at Indie friendly rates. As an independent artist myself, I chose to rebel against the staggering costs of high priced mastering and that's why I started INDIE AUDIO MASTERING.
I will treat your music as if it were my own. I never over-book myself and each daily session is spent on only one client.
Due to the nature of my proprietary set up no studio pics are provided but my gear includes in and out of the box tools that include outboard pro converters (Lavry/RME) and clocking, analog compression (Shadow Hills), proprietary harmonic balancing and EQ'ing tools (Manley) along with high end software as well as a three stage playback ref system [Critical > Commercial > Consumer] providing you with a great sounding master. My main reference monitors are hand made, point to point that exceed what most mastering studios use. Best advice I can give > "Pick your mastering engineer with your ears and not your eyes".
My mastering has been A/B'd against some of the best Nashville and New York heavy weights in the biz and more
often than not selected as the better master or at a minimum just as good. These are the $150 to $200 per song or $1,000
to $1,200 per album mastering houses that cater to major label artists and that's fine, but I pride myself in bringing this same level of quality to independent artists because I am one myself.
My best piece of gear though are my ears! You can have all the gear in the world but without a good pair of ears and knowledge of how to correctly apply selective compression, root bass note elimination, frequency analysis, 2nd & 3rd order harmonic manipulation, stereo field treatment or finding those frequencies for an instrument within a final mix for enhancement or attenuation...all you're really getting is someone that will take what you've done and simply make it louder without really understanding what they're doing. Stay away from $15-$20 per song mastering...that's not mastering. That's a preset.
Let me show you what I can do. You won't be sorry!
Rob Perez
mastering@indieaudiomastering.com
This is a collaboration between Finn (Auto Pilot) and myself for the SSTM. Finn did all the music and I did the lyric and vocals.
Finn's guitar absolutely rocks the house in this song!
Farrell