Gordon, a customer from Spain recently asked me a question about ID3 tags on his backing tracks. He also noticed that all his mp3 backing tracks have a strange .sfk file attached to each one and wants to know what this .sfk file is…. Hello Kenny, I forgot to mention, some of my mp3′s have [...]
A lady from Canada, Colleen, asked me a question about audio editing: Hi Kenny! I have a question for you. Can you recommend a fairly easy program that will take my tracks and make them all nice and even? You know how it is with some backing tracks are more “pitchy and louder sounding” than others [...]
The winner of UK TV’s X factor released this version of the old Leonard Cohen song Hallelujah. This backing track is the same arrangement as Alexandra Burkes 2008 UK single release and is a great backing track for any occasion. The religious connotations tend to make it especially great to sing at Christmas time and [...]
A lovely song by a lovely lady, Beyonce bagged herself a well deserved number one hit record in the British charts with this song If I were a boy. It’s a very atmospheric song and a great backing track – perfect for any female vocalist who wants to show off her vocal talents, just like [...]
Here’s a question I received from one of our customers from Spain. It’s all about ID3 tags and why sometimes they display correctly and other times they don’t: Hi Kenny, A while ago i purchased an American Audio SDJ1 Player. The player is fantastic but the problem i have is the mp3 tracks have been [...]
Gary from the UK asked a question about using the Bose L1 with backing tracks in larger venues: Hi Kenny I’ve just been reading you article about the Bose L1 system, I recently aquired one of these sysems and like yourself I am very impressed, my old system was a Fohhn with 1x Bass bin and 2 x [...]
The credit crunch is affecting everyone, make no mistake about that. Even those who are fortunate enough to still have a great paying job and plenty of gigs are still looking at that nice bundle of money in their pocket and thinking ”I better not spend it all…who knows what’s gonna happen next year…what if I lose my job, what if [...]
Thankyou to Neil from England for submitting this question: Hi A question for Kenny. If I used a laptop to play my backing tracks on stage, would I need a good sound card in the laptop or would the sound be fine when amped through the PA? Neil Hi Neil Generally the quality of sound [...]
This song never dies and neither it should. A good song should last forever, and the mark of a classic song is when it gets released over and over again and/or gets recorded by loads of different artists. Mariah Carey’s Hero is one such song, originally from 1993 and re-released a few times by Mariah [...]
