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Opium Winter: Making the First EP, Part 3
This entry is going to cover the editing/mixing portion of the recording process and my thoughts along each step of the way. This not going to be a step by step entry that covers every EQ setting and compression ratio on each track.
The recording process began in early April 2018. All instruments and vocals were tracked by the end of the month. The plan was to release the debut Opium Winter EP by the beginning of the summer. Instead it was officially released April 1, 2019… almost exactly one year later.
What happened? The answer is simple: Mixing.
We had learned a lot about tracking instruments. Thanks to past projects, and all of the mistakes we made, we took our time and managed to get some good sounding tracks to work with. This recording was the first time I had a complete set of drum tracks to work with. As well, per song, there was three bass tracks, 6 to 8 guitar tracks (plus the guitar and bass direct tracks), four tracks of vocals, and two tracks of synth. More than enough to put together a set of decent sounding compositions. I figured with lessons learned, good tracks and some assistance from online tutorials, the mixing process would be relatively easy.
Boy was I wrong.
Fix It In The Mix
I found three channels on YouTube that seemed to cater to what I wanted to learn: Spectre Sound, Produce Like A Pro, and The Recording Revolution.
Spectre Sound is a bit of a challenge. Glenn Fricker is a crusty Metalhead who has been slogging though producing bands in the underground Metal scene for over 20 years. He "jokes" about how bass players are useless, rails about singers cupping the mic, and has a general disdain for what he perceives as political correctness. I'm sure some of this comes from real world experiences dealing with lazy, egotistical musicians, but it grates after awhile. It's like like he never quite got past his rebellious, teenage Metalhead phase and doesn't understand that the world has moved on. To be honest, I have very little patience for meanness masked as humour. Now that his channel has become popular, Glen seems to be stuck in that "this is what the people want" mode where all of his new episodes are pretty much by paint by number and, to be honest, somewhat dull 1.
That being said, Glen has managed to release a handful of excellent how to videos. He has tips on recording and mixing guitars, bass, and vocals, and has an excellent mini series on how to record heavy drums. I've managed to glean quite a bit from these tutorials and I wish he'd spend more time doing these and less time ranting and raving about bass players and Line 6. Then again, he knows who clicks that Subscribe button and he's obviously aiming at keeping them pleased.
Produce Like A Pro is excellent. Warren Huart has been around the track a few times and knows what he's talking about. He's humble, has worked with big names from all kinds of genres, and genuinely loves music (and he REALLY LOVES Queen). His tutorials can be quite long, and are mostly him talking through the details of EQ, compression and the like. There's good stuff to be found here if you're patient. As a bonus, he also offers free multitrack downloads so you can practice mixing along with him or just go nuts on your own.
Where Warren's channel really shines, though, is his "Inside the Song" series. He sits down with producers and talks about how they created some of their songs. If you pay attention, you can pick up some great ideas. My recent favourites are the interviews he's done with Michael Beinhorn (Marilyn Manson, Soundgarden) and Bradley Cook (Foo Fighters).
The Recording Revolution is fantastic for one reason: Graham Cochrane focuses on home studios and constantly reminds people that you don't need to break the bank to achieve decent results. He has videos devoted to small budgets including the $350 studio, the $300 studio and, my favourite, recording and mixing a song for under $150US. His channel is also populated with some very decent tutorials on EQ and compression and, best of all, he's big on "go out and just try it".
This'll Be Easy, Right?
Starting the mix was easy. I was super stoked to get going and, starting with The Dark Tigress, I wanted the drums big, with the guitars panned wide, the vocals up front and cutting through, and the bass rumbling underneath the whole song. I began layering on stock and free plugins; EQ, compression, more EQ, more compression, reverb.
What I wound up with was something moderately better than the White Lake Mountain demo. The drums were a little muddy with the kick and snare dropping in and out randomly. The guitars were super thin. The bass was non-existent. So I started over, and over, and over. I tried plugins that are advertised to to do it all (more on these in a bit), tried preset after preset, and tweaked and tweaked and tweaked.
For some reason I just couldn't translate the lessons I was watching into real world results. So I decided to start from scratch
Going back to Glen Fricker's heavy drum series, he kept mentioning Slate Digital, so I decided to give them a try. I ponied up the cash for a 12 month subscription and…. waited nearly two weeks for an iLok to arrive. If you've never heard of iLok I envy you. It's a horrible, draconian form of DRM that just sucks.
Once the stupid iLok dongle showed up, I started using the Slate plugins and started getting some good results. I started with the settings suggested in the videos, then started playing with presets, and finally began dialling in my own sounds and saving my own presets to use across the other songs 2.
Slowly but surely the songs started sound good. The more I worked on them, the more I stated to really listen what was happening with each track and how they related to the over all sound of the songs.
Editing and Samples
I'm not going to spend any time detailing what plugin was used on each track because that's boring. (I also cancelled my Slate subscription so I really couldn't say as I've removed them all from the tracks). I do, however, want to talk about editing and samples.
I'm a believer in performance. If you're recording, you should be able to play your part from start to finish. Cutting, pasting, and looping parts should be left solely for the writing phase. If you're working on your final song, then you should be able to play your song. All of it. From beginning to end.
That being said, I do understand that some minor editing will be required. I'm not talking about time aligning every single drum hit. I'm talking about fixing up little things like, for example, a bit of lyric that doesn't quite sound right. In Aletta, there is a line "watching you move, hearing you gasp". For some reason the "gasp" sounded like "gap". Turns out, it was the doubled vocal that was the cause. On the second take, Josh had sung the word gasp a little louder, but didn't emphasize the S as much. Played together, one take cancelled the other out. As this was an EP being produced on a sub $500 budget, I wasn't about to ask Josh to come back over and redo a line. I'm going to edit.
I ended up cutting "gap" out of the double take, copying "gasp" from the first take, pasting it in the doubled track and then nudging it slightly off time giving the whole thing a chorus effect. Playing it all back, you now hear the word "gasp".
There were also some instances where I used the dry guitar tracks with some amp sims to fill out a chorus here and there. Other than these touchups, there was no major slicing and dicing done in any of the songs. What you hear is what we played from beginning to end.
Samples are a sticky topic. Some people loath them (and those that do really loath them) and some people can't live without them. Me? I'm somewhere in the middle. I'll admit that I did use samples for kick and snare, but my reasons were just and the samples were used judiciously.
As mentioned in Part 1, we discovered an issue where the kick mic had moved and was touching the edge of the sound hole. which caused a rattle. While I managed to clean some of this up using a gate, between the rattle and the mic (designed for live, not studio) the kick track was inconsistent and hard to dial in a good sound, especially on double kick runs. I sent quite a few mixes through to the band and the lack of kick kept getting mentioned. So I decided to augment it with a sample.
Sampling the snare came shortly after. I found that the volume of the snare hits were off in places. I messed around with compression and even tried automating the volume on the snare track both of which made it worse. Again, I wasn't about to ask Mez to re-record his drum tracks, so I slipped a sample in to augment the live snare.
The samples I used were from Warren Huart's Produce Like a Pro website and they did the trick. Next time though, I'm going to make sure that the first thing we record are single hits from Mez's kit so that if samples are needed, we can use hits from the kit we're recording rather than try and blend in sounds from another kit which has been pre-processed before being made available for use.
Lessons Learned: Overthinking Is Your Enemy
On April 1, 2019 the Opium Winter EP was released.
In the end, the band was happy with the EP and we've gotten some positive feedback from people who've listened to it. I still hear things that could have been tightened up, of course, but what's done is done. The EP is out there and there is no reason to kick a dead horse.
The biggest lesson I learned was that I have to stop overthinking. Get back to basics. Just because there are a billion different EQ plugins out there, doesn't mean you have to use all of them. I wish I could find the Produce Like a Pro video where the guest producer stated that he'd only ever uses an SSL channel (hardware or software) on each track and that's it.
I've also learned that the reliance on plug-ins can be detrimental. With this recording I spent my time learning the basics of mic setup and then poured over learning how to mix. I now realize that I could have cut back on the headaches had I spent more time getting really good tracks as opposed to just ok tracks. I know that this can be difficult based on your situation, but it is possible to get good tracks if you're patient and learn to work with what you have. While plug-ins do good things, they're not magic.
"You cannot make a dehydrated steak taste like real steak by adding water. You cannot do it with vintage water or all-tube water or water with ceramic capacitors or water salvaged from an early session at Sun studios, because the dehydration process changes the chemistry and texture of the steak and alters more than just the water content."
– Reaper forums; on the use of digital reverb plugins to replicate those old school sounds 3.
At this moment the band is in writing mode and, in preparation for the next recording, I'm working on mic placement using my cheap drum set and the mics I have available. I'm also using the raw tracks from this recording to learn the ins and outs of Harrison Mixbus, and getting myself into the mindset of cutting back on a reliance on plug-ins.
I'm getting some decent results and as I learned from the White Lake Mountain recording, I've learned from the first Opium Winter recording, and I'll learn from whatever comes next.
1: You can set a clock based on what Glen's Friday Viewers Comment videos will cover: Basic question that he's already answered a few times before but will answer again, colour commentary on a viewer comment about their lazy bass player, agreeable response to a comment on "people are too sensitive these days", snarky reply to someone who disagreed with something he said.
2: Slate plugins, I found out quickly, eat up CPU and RAM on a grand scale. Sure, my Mac Mini is not exactly high end, but the severe latency playing back the fully mixed tracks was mind boggling. Between the iLok and the crap system performance I cancelled my Slate subscription.
3: This thread on the Reaper forums is amazing. Start at the beginning, it's long and there are breaks in the narrative, but stick with it. You can also download them as PDF's from the Reaper Stash site.
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In Conversation with Janet Todd, Editor, and Essayist of Jane Austen's Sanditon
Posted in Author Interviews	by Laurel Ann Nattress
I recently read and reviewed the delightful Jane Austen's Sanditon, an excellent new edition in the crowded Austen book market whose timely release, along with the new ITV/PBS eight-part television adaptation/continuation inspired by the unfinished novel, has brought Jane Austen's last work into the limelight. I have long followed the career of its editor, Janet Todd, and own several of her books, including the soon to be re-issued Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels (February 4, 2020).
For years I have been reading about Janet's friendship with a mutual Janeite, Diana Birchall, who was also one of my contributors on Jane Austen Made Me Do It. There is so much serendipity in this triangle of friends that I knew that I needed to get Diana and Janet together for an interview regarding her new book.
Diana tells me that she and Janet first met "in 1983, at an early Jane Austen conference at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, and chatted away during a lovely side trip to Stoneleigh Abbey." Okay, I wasn't there for that one, but wish I had been. "Their conversation continued over the years between visits back and forth to California (Diana's home) and Cambridge (Janet's) as well as myriad hiking trips and holidays in places ranging from Rum and Eigg in the Hebrides, the Scilly Isles, Sequoia, and Venice." Here is the result of their tete-a-tete on Janet's new book, Jane Austen's Sanditon, for our enjoyment.
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Diana Birchall: You write that in Austen's works you encounter political and social opinions sometimes gratifyingly liberal, at others sternly alien to our way of thinking. Can you give an example or two?
Janet Todd: The importance of religion. Jane Austen was a rector's daughter; her eldest brother was a clergyman and the speculating brother Henry took Holy Orders while she was writing Sanditon. Mr Parker seeks a doctor for his resort but makes no mention of a clergyman. I think this is significant.
Like other heroines, Charlotte isn't overtly pious but she's firm in ethical judgments. We now praise someone for being 'passionate' about what they do, but Charlotte is repeatedly called 'sober-minded'. She doesn't admire enthusiasm and activity uncoupled from moral purpose. She can't approve Robert Burns' poetry, however appealing, because of his unprincipled life where we forgive celebrities almost any excess.
On the other side Jane Austen often seems modern in her liberal take on feminism and in her subordination of class and birth to merit and integrity.
DB: Do you think Charlotte and Clara are shaping up to be an Emma/Jane Fairfax sort of relationship? Continue reading →
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Jane Austen's Sanditon: With An Essay by Janet Todd — A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen, Regency Era	by Laurel Ann Nattress
Sanditon, Jane Austen's last unfinished novel is in the news. A new TV adaptation and continuation of the same name premiered in the UK on ITV on August 25, 2019. The new eight-part series was written by Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice 1995) and will be shown on MASTERPIECE PBS in the US starting on January 20, 2020. Inspired by Jane Austen's 11-and-a-half-chapter fragment, Davies claimed in an early interview that he used up all of Austen's text in the first 30 minutes of his screenplay. That was about 24,000 words or about one-quarter of an average-sized fiction novel today. To say I was shocked by this admission is an understatement.
Alas, because it was never completed, Sanditon has not received much attention in comparison to Austen other popular novels: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. I am so pleased that the new TV adaptation has brought it into the limelight. It is one of Austen's forgotten treasures. I have written previously about it in detail, including an introduction, character list, plot summary, and quotes.
There are few single editions of Sanditon available in print. It is usually lumped in with Austen's other minor works in a large volume. To remedy that gap, Fentum Press in London has published a stylish new hardcover edition entitled Jane Austen's Sanditon: with an Essay by Janet Todd. The book has been beautifully designed with interesting and amusing illustrations from Regency-era artists such as Rowlandson, Gillray, and Cruikshank. Its dainty size of 5 ½ inches by 8 inches reminds one of the elegant volumes designed expressly for the comfort of ladies' delicate hands.
What really brings this edition to the forefront is its editor and introductory essayist Janet Todd. To have such an eminent academic and scholar on Austen and other women's writing on board really gives the reader the confidence that they are in capable hands. Included with the insightful seventy-page introductory essay is a brief biography of Jane Austen; the complete text transcribed from the original handwritten draft work in progress held in King's College, Cambridge; endnotes; an essay entitled Anna Lefroy to Andrew Davies: Continuations of Sanditon; further reading; a list of illustrations; and the acknowledgments. In what appears to be a diminutive volume, the reader will be delighted to discover quite the reverse. In addition to the unfinished novel, it is brimming with information and the energy that Austen brought to her final work, perfectly complementing the text. Continue reading →
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A Man of Genius, by Janet Todd – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Georgian Era, Historical Fiction	by Shelley DeWees
From the desk of Shelley DeWees:
Once as a child he'd had himself electrocuted to see how it would feel. He'd let the current course through him. He'd felt vibrant.
Perhaps he'd never been the same since, just full of sparks. Perhaps touching him she'd taken on some of his electricity, only instead of making her more alive, it had singed and dulled her.
Confident, theatrical, and opinionated, the genius anti-hero of Janet Todd's novel—which is a departure from her well-known nonfiction work on Jane Austen and others—positively reeks of potential for unusual behavior, right from the start. He's fussy and aloof; he gets upset if he is forced to walk through pale-colored soil in dark boots; he balks at teacups that are "coarse" or "thick" and favors a more delicate model of his own choosing. He is Byronically volatile and tense, but in Ann's eyes, Robert James is the picture of perfection, a man she simply cannot ignore. Their first meeting at a party in 1816 leaves her reeling with a desire to hear more of his rhetoric, and to become familiar with his not-so-attractive yet completely arresting face—for this face, at that moment, becomes the face to Ann. "Robert James," she acknowledges within five pages, "changed everything."
And it's true. At the beginning of the story, Ann St Clair is a different person. She's plainly-dressed—relying as she does on her Gothic writings as her only source of income—and "not dissatisfied with her mode of life" in her small lodgings. Yet as soon as she connects herself to Robert James, she must change, first by demurring to his opinions of proper dress, and later, far more destructively, by abandoning her life in order to accompany him to Italy. This, in fact, is the point in the story where the relationship begins to degrade in haste: With one snide comment after another, one slight, one violent outburst, one mad musing after another, Ann and Robert James fall apart. Quality of life deteriorates for both of them, and in a long crescendo, we are swept to the inevitable conclusion of a relationship built on half-truths and unspoken grievances. Yet you need not worry that it will be predictable; rather, it's quite surprising how it all shakes out in the end. Continue reading →
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Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels, by Janet Todd – A Review
Posted in Biography, Book Reviews, Jane Austen, Nonfiction	by Laurel Ann Nattress
One of my greatest discoveries while touring Jane Austen's England last year was on our first day in London. Our group was at The British Library to see Jane Austen's writing desk (awe-inspiring) and of course, we hit the library gift shop on our way out. We were delighted to find a whole table display featuring books by and about Jane Austen. Dead center was the striking purple cover of a large, over-sized book that I did not recognize entitled, Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels. It had just been released in the UK in honor of the bicentenary of Pride and Prejudice. On first impression it appeared, by its size and design, to be one of those glitzy oversized gift books that had pull out facsimiles of letters and documents along with big glossy images – a trophy book that you might place on your coffee table as a display piece or give as a gift to friend that you were trying to convert into a Janeite. When I noticed that the author was the celebrated Austen scholar Janet Todd, my first impressions changed immediately.
Weighing in at 2.7 pounds and sizing up at 11 X 10 inches, this full-feature Jane Austen experience packs a wallop – a giant adrenalin rush for any fan or neophyte. Not only is the book beautifully bound and designed, but it also seeks to dispel any speculation and myth about the author's life and works. The text has been laid out logically within twenty-two chapters covering biographical material, her early writing, published and unpublished works, history in context to her life and writing, and concludes with her legacy entitled, The Cult of Austen. Drawing on previously unseen documents from The British Library and the archives of The Bridgeman Art Library, Todd offers sixteen facsimile copies of Austen's handwritten letters, manuscripts and notes, period maps and illustrations, and a frontispiece from the 1833 Pride and Prejudice. Her brilliant introduction will draw you into Austen's Georgian world and the handy index in the back allows for quick reference to facts and details. Continue reading →
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Consumer needs are changing along with the various parameters that go beyond the demographic profile. While the annual average spending of middle class households in India's Tier-I cities has increased by over 35 per cent on fast food restaurants in the last two years, those in Tier-II & III cities are also spending much higher on fast food restaurants. Today, more than 65 per cent of the Indian population is aged lessthan 30 years and exposed to international brands.
One sector that has managed to reap the dividends of this teeming demographic bulge is the foodservice industry, particularly in the QSR segment. There is an increase in the demand for QSRs, pubs and cafes as people are seeking convenience in varied formats. At the same time, the trend amongst diners to opt for cuisines that mirror their lifestyle is fast catching up. Preference for ingredients like truffles, artichokes, asparagus, Australian lamb, Norwegian salmon, black bean sauce, microgreens, organic food, etc., have found their way to Indian F&B counters. The blending of cuisines, like Italian with Thai, is another evolved customer choice and even casual dining players are offering Chinese, authentic Italian, fine French, American, Lebanese cuisine, etc., which were once considered specialty and fine-dining dishes.
To keep up with the trends, the restaurant industry is pulling out all the stops to make food more innovative and interesting.
Customers are being wooed with "street food" options served in a hygienic setting and good ambience. All of this is par for the course but to keep pace with the growing demand and drive growth, the industry will have to look beyond the metros and Tier I cities to a number of Tier II and III cities, which may offer better growth prospects for players across sectors.


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Rudolf Sauerwein – niemiecki kierowca wyścigowy.

Kariera
W swojej karierze wyścigowej Sauerwein poświęcił się głównie startom w wyścigach samochodów sportowych. W latach 1937–1938 Niemiec pojawiał się w stawce 24-godzinnego wyścigu Le Mans. W pierwszym sezonie startów odniósł zwycięstwo w klasie 2, a w klasyfikacji generalnej był szósty. Rok później stanął na drugim stopniu podium w klasie 2.

Bibliografia
 Rudolf Sauerwein

Niemieccy kierowcy Grand Prix
Niemieccy kierowcy 24h Le Mans

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


The launch is on Thursday, and I've begin collecting some things from 1962 to take along - some pictures, the seersucker tablecloths, and the food - custard creams, jammie dodgers, crisps. That's as well as the drinks - Vimto and ginger beer. Then there's some wonderful 2010 goodies which my daughter will be cooking up on the day, with me as first slave! And wine too.
The music's ready. But am I?


text:
package net.lemonsoft.lemonkit.core;

import android.content.Context;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

/**
 * LemonKit UI 核心类
 * 当前类的主要作用是动态的注入系统的UI包,让其使用LKUI包下的子类
 * Created by lemonsoft on 2017/1/27.
 */

public class LemonKitUserInterface {

    /**
     * 注入LemonKitUI,使LemonKitUI生效
     */
    public synchronized static void injectLKUI(Context context) {
        try {
            LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
            Field field = layoutInflater.getClass().getDeclaredField("sClassPrefixList");
            field.setAccessible(true);
            String[] oldPrefixList = (String[]) field.get(layoutInflater);
            String[] newPrefixList = new String[oldPrefixList.length + 1];
            newPrefixList[0] = "net.lemonsoft.lemonkit.ui.view.LK";
            System.arraycopy(oldPrefixList, 0, newPrefixList, 1, oldPrefixList.length);
            field.set(layoutInflater, newPrefixList);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Thank you everyone who kept me motivated all through my hard time. Thank you very very very much. Love you all.
Congratulations! I know you worked hard for it. Although my adsense earning too little to count, I am wishing you better success! Hearty Congratulations! I could not be more happier for you.
thank you very much Pam. I wish you all the best with adsense too.
Congrats my friend! I'm very happy for you because I know it's been a long, difficult process for you.
"Never, never, never give up, NEVER!"
Optimism is a great trait and I admire it in you very much!
Great news! So glad it finally went through, you deserve it.
Patience and perseverance pays off.
Congratulations saleheensblog, you deserve it for all your hard work. Hope the cash flows in!
Fantastic news! Good for you!
You have enough hubs, and should have enough traffic now, to see immediate monthly earnings. At least $10-$20 a month. Much more if you've been super saavy.
I will work hard. Lets see whats happen. Most of my hubs are poems; I would need to write a lot of hubs to get anything decent.
Try to commit to writing on the HubMob topic at least 2 times per month. That would really help you diversify.
I will try to write at least one for every weekly topic. Thanks for the suggestion.
That's great. And I will like to know the history of your Adsense account. They rejected your application before?
I was rejected again and again and again. First few times I was rejected as I didn't have an at least 6 month old account. As soon as my account was 6 month matured I applied again unpublishing 30 hubs as I had a lot of hubs written on sensitive issues and ads were disabled in those. After one month they reviewed my application and rejected again. I applied with my blog then and got rejected again. I applied again few hours ago with all my unpublished hubs republished all and adding 4 more with those and you know they have accepted me now. I think it was all about time as I did change nothing.
Now that is some persistence!
I will write a hub about my long journey of getting adsense. Many substantial Asian and African writers become highly discouraged being rejected again and again. Unfortunately the are the victim of Google's security system against mass spamming by the majority of the users from the stated regions. I will try to keep them motivated and encourage to keep writing. Hard work and patience really pay off.
see it takes one vital ingredient patience!
Get busy on them hubs!!!!
Okay, no more posting on the forums. You've got hubs to write and money to make! Today is 2/4/11, I'm expecting payout next month from you!
Seriously that's great news and I'm very happy for you.
Writing in the hubmob each week is great advice.
Don't forget to update your Adsense ID on TiF!
I am not finding a log in option in TiF.
I am so so happy for you saleheen. Patience is a virtue that many don't have.
The fact that you continued writing hubs all this while, and still persistently trying for Google's acceptance is a rare trait that deserves emulation.
Knowing myself, i'd have given up after the 2nd denial. You have taught me a good lesson today. "NEVER GIVE UP"
Congratulations from me too saleheens! It's been a long wait, but hopefully worth it, eh?
Congratulations! I never posted in your threads, but I read almost all of them. Good job! I am proud of you.
Good news! I know you've been trying to get signed up for a while. I hope you do well!
Congrats Shifa on getting adsense. I knew it was just a matter of time before getting approval from adsense as you are a good hubber. I am so happy for you. I can understand your excitement and remember the day I got my adsense approval almost a year ago.
Congratulations!! I hope you get a lot of clicks... and soon!
well done-time to put pen to paper, the wait was worth it in the end.
Congratulation saleheens, now time to start earning your hard work. I suggest you take more time for backlinking your best hubs.
Shifa, that's good and hope adsense will trickle soon! Your patience and persistence are remarkable!
Congrats and do some hard work now.
That's great news! I've watched your posts on the forums over the months and felt bad about them. You are so obviously not one of the spammers, but Google wouldn't listen.
Your persistence is admirable, and when you write your hub about it could well help others in the same boat.
I will simply add my joy and congratulations for this exciting milestone. Way to go!
Congrats Saleheen! do a little Jig!!
Congrats on getting that approval. Hope to see your post here that you got your payout.
thank you everyone, I have received few clicks also. But I am finding a little problem with understanding how adsense works. Any hub suggested for better understanding of adsense?
What problem are you facing? If you can be a bit specific may be I can help you as I have some experience of adsense.
Very nice! Best wishes for more and more success on HubPages.
Great news, Saleheen. I know how long you've been waiting for this, so, congratulations!
really man congratulations, I've read all the trials you went through to get it. Hey that means we have to teach you the secret handshake and everything now lol.
Congrats for getting clicks. AT the same time what is your problem?
Do I need to add channel in adsense for my referral trackers and profile both? Isn't the profile enough?
How do I know from which domain the clicks are coming? The full report shows I have got few clicks but if I try the advanced report>channel data it shows there is no data available.
Isn't the old interface better than the new one? Which one is the best to track performance?
How do I add best reviewer in adsense? When I enter my profile url in add url channel it says you can't enter two url in one channel.
Follow the good advice from sid. Since you are new to adsense it is better to stick with old interface for some time.
I don't think you need to add channels for referral trackers and profile in Adsense.
You can make an url channel for each hub at adsense or even better integrate your adsense account with Google analytics (It is the best way to track your clicks and traffic).
I prefer the old interface of adsense but some may like the new one.
Saleheen, I was a bit late to notice this, well done to you.
Well done. You worked hard for it!


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