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Autumn Listenings

The weather has turned out here, we’re locked in with gray clouds and occasional showers for the foreseeable future.  Time to retreat to the basement with your grunge.  Or, if your basement is too messy to think, sit with the drizzle and dig dig some old records.

A few years ago my mother…

Rock Star EP

I’ve always made music, and played sounds. I have stacks of cassette dating back to when I was in high school. I made my own mic pre amp and mixer and dubbed from my walkman to my parents cassette deck. I titled my first one “Guitar Amp & Window” which was also the title of the…

Music Study Continued

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This is a great time to study music. Man, Brian came over the other day, and we just were like grooving out on a few standards, and he called Autumn in New York, the great Vernon Duke ballad.

Ouch, (sorry Bri!) I hacked my way through that one out of the real book, but damn, that’s a…

Jazz Nerdings

I’ve been doing a bunch of jazz recordings recently.

I really enjoy mixing them afterwords and checking out what the different microphones sound like. I have six channels available, and while most of the time it’s pretty straight forward, there are challenges, like getting the drums…