It's been over a month since I last posted. So I am going to make up for it in this one post, a month-in-review, if you will...
Brett Tyler and I finally finished up the last mixes for his album aptly titled "Bittersweet." Brett kind of became a fixture here at the Library. Luckily for me he recently moved to a new place about a mile away so this won't be the last I see of him. Keep an eye out for this album's release this fall.
This past month also had me working on drums for two days on a project called As We Tremble. There are some remarkable photos
found here.
In the midst of all this insanity I got married and honeymooned for a week in Chicago with my lovely lady and best friend, Corrie.
I literally buried myself in a pile of instruments and didn't burrow out until Vicky Emerson's "Long Ride" album was complete. I even ran downstairs and asked the good folks at Sonic Edge studio if they had a banjo I could borrow. 45 minutes later I returned it after learning how to play it well enough to track a part for one song.
After returning from the honeymoon I found out that a rental for one of my eq plug-ins expired and the company would no longer rent the eq out short term. I had pony up the dough and then patiently wait for 5 days for it to come in the mail (they were backed up and couldn't overnight it due to a massive warehouse inventory). With my time I decided to add another wall of books to the main tracking room.
This has nothing to do with the studio, however, I do play out professionally quite a bit and was asked to "bring a bunch of toys" to a recent gig. So I showed up with this set-up. A toy piano, Suzuki Omnichord, Casio SK-1, a Hal Leonard monophonic mini synth, MicroKorg, a homemade shaker and a thunder barrel I got on my honeymoon in Chicago. I ran the MicroKorg through my Digitech talker pedal and did some rhythmic vocoding that night.
I've been looking on Craigslist and at local thrift stores for an old console organ that features the best sonic flavors of cheese. I finally found the mack-daddy of them all in this Lowery D550 (aka the Contempo 80). It has everything I ever wanted and more in a console organ. And it looks nice sitting next to the Hammond. I like to think that they play duets together in the middle of the night when no one is around.
Brett Tyler and I finally finished up the last mixes for his album aptly titled "Bittersweet." Brett kind of became a fixture here at the Library. Luckily for me he recently moved to a new place about a mile away so this won't be the last I see of him. Keep an eye out for this album's release this fall.
This past month also had me working on drums for two days on a project called As We Tremble. There are some remarkable photos found here.
In the midst of all this insanity I got married and honeymooned for a week in Chicago with my lovely lady and best friend, Corrie.
I literally buried myself in a pile of instruments and didn't burrow out until Vicky Emerson's "Long Ride" album was complete. I even ran downstairs and asked the good folks at Sonic Edge studio if they had a banjo I could borrow. 45 minutes later I returned it after learning how to play it well enough to track a part for one song.
After returning from the honeymoon I found out that a rental for one of my eq plug-ins expired and the company would no longer rent the eq out short term. I had pony up the dough and then patiently wait for 5 days for it to come in the mail (they were backed up and couldn't overnight it due to a massive warehouse inventory). With my time I decided to add another wall of books to the main tracking room.
This has nothing to do with the studio, however, I do play out professionally quite a bit and was asked to "bring a bunch of toys" to a recent gig. So I showed up with this set-up. A toy piano, Suzuki Omnichord, Casio SK-1, a Hal Leonard monophonic mini synth, MicroKorg, a homemade shaker and a thunder barrel I got on my honeymoon in Chicago. I ran the MicroKorg through my Digitech talker pedal and did some rhythmic vocoding that night.
I've been looking on Craigslist and at local thrift stores for an old console organ that features the best sonic flavors of cheese. I finally found the mack-daddy of them all in this Lowery D550 (aka the Contempo 80). It has everything I ever wanted and more in a console organ. And it looks nice sitting next to the Hammond. I like to think that they play duets together in the middle of the night when no one is around.
