New Guitar!

So, my wife decided to purchase me the guitar that I've been talking about non-stop for the past year. It's likely a brand you have never heard of.

It's an Agile AL-3100M. It's basically a Gibson Les Paul knock-off, but don't be fooled into thinking that means it's …

Vacation Plans Ruined

Man, sometimes life sucks. Okay, so right now we're having some financial woes, although everything will be all good the first week in September. However, money is tight right now and that always sucks. So, a month or so ago we planned a vacation for the 21st through …

Throw away your television!

So, in April my wife and I put away our TV. We just put it in our closet.... our goal was to not watch TV for the entire month of April. Once April was finished, we really had no desire to get it back out.... it wasn't a 'count-down-the-days' situation. Well, it wasn't …

ART Tube MP Studio Mic Preamp

I bought one. Even though it is a really basic and cheap mic pre, it will be WAY better than the built-in pre's on the MR8-HD. I've read that if you replace the stock tube it will make it even better, however I highly doubt that makes much of a difference... because …

Music production/engineering tips

I read this article over at eqmag.com and it was a great read. I especially like the part about brickwall limiting.

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Which brings me to my final point: STOP WITH THE BRICKWALL LIMITING! Fer Christ's sake, people. Louder CDs do not sound better! First off, a …

Music with people

I've really been wanting to be part of something lately. I like the collaboration aspect of a band. I may just be saying that because I've been writing and playing all my own stuff for forever, but sometimes I feel like when I look back at my own music it just seems so …

Tribute to OK Computer

http://www.stereogum.com/okx/

Go there and download these... I just did... and I'll be listening to them shortly!

Run Away

Run Away is a new song I am working on that I'm pretty happy with... (the song, not the recording). I just have a really rough sketch recording of it, to try and work out the arrangment and backing instrumentation. The song needs to be re-recorded (and it will be) and …

Things I want and things for sale... and my weekend plans.

Going up north after work today for a little rest and relaxation. Going to have fires on the beach and play some tunes with the old man.... it's been awhile since we sat around a fire, with some whiskey, and our geetars. Maybe we'll get inspired to write a song …

Recording Soon

I've been waiting on a dual channel mic preamp and an insert cable (to record my stereo keyboard) before starting my recording/re-recording of my songs. I think I'll probably have the mic pre in the next month or so (if I can save up enough). I still have yet to really …

Fwd: Forwards

I despise when people send me forwarded messages.... but what I even despise more is when they forward me information that they believe is true without even taking two seconds to look into it and see if it really is true! Oy, if I get another forward on 'sticking it to …

Yamaha FG-110

Bought a new guitar off of ebay, which I normally don't do, as I prefer to hear the sound before buying. However, I'm getting into guitar building so I was looking at a cheap guitar to experiment with.... and on top of that the reviews I read on some of the FG models …

Mr. Seymour Duncan

Another impulse purchase. Dad has been expressing his desire for a pickup for his acoustic, however, he will never justify spending the money to buy himself one... as he says he won't use it "that often". I picked up a Seymour Duncan Woody SC on www.musiciansfriend.com …

Transition

I'm trying to transition from Myspace... it's not difficult in the sense that Virb is inadequate.. quite the contrary. It's difficult in the fact more people aren't jumping on board. But oh... they'll come around.

So, I made an impulse purchase the other day on ebay. …

Saying Goodbye

It becomes a little ridiculous when one has a xanga, facebook, myspace and a virb (especially when cross-posting)! So, today I say goodbye to Xanga.... and maintain my limit of (3) blogs/social networking profiles.

Who knows, maybe I'll even let another beloved profile go.

New Music Soon!

I'm new to Virb, so excuse any unvirble behavior... I'm just beginning to become familiar with it.

Anyway... about a month ago I purchased some expensive new recording equipment and I'm about to get my mic in a week or so... at which point I'll begin to hopefully …