Category: Music
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Albert Music Hall
Played to a capacity crowd with Vinny and Mike last night. (great photo by Bob Yellen) Posted a couple of videos up on Facebook but will try to get them on YouTube, too. Also on:
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Jazz & Chinese Food
For a Chinese restaurant with live jazz, I expected at least one half of the equation to be meh but the food was great and the band was exceptional.
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Fixing one channel audio in iPad videos
When making quickie recording videos with my iPad and audio interface, I’m just using the built in iPad camera for the video. It picks up my mic via the usb interface but only records to the left channel (presumably if I added a 2nd mic to my 2 channel interface I’d get left/right but 2…
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On Mic Preamps
I recently rewired my home studio and added the capacity to include some outboard gear in the process. Over the past few weeks I’ve been doing some recordings to work out the kinks and get set up to record a new batch of originals that I’ve been working on. As is inevitable once my recording…
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Dreary gray winter day, I’m looking out my window at the melting remains of last week’s snow. Need to turn around the energy for the afternoon’s projects, time to pull in the heavyweights: Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben. https://album.link/i/1600510419 Also on:
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Guitar Resources page
I’m building out a page with resources I use for learning/practicing guitar but as I’m building it I’m thinking it would be much better with a database on the backend to store this information rather than just writing a bunch of text. I feel like there’s got to be a way to do this (sql…
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Nextcloud for bands
Playing in a band generates all sorts of files that you want to share with your band mates, from live show recordings, videos, promo materials, charts, etc. Some of us were getting tired of shelling out the money to Dropbox to accommodate this sharing. So, this past weekend I spun up a self hosted Nextcloud…
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2023 Musical Developments and Review
This past year felt like a big year for me as far as improved or developing musicianship compared with recent prior years. Most likely this is because this is the first year in 35+ years of playing guitar that I kept a rehearsal/practice journal and made even the slightest effort to structure my practice around…
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Fender TSA Flight Case Parts
Updated! See below The latches on my Fender TSA flight case are all shot. Rather than toss the case, I want to try to fix it. It took me a while to find a number for Fender. (At the time of this post the number for consumer relations at Fender is 1-800-856-9801). After a while…
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ChatGPT- Home Recording Studio Assistant
Configuring a recording setup with an iMac, Audient iD22, Behringer ADA8200, and an outboard stereo compressor. Connection types among the devices include USB, ADAT optical, and 1/4″ TRS cables.