bats brew

he had a great voice... the clearly song, was probably my earliest exposure to reggae style.. i also liked tears on my pillow, RIP JN

nah, not worth it.

oh, i still have files to create, the plague around here slowed things down a bit, haven't even taken the cd files to the replicators yet... i'm guessing it's a couple of weeks out, then i'll post an official thread with links, sound clips, etc. it's a cdbaby thing, and since they don't sell anything anymore, but handle the digital uploads and send the cd's directly to amazon, it's a waiting game. when i get the discs next week, if anyone wants to get one then, i'd be happy to just send them directly

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eddie-van-halen-guitar-tribute-777320/

we'll see, when you ask...

digital downloads, yes.... via Itunes and Amazon or cd's or, contact me directly, i'll give you any file you want.

no torrent. buy the cd. LOL

yea, kinda like the old queen disclaimer 'no synths'... LOL

no, i watch whales.

this will be album #5. i thought, i've written so many instrumentals thru the years, that no one will ever hear, why not write some new ones that are a 'get away' from this phuckin' covid mess we're in.... it will be that kind of album, one you sit and listen to from top to bottom, because it's kind of a journey, the way the songs are sequenced... it's also the first album i've done that features zero amps and mics, except for a few percussion tracks... it was a BIG experiment in tracking guitars and bass with modeling, after 40 years of pure tube snobbery!! LOL

woops, i'm an indian?

baby jabba....😁 my first full length instrumental album. this one is REALLY good! being baked as we speak...

fish dinner.

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i've had one burning at the top of my neighborhood for almost 2 weeks now... 60 acres, and 200 fire fighters working in the most steep and untouchable terrain possible, and they still only have it 35% contained. lightning hit a tree (dry lightning, never even saw or heard it), and it's like kindling up there. we have not had one drop of rain since june 30 here.... since the threat to the super expensive houses at the top of the neighborhood is low, no evac plans issued yet. they are being patient. but i've been breathing toxic smoke fumes for over a month now, from washington and oregon, california, and now here (salt lake city) i don't think my lungs will ever recover, and i haven't been able to sing in a month.

yea, babies, they're a bit of a pain, eh?!

yes, organizing something new MIGHT be enough to make you use them more... get organized!

of course you do!! gentle stuff, sometimes benefits the greatest from 'coloring' from various compressors and limiters. do not use them for level: use them for color.

i've been mixing into a 2-bus compressor for 20 years. not going to stop now. but i think, even IF you leave a ton of headroom for mastering, and your intent is ONLY to get your mix louder.... once you put a limiter on, ANY limiter, it does change the frequency spectrum of almost any instrument or voice that touches that limiting. with that said, why not mix into a limiter set for just a db or two? just enough to get the limiter actually doing something. you know, after the 2-bus, maybe not even on the master bus itself (which is what i use for all tracks and sub busses to end up on, routing to the interface MAINS output (rme babyface pro)... the idea is, any decisions you make on highly dynamic tracks (hot vocals, snares, kicks) will already have a touch of the limiter effect doing 'some' of what is going to happen when you have it mastered... and then simply TAKE THE LIMITER OFF when you do your final bounce. then, when the ME puts their 'better' limiters on, you will still be in the ballpark of where it's going to end up after mastering?! why would this not work at MINIMIZING the effects of mastering limiting on your mix? no surprises?

ah, sundays..... a wide open day with nothing to do but..... frikin' everything!! LOL chores, yard, car, etc.... i said ***** it. i've been meaning to re-arrange my studio ever since i started on the 'elemental' project... but wanted to wait until that was finished, hate changing horses in the middle of the stream... NOW, granted, my studio is small, but stripped down and built for speed of production, for my own purposes... so, now that elemental is done (at the cd printers now...), i decided to take everything completely out of the room, and re-arrange it. i've got speaker cabs i'm not using anymore, a demeter isolation cabinet that is basically just a great big ship anchor, i've got my last set of monitors that i can't seem to bear to let go, i've got power amps i don't use, mic preamps i dont' use, just a bunch of collected crap!! so i boxed it all up, using the collection as my first serious bass trap (i cannot afford to properly treat my mix/track room, but i do have SOME treatments, including using IK Multimedia ARC room correction software, which really works well)... found a new position in the room to set the video and playback monitors, new positions for everything, basically everything now is a mirror image of what it was, as well as rotated 90 degrees in the room... wow, much better. i still have some excess low end coming off the monitors, because the wall behind them is hollow, and i'm in the middle of the long wall, instead of at the end of the room on the short wall, as before. the takeaway: yes, moving positions in any room changes the sound you hear, sometimes worse, sometimes better. but often times than not, cleaning house and getting rid of spider carcasses and dust and whatnot is worth the effort all by itself.

guess he's out of power..

been thru quite a few.... worst was Hugo. no water for 2 weeks.... and when we DID get it back, it tasted like pine sap. no electricity for 6 weeks. 6 weeks. i had a pignose amp and a bag full of batteries, thank god. 22 foot storm surge. yep, 22 feet. and i get 70 mph winds in my backyard! downhill from Mt. Olympus, it can get crazy. hang in there!