Recent content by Tom Paul

I've been recording DI for years. I found that round wound strings sound much better..the notes have more definition than flat wounds. I use a 64 Precision. I tried a few DI's and even my Kemper which has some bass patches. None of them sound like a bass through an ampeg in a room. I have...

I just did this to a mixed song in Cubase... I sped it up about 6 BPM...110 to 116 with time stretch. . I can't hear any artifacts.

I am using a Steinberg UR44 interface. Would the converters of an RME sound significantly better/diffeernt? I am less interesting in the preamps and more interested in possibly upgrading my home studio converters.

I just put together this studio desk to house a new DAW...added a LilFreq to my small but might band outboard gear.

I'm excited as a kid on Xmas eve. It started when a hard drive failed on my 7 yr old computer. That led to a new DAW. That made me think that there had to be a more elegant studio design than setting my monitor and keyboard on an IKEA table with my rack gear in a rack boxes. So I am getting...

YouTube Here is the title cut of my new CD. I tracked my vocals, bass, basic keys, and guitars to a drum loop at home. Then I sent that to a studio drummer friend in Nashville. Then the tracks went to Orlando where my friend, John Marsden, added the horn arrangement and mixed it. Truly a...

Here is a song that is inspired by the 70's Stones. It's about how isolated we are in society today...each in his own echo chamber of news while the world rages around us. I was listening to a youtube guitar lesson on open string leads and came up with the main riff. I built the song around...

Here is a song we finished recently. The guitars are all Kemper profiles. I love this thing. Anyhow, I've worked in environments where is was very unwise and self destructive to say what you thought, or express an opinion. It's made me think about hw cool retirement will be when I no longer...

About 18 months ago I bought a Dizengoff D4 Mic Pre from The Gear Orphanage. It buzzed intermittantly. Within 1 week I sent and email to Gear Orphanage where I stated the problem and thought it should go back to them. I called them and they said that they did not have a replacement unit but I...

Here is a song that is mostly acoustic. The bass is an electric bass because that is all we have. It's about the time of my life approaching retirement from a job that has nothing to do with music. I have the same feeling as I had when I was a boy heading for vacation at Lake Erie. I put new...

Here is a pretty simple mix of a Smooth Jazz kind of song with a Bossa Nova feel....in so much as a person in Pittsburgh PA can do Bossa Nova. The lead guitar is a $500 PRS semi-hollow guitar that I LOVE! Friends played the Hammond and Drums. https://soundcloud.com/tom-paul-2/tell-me-seagull

This song, Return to You, is a very personal song...the lyrics just wrote themselves. I was thinking of Joe Biden quoting Hemingway...about how the world breaks us all but for some those places grow stronger. The singer has been broken and he is trying to return...but you can't ever come all...

I was thinking of a character that is a drifter, always on the move, looking for what's over the horizon and always alone. I was feeling 70's Stones country rock so that's where we took this. I wonder if this could be marketed as Country?? Please give it a listen. My usual cast of characters...

Check out this video of Julie singing "Love Yourself". I have posted a couple of things she sang over the last couple of years. Julie is 13. The video was simply an iPhone but we replaced the audio with a good mic. There is not pitch correction...just verb, vocal rides, EQ and compression...

Hey there, I am playing with this cover of Witchita Lineman. It needs some drums...even programmed drums would be better than the simple drum line I used. Anyone interested? It's just for fun... I don't see any commercial future for this. I could post an MP3 to dropbox, or email it with the...