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This started as an experiment: what would happen if I sent everything through my new Behringer ADA8200 preamps? I've since retracked the drums, but mostly everything here is going through the cheapo Midas preamps on the ADA8200. This one is at that point for me where I've listened and...

Lately I've been fighting the urge to buy a drum kit for my home studio. It'd just be for a small home studio room, no gigging or touring or anything like that. I'm just looking for something that records pretty well, and is somewhat compact (no 12-piece double-bass roto-tom rail system thing...

I have a 48-point TRS patchbay that I use quite a bit in my studio. It's my very first patchbay, and I'm mainly just using it for easy access to inputs/outputs for my interface and rack gear. But I have a feeling that I'm not using it to its full potential. I'm following the convention of...

I've become a big fan of Warren Huart's web series Produce Like A Pro in the last couple of months. The name may be a little cheesy, but he's an industry veteran that actually takes the time to detail his techniques and attitudes for recording and mixing. He interviews other industry big-shots...

I did a dumb thing the other day while tracking with a friend. I was trying to rename a track, but when I typed the track name it turned out I wasn't typing in the track name's text box. So I basically just executed a bunch of random keyboard shortcut commands. I didn't think that any damage...

I'm starting to think that there is some sort of Twilight Zone electrical situation in my house. The latest piece of gear to be affected is my Avantone CV-12. It's been quite a soldier in my home studio for the last few years...dead quiet, great sounding mic for its price range. Tonight I sat...

I'm getting a little ahead of myself, but I'm going to teach myself how to solder in the coming weeks. Right now, I'm only capable of creating messy globs of solder and iffy connections. But I've been studying, and in the next week I'll be getting some practice. Assuming that I end up at...

I know, not very exciting news but I'm really stoked! I've been lusting after an Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor for a long time now, but they're so damn expensive for a single channel of compression. And total overkill for some no-name hobbyist in his basement. Regardless, I persevered with...

This one started as a Tone Thread submission, messing with my Jazzmaster and '68 DRRI. But I liked the riff and worked it into a song over the last couple of weeks. Finally sat down to finalize the structure and lyrics over the weekend. I made the mistake of making a few tweaks right before...

I just read that Gibson is actually listening to the uproar over their 2015 price hike and silly features. For the 2016 production year, they're lowering prices by 20%-25% and getting rid of the zero nut, the robo-tuners, and the commemorative LP inlay. A new LP standard is still pretty...

Reluctantly selling off my DSL40C w/Creamback to finance my recent purchase of a JCM800. Have a look at my listing on Reverb.com or PM me here. More importantly, buy it! https://reverb.com/item/1008154-marshall-dsl40c-2014-w-celestion-creamback#description-tab

A new Guitar Center opened up in my neighborhood recently. I went there today to buy a couple of insert cables, and of course ended up perusing their other stock. I ran across an odd Marshall mini-stack that I'm curious about. It was labeled as a "vintage 1986" JCM800 2204S head, on top of a...

This is one that I blurted out in an evening as a demo several months ago. I was going for a '60s vibe on this one, and hearing RAMI's '60s tune prompted me to dust this one off and retrack it. It gave me a chance to use one of my new SD2 vintage kits (Supraphonic snare on a Gretsch Round...

I've never been much of a vintage guitar buff in the past. But for some reason, I've been pining over a vintage '65 Jazzmaster for a long time now. I think it's Nels Cline's fault :) Something about the offset body style that I just love, I can't explain it. It must be that same attraction...

I might regret this in the morning... I went all Daft Tad and hammered out this tune the other night, mainly out of a curiosity about how to use a vocoder. I've tweaked it over the last couple of days, but I'm not sure where I'm headed with it. I'm so far out of my comfort zone, this is way...

I thought I'd throw this one out here before I have to disconnect my audio interface and be without mixing/recording capability for a couple of weeks. My poor interface has to go in for repair...I've been putting it off long enough (an XLR input went out on me...not catastrophic but, well, I...

Don't let the title fool you...you might actually be disappointed. I don't want to oversell it or anything :) Hopefully I'm not just spamming the clinic, but I've been spending a lot of time in my studio lately. So I have a lot of material that I've been working on. This is another oldie of...

This is another old song of mine that I wanted to give the royal treatment in my new setup. It was originally circa 2003, one of the very first songs that I recorded once I learned how to multitrack (and I hope to hell that the webcrawlers haven't archived that original version somewhere). 12...

I've been testing out the new studio space and the new amps. This is an old song that I've been wanting to finish for a long time, so I started from scratch a couple of nights ago. It's an over-stuffed vanity project, but I figured that I'd throw it up here to get some input before I get much...

After years of wanting a dedicated studio space, and months of enduring the construction process, my home studio is finally finished. I just wanted to share some before and after pics, as well as a few in-progress shots. I'm really pleased with how it turned out, so humor me while I show it...