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I'd been talking for years about moving from my house in the country with the custom built studio--and it finally happened. It actually happened over six months ago. I was depressed over the loss of the old studio, so I've been dragging my feet on setting up the new one. (And the new one is not...

I feel like I'm new to the clinic (it's been so long!), but I'd love some input. So for what it's worth, here's an experiment. Check out this track and let me know what you think. It's a bit long--but stick with it. It should change up enough to keep your interest...

I've got a couple of Urei (UA) items I'd like to sell. I've got a 1176 LN Limiting Amplifier and a 546 Dual Parametric EQ. I haven't decided what they're worth yet, so I'm kind of looking to see if there's some interest. I'd rather sell them here than on eBay. If you're interested in either, let...

I posted a very rough instrument-only sketch of this song a few weeks ago. Here's the tune with vocals. This is my nephew's band--he wrote the song and plays the rhythm and lead guitars. Obviously, it's a freebie, since it's family, but I still want to get it right. This is not my genre, so i'm...

God, it's good to be back in the studio. It's probably been two years or more since I've done a session. I always seem to attract the youngsters (and no, I don't drive around in a van offering free candy). This is my nephew (on rhythm and lead guitar) and his bandmates. (They're all sixteen.)...

It's been forever since I've done this, and I can't seem to get the mfr on the phone so I'll ask here. I've bought a new loaded pick guard for one of my Strats, and I need to connect it to the guit body (obviously). From the guitar body I have 1) a black and white wire coming from the jack...

I think the Clinic is the single most valuable part of this site. I haven't recorded anything new in ages--life gets in the way--but I thought it might be fun to post an old track and see what the new crowd thinks of it. Obviously, these are canned drums, but everything else is me. Enjoy, or...

Yep, I'm a wanker--at least when it comes to playing guitar. I favor the 80's hair bands and the Vai's and Satriani's of today in terms of guitar style. One of the of signature attributes of my recorded guitar is that it's wet--lot's of reverb and delay. Lately I've been listening to some of my...

This is an old jazz progression that I'm sure I've posted before. I was up late in the studio playing with an old Les Paul type guitar. I started out working on an 80's rock piece--but I was drawn to an even older semi-hollow body guitar hanging around in the studio. This jazz/blues piece is the...

It took longer than I expected, but I finally took over the small studio that my employer has maintained for voice-over recording for the last twenty years. They were moving the building that contained the studio, and they didn't want to move the studio. They said they'd give me the gear if I'd...

O Come All Ye Faithful with some added gratuitous noodling = Faithful Jam. Enjoy (or critique) and a Merry Christmas to you and yours! https://soundcloud.com/whitestrat-1/faithful-jam

So at work, I just took over the "studio," a single signal chain voice over studio (with a killer booth) that we use mostly for IVR (interactive voice response) phone systems. They asked me to take this task (it works out to about a day a week) because the building that the studio is in is...

I just got an ebow today. Looking forward to digging into it tonight. Any ebow aficionados out there? Your input is welcome...

This isn't a new tune--in fact it was done a couple years ago, so I'm not even looking for a critique. This is just a nostalgic post. I haven't done much recording in the past couple years, and I was going through my SoundCloud account looking for samples to share with a potential recording...

This little acoustic ditty was tracked with my guitar tuned to an open E major (the lead was tracked in standard tuning, and played in C# minor): https://soundcloud.com/whitestrat-1/oregon-lake

A friend of mine shot the raw footage for this, but had never made a video before. So I edited it for him and wrote and recorded the track. It was a weekend of both competitive and leisure shooting (with some Wounded Warriors as special guests) hosted by an organization of retired Special...

Okay..that's what I called it on my system when I first posted it years ago. I've recently rewired my studio and added new monitors. I thought it would be cool to re-mix an old favorite, and as much as this song is my favorite, I found that I didn't save the original project. So instead of...

This was a product of a group buy here a few years ago. This is a "Neve clone." I use quotes because I'm not enough of a sound nerd to know what a Neve pre sounds like--but that's how it was regularly described. Also, this circuit went on to become the GAP 73 which I believe is also described as...

Forgive me for cross-posting (I just posted this in the "Music Video Production" forum) but I'm not sure I ever posted this little jam in the clinic. We had a late season snow here in the Midwest, and while the rest of the region bitched about it, I put my camera on my ATV and had some fun! The...

We had a late season snow here in the St. Louis area. I put the camera on the ATV and paired up the footage to a jam that I recorded a couple years ago. Enjoy the ride: