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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'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...

https://soundcloud.com/juliannapaul/silent-moon Here is a song we just finished. Julianna is 13 and starting to mature. What do you think of her voice and performance? This is a song I wrote for myself but once Julianna started to sing it it quickly became her song. I think her voice sits...

This was kind of inspired by Yes...although a friend said it reminded him of Joni Mitchell meets Styx...a strange marriage that would be. Both the main acoustic, a J-45, and the leads, a 000-18, were miced with a Beyer M-160 ribbon mic. Someone on RAP (remembet usenet?) recommended that I try...

This is a song that my daughter sings. She is 13. I am too close to her and the song to be objective. I'd appreciate your comments and opinions on her singing... The recording itself is a demo. https://soundcloud.com/tom-paul-2/girl-in-the-tower

I wrote a song about losing by cousin and best friend recently. A couple of musicians helped me with this. John Marsden played Piano and B-3. I love how open the mix feels..not a bunch of guitars clogging up the mids like a lot of my tunes. The acoustic is a '65 J-200 and it has a very dark...

So here is a song I wrote after suicide tore through my life this year...2 friends and Robin Williams. How do you get to such a hopeless dark place and how do you get out of it? It leaves us survivors wishing we had been better friends, had seen the signs, had invited them over,...... I was...

This is a song I wrote in 2001 that features Charlie DeChant of Hall and Oates who played in the 2014 R&R Hall of Fame Concert this year!! What a strange life that would put him on my humble indie record. John Marsden plays Piano and brought Charlie into the picture. I did not have to pay him...

Here is a song we are pretty excited with. I went out and bought a classical guitar as I get more into Brazilian music. I had help from a longtime friend who mixed this and added the strings, bass, and accordion samples. Our go to drummer, Charlie Morgan slapped the skins and tapped the...

I have been trying to come up with some instrumentals for placements. Here is a track that features 4 guitars, a bass, and keys. The main lead part is a tele...I added the trem using a Cubase plug. That's what gives it a surf vibe. The drums are loops from Drums on Demand which sound good to...