Thanks to Jeremy and Mary for getting this piano over to my place this morning. It is either from the 1920’s or 1930’s and was manufactured in New York City by the Cambridge Piano Company. It needs to be tuned up and refinished (fire engine red?), but I plan on having this for [...]
Spent the afternoon and early evening tracking bass and keys (and some loops) with Adam and Dave of The War On Drugs. I’ve been asked to hang out and help out with some overdubs over at Adam’s place here in Philly, and since I am such a huge fan of this band this [...]
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Mike V and I finished recording vocals tonight for his Young Lion Apprentice debut, Save The Soundtracks. As usual, vocals were tracked using Jeremy’s (Swivel Chairs) Microtech-Gefell UM70s. Most of the vocals on the record were done with this mic (at some point Mike Kennedy from Audible had it for Isolette’s vocals, so I switched [...]
I just spent a few days mastering the new Audible EP. Mike and I did an analog transfer to convert the sample rate from 48K and 96K down to 44.1K using my Black Lion Audio modified MOTU 828mk2 and my Apogee Duet. Sounds great. Next I spent a bit of time setting [...]
Back in 2002 and 2003, my buddy Mike V (aka Young Lion Apprentice) and I would hang at his old house on random Sundays and spend the afternoon improvising ambient guitar loops together. I can’t recall how many times we managed to do this, but I want to say it was at least three [...]
Working DAT machine…broken DAT machine…working DAT machine once again. All in a 5 hour window. I love 1990’s recording technology even more now that I am not afraid to get inside of it and beat it back into shape.
After successfully transferring an entire archived tape of Impossible Gardens’ recordings from 2003 (Mike V and my [...]
Spent the weekend seeing various shows in Philly. Gildon Works on the 14th at L’Etage, BC Camplight and Bloodfeathers at Johnny Brenda’s on Saturday the 16th, and then Audible at their Y-Rock taping yesterday at WXPN Philadelphia’s Studios.
I also spent Saturday mastering Audible’s Isolette EP with MK, and will be finishing up some small corrections [...]
Oh Standard Tap, how I love thee.