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Audible performing on WXPN's Y-Rock this Sunday

Audible are performing live in the studio for WXPN’s Y-Rock here in Philly on Sunday January 17th. You can listen to their performance and interview at 8pm sunday night right here on the innerwebs.  I’ll be part of a bunch of friends joining them as part of a small studio audience for their performance. [...]

A BIG thank you!

Thank you to Jay and Jeremy from the Swivel Chairs and Mike from Audible for the fantastic birthday present!  The guys chipped in and bought me a pair of Axiom M3 v2 Bookshelf Speakers (aka passive near-field monitors!). These speakers sound amazing!

Also a big thank you to my buddy Mike V. (Young Lion Apprentice) who [...]

Audible pt 4 - Recording & Mixing is Finished!

A history lesson…

So… Philly’s Audible invited me to help out recording an EP this summer.  We started tracking in late August at Audible’s garage practice space in Philadelphia’s Fishtown.  Tracking was done over a few days and nights and consisted of the basics…guitar, bass, and drums.  However, we tracked Mike, Kris, and Steve [...]

February Album Writing Month

The folks over at FAWM are at it again this year.  Check out the site for some inspiration during the Northern Hemisphere’s most useless month of the year!

Blog Overdubbing

Mike Kennedy has been talkin’ a bit about the new EP over at Audible’s website.

A tip of the hat to my brother Greg…

Greg is currently writing for The Business Insider.  An archive of his articles for TBI can be found here.   He has also been known to occasionally blog for The Huffington Post and an archive of those articles are located here.

You can also try to keep up with his comings and goings and pretend to be [...]

Audible pt 3

Spent tonight with Mike and Mary of Audible working on the last song for the record.  “14 Weeks” is going to be stripped down compared to the rest of the songs that we’ve been working on together since August. Simply acoustic guitar and vocals.

We spent the evening recording an old metronome and Mike’s Gibson J-45 [...]

Mixing Audible pt 2

Spent a few hours this evening working with MK and Mary on “Later On We’ll Live”.  We now have a very dynamic mix happening over here.  We also spent time tightening up a few small things on “Last Thing I Remember” and “Isolette”.  Aside from a great performance from the band, these songs are heavily [...]

Mixing Audible pt 1

Spent the better part of the day with Mike Kennedy mixing three new Audible songs.  “All Alarms”, “Isolette”, and “Last Thing I Remember”.  We had two prior mixing days, but today things really came together.  A few more tweaks and these new gems are ready for mastering.

First time using PSP’s Lexicon 42 delay for various [...]

Good use of space...

Well hello there.  Seems like I am finally going to use this space as more than a server.  More to come soon enough!