Pictures from CD Release up at Players Website

Go to our website and click on ‘Pics’… the pictures I took of the CD release gig at the Recher in Towson are the topmost entry, at least for now. Looking at the list you’ll see that I’ve taken most of the pictures available on our website. The result is that I’m in very few pictures, hehe. There [...]

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Players Band CD Release at the Recher

  It was fun. The opening acts were great, especially our friends Can’t Hang. Crowd thinned out a little bit as the night went on. Happens with a young crowd… oh well. Both former lead singers Ian M and Jason B both came and sang, as did Joe’s brother. A good time was had by all. [...]

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Players Band Tomorrow Night

  Tomorrow Night at the Recher Theater, we’re gonna be releasing our 4th CD, ‘Live and Direct”, which I recorded, mixed, and mastered. For tech notes on the CD check out this blog entry. Playing on the gig with us will be our good friends Can’t Hang… they’re worth the price of admission all on their [...]

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The ‘Nobody Reads My Blog’ Blog Contest

So, sometimes it really seems like I’m talking to myself here. Am I blogging or am I journaling? There are only three people who I know for a fact read my blog, and only one who I know for a fact reads it regularly. Hi, Fishygirl!  Anyway, I’ve decided to have a little contest. The [...]

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Live & Direct Technical and Recording Notes

So, since about 2003, I’ve been doing the home/bedroom producer thing. In that time I’ve put together, and learned to use, a multi-track recording rig based around a computer running Cakewalk Sonar. The recording rig is technically mobile… and it’s grown more mobile as time has gone on. Over the past two years, whenever the [...]

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The Final Master

…of the Players Band’s “Live and Direct” is now done. I just tweaked a couple track markers and am burning the CD to give to Andy in the next couple days. It sounds good, I’m pretty happy. Speaking of which, if you have Windows Media Player 10 or 11, and XP or Vista, you can dowload [...]

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Early Morning Report

Yes, it’s quarter to 5 in the morning, and I’m about to go to bed, so, I thought I’d do a quick post touching on some of the things I tried to blog earlier but lost because I clicked the wrong ‘close’ button. Damn you, intarwebs. My sister and her husband have left, returning to the [...]

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Mixing and making presets….

… for the Vocal 300 (multi-effects pedal) is what I’ve been doing.  Gotten a lot of work done on “Live and Direct” in the past week, with Andy’s help. It’s pretty much in the mastering stage now. Although I keep hearing things I want to go back and fix. There’ll always be things I want [...]

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Mixing

Just worked on Live and Direct, which as you may know is the upcoming Players live album, for 12 hours straight. Straight, more or less; I took a half hour off to eat a plate of french fries with seasoned salt and mayonnaise. That was about seven hours ago. And here’s how tired I am [...]

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Songs on Repeat

You know how sometimes you’ll get a record (ok, I’m dating myself by using that word. Deal with it.) and there’ll be a song on it that just blows you away, to the point where you end up listening to it over and over? Well… I’m a big Radiohead fan as you well know if you’re one [...]

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