Actual screaming teenage girls. This is…new. This was the first non 21+ show we’ve played since the Burnsville Debacle, so it was a chance to play to an audience that hasn’t already seen us play 600 times. This resulted in a knot of people in the audience who were very …
I’ve wired up some new technology for the live rig. Risky business, that, given we have a whopping week until our next show. I’ll be keeping the backup in the car just in case. A few bits are quite cool. Aside from the homemade laptop shelf I built by bolting …
Not long ago, I did a recording session with Ms. Raya Merenkov, a talented grad student I know through a number of confusing connections. (well, mainly through William, but it involves classical greek, and is thus more complicated than a simple friend-of-a-friend thing). Raya is multi-lingual, multi-talented and has as …
People rarely ask me what they should do when they’re going to submit a demo/compilation/EP/album/whatever to get mastered. I’ve had plenty of discussions to this effect, though, with people who do this for a living, and they all end up saying pretty much the same thing. Here are a few …
I took my preamp in for repair. Then I got it back. Then I took it in for repair again. IT’s back again, and it seems to be much happier now, but MAN it was ticking me off. According to a tech I talked to at, well, one of the …
