I’m sometimes asked what I use to create digital recordings from vinyl, or any other source I have. When I create CDs or other digital media from my own files, I load them into the computer for editing. My arsenal is extensive these days, but I’m at a point where I’m comfortable with what I use, and the results I can expect.
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Yearly Archives: 2006
Musician Humor: How To Play The Saxophone
This one I found posted over at Steve Goodson’s Sax Gourmet website. As a former player, I must say these instructions hit the mark!
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Nintendo DS Quick Look
For a trip out west, we picked up a Nintendo DS Lite. The Lite is basically a trimmed-down version of the original DS dual-screen portable game system from Nintendo. This one is in the arctic white color.
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Musician Humor: 40 Greatest Lies of the Music Business
While I’m not directly in the business, after reading this list, I’m pretty much convinced that I don’t want to be! At any rate, here’s some inspiration for you budding musicians out there…
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Instrumental Compilation
I finally put together the instrumental compilation I’ve been working on for a few months. I think I’ve nailed a decent mix of tracks on it. I have a few choices I might rethink in the near future, or I might save the extras for a second volume. My goal was to use either the original or the most popular version of a song in the compilation. I’m happy to say that many of these songs charted on the Billboard charts. The most successful on the chart is Perez Prado’s hit “Cherry Pink”, which spent about 10 weeks at the top. Interesting, too, is that four of these were TV themes: Peter Gunn and M Squad were two detective shows, and both were taken from their respective soundtrack albums. The “Route 66” theme is from the TV series of the same name, and Bacharach’s “Nikki” was used a few years after its initial release as the Mystery Movie Theme on ABC in the 70s.
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