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Archive for April, 2008

Recording Your Guitar At Home: Lessons Learned

Posted in Guitars, Music, amps, guitar, guitarists, musicians, recording on April 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Getting a good guitar sound on a recording can be a real challenge when recording at home. It’s not that it’s difficult mechanically, it’s difficult because of the environment. Working around the limitations of the environment is really the challenge. For instance: Most of us don’t have a dedicated sound-proof room; thus, we get a [...]

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Customer Service – When It Comes to Gear, It Really Does Matter

Posted in Guitars, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

If you’re like me, you dread calling up any company’s customer service center. Nowadays you never know if the person on the other end of the line is even in the same country as you. But when customer service is good; that is, the rep listens attentively to your problem, and can offer a solution, [...]

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Review: Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe

Posted in Guitars, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear on April 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe Summary: Looking for that vibey sound? Look no further. The Micro Vibe serves up a range of vibe tone from chimey chorus to thick, soupy psychedelic in nice compact stomp box. Pros: Incredibly versatile vibe that has multiple personalities depending upon where you set the knobs. Cons: A little tricky to [...]

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Bartering: A Great Way to Get Gear!

Posted in Guitars, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

About a month ago, a friend of mine asked me to update his web site with some minor text changes, and to help him drive more traffic to it. As I’ve been doing web development professionally for the last ten years, it was natural for him to ask me, and since he’s like an older [...]

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Guitar Dad: What Makes It All Worth It

Posted in Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, inspiration, musicians, tagged on April 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »

As a guitar player and singer/songwriter, nothing brings me more joy than to see my kids enjoying my music. But what really makes it all worth the effort is a conversation I just had with my son Owen a few minutes ago. I was in my home studio, mixing a song, and my son (he’ll [...]

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Review: Sennheiser e835 Microphone

Posted in Guitars, Music, gear, gear reviews, guitar, recording on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sennheiser e835 Dynamic Microphone Summary: A fantastic and versatile, and super-affordable mic with a wide field that is equally at home with vocals, and instrument/amp sound reinforcement. Pros: Nice, flat response, with built-in presence boost produces very clear sound. Cons: None Price: $99 Street One of the underlying themes in the reviews I write here [...]

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New Song: The Lord Is Kind

Posted in Music, Worship Music, guitar, recording, songs on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I actually wrote this song quite awhile ago – I think Christmas Day, 2006. I did an early recording of it – very bad quality, and as I’ve been working on my demo, realized that I hadn’t re-recorded it. This was a must-have song on my demo. Anyway, here’s the song: http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=85823 Note that I [...]

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New Song: We Are Called

Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Music, Worship Music, guitar, recording, songs, songwriting on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I wrote this song based upon a passage in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus talks about being called into justice and mercy. The passage inspired me to write “We Are Called.” Note that the only amp I used was a Fender Champ 600. Using two different mics, spaced at different distances to provide a little [...]

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Breaking Through…

Posted in GarageBand, Guitars, Music, guitar, guitarists, inspiration on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I was conversing with a friend of mine who just received his conditional black belt in Tae Kwon Do this past weekend – very great accomplishment. During the course of our conversation, he said the one missing ingredient in his study of martial arts is developing his “chi.” He believes in chi, but is having [...]

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