tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140800222024-03-07T18:12:51.593-08:00Sonic AssassinAnalog professionals putting DNA on a digital world.bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-79159537365716080852010-05-14T12:08:00.000-07:002010-05-14T12:14:50.062-07:00Big Time Gear Guys<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8UTzxjYR-zciG438GGDZuVyUWHuwSqDN_jNQTg_UdO95dQHNRLnJWq2OuPQQ0jr9xbRm16psZ303H4MMYQdh0HuyvliGOiV1pWwFHR4-3UJDStoP5AIQYhL0cjyyhByYoCzoqfA/s1600/cs-1_deluxe47-web.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 203px; height: 153px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8UTzxjYR-zciG438GGDZuVyUWHuwSqDN_jNQTg_UdO95dQHNRLnJWq2OuPQQ0jr9xbRm16psZ303H4MMYQdh0HuyvliGOiV1pWwFHR4-3UJDStoP5AIQYhL0cjyyhByYoCzoqfA/s400/cs-1_deluxe47-web.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471204991174133122" /></a><br />Experienced Producer/Mixer/engineer Terry Manning and microphone specialst Oliver Archut have combined to produce the Lucas CS-1, a world class tube microphone,<br />My pal Larry Janus may be joining them soon for a hand wired, superior mic preamp. Stay tuned.bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-82904315828449854752010-04-27T16:25:00.000-07:002010-04-27T16:36:46.185-07:00The O.G.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJMZcHROK1tt4F503iE1Op3JdQrcNuYGM1MnbRsFrdYRESMknA9rVaNv39O2828O4qC5mJThYyFb-YI47_jdWwy8zsI9mSd809tITCIt6sZoBoCxCL6YwScQ2ZoxWOXQ9OTtCgA/s1600/lordbuckleypix.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 332px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJMZcHROK1tt4F503iE1Op3JdQrcNuYGM1MnbRsFrdYRESMknA9rVaNv39O2828O4qC5mJThYyFb-YI47_jdWwy8zsI9mSd809tITCIt6sZoBoCxCL6YwScQ2ZoxWOXQ9OTtCgA/s400/lordbuckleypix.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464934811870430210" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckley">Lord Buckley</a> was laying down the synchopated jive long before any of today's auto tuned, metal teeth rappers were thought of , by about fifty years.<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX-dhT6qoXA&feature=related">Video</a>bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-15507124767081713402010-04-19T12:42:00.000-07:002010-04-19T12:54:09.361-07:00The Grey Man Group<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcRVB0hEwHMIdFz5mFhpwrG7zB9ASHEEaNN5nDGqRohAMdlYdGnm8x9qlH3f1l2FXfPyww_lXXKl5SqIW7pKWYLHKBNQG9mo2RSF79ce4FlVhzIl1pn2S__xc4MRShKmDHkWIu5Q/s1600/Devo-GrayMan.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 308px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461936596018649074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcRVB0hEwHMIdFz5mFhpwrG7zB9ASHEEaNN5nDGqRohAMdlYdGnm8x9qlH3f1l2FXfPyww_lXXKl5SqIW7pKWYLHKBNQG9mo2RSF79ce4FlVhzIl1pn2S__xc4MRShKmDHkWIu5Q/s320/Devo-GrayMan.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Reborn at the 2010 Winter Olympics, these clean shaven spuds seem to be all eyes to the right.</div><div>A new political direction?</div><div>...and yes teh musick duz sound gud2.</div><div></div>bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-47529259557601678712009-09-03T10:34:00.000-07:002009-09-03T10:38:42.571-07:00Jim Dickinson R.I.P.Jim Dickinson, true friend and talented musician.<br />Remember...World Boogie is Coming.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2lD0J8RSVU7xlqU6abC-q1EONhMDfmbkIav5qpDbc63iPqugvlZyAx2MSgWD0Y6lAtZDf-Te23YCI_MK9EuTOx2A5I_Ptiz3Bq1fPzTBEKQKTath5PAR9qgm1Bie1VYMOMSCWQ/s1600-h/JimDickinson.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 83px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 125px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377296618266048610" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2lD0J8RSVU7xlqU6abC-q1EONhMDfmbkIav5qpDbc63iPqugvlZyAx2MSgWD0Y6lAtZDf-Te23YCI_MK9EuTOx2A5I_Ptiz3Bq1fPzTBEKQKTath5PAR9qgm1Bie1VYMOMSCWQ/s320/JimDickinson.jpg" /></a>bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-2486256236099098312007-10-31T07:50:00.000-07:002008-12-10T16:10:12.253-08:00BruceApalooza...the saga continues<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkWWHhBFRRELhhm1ut7aeEaCCTgWbf1TXN1Jy3-Qm-_0a5Hlea6VEuC5XLOftJNJaqgkKxc4v7iWy2OjJRc_832WPyxzk-T1NOOnClEQCkdpPctTImZpM41IeOSn3U-pNuAjnbg/s1600-h/DSC00142.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127516951102879186" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkWWHhBFRRELhhm1ut7aeEaCCTgWbf1TXN1Jy3-Qm-_0a5Hlea6VEuC5XLOftJNJaqgkKxc4v7iWy2OjJRc_832WPyxzk-T1NOOnClEQCkdpPctTImZpM41IeOSn3U-pNuAjnbg/s320/DSC00142.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Half-Pig, Chi-Cleveland ? The super group that was formed for my birthday party last February, consisting of Chris Butler, Debbie Smith, Harvey Gold and Rich Roberts (with the addition of Ralph Leguini). Half Cleveland played on a bill with Chrissie Hynde and Jerry Lee Lewis at the Akron Civic Theater in August. Check out Harvey's take on it at <a href="http://www.tinhuey.com/news.htm">www.tinhuey.com/news.htm</a></div><br /><br /><div></div>bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-1153846398612806882006-07-25T09:49:00.000-07:002006-07-25T14:23:17.983-07:00Digital 8 Track ( the 1/2 Harvey sessions)I'm recording several songs with singer,songwriter,guitarist,keyboardist,video dude Harvey Gold at his old schoolhouse home in Bath, Ohio. I hope to be able to document the process with photos, sound clips, and blog entries.<br />Tune in for More from Gold School Studio.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/1600/HC_Apr060040-bw.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/320/HC_Apr060040-bw.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-1145035367184092132006-04-14T10:22:00.000-07:002006-04-14T10:22:47.226-07:00True Pioneers<strong>Jim Mothersbaugh and Gary Jackett</strong><p><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/1600/jim_jacket.0.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/320/jim_jacket.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><p><br><br />"Jungle Jim" Mothersbaugh and "Genral" Jackett were both early influences in the entire Devo aesthetic. Jim was the band's first drummer and virtually invented electronic drums with his Barcus-Berry pickups mounted on drum practice pads. The output fed a synth module and the hihat pedal controlled a white noise generator!<br />Gary was an early experimental guitarst and graphic designer with some early incarnations of Devo. He also produced one of the first digital multi-media Cd-i discs, the forerunner to DVD.<br />Cutting edge guys.<p>Photo credit: M.Pilmer-www.devo-obsesso.combhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-1138654293358954682006-01-30T12:47:00.000-08:002006-01-30T12:53:13.666-08:00Eccentric Producers<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/1600/Dickinson01.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/320/Dickinson01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I saw this topic on one gear forum the other day. It got me thinking about all the wacky producer stories I heard and decided that "eccentric" didn't have to involve firearms and boatloads of intoxicants, but merely a different way of looking at things. Tom Dowd and <a href="http://www.zebraranch.com/manifesto.htm">Jim Dickinson </a>represent these qualities to me of all the producers that I've worked with. We all have our Tom Dowd stories, so I thought it was time to give Jim his props. </p><br />In the early '90's Jim and I were mixing Toy Caldwell's last album at Chip Moman's Three Alarm Studio in Memphis. We were mxing a ballad when Jim decided it needed a bit of "ear candy". Jim brought in three crystal goblets and a violin bow. He filled the goblets with water to tune them to the track, he then had me set up a U47 fet mic through a Fairchild limiter to tape. with the preamp gain cranked all the way and the limiter spanking the signal, Jim would induce feedback by leaning his chest toward the mic as he bowed a note. After a pass or two, he placed seven perfect sustained notes under the guitar solo. Magic!<br />Albhy tells a story about Jim opening and closing the door to Studio C at Criteria in time to the track being played in the room. He had the control room monitors cranked and the control room door held open. The compression from the hall fedback through the control room, both rooms were pumping. Eccentric!bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-1132773808884229982005-11-23T11:09:00.000-08:002005-11-23T11:23:28.906-08:00R.I.P. THE Loudist<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/1600/loudiststevegursky.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/320/loudiststevegursky.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a>Steve Gursky, AKA "Loudist", passed away peacefully on Sunday November 20th at his mothers' home in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. How fitting for an engineer, musician, raconteur that he died with the TV remote in his hand.<br />His brother reported that Steve had a smile on his face. That's how I want to always remember him.<br />I first met Steve at Criteria Studios in Miami in 1978 after I had fled Los Angeles for the East Coast. Steve was working a lot with Tom Dowd on the Allman Bros. record among many others. He did some engineering on Chi-Pig, a punk band from Akron OH that I was producing. He had great ears and a real musical sense of the sounds of the instuments and vocals. Steve was also a master of relating to the artists and their music. The feel and the "vibe" were an essential part of the Gursky sound. (MORE TO COME>>>)bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-1129559761528466102005-10-17T07:27:00.000-07:002005-10-22T03:05:25.550-07:00Inventions in Sound<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/1600/acuffnme.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/320/acuffnme.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />My friend <a href="http://www.richardbowden.com">Richard Bowden</a>, an accomplished songwriter/guitarist has a long history in musical innovation. Besides several devices for the guitar to emulate slide and string bending, Richard devised a hilarious device involving whoopee cushions and a bellows. The article below describe it all.<br />"This was on Hee Haw around '84 and we are demonstrating to Roy Acuff how to play the instrument Rchard invented called the "Flatutina" or"Breeze Box, which is basically two fake Concertina ends with a bellows valve, with eight hollow whoopee cushions glued together in the middle, made rigid on the edges with rings inside them made from coat hangers.As you pulled it apart, they all inflated, and of course, you can imagine the sound it made as you pushed the ends back together.Both Roy and Ralph Emery (another TV show) learned how to play it extremely quickly. Talent runs rampant in that Nashville scene. Notice Bowden's and Acuff's outfits. Great minds think alike, I guess."bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-1124908851625574432005-08-24T11:39:00.000-07:002006-03-26T08:49:37.216-08:00Solly Plays Heavy Metal<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/1600/JPDof.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/320/JPDof.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Back in the early eighties I was at Seth Snyder's db Studios in Miami, doing a Judas Priest album with Tom Allom producing. The drum tracks had been recorded in the drummer Dave Holland's studio in Ibizia Spain. There were no songs written when Dave recorded the tracks. Just hours of various intros, fills, verses and choruses. The guitarists and singer spent several months writing songs and riffs to the drum tracks. We would then make safeties of the drum parts on 2nd 24 trk and cut the songs together. We'd add bass, millions of guitars and vocals and Tom mixed the record at db.<br /><br />Tom hated the drum sounds from Spain, so I came up with the idea to use Seth's mechanical/solenoid drum machine to replace the kick and snare. Seth had built a machine that would strike an actual snare drum with a stick and you could mic and record the new snare. You triggered the solenoid "arm" with a cue send from tape, the signal then passed through a big wooden box with different light bulbs wired as resistors. You changed the velocity of the hit with a different wattage bulb! He also had a seperate output wired to a bass drum beater and you did the same procedure to record a new kick....we don't need no stinking MIDI!bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-1123695993007126512005-08-10T10:34:00.000-07:002005-09-08T10:25:02.066-07:00Pig Power<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/1600/ChiPig1.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6161/754/320/ChiPig1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Chi-Pig, an Akron Ohio punk band, and myself recorded a spec album at Criteria in 1979 and 80. We did it during the evening hours, in various rooms with several different engineers, when there was some free studio time. As I recall I was working a double shift, engineering Julio Iglesias during the day and producing the Pigs during the night. 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. The Albert Bros. convinced Mack that it was cool to allow the project to happen.<br /><br />The project was never picked up even though Chi-Pig had a strong regional following and made a big impact on the early Miami punk scene. Fast forward 25 years, Sue Schmidt Horning is doing her doctoral thesis on the beginnings of analogue recording technologies. She interviews me for the paper and casually mentions she has a tape of mixes of the songs recorded in Miami.<br />A CD is born. Check it out<a href="http://cdbaby.com/cd/chipig"> here</a>bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-1123364935348810882005-08-06T14:44:00.000-07:002005-08-06T14:58:28.290-07:00Punk Rock PatriotWhile surfin' the web this morning, I discovered this lost Criteria gem.<br />A single I did with Robert Wuagneux after the USA beat Russia in hockey at the Olympics. Recorded in Studio C , it was"live" three piece with some background vocal overdubs. Paul Harris on bass and Bob Owens on guitar. I can't remember who the drummer was, but he was smoking. <a href="http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artist_playlist_view_song.asp?artistID=4849&song_id=47457&play_file=4849_47457&page=0"><strong>USA 423</strong> </a>bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-1120345462292727962005-07-02T15:54:00.000-07:002005-07-03T04:43:57.926-07:00Tubes SingMr. Stayne from <a href="http://www.innertubeaudio.com">InnerTube Audio</a> has come up with several tube-based winners in the audio gear sweepstakes. The Atomic Squeeze Box<br />is a compressor/limiter/line sweetener that really makes recordings sing. You can dial in an in-your-face presence, or control an overly dynamic track with as much as 20db of "squeeze"" and barely hear the unit working. The MagMic is a tube condenser microphhone<br />with a continuously variable polar pattern, housed in a MagLite flashlight case. It sounds phenomenal. In fact, a voiceover talent I worked with refused to use the mic, he said it was "too" sensitive. "I can hear my beard growing" he complained. Check their entire product line.bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14080022.post-1120298271130965462005-07-02T02:51:00.000-07:002005-07-02T03:06:58.056-07:00It Lives!<a href="http://www.tubeequipment.com">Larry Janus</a>, an accomplished broadcast/recording/maintence engineer/lensman/drummer/programmer, has come up with a<br />hybrid reproduction of the classic Fairchild 660 and 670 limiter.<br />With 17 tubes and 19 transformers, this looks like a winner. I have yet to hear it, but Larry is starting production of the unit and I hope to get my ears on one.bhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16752189829989005252noreply@blogger.com0