The top and bottom are ready to be stained and finished. I’m going a bit out of order at this point. I have already finished the top and the underside of the bottom but I’m going to bundle that in with my next post. Here, I’m going to show how I assembled the carcases for […]
The tops and bottoms are cut to size and glued up. The next step is to fix a few mistakes and apply the roundovers so I can stain and finish them. Fixing my mistakes I make a lot of mistakes. More than I would like. I made a few while I was routing out
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I finally settled on a design for my studio desk. It needed to fit into the breakfast nook, be mobile, and house the various racks of gear needed to record music. I went through almost 20 designs before I settled on this one, not because it was the best, but because I knew I would
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A lot has happened in the past few weeks that has kept me from updating my blog. I’ll try to summarize the important bits. Recording for Bright & Shiny I spent some time working on a few more tracks for Bright & Shiny as well as reworking a few older tracks that I wasn’t
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I started putting together the electrical prototype for my version of the Apprehension Engine. You can read about my plans for this project here. This version is going to have two channels, each with its own reverb tank which will result in each channel having its own sound. I started by gathering the necessary parts.
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This weekend I added a new cymbal to my setup. It’s a Sabian Vault Custom Shop HH 22″ ride with a semi-lathed pattern on the top and a completely lathed underside. I used it at our regular Sunday gig at McNallly’s Taproom (we play each Sunday from 3:00 – 5:00). The band plays Gypsy
I think I may have settled on a final design for a recording studio desk. This satisfies all of my requirements. It’s mobile. It doesn’t take up much space. It is self contained. It has amenities for both the studio engineer and the talent. The plan is that it will be a desk that
Several months back I discovered a musical device called The Apprehension Engine. It was created by Tony Duggin-Smith for Mark Korven who is a film composer who was looking for some new sounds to use when creating horror film scores. I’ve knocked around the idea for a while and I’ve decided to build my own.
News – July 18th, 2017 – Apprehension Engine Build Read More »
I’ve spent the last few days installing some new lighting in my recording and rehearsal studio. I have track lighting running down two of the walls but there weren’t any lights behind the drumset. I added 5 track lights above and behind the kit and they are set up so I can turn them on
The recording for the upcoming album by Bright & Shiny is progressing well. I have been playing around with the video for a few songs and although it isn’t finished, I decided to share an early version of one of the videos. I’m playing around with the title sequence and cutting back and forth between
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