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The Mozarteum, Getting in the Back Door

It was the summer of 1968. My parents, having seen “The Sound of Music,” had saved for the better part of a year in order to alleviate their homesickness and make the journey back to Salzburg to visit my grandparents for the summer. It was a summer of milestones for all of us. My father [...]

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    Whether actually playing a bass part, coaching every musician in the room, especially the guitar players on how to get more out of their instrument ... he manages to help every artist perform at a higher level. And he does so without intimidating or losing the critical flow and timing of each session.

    —Ron Hitchcock, Producer/Engineer/Mixer

Sellaband’s Gisel de Marco

June 19, 2008

The fourth of July is a big day in the United States. For most Americans it is a day of hot dogs, apple pie, homemade ice cream, outdoor band concerts and fireworks. There are also a few people who recognize the day as commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence and signaling the birth [...]

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Angela Carole Brown … a Pro By Any Other Name

June 18, 2008

Yesterday I had the pleasure of recording one of my all-time favorite singers. I’m finishing up the SolidTube tracks and we will begin mixing the album in a few days. While in Vienna, I had Mandana sketch out the background vocals but another voice will really add some meat to the tracks. And I know [...]

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Notes From RixMix…Markus, Meet Don

June 18, 2008

Goddamn! It has been a busy spring for me and I finally have some time to write. Many great stories, thousands of miles traveled and two fun projects signed, sealed and delivered. I’ve just delivered the masters for the ConFused5 album “Out of Confusion” which Ron Hitchcock and I mixed at RixMix here in the [...]

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Begging in the U.S.A.

June 7, 2008

I’VE HAD IT! I’ve had it up to here with beggars. My compassion has finally withered until there is nothing left but a parched and twisted vine, its roots seeking sustenance in the cracking clay that was once fertile ground for an occasional “got any spare change?” The beggars I’m talking about aren’t the rag-clad [...]

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ConFused 5 … FUCK!

April 18, 2008

FUCK!…always wanted to start a blog like that. The universal plosive monosyllabic attention getter…and a word with deep hidden meaning. But I digress. What I meant to say was, Fuck, I really don’t want this to be over. Went in to Sonic Flow Studio and ran up some work mixes and suddenly it began to [...]

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ConFused5 at Sonic Flow Studio (Part 2)

March 24, 2008

As I said in my last entry, the guys at Sonic Flow Studio have built a very cool recording environment. The room is large and they have plenty of large studio gobos. These are move-able walls which are used to create isolated areas in the studio. With these we were able to isolate the guitar [...]

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