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Yesterday I ordered an SM Pro Audio PR8E 8 Channel Mic Preamp from AMS. Got the last one in stock, and free shipping. It'll go perfectly with the line mixer I got a couple of weeks ago, and one of the 8-channel soundcards. Has combination XLR/phone jacks, so it'll work for an arbitrary mix of either mics or instruments.

It's ( Read more... )

I didn't notice the zombies, but they appear to have snuck in and eaten my brain anyway. Or maybe it was little fuzzy telepaths.

I looked up my recent mood shift: I appear to have been mostly happy between September 24th and October 17th. For some reason it seems like much longer ago.

Things still aren't getting done -- ( Read more... )

Spent some time last night with cflute working on a harmony part for Mike Richards' "Will Ye Come Back Home?" (since there are a couple of lines in the chorus that are way too high for me to sing, and it needs a low harmony anyway), followed by several hours tunesmithing "A Talk With the Middle-Sized Bear". Which, if you're paying ( Read more... )

I see that I haven't posted anything substantial about Tres Gique's rehearsal "weekend" (which actually started Friday evening and will end tomorrow about 5pm). And I haven't unpacked and labeled the recordings, so I don't have a list of everything we've done. This is, therefore, basically an overview.

Friday cflute ended up getting in ( Read more... )

Naturally, I would pick Tres Gique's rehearsal weekend to get a sore throat. At least I'm not coughing my head off the way Selkit and Colleen have been. Looks like I'll be concentrating on guitar work, and letting Joyce and Callie take lead. They need to do that more anyway.

We have a cflute! She arrived around noon yesterday, having missed her 9am flight due to airport stupidity. The Ugglas (Joyce, Dave, and Jordan) arrived while she was still napping; then we had dinner and talked about what songs we wanted to add to our repertoire.

The Ugglas were out of town today, so this was our day for socializing ( Read more... )

This is a follow-up to my upstream posts Tres Gique: Weekend of Win and Tres Gique: Weekend Wrap-up, this time from the point of view of the River posts.

A weekend is barely enough time for catching up with a friend. Fill it with 8 hours of rehearsal, a couple hours of commute time, lunch and snack breaks, and add the fact that cflute ( Read more... )

This is the second or third (depending on whether you count this one) post about last weekend's Tres Gique rehearsal session. The first was titled Weekend of Win, which sort of gives you the general idea. There will be one more, on the River aspects. You'll find the links for the weekend's music here. (There's also a ( Read more... )

I mentioned a while ago in this post that Tres Gique, the band I started back in 2007, is in the process of re-inventing itself and would be getting together every month or so for regular practice sessions. We had the first one this last weekend.

Wow.

I'm going to skip right to the bottom line. As of Saturday things were ( Read more... )