Archive: February, 2010
This evening The Blue Moons with me playing percussion played our first gig at the historic Pig n’ Whistle on Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, CA. We covered four songs, “Streets of Philadelphia,” “Night Fever,” “Here I Am,” and “Stay Up Late.”
Here are the audio tracks, recorded on my new Zoom H2 digital recorder (see the review on a previous post):
Play List:
Streets Of Philadelphia
Here I Am
Stay Up Late
Night Fever
If you are looking for something to do this Friday evening at 9PM and you are in Los Angeles, I am playing percussion in a great new band, The Blue Moons, at the historic Pig n’ Whistle ( http://www.pignwhistle.com/ ) on Hollywood Blvd. The band consists of three violins, a cello, an electric bass, three singers and me on percussion. We are covering songs by Bruce Springsteen, The Bee Gees, UP40, and Talking Heads
I just purchased a Zoom H2 recorder.
The Zoom H2 recorder is really easy to use. I recorded this demo last night after about 5 minutes of reading the instructions. The set up was that I played a song from the band, The Blue Moon off of YouTube through my studio monitors. Half way between them and my percussion kit is where I placed the H2 recorder. This recorder records four channels, two in the front and two in the back, so I got the bands recording on one side and my percussion on the other side. I then mixed them down in my computer. You will notice that the mix is a bit rough with my cajon being up front in the recording. That was intentional so I could hear my tracks over the drums on the original recording. (Oh! I can’t lie, it was 2:30 AM and I couldn’t edit for one more minute, so it is the way it is.) As a test of the recorder, it was a success. As a test of my mixing skills, well……………………
(By the way, if you are interested in buying one of these units, if you click on the Sam Ash link on my shopping links page, you can buy one for $149 with free shipping and no tax. That’s the best deal I could find anywhere.)
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