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Welcome to rainy Hollywood. Our second gig and once again it rained. Thank you El Nino! If I had wanted to play in this kind of weather I would have stayed in Ithaca, N.Y. OK, I know this is not our normal weather, but does it have to happen when I have to lug all my stuff to a gig?
The Cabana Club on Ivar St. in Hollywood, CA is a nice place to play. Good sound equipment and great crew to run it. Here are a couple of the songs we played:
Stay Up Late
Night Fever
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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