Saying I'm two days of tracking in is a misnomer; I squeezed in an hour after work on Friday, was away for the weekend, and got in an hour after a late dinner on Sunday after I got home. But, I have two songs (of 8 full-band songs, unless something changes along the way) with …
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Let’s get this thing going again…
I told myself, after I finished Zero Mantra, that I wasn't going to let myself take another ten years to finish an album. And yet, here we are, in 2025. The good news is, ten years later, after spending the last few months digging through my folder of song ideas and seeing what I could …
Tracking Volume: Why you don’t need to record all that hot (a case study)
I can't tell you the number of times I've heard someone tell me you need to record as close to 0db as you can to "use up all the bits." Much has been written about proper recording levels in the digital domain, and from a purely theoretical/best practices standpoint there really isn't much more I …
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Home Recording: Some Thoughts if You’re Thinking About Starting
...Even budget gear is good enough today that if you can't get at least a "good" guitar tone out of a budget USB interface, a Shure SM57, and a good sounding guitar rig, then the problem probably isn't your gear. I got the home recording bug back in late '99, in my freshman year in …
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Drew Peterson 
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