Hmmm… remind me to start attending NAMM. Even as I redesign my rig to incorporate my new Peterson VS-II, I hear that this little guy is coming in April…
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Getting Better All The Time
An interesting practice run for mixdown of the live recording while helping a friend convert some LPs to CD… unless I’m mistaken, the only way to get a CD burner to identify individual song tracks (so your player can navigate to each track) in a continuous play recording (like the live recording, or in this case, an LP transfer) is to generate individual masters of each song from the complete audio file… thus an exercise in edit points (and fades, at session front, and end) and file management. The convergence of recording and computer technology is, in many ways, ideal. A serendipitous merging of skill-sets… I love that.
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Damaged Beyond Repair – Not
Have finally bitten the bullet and taken my Taylor 310-CE in for a neck reset, after weathering the Washington, D.C. humidity for a year. The innovative “NT” neck-joint on new Taylors is actually designed to allow neck angle readjustments for just this purpose, and luthier Jim Warwick at Music Technology in Springfield, VA, has done a half-dozen neck resets on Taylors, including one of his own. And since we’re doing a reset, we’re going to try some 12s instead of 13s for string gauge… there’s already tone to spare, I’m going for maximum playability. Jim seems to think we can get down to about 3/64″ string action, that Taylors are designed for just that. And it’s all warranty work… I’m officially excited again.
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Airplay in Spain
Hmm… BMI reporting some performance royalties for a little airplay in Spain… a very little… from 2nd quarter 2003. 3rd and 4th quarters 2003 should be interesting, when the promo campaign for This Time kicked in…
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“The Key” in iTunes
“The Key” has made it into iTunes Music Store… download at will. More to come…
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Smooth As Velvet
Our “triumphant” return to the Velvet Lounge last night… and first time on the new stage. Start times being what they are here, it was a very late night for us, as Nefrit El-Or and Chrissy Coughlin took the first and second sets, respectively (great sets by both), and we closed out the night. A small but hearty crowd cheered us on, and my friend Mike Ratel snapped some photos. And the stage — who knew? One of the better sounding stages I’ve played on in recent months. The red (velvet?) curtain behind the stage plays a big part (of all nights to wear a red shirt), as do the excellent 2×12″ speaker monitor wedges up front (which, now that I recall, were once in use at the 9:30 Club around the corner…) Took a few songs to get up to speed (no sound check), but before long it felt real good up there. Soundman Craig did a great job and was most pleasant to work with. The Mesa Boogie blew a fuse just as I powered it up to start, and I didn’t have replacement in the right amperage… so it was back to the single amp rig for the night. Thirteen song set list, including the newly added “Forgiven.. next up, Luna Park, 1/30.
Mike Shupp Gig Archive: Velvet Lounge: Tue Jan 13 2004
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Velvet Lounge
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 462-3213
*11:00 p.m. $5 21+ w/ Nefrit El-Or, Chrissy Coughlin (we play 3rd, note set-time)
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Jammin’ Java (Part 3)
Just completed a rough mix of “Right Through Me” from the live show, posted an MP3 file (stream, download). This was the final set list.