Started production on a song for Jessi Bair yesterday, with the erstwhile Colby on drums - first time as a session drummer at Dan’s House, and he did a great job. Did acoustic guitar, midi bass (until we get the real deal in here), electric piano, Hammond organ, drums, and a decent (but not final) vocal track.
Add comment August 15th, 2008
Today The Brimstones, garage rock from New Jersey were in to make the “final” tweaks on their album. Tuesday saw new Dan’s House client Mike Narvaez lay down basic tracks for a couple of original songs, and Monday saw Ryan McCord in to tweak a few tracks for his CD project.
Add comment August 13th, 2008
Songwriter Scott Paul took time this morning to hone his vocals on his new song “One Step Ahead”, adding harmonies with his collaborator Terry. Italian tenor John Carelli flew some new vocal tracks into his project, tracks he had recorded at home.
I cut the grass.
Add comment August 6th, 2008
Today Dylan Alex was in, with a new song written last night - his first song as a sixteen-year-old? Maybe! Instead of the usual acoustic guitar/piano take, we did acoustic guitar/beat box, synth, and an unforgivably egregious overuse of Antares Auto-Tune.
Give a listen! It’s called “Let’s Start Now”. A working title for a work in progress.
Eat your heart out, T-Pain.
And tonight, Kid Icarus was in, mixing (final mixes, maybe?) their album, over two years in the making. Sounds great.
Add comment August 1st, 2008
Author Joyce Hinnefeld was in the studio today recording and editing a radio promo piece for her new novel “In Hovering Flight”.
http://danshousestudio.com/mp3/Joyce_Hinnefeld/promo.mp3
It’s intended as a teaser piece for radio stations that might be interested in doing their own piece on the novel.
It’s nice to do an NPR-style interview! Quiet. No drums, or electric guitar. Aaaaah - how pleasant.
Add comment July 31st, 2008
Scott Paul was in this a.m. w/ Scott Eggert on keys starting a new song - set down a drum loop, live piano, bass, and preliminary vocals.
Ryan McCord was in to replace vocals on some of his older recorded tracks, and he and I recorded voice and Baldwin piano for a song that had been previously recorded with acoustic guitar.
The Steeds were in tonight to do (ostensibly) final tweaks on three of the 18 songs of their upcoming full-length album.
Long day!!
Add comment July 30th, 2008
On Friday, 7/25/2008, Elaine Mitchell and I got married at the Concordville Inn in Concordville, PA. It was the most fun I think I’ve ever had in a night! I am now officially a husband to the beautiful Elaine Mitchell, and a step-dad to three wonderful kids.
60-something guests, people from all sides of the family, friends, co-workers, kids, photographers, old folks, band members, lots of noise and confusion and dancing and exhilaration. I saw my Dad dancing, having more fun than I think I’ve ever seen him have. Now that I think of it, I don’t even think I’ve ever seen him dance before! But he was out there, grabbing women left and right.
My brother-in-law, John Swartzentruber, was even dragged out onto the floor by my sister, Lauren, struggling with all his might to get his feet shuffling back and forth, a pained expression on his face. Not a dancer. Well, neither am I, but it didn’t stop me, so I have no sympathy for him. If I am going to make a fool of myself flinging arms and legs around like some drunken white guy (which I was, admittedly), so can he.
Glad to be married to my Elaine, hitched officially. My wife!!
(More later….)
Add comment July 30th, 2008
New website is up through Yahoo.com’s small business service. I used to have my stuff up at http://pil.net, which is a cool one-man operation out of Doylestown, PA, but I needed lots more web space for Drumagog drum sample downloads. So, I moved from the little mom’n'pop (well, “pop”, at least) to a corporate behemoth. Sigh.
The good news is that the new website can now have lots of cool stuff, like this blog, forum, lots of space to swap files for studio use, etc. Unlimited web storage space!
The bad news is that I used to be able to get phone support on the old server with a phone call that would go right to the man. Yahoo small business phone often has a half-hour hold time. Or longer. Ugh. Once you get a hold of someone, they are very helpful - no complaints there. And the last time I spoke with someone, they said a new phone help staff was on the way, so the hold time should lessen considerably.
Or I could just call at 3:00 a.m. when I want help.
Whatever - cool new site, lots of new functions, better danshousestudio.com than ever!
1 comment June 16th, 2008
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