Asheville Music Lessons

Audio gear time…. I’ve run across this condenser microphone at Musician’s Friend. AKG Perception 200 (~$160) very highly recommended. Judging by the reviews it’s a very good buy. (Microphones only go UP from the $160 price level. I remember getting some Shure beta green series which was a lower quality [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, mainly because of a few projects that have taken a LOT of time. But right now, I’m doing a late “spring cleaning” of links/files on the hard drive, rearranging/etc. A couple of the items that I wanted to make note of are music related. [...]

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I just wanted to let you know that I’ve added a subdomain to this site at music.ashevillemusiclessons.com which currently hosts information on the Chimes Volume 1 CD as well as the individual downloadable tracks. I hope that before long I’ll have more CDs to mention there.
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I have a cd for sale. I just finalized things last night at lulu.com… I’ve called it Chimes Volume 1 mainly because I expect there will be a volume two…. I’ve taken many old traditional (public domain) hymns and done a fairly simple play of them. There’s nothing fancy. About 8 [...]

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This won’t be a full fledged review, but some of my first impressions with the Zoom H4 after a little bit of time with it yesterday evening and a bit this morning. First off, it’s a bit smaller than it looked to me in the pictures. The box is fairly good sized and [...]

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The good news, is that the Zoom H4 recorder came yesterday, the bad news is my Kawai CA640 digital piano abruptly gave up the ghost Monday. I called yesterday to Waldrop House of Music where we bought it and it just so happened their technician was in (He’s based out of Bristol, TN) and [...]

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I know many people wouldn’t have the money for something like this, but…. vocalbooth.com and whisperroom.com sell a variety of small/medium size “kits” for “sound isolation enclosures” technically they’re not “soundproof” rooms, but isolation rooms. They start around $1500 give or take (and the price goes up with the room size…. the [...]

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Over at my computer site, I’ve put up a post about my latest audio tech research and I think I’ve settled on what to buy for “stereo field recording” and light multitrack work…. It’s about the Samson Zoom h4 Handy recorder, it should be out in a week or two and on paper everything [...]

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