Hey Erik, have you had a chance to check out our Hideout comps yet?

http://garagepunk.ning.com/pages/hideout-comps

Just curious! Don't miss out on a good thing...

Good to see you on the GPunk, Erik! Cut the Tie!!!!!!!

hey man, i seen a lot of your posts on recording, and I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions? I have a home studio thats just in one largish upstairs room at my parents house, and I'm trying to make old soul/ r'n'b recordings that have a real vintage vibe about them. You can check out my page www.myspace.com/chickadeerecordings , listen to the song mean man, its basically the style we are going to be playing. I like the quality of it, but I'm wondering if there are any hints you could give me so that I may achieve the sound I'm pursuing. I'm going for a basically a stax/old motown/ new orleans/ james brown sound, I record my drums using 2 beringer pencil mics as overhead, kick miced with some cheap peavey mic. I also own 2 akg mics, one small, and one large condenser mic. I always record my drums and any other live off the floor tracks into a 1978 akai tape casette recorder, hen i convert that into digital, and do everything else digital using a ART tube preamp for my close micing, and a beringer omni mic run direct into my mBox. Im having problems getting the kick to come out, and maby with the attack on the snare. I want more of these, but I always have found that less is more in my recordings. Im looking for a sound thats between hi fi and lo fi, any suggestions?

FUZZZZZZ IT! :)

Keep rockin Erik. Having your own studio does ease the creative process, and I should know, I get to record at my family's studio for free. However,I do end up doing alot of yardwork....

i look forward to pickin yer brains about recording!
Drink up,
~T

I got 3 new songs from next couple of releases up! I hope you like 'em!

ERIK ROCK LIKE A MOFO!!!!!

keep on a-rockin' erik!

I am gonna miss BeccaBear here at the Hideout! (she excused herself from things) I hope things will simplify themselves here soon so we don't loose other long term folks due to stuff like that.

I also heard the GP Forum is not doing PMs anymore. I cleared my box out a month ago,but still it is sad to know that a major avenue of communications has been closed.

Yeah JP, I understand, but since like Dave Lister of Red Dwarf says, " I only got two working taste buds left and one of them works on spicy hot foods."

While down in Portland Oregon the last few days I had some good Thai food in the Hawthorne section of town.

No habeñeros were injured!

lets see....this one does...OWWWWW!! TAZER-FIED!

for real. im looking at all the doo-dads now... plus im already gettin sick of my own automatic music player....uuggg.

JP Back in the old days for me it was a bottle of J&B, Yukon Jack, or Southern Comfort. Those days are now long gone though.
Thanks for the recipie! I'll use it next time I have a cold for sure!

I added a few new songs (exclusive to the Hideout) that are demos from my next CD (and one out-take that shows folks what happens when things go horribly-terribly wrong in the studio too) Plus some stuff that may come out at some point in the future. Enjoy and be entertained (or Naff Off!)

Just wonderful.
Actually we just paid visit to our friends in Sweden. Our friend vikings have freezing weather there!!! Nice and warm to be back home again...brrr!!

Hi Erik
You'll get used to it. I'm sure it's more difficult learning how to play guitar!!
Your pics are cool. You're lookin' like a big scarey blues/swamp man...