This should inspire us all to get crackin’ in our home practice or recording studio.

Rick has worked as a sound engineer in both a studio environment and in live sound, working with a number of reknowned acts. He has written and recorded dozens of his own songs, just recently releasing his first proper album of new material entitled “Electric Fences”, with another one already in the works.

Paul, the son of 70′s country artist Saratoga Red, is a gifted multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter in his own right. His bass playing in particular conjures up comparisons with Paul McCartney and Geddy Lee in it’s melodicism and “in the pocket” groove. Paul recently self-produced his fifth full-length project of original music, “Many Faces”.

Michael Gallant wrote an in-depth piece for the Echoes Blog about the craft and industry of composing music specifically for TV, advertising, film, etc. If you have any interest in earning money from sync licensing and jingle-writing, this article is a good place to start. Learn about: * the current state of the jingle business. [...]

Here’s a free opportunity for all you home recorders in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Make your best acoustic mix and send it in! http://www.chevysonicsounds.com/ Chevy invites independent singer-songwriters from North Texas to enter to win an awesome new acoustic-electric guitar from Taylor Guitars, and a chance at playing live at The Loft Dallas on December [...]

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Piezos are really cool for live sound, but part 2 of the posted article is where it gets really interesting… it shares a very insightful technique on how to thicken a guitar sound for recording… definitely something we will be using in the future! http://www.harmonycentral.com/docs/DOC-1901

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