Way back in high school my nickname became “Drummer”. drummersmall About “Drummer”Although I didn’t become a “full-time” musician, most of my life has been associated with music. I started playing piano when I was in the first grade and snare drum in the third grade. From then until I went to college, I was in marching bands, jazz combos, and rock bands. During college, I only played occasionally, but I spent the summers playing in rock and country bands in local bars and night clubs.

After college, I met a producer who was working in a Denver studio with local musicians, and I fell in love with recording. The engineers took me under their wings and taught me everything about recording music. Eventually, we all ended up at Caribou Ranch recording an album for Epic Records. Myself and our Electronics Maintenance engineer were hired and I spent the next 4 years as assistant engineer for many major artists .Me%20and%20James%20Vincent About “Drummer”

When that came to an end, I wound up teaching recording engineering to Denver high school students – one of a few such courses in the world at the time. While doing this, I also began playing drums again in a local country band.

Next, I became one of the sound engineers for The Denver Center for the Performing Arts. We recorded music and sound effects for the “live” productions, and operated the sound during the plays.

As you can imagine, throughout all this time, I worked with lots of musicians from many different genres – rock, jazz, punk, classical, folk, and country. I love musicians, and I understand them. Well, I’m not sure musicians can always be understood, even by themselves. Ha!

For the past few years, I have not been involved in music very much, and it’s been eating away at me. So, I’ve decided to do something different, and build a web presence around helping the independent musician record and promote themselves and their music.

As a recording engineer who started out in very primitive studio environments, I know what it’s like to “patch” all kinds of equpment together. You can really struggle plugging and unplugging equipment from different manufacturers, different signal levels, etc. And then, you have to figure out how to get all the “noise” out of the system. Finally, you get around to recording, all the while holding your breath and biting your tongue. Ha!

If you’re starting from scratch, or starting over, I’m going to offer ideas and suggestions to help you get a quality studio set up that produces quality sound. We’ll build from the BASICS – NOT the “latest & greatest”.

I invite you to become a regular visitor to this blog, and give me feedback. Tell me what you need to know, or want to know, and I’ll find the answer!

Thanks for visiting!

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