Humpty-Dumpty Effect: Acoustically, people resemble large eggs: Science News Online, Nov. 15, 2003
Until now, no one had measured the absolute acoustic profile of the human body—that is, how the body scatters sound waves independently of where it happens to be.
Friday, November 21, 2003
Thursday, November 20, 2003
Wired News: Record Label Sings New Tune
Wired News: Record Label Sings New Tune
Interesting idea - maybe more suited to remix-oriented genres, but it's good to see some creative thought about copyrights out there.
Interesting idea - maybe more suited to remix-oriented genres, but it's good to see some creative thought about copyrights out there.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
New template
The old one crashed and burned, couldn't find it in the new template collection (tiny list - wonder why???).
So links, sidebar pics, etc. are gone for now. I'll resurrect them as soon as I can...
So links, sidebar pics, etc. are gone for now. I'll resurrect them as soon as I can...
Friday, November 14, 2003
Larry Norman benefit 11/15 in Cincinnati
Come see us!!!
Sittin in with my pals the Motor City Saints this weekend, while they look for a permanent 4th member. Long drive, but a worthy cause!
Sittin in with my pals the Motor City Saints this weekend, while they look for a permanent 4th member. Long drive, but a worthy cause!
Monday, November 10, 2003
The Recording Project
It's the sleek new offshoot of HomeRecording Dot Com. All the cool stuff HR has, plus:
See ya there!
- post mp3s directly to a thread
special collab threads allow you to post wavs
two hangouts - one PG-rated, one R-rated --- helps solve the 13-year-olds-in-the-cave issues
non-absentee owners and moderators WHO ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT USER SUGGESTIONS (what a concept!) - they promise they'll keep the trolls in line, too!
No performance issues / too-much-traffic lockouts
See ya there!
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Monday, October 20, 2003
Premier Amplifiers
Premier Amplifiers
Went to a party / jam session with the Alligators a few weeks back. I had met a few of the guys at another jam, but it was my HR pal Dougie who finagled me the invite.
Great food and beer, and a real nice buch of people. Jamming was lots of fun, shared keyboard duties with another HR buddy, Sean.
The harp player is way into vintage gear - we've discussed it before - and I noticed he had a Premier amp he played slide guitar through - sounded like a harp amp, there was so much distortion. Very cool. So I went on a search today, THIS:
is what I found. Premier was a cheap Fender knockoff from the 60's, lower power and way more tube distortion. But that's its beauty. There's a big section of the linked site devoted to Premier. Best thing is, these things are cheap! Just gotta find a good one...
Went to a party / jam session with the Alligators a few weeks back. I had met a few of the guys at another jam, but it was my HR pal Dougie who finagled me the invite.
Great food and beer, and a real nice buch of people. Jamming was lots of fun, shared keyboard duties with another HR buddy, Sean.
The harp player is way into vintage gear - we've discussed it before - and I noticed he had a Premier amp he played slide guitar through - sounded like a harp amp, there was so much distortion. Very cool. So I went on a search today, THIS:
is what I found. Premier was a cheap Fender knockoff from the 60's, lower power and way more tube distortion. But that's its beauty. There's a big section of the linked site devoted to Premier. Best thing is, these things are cheap! Just gotta find a good one...
Friday, October 10, 2003
TbT audio
Wow!!!
Lotsa VST goodies here:
TbT audio software projects Home
Tube Limiter especially sounds pretty cool. And all of it's freeware!!!
All together now:WOW!!!
Lotsa VST goodies here:
TbT audio software projects Home
Tube Limiter especially sounds pretty cool. And all of it's freeware!!!
All together now:
Monday, October 06, 2003
How I Spent My Weekend, and a tribute to Warren Z
The First Annual HomeRec Canadian Mini Jam Fest, aka Voxfest 2003, is now history. Much jamming, drinking, eating, and carrying on with brothers and sisters from Hamilton, London, Detroit, and Utah (!!!). A jam purist would denounce some of the jamming as something other than true jams - multiple takes til we got it right, and not much extended group creativity, though there WERE moments that were more like a traditional jam. Some last minute cancellations from New York, Detroit, and Connecticut made for a smaller turnout than anticipated, but plenty of talent at every position.
It differed from the much larger Connecticut jamfest, not only in approach and size, but also content - very few 12-bar blues, or 60s/70s warhorses got pulled out here - much more GreenDay / 3EB / 90s rock content. A couple of key players, Simon and Myke, were my son's age. Creative guys with a great future, I think.
Musical highlights:
Home For A Rest, aka the Newfie jam, a hard-rocking Celtic flavored Canadian Classic - new to most of us there. We just followed Myke;
Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog, featuring my brother Rats on vocs and keys, and my recording debut on the guitar and airsynth;
Billy J's Still Rock & Roll, starring Myke, but I get a piano solo - big fun, much cooler than the fake sax thing I used to do in it;
Britney Spears' (!!!???) Hit Me Baby, completely reworked as a grungy punky moshpit jam - big fun!!!;
our Warren Zevon tribute (RIP, man...), Werewolves, with me singing and butchering the first line (bad notes, wrong words), but it got better as we went along;
a Sex Pistols cover, featuring rats again (title escapes me); and
rats' We Are All Clones, recorded by ratso, Voxxy, and me after everyone else had left - a great "end of the fest" tune.
Major props to the other jammers: Simon, Myke, PartyPants, Voxxy, Chris, ratso, and Voxxy's bass man (name has now escaped my so-called mind). What an absolute blast. We also had DJ Li'l A (Alyssa, 2) sit in on the DJBox, and minivox (Johnny, 3) was bangin' the drums. Voxxy actually played mini-v's tiny set on Clones!!! Great trashcan sound.
Other firsts:
poutine,
absinthe,
a brown beer whose name I've forgotten, but there's a 6-pack waiting at home to remind me, and
an unfortunate visual of a very drunk, very naked Voxxy, stumbling around his house after skinny dipping and drinking WAY too much - not necessarily in that order. Big thanks to my wife, who insisted we stay at a hotel!!! I need that sixpack of temporarily unnamed beer, just to help me forget the horrors my eyes have seen...
Heh heh.
It differed from the much larger Connecticut jamfest, not only in approach and size, but also content - very few 12-bar blues, or 60s/70s warhorses got pulled out here - much more GreenDay / 3EB / 90s rock content. A couple of key players, Simon and Myke, were my son's age. Creative guys with a great future, I think.
Musical highlights:
Home For A Rest, aka the Newfie jam, a hard-rocking Celtic flavored Canadian Classic - new to most of us there. We just followed Myke;
Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog, featuring my brother Rats on vocs and keys, and my recording debut on the guitar and airsynth;
Billy J's Still Rock & Roll, starring Myke, but I get a piano solo - big fun, much cooler than the fake sax thing I used to do in it;
Britney Spears' (!!!???) Hit Me Baby, completely reworked as a grungy punky moshpit jam - big fun!!!;
our Warren Zevon tribute (RIP, man...), Werewolves, with me singing and butchering the first line (bad notes, wrong words), but it got better as we went along;
a Sex Pistols cover, featuring rats again (title escapes me); and
rats' We Are All Clones, recorded by ratso, Voxxy, and me after everyone else had left - a great "end of the fest" tune.
Major props to the other jammers: Simon, Myke, PartyPants, Voxxy, Chris, ratso, and Voxxy's bass man (name has now escaped my so-called mind). What an absolute blast. We also had DJ Li'l A (Alyssa, 2) sit in on the DJBox, and minivox (Johnny, 3) was bangin' the drums. Voxxy actually played mini-v's tiny set on Clones!!! Great trashcan sound.
Other firsts:
poutine,
absinthe,
a brown beer whose name I've forgotten, but there's a 6-pack waiting at home to remind me, and
an unfortunate visual of a very drunk, very naked Voxxy, stumbling around his house after skinny dipping and drinking WAY too much - not necessarily in that order. Big thanks to my wife, who insisted we stay at a hotel!!! I need that sixpack of temporarily unnamed beer, just to help me forget the horrors my eyes have seen...
Heh heh.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Monday, September 29, 2003
Child Pimp Suits
I suppose I should be horrified
But THIS is pretty funny. Apparently trick-or-treating has changed a lot since I was a kid...
But THIS is pretty funny. Apparently trick-or-treating has changed a lot since I was a kid...
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Sing Ho!
Wrote this today - tried to get my songwriting buddies to chime in. Didn't happen. You can sing it to the tune of Sweet Molly Malone, but I'll try to come up with something different. And I had to change the names slightly to protect the guilty...
Oh yeah - big parental advisory on this one...
Sing ho!, for the hoor and take comfort, poor john,
Soon her looks and her money and pimp will be gone.
Oh yeah - big parental advisory on this one...
Sing ho!, for the hoor and take comfort, poor john,
Soon her looks and her money and pimp will be gone.
Sweet Mandy had hair of a fine flaxen hue,
And she'd laugh as I kissed her pink orbs in a kneel,
But then one day she spurned me, "I couldn't love you,
For I must find a man whose tall lance makes me squeal!"
Sing ho!, for the hoor and take comfort, poor john,
Soon her looks and her money and pimp will be gone.
Crazy-eyed Nanette, more stalker than belle,
She learned at my knee of the world, of the flesh,
Years later, I met her, amidst a dry spell,
She teased, then she cackled — a bitter, sour wench!
Sing ho!, for the hoor and take comfort, poor john,
Soon her looks and her money and pimp will be gone.
Me and Fannie was drunk, sure and I was still green,
We rolled on the grass, she was done, I withdrew,
Then in daylight I saw her, a sobering scene,
Mourned my stained knees, lost innocence, broken fly too!
Sing ho!, for the hoor and take comfort, poor john,
Soon her looks (??) and her money and pimp will be gone.
Lucienza was hungry, a fiery Italian,
In my wagon we trysted, her panties enpursed,
Next day, told her girlfriends that I was no stallion
more schnauzer than steed, and more gherkin than wurst!
Sing ho!, for the hoor and take comfort, poor john,
Soon her looks and her money and pimp will be gone.
Round Sharon was randy, an eager dark lass,
with an eye for rough pleasure, and forbidden whim,
She, the night that we parted, pledged love to the last,
But next evening was making the beast, astride Tim.
Sing ho!, for the hoor and take comfort, poor john,
Soon her looks and her money and pimp will be gone.
Maybe more verses coming, but I'm about out of exes.
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Mixolydian Mode
Mixolydian Mode
This guy's too cool to just mention in a post, so watch for him to be added to the sidebar. I know it's a St. Blog's page (so why aren't you linking from your St. Cecilia page, Jay???), but it strikes my musical fancy far more than it resonates with the churchy part of my persona.
Anyhow, modern technology meets the ancient troubador, or something. Very cool site. Visit it! Now!
Are you still here???
This guy's too cool to just mention in a post, so watch for him to be added to the sidebar. I know it's a St. Blog's page (so why aren't you linking from your St. Cecilia page, Jay???), but it strikes my musical fancy far more than it resonates with the churchy part of my persona.
Anyhow, modern technology meets the ancient troubador, or something. Very cool site. Visit it! Now!
Are you still here???
Monday, September 15, 2003
Lauren has arrived
Some things are worth cross-posting
Just got a call - I'm a grandpa again!!! My son and his wife were expecting a baby girl at the end of October, but she's here already!!! Lauren is 7lbs., 4 oz., so best guess is the docs were 6-7 weeks off in their calculations. Mom and daughter are resting comfortably.
I'll try to get pics...
Just got a call - I'm a grandpa again!!! My son and his wife were expecting a baby girl at the end of October, but she's here already!!! Lauren is 7lbs., 4 oz., so best guess is the docs were 6-7 weeks off in their calculations. Mom and daughter are resting comfortably.
I'll try to get pics...
Thursday, September 11, 2003
9/11
September 11th
Over at my other blog, I posted a link to my CCM take on 9/11. For an entirely different view here are links (hi-fi/broadband --- lo-fi/dialup) to a collaboration of sorts that I did with Barry Morgan earlier this year. His lyrics, my melody and performance. It's a very rough sketch, featuring out-of-tune vocals, a what-the-heck-was-he-thinking drum track, and some over-the-top synth shredding. Listen at your own risk.
But I really was taken with Barry's lyric, and *I* like my melodic/harmonic environment (a tribute to Donald Fagen - I am SO not worthy...). Some context - (1) along with global and US politics, there's quite a bit of Latvian politics worked into this; and (2) the numbers all mean something. Very witty, deep writing from Barry. Worthy of a better performance, but I'm still working on it.
Lyrics copyright Barry Morgan, 2002. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Music and performance copyright Jay Ricketts, 2003. All rights reserved.
Over at my other blog, I posted a link to my CCM take on 9/11. For an entirely different view here are links (hi-fi/broadband --- lo-fi/dialup) to a collaboration of sorts that I did with Barry Morgan earlier this year. His lyrics, my melody and performance. It's a very rough sketch, featuring out-of-tune vocals, a what-the-heck-was-he-thinking drum track, and some over-the-top synth shredding. Listen at your own risk.
But I really was taken with Barry's lyric, and *I* like my melodic/harmonic environment (a tribute to Donald Fagen - I am SO not worthy...). Some context - (1) along with global and US politics, there's quite a bit of Latvian politics worked into this; and (2) the numbers all mean something. Very witty, deep writing from Barry. Worthy of a better performance, but I'm still working on it.
Lyrics copyright Barry Morgan, 2002. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Music and performance copyright Jay Ricketts, 2003. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Back
Back
Wow! Talk about withdrawal - Blogger hosed up my account for nearly a week, finally fixed it last night. Got my ID crossed with someone else. Mebbe I better come up with a better ID ( they used to be changeable - wonder if they still are).
Oh well, I forget what I was gonna say anyhow. Except here's a public service message from the RIAA:
Wow! Talk about withdrawal - Blogger hosed up my account for nearly a week, finally fixed it last night. Got my ID crossed with someone else. Mebbe I better come up with a better ID ( they used to be changeable - wonder if they still are).
Oh well, I forget what I was gonna say anyhow. Except here's a public service message from the RIAA:
Thursday, September 04, 2003
My Busted Fridge
Wish Me Luck
I entered the BLUE Microphone / Dr. Demento Summer Silly Song contest, just before the deadline.
Read about the contest here;
Read my lyrics (and a few other guys' lyrics) here; and
Listen to my song here (hifi/broadband) or here (lofi/dialup).
I'm actually hoping for second or third place, since I already have a BLUE Baby Bottle mic, the first prize offering. But I'll setlle. Ha ha.
Oh, and if you're really bored, you can read about what my homerec pals had to say about the recording here.
I entered the BLUE Microphone / Dr. Demento Summer Silly Song contest, just before the deadline.
Read about the contest here;
Read my lyrics (and a few other guys' lyrics) here; and
Listen to my song here (hifi/broadband) or here (lofi/dialup).
I'm actually hoping for second or third place, since I already have a BLUE Baby Bottle mic, the first prize offering. But I'll setlle. Ha ha.
Oh, and if you're really bored, you can read about what my homerec pals had to say about the recording here.
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Limerick
There once was a jam in Connecticut
'twas all beer, camaraderie, and rough etiquette
But that reccer jgourd had
broadcast and recorded
the proof that the jams were patheticut.
They've been putting the recordings of the jams out there. Wow. Freebird was especially painful...
Don't even ask. I'm NOT posting links.
'twas all beer, camaraderie, and rough etiquette
But that reccer jgourd had
broadcast and recorded
the proof that the jams were patheticut.
They've been putting the recordings of the jams out there. Wow. Freebird was especially painful...
Don't even ask. I'm NOT posting links.
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Official HomeRecording.Comp Project!
Get 'Em While They're Hot!!!
It's finally shipping, the comp CD from my Home Recording board. I'm not on this, but a bunch of my pals are.
Please buy it? Please?
I'll post a review after mine shows up. I've got volume 1 - it's pretty darn good. I've heard snatches of this (VERY early Sunday morning at Jamfest, and I didn't know what I was listening to then), it was excellent - a lot of pro-sounding stuff.
Stay tuned. Both of you...
It's finally shipping, the comp CD from my Home Recording board. I'm not on this, but a bunch of my pals are.
Please buy it? Please?
I'll post a review after mine shows up. I've got volume 1 - it's pretty darn good. I've heard snatches of this (VERY early Sunday morning at Jamfest, and I didn't know what I was listening to then), it was excellent - a lot of pro-sounding stuff.
Stay tuned. Both of you...
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