Fish(er) Tales

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! These posts will give you a better idea about what this site is about. Start here, then go here, and here, and then here.As I contemplate the ways and means to a A Sound Life, here is a short (but powerful!) list of fourteen crucial traits you must possess to be successful: Passion Dedication Confidence Mastery of...

It’s summer (duh!) and I see a lot of amateurs and pros alike cutting grass. I also see a lot of construction workers on road crews and at building sites. What I don’t see a lot of is ear protection! Some of today’s machinery is quite loud — loud enough to do permanent damage to hearing. And once you suffer hearing loss, it doesn’t heal. You are born with a hearing range...

Sometimes the simplest advice is still the best advice: Simple Advice Special Thanks to Tony Santona for originally doing this cartoon for me for an article on Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI). They didn’t print it, so I thought it would be good to share it now.

Read this article over at EQ and found this tip on “Barely There Vocals” by Greg Laswell to be interesting: “One of my favorite things to do is to record the lead vocal to get it perfect, and then track two more but turn them down almost to the point where you can’t hear them at all. I actually make them so low that if you mute the lead vocal in the center channel, you can just barely,...

A few weeks back I wrote something for my Moneymaking Music Tip of the Week in a slightly off-handed, tongue in cheek manner. It went like this: “After a particularly grueling session the other day, I flippantly stated that I should retire. A friend then asked me what I would do if I retired and I replied: “Oh, I’d teach a class, write a book, work on a movie or two, and maybe travel...