At The Gates - Blinded by Fear banjo cover

I should pick up my classical guitar again and do a Carcass cover.

Texas Can Suck It

As an Asian American Studies major I find this...boring?  It's a really long and drawn out conversation but Betty Brown's comments are painfully offensive.  My mother's maiden name is Miyao (宮尾) and she hypenates it to Miyao-Moore which causes all sorts of pronounciation problems.  I'm just glad that she didn't insist that I also take the hyphenated last name, as Tyler Tadashi Miyao-Moore just doesn't have a ring to it.  I'm hard pressed to think of a more hapa sounding name.

Interestingly enough, a google search of "Tadashi Moore" leads to google ads for Tadashi dresses and a Michigan based designer/photographer Ian Tadashi Moore.  I am awaiting the discovery of a doppelganger Tyler Tadashi Moore, so that we can have an epic knife fight concluding in lightning and me shouting, "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!"

The Shape of Things To Come

Be sure to turn captions on.

Idoru is here now.  And yes, it should be アイドル be an "A" in front.

This seriously makes me think really, really hard.  Critical, deep thinking.  The first composer is using Cubase.  Only good things come of business partnerships between ex-Axis powers (Steinberg and Yamaha).

DRUMBS

Curtis came over last weekend to track some covers for a HP2 demo that we're using to get some summer gigs.  We wanted to redo the JG tracks right this time (with double bass) but Curtis couldn't grab his pedal from Irvine.  Instead he borrowed a monster of a kick from a friend who works for OCDP.  If you look closely, you can see an owl is the head.

It would be terribly distracting to hear two bass drums of differing tambres and sizes, so it looks like I'll have to go back and sample the OCDP one on top of all of Curtis' DW kicks.  Another chance to work with Drumtracker!

Got to use my SM7 for the first time.  Next time I'm going to pull back the placement a bit.

Trusty paint can kept the bass drum mic level.  Blue ball on the rack and kick ball on the floor.  57 on the snare top.

This time around I tried a Beta 52 in the kick about 6" off the beater and a Studio Projects B1 with an Earthworks kick pad outside for some extra air.

Also miced the crown of the ride.  I'll gate it in the mix until the chorus for "Living on a Prayer" and then that's all you'll hear, haha.