About Me
I have had an interesting journey with respect to music. It started when I was a little kid and I constantly snuck into my sister’s bedroom to play with her Peavey bass guitar she had picked up from a pawn shop. She was a huge John Taylor, of Duran Duran, fan and that had led her to be interested in bass guitar. Band distracted me a little bit to drums, but the bass led me to the guitar and my dad picked me up a cheap acoustic that I played non-stop until I got my first cheap copy telecaster electric.
I did the thing all kids do, started bands, broke up bands, etc., but it was when I was sitting in my room just playing guitar that I had the most fun. When I left Mississippi in 1990, my dad seemed to compensate the upheavil with a nice Kramer guitar we found in the local trade paper. I had all my gear and played more and more. I loved guitar, but it was more about music itself than the guitar and I was somewhat stagnant until I met a guy in 1992 who had a fancy Gateway 2000 computer with a Roland CM-32L sound module. It was love at first sight for me and the sequencer. Of course to this day I can barely play a keyboard, but I love MIDI. I got into Cakewalk and computer music in general and never could really bridge the gap between sequencing and audio.
I did a little of both for a long time and it wasn’t for another 5 years that I was introduced to ProTools. At the time I was recording all of my stuff on a Fostex 16-Track Hard Disk recorder using all analog gear coming out of a Behringer MX3282 8-Bus board.
ProTools LE and the Digi001 changed my life. After some frustrations with Windows 98, it led me to my first real Mac. It also showed me what can really be done in an all software environment. Fast-forward to 2009 and I am pretty much all digital. Sure I have a big analog board for recording drums and I love to turn knobs, but I live inside Logic Pro 8 and record at a stunning 24-bit, 192Khz audio. I can record up to 26 simultanious tracks and have more effects and software instruments than I care to count.
So the question now is what do I do with it? I have the tools to create pretty much any musical idea I can come up with. That’s where you come in. I would love some people to work with. Share tracks, collaborate, create unique music. I have a very progressive technical lean, but I love good old rock and have an ear for the synthy beat based stuff. What do you find interesting? Why haven’t you emailed me yet?
