The Viewing Room

Going mobile!

Putting the finishing touches on an ultralight remote recording AND live sound rig; 14 mic preamps (up to 18 total inputs) and multiple mixing consoles in a 4 space rack. The setup worked great on the last Song Swap, and is ready to record the Major Glitch Swap later this month at Hat City Kitchen.

A quick note on the projects completed in 2009...thanks!

The Plunk Brothers The Plunk Brothers ... Engineer, Mixing, Mastering (feat. Boo Reiners and Bob Jones)
John Pinamonti End Of Smith ... Bass, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Ioan Harea Alegría ... Mastering
Max Greene My Well-Being ... Engineer, Mastering (Rod Hohl, Producer)
Lloyd Cole Cleaning Out the Ashtrays ... Engineer
The Mudlarks A Tender Age ... Mastering (Paul Carbonara, Producer)
Monstrous Brothers Gethway ... Digital Editing

My lovely wife Rebecca Turner releases her new album next week. The record release party/gig is on April 30th at Banjo Jim's; that's on the corner of 9th Street and Avenue C, in the East Village. The festivities begin at 7:00 p.m.

http://rebeccaturner.net

Twelve albums in as many months from various points of origin... tracking and writing, recording, mixing, mastering. Next, fix the nerve and muscle damage in right arm, then rest so I can get back to playing soon... computers are evil, go outside...

Muchas gracias to everyone for their help!

Yep, it's August and the only thing going slowly is me updating this website...

Several albums are in the works, a nice run of different mastering projects coming through and quite a few new and old friends have been stopping by.

The Nu-Sonics have a new favorite club to play, Union Hall in Park Slope! (photo by Amy Niebel)
Super-hospitable folks and the sound is excellent!

Deena Shoshkes (of The Cucumbers) and my wife Rebecca Turner have been hosting a very cozy songwriters' circle every month since January. You can read more about it in the May 11th New York Times. Pretty cool!

The swap also has a MySpace page with mp3s of the latest round of songs.

photo by Sherri Zuckerman, mic from the collection of Brian Kelly

A nice chunk of new MG submissions in the first couple of weeks, some new friends, and a bit of press interviewing Chris Butler and yours truly.

http://blog.nj.com/jerseyblogs/2008/04/writing_the_worlds_longest_son.ht...

I warned you last fall The Major Glitch was gonna happen... and now it has finally launched in its ever-growing glory! Chris has blogged a bit about the project launch:

"in 1996, i wrote a 69 minute song with over 500 verses called "The Devil Glitch". engineered by the formidable Scott Anthony, the Guinness Book of World Records declared it to be the "World's Longest Pop Song".

In the past couple of weeks I've been really enjoying Last.fm, more specifically the Similar Artists playlist associated with some of my favorite musicians. It's kind of the same joy as Pandora, but much more cohesive and the listening doesn't get repetitive quite as quickly...

So I've created a Last.fm playlist of available songs I've worked on, whether it be recording or producing or editing or playing or mastering. Check out the pop up player and let it run for a while... it's a nice mix.