Merry Christmas!!
Peace to you tonight..
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Hurricane season Disruption
Hard on us in the southeast ..
This hurricane season left mark on the eastern US. Many in NC still don't have home to return to.
A home is personal, like your body, you know it. When tragedy strikes, your instinct to protect as you would salve a wound inflicted on you physically.
But its so .. big. Needs a giant bandage and even giant tweezers to clear the mess out before surgery.
Here's an intense extraction video from my home of a tree that fell.
Took a couple of months off playing, but promise more posts.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
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Sunday, May 12, 2024
Tribute to Dicky Betts
May 2024
Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts (December 12, 1943 – April 18, 2024)
American guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band.
RIP. Thank you for the Music I grew up on, shaped a whole couple of generations. Your ideas live on ...
Bear Fax tribute to Dickey Betts
On recording ..
The challenges of recording a small band
Where is the recording equipment?
Top left Arrow: Digitiized audio to phone via usb
Lower top : Digitiizer and headphone monitor
Botom right: Zoom H6 field track recorder.
Top right: Recording engineer (part time)
Bear Fax does not have a dedicated resource, neither friends nor family child labor for exploitation, so hands-free recording equipment is needed. (yes, we do have friends ..really)
A Zoom H6 field track recorder is my audio capture and storage device. Made for recording a small performance, it grabs high quality results just from the default Mike's, and takes up to 4 more.
The field Mike's (the ones that stick out on top) capture the band sound backstage, as well as audio from addition Mikes / feed to get the vocals. 6 separate tracks get written to SD card, allowing re-mix later. This my backup.
A rough mix is sent to my video recorder (cellphone) via a digitizer (Joyo Momix )/USB which provides me great quality audio to work with.
I use Microsoft ClipChamp (https://clipchamp.com/en/windows-video-editor/) and start wading thru a set worth of video (7 - 8 Gig ), listening to good pieces to split off into smaller songs. Old time editing.
Next each smaller song's ClipChamp-ed again, this time tighting the starts, stops, fades and adjusting audio so it sound decent on a phone and PC with headphones. This the extent of the mastering I do currently.
After mustering up some creative writing, it's ready for publication.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
March has arrived!
New selection from March 1st
Soon we'll have daylight savings, the turn of spring, the prickle of pollen up the sinuses..
Here's a selection of material from our last show at the Moose
- There ain't no getting over me - Ronnie Milsap
- Red Neck Girls - Bellamy Brothers
- Long Train Running - Doobies
- Low Down - Boz Scaggs
- Toby Keith Tribute - I love this Bar
- Black Velvet - Alannah Miles
- Closiing Time - Supersonic
Monday, February 19, 2024
Fun with AI Art!
Google Labs makes it easy, fun and free..
If you are in need of some cool graphics, Google's ImageFX is Great! Give it some Prompt words, add some feelings and go. Quality graphics faster than 3-min ramen.
Here's a quick start guide to use on your computing device (Phone works) to try it out.
In Chrome go to labs.google
You will log in once to acknowledge copyright.
Choose imageFX
And that'll get you to the work screen. Try some images!
The basic prompt I used to get the graphic above was "Poster for a rock and country band named Bear Fax with a banner at the bottom 'Bear Fax'. Added tweaks to fine tune.
Once you have a good image you like, add 'Photorealistic' or other effects at the bottom to drive up the resolution or the quality and get the feel you want.
Monday, February 5, 2024
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Merry Chrismas 2023
It's the most wonderful time of the year to play ...
Don't be afaid to close your eyes
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Bargain $120 guitar checkout.
Valencia VC204TWR
My most valueable guitar is an 80's Indonesian handmade Vantek Vic-1 using native mahogany. That luthier made it with love cause it just wants to sing. Valencia (Autralian) may have acquired Vantek and manufactures in Indonesia.
The Valencia also uses local wood like "Nyatoh" (native to Malaysia / Indonesia), Kadam (S.E. Asia), Ebonized (meaning high heat Kiln dried) Mahogany fretboard and bridge. (Can't use Rosewood for export Guitars anymore due to over harvesting).
For some reason the soundboard is a glaringly non-native (North America) Sitka Spruce.
It needed some work. Many sharp edges to this but some quick filing was enough.
Frets failed the pantyhose test, and the action is high.
There is no truss rod but the neck is flat and sanding the saddle will be sufficient to dial in good action.
Visually it's a gorgeus guitar! How does it sound like? Nice, very nice!!
A laid back Wicked Game
and a rocker The one I love
Monday, November 6, 2023
From Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Along_the_Watchtower#CITEREFO'Neill-Sanders_2021
"All Along the Watchtower"
is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his eighth studio album,...
The song's lyrics, which in its original version contain twelve lines, feature a conversation between a joker and a thief.
Among the many interpretations, the cynic in me squares off with this one ..
Journalist David Stubbs interpreted the song as "obliquely allud[ing] to Bob Dylan's frustrations with his management and with CBS, whom he felt were offering him a royalty rate that was far from commensurate with his status".[25] For Stubbs, the song "features a stand-off between the 'joker' and the 'thief', with the joker complaining of businessmen who drink his wine, feeding off him but refusing to give him his due".
Sunday, October 29, 2023
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