Master

With all the rain tracking out in the shop is not practical. The rain on the roof sounds awesome but, the mics also do a great job of picking it up!

With Steve on a much needed trip home to recoup his faculties, Cliff, Todd and myself have been tracking in the basement of mom's house. Cliff has a beautiful acoustic piece titled "Ivory Rose" that we have been working on while the weather sorts itself out. The song is slated to be on the bands upcoming release "Hell Lives".

Life is good here on the Wheeler Ranch, mom is well and our new chickens are growing fast. I am not a big fan of California but, here on the ranch, the magic is strong.

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Studio

I have been traveling much of late but have finally settled at our family home in Vacaville CA. The Wheeler Ranch is a magical place of which I am sure I will comment upon more in the future. With a layover at Dark Hollow Studios in Medford OR last weekend, I was able to do some engineering and lay down some bass/drum tracks to a song I have been working on. "Robins and Crows" started as a vocal/acoustic guitar piece that I am now trying to take to the next level, so to speak.

I arrived at the ranch Monday afternoon and by Tuesday we were laying tracks with Half-N-Half and playing around with mic placement, gear and other such sundry "have to do's". Wednesday brought heavy rain that ruined any chance of recording out in the shop and has continued up to this writing. The metal roof of dads shop saw to that. In the mean time I have been working on my Mastering suite and acoustically treating the basement mix area in the family home.

Here are a few pics of our setup. It needs a little more refinement but overall, I am happy with the results to tape so far.

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