Lovemonkey Studios Blog

The life of an Austin working musician, recording engineer, general music whore, and Breakfast Taco fiend.

Month: March, 2005

Backwash: a short story

Orig­i­nal post March 27, 2005 My stu­dio is set up so I cre­ate a vocal booth for the singers out of pack­ing blan­kets hung from the ceil­ing. This gives the singer pri­vacy as well, because I can’t see them singing. But it can lead to prob­lems like this one. This is a true story from my […]

Backwash: Old stories Vol. 1

Orig­i­nal post March 26, 2005 Ok, so I don’t have any gigs for a few weeks, so I wanted to drop in a old story. I have a few in mind that I don’t want to for­get. This is from a user group post I wrote back when this hap­pened in August of 2004: I was at […]

SXSW: Someday I’ll get there

Orig­i­nal post March 20th, 2005 I always have mixed feel­ings about SXSW. All my friends always apply, and none of them ever get in. So I have a vague resent­ment of the whole clus­ter­fuck, mostly because I’ve never really played it, or attended it at all. The one time I bought a wrist­band was in 1999 […]

The original first post

Orig­i­nal Date March 20th, 2005 So hey every­one. I guess I’m start­ing a blog. I’ve been think­ing about it for a while, mostly as a kind of per­sonal diary. I’m mostly going to share my expe­ri­ences as a pro­fes­sional musi­cian and record­ing stu­dio owner/producer. There seem to be too many inter­est­ing things going on at each […]