Lovemonkey Studios Blog

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

Month: October, 2008

I’m an Uncle!!!!

Big News!!! You can see the details here, but I’m pretty psy­ched. Just wanted to drop that in here.

Big Studio Day

I spent all day yes­ter­day doing a CD record­ing for the Austin Jazz Band. I hadn’t men­tioned that I’ve joined this band last month, but I’m back to big band! It’s been a total blast, if a lit­tle stress­ful. I had my first rehearsal on Sep­tem­ber 8th, my first gig on Sep­tem­ber 10th, my next […]

Last Night

Funny thing hap­pened to me Tues­day night. I was work­ing with some friends record­ing vocals for the newest of Char­lie Moster’s radio musi­cals. We were allowed to use one of the recital halls at the school at teach at, which was really nice. It was about mid­night, and I was pack­ing up equip­ment to head […]

I swear I’m not a shill

I promise you Fender has not paid me for this. I really wish they did, because that would be awe­some. But any­way, I wanted to write a quick amp review, of all things. A few of my stu­dents have turned up with the Fender G-DEC Junior amp. This is by far the coolest lit­tle amp […]

On Baseball yet again.

I hate to always have to re-write this. But, for the third straight year, here’s Bart Gia­matti on base­ball: “It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when every­thing else begins again, and it blos­soms in the sum­mer, fill­ing the after­noons and evenings, and then as […]