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Pat Metheny’s sick MIDI rig

Got to work for Pat Metheny this weekend.  His stage setup is pretty complex.  He has all of these percussion instruments set up, with sticks being held by motors which are triggered via MIDI. On top of that, we loaded in these massive cabinets, that had jugs filled with water and laundry detergent. Why would …

Pushing the envelope with video and backing tracks

As usual, Talking to Walls did our annual Black Hearts Parade tour for the month of March to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.  Was another success.  This year, instead of playing a set with bagpipers and dancers, we just played as the three of us, with a regular show that also happened to have a video …

New piano for the studio!

Happy New Year! Echostation Recording now has a baby grand piano available for your recording needs!  Thanks to Steve Detroy and Marco Scott for introducing me to this beauty, and helping us bring her into playing shape.  If you’re not recording on it, Mary’s playing it.  So it will get plenty of love. I also …

On the road with Hiatus Kaiyote

I’m in the middle of a two week bi-coastal US tour with Hiatus Kaiyote, as Sound Engineer and Tour Manager.  Tonight we play the Independent in San Francisco.  They have a massive analog Midas mixing desk, which is just so damn musical sounding, I can’t stand it.  Soundcheck was good, so tonight should be yet …