Never Too Late. . .

NEVER TOO LATE teaser 1 from Jay Middaugh on Vimeo.

2004

Some kid's music that Peja and I recorded a while back is playing on my headphones.

I finally got around to figuring out how my hard-disk stand-alone recorder can export single tracks to my computer. My recorder does a fine job recording, and I have decent pre-amps, but it's mixing abilities, i.e. effects and compression, are noisy and can sound cheap.

So I've been doing some mixing with free free free Audacity, which feels a lot like the old sound editor on window 3.1 or whichever one was the last one that actually had windows, I remember isolating a Jim Morrison scream from a live show and looping it over some other stuff in my parents office in the cottage in Lake of Bays.

The difference, is that this track actually sounds pretty good, as far as it's sonic qualities (the song itself is very much a demo) It is easy easy easy to edit and stuff, and I imagine a shinier interface would make this kind of mixing easier that the layers of menus on my recorder.

I am so 2004.

Link to the Music School website, and a pictures of Echo and Me

www.sleepinggiantschoolofmusic.com

Hat-Tip to my good friend Adam Hewgill who taught me everything I still don't know about the internet.

No, You're Weird. . .

Are you telling me that you DON'T have a drum kit for every member of your family? Weird. . .

Orillia, Drum Kits, Weddings, Music Schools

Hello! We just got back today from a 5 day weekend in Orillia with my folks. On Saturday we drove to Owen Sound to attend the wedding of our good friends Andy and Candace. Andy was the first bass player who ever played my songs in a band, and was always awesome to play with. Congrats guys!

Peja is standing next to a giant guitar art thing on the main street of Orillia. We bought an awesome little premier jazz kit, which will join my kit in the drum room of my. . . wait for it. . . NEW MUSIC SCHOOL!

After 4 amazing amazing years out in the township at The Dorian School of music, I'm opening my own shop downtown. It will be called "The Sleeping Giant School of Music", and there will be website links and all the rest posted when I get around to it. I'm still at Dorian for the summer, and the new shop will open Sept 1st! A huge thanks to Tim Tran, my friend and my boss, for working with me all these years at Dorian.

Hope all is well with you,

Jay.