Fundraiser / Riverview Lodge 2158  Sat Sep 28 2024.

They raised 3K that evening! - Kudo's Lodge 2158

We're just glad to a part of the evening ..

 We're Back with a full line up.

Selections for Sept 2024 ..

Two Tickets to Paradise

No Shoes, No Shirt

Lowdown

Long Train running

Crazy

Good Bless the USA

When the bassist is away ..

We drop back to a Classic R&R band

Fungibility in a band leads to flexibility in accepting contracts. Me, I just love playing in a basic R&R band!

Old Time RR / Mary Lou

Wish I had a Baby Grand

For Ms. Joy ... while she sings this..

Love playing for that  Angelic voice .. Thank You Ms. Joy!

Desperado

 June was Draft Picks month!

The #1 draft pick - Cameron Crowe!

Stats: 4 foot +,12 year old passionate Acoustic player with a Fedora! Wowed all the women! Future Steve Perry/SRV

Guest Medley

Tribute to Dicky Betts

May 2024

Betts in 2008

From Wikipedia:

Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts (December 12, 1943 – April 18, 2024)

American guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band.

RIP. Thank you for the Music I grew up on, shaped a whole couple of generations. Your ideas live on ...

Bear Fax tribute to Dickey Betts

 On recording ..

The challenges of recording a small band

Where is the recording equipment?

Top left Arrow: Digitiized audio to phone via usb

Lower top : Digitiizer and headphone monitor

Botom right: Zoom H6 field track recorder.

Top right: Recording engineer (part time)

Bear Fax does not have a dedicated resource, neither friends nor family child labor for exploitation,  so hands-free recording equipment is needed. (yes, we do have friends ..really)

A Zoom H6  field track recorder is my audio capture and storage device. Made for recording a small performance, it grabs high quality results just from the default Mike's, and takes up to 4 more. 

The field Mike's (the ones that stick out on top) capture the band sound backstage, as well as audio from addition Mikes / feed to get the vocals. 6 separate tracks get written to SD card, allowing re-mix later.  This my backup.

A rough mix is sent to my video recorder (cellphone) via a digitizer (Joyo Momix )/USB which provides me great quality audio to work with. 

I use Microsoft ClipChamp (https://clipchamp.com/en/windows-video-editor/) and start wading thru a set worth of video  (7 - 8 Gig ), listening  to good pieces to split off into smaller songs. Old time editing. 

Next each smaller song's ClipChamp-ed again, this time tighting the starts, stops, fades and  adjusting audio so it sound decent on a phone and PC with headphones. This the extent of the mastering I do currently.

After mustering up some creative writing, it's ready for publication.