This is not good.

For those of you wondering why I haven’t posted about my progress on the new album lately…  I decided to get a new computer recently.  The one I had was pretty fast, but not quite powerful enough to do everything I wanted to do on my songs.  So I got a newer, faster one. I’m not sure what happened exactly, but at some point the other day, it died.  I was installing photoshop, and it…

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Thanks, Metroland Readers!

http://metroland.net/features.html The readers of Metroland, the venerable arts paper of the Capital Region, have voted: Best Local Solo Musician:  Mike Grosshandler Best Local Rock Band:  The Velmas (second place) Thanks to everyone who voted!  Hope to see lots of you out at Sage College on 3/27 4/24 (new date)!

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Experiencing technical problems

On Friday, I thought it was a good time to finally upgrade Pro Tools from 7.4 to 8.0.  8 has some cool new plug-ins and it seemed like as good a time as any to go for it.  Or so I thought.  I haven’t been able to get any work done since Friday. Upgrading PT broke my amp emulator plug-ins  (Amplitube2, Ampeg SVX Uno) and a synth that I might use (Analog Factory).  It also…

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