So, the album is coming together nicely. All of the vocals are sung, and I’ve been working on comping them and picking out the best parts. I found a great horn player, Bill Scholl, and we got together a while ago and recorded some ideas for the song “Drive Me”. After listening to the parts [...]
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It’s coming together…
January 31, 2010
What’s new?
October 21, 2009
I was making good progress, recording at a (relatively) good pace through the end of the summer. Vocals are done for 7 of the 12 songs, and that’s more than half. But then it went and got cooler outside and I went and caught a cold. I don’t think it was the pig [...]
I just recorded a Michael Jackson tribute
June 26, 2009
I just put together this Michael Jackson tribute. It’s an acoustic cover of Thriller, with some self-recorded backing vocals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyA-80k9lAQ&fmt=18
Check it out and let me know what you think! RIP, MJ!
Update
June 25, 2009
Quick update. I’ve found myself using Twitter (which in turn updates my Facebook page) a whole lot lately, as it’s easier to write a 140-character “what I’m working on now” update than to write a full blog entry. And more people tend to read Twitter and Facebook than my blog here. But to recap, for [...]
Guitars, guitars, and more guitars. And computers.
May 16, 2009
Over the last two weeks, I’ve recorded the guitars for just about half the songs for the new album. It’s quite the process. I’d done fairly fully-fleshed out demos for most of these songs, and so started out the “real” versions by importing the demo parts as a road map once the drums were tracked. [...]
Back in the saddle
April 22, 2009
I finally got my Pro Tools setup stable on the new computer and got some work done on the solo album over the last couple of days. I decided to start with the guitars in “Everything’s Fine”. I re-recorded over the imported demo tracks (which were time-shifted as I imported them to fit the song’s [...]
New twitter name
April 17, 2009
Just in case anyone was following me, I decided to change my twitter name. It’s now mgrosshandler. That’s all.
This is not good.
March 26, 2009
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 [...]
Thanks, Metroland Readers!
March 5, 2009
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)!
Experiencing technical problems
March 3, 2009
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 [...]