Loggerhead Records

I love Clapton. While I don’t think Clapton is God, like many did early in EC’s career, I do really dig his 2009 DVD Live At Budokan God Meets Buddha. Clapton is one of those performing artists who can deliver in a very broad range of genres, from radio top 40, classic rock, seventies, sixties rock,

Clapton is rock royalty, that’s for sure. The list of performers he’s played with ranges from Pavarotti to the Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy to BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, to Carlos Santana. He’s now recording and touring a lot with Doyle Bramhall II. Every time I see him in a video on stage with Buddy Guy or BB King, he knows his place and his role. He appears to be a true English gentleman and respectfully lets his peers solo first and waits for his cue, or rather, hand off.

When recording vocals I have noticed many times that people are surprised at how they sound when they hear themselves played back over the monitors. This is because what we hear in our heads is not what a microphone will hear (pick up). People often think their voice is a tad bassier than it really is due to the proximity effect of their own voice. Proximity effect occurs when a sound source is very close to a mic mic thereby increasing the sources bass greatly. Think radio voices.

There are really only 3 things to consider when recording vocals: The volume, the tone and gain structure.

Regarding volume we are dealing with two things:

1. Is the person very soft? If so you will have to turn the mic up to compensate for this. And likely EQ for intelligibility of the words. This often means using EQ and cutting frequencies lower than 80hz and maybe a dip in the middle range around 300hz and maybe adding a little peak EQ between 3 to 7kHz.

When you give someone a gift you are in for some exposure. Usually knowing if the receiver liked the gift takes some time. It might be more agonizing if it were the President you were giving the gift to. A visitor’s log had to be signed beforehand and then she could proceed to hand her present. The package was of Little Man the president’s horse and the guard was then the one in charge of finally delivering it to him.

A native from Old National Pike where she lives with her son and husbands this artist is an animal painter. With her interest in portraiture and love for animal she now has made this into her very own business. That love of animals has successfully turned into a money making business after her son was born and is thriving pretty well.

Saturday January 28, 1922, is the second day of heavy snowfall that has at times dropped over a foot an hour onto Washington DC. Depths have reached a record of twenty-six inches at the city weather station as the slow-moving storm begins winding down. That night, a crowd of some 300 patrons gather at Crandall’s Knickerbocker Theater the largest and most modern cinematic theater in the city opened in 1919 at the southwest corner of 18th Street and Columbia Road NW in today’s Adams Morgan section. This three-story, odd-shaped, palatial theater is a popular place for Washingtonians. Unknown to all, is that the roof support beams extend only two inches into the walls not the eight inches as stipulated in the plans. With the flat roof covered in heavy wet snow it has already begun to sag in the middle pulling the support beams away from the walls. This as the theater fills with patrons, ready to watch “Get Rich Quick Wallingford”.