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ORS Music: Come Thou Fount (Acoustic) – 1 Take, 1 Mic Sessions

by on January 12, 2011 in live, music, Podcast, recording

A couple Sundays ago my band came up with a new arrangement to Come Thou Fount before service. I really liked the feel and I had an idea of doing these live recording sessions where we’d do it acoustically gathered around a single mic. So last night all us family folk had a few hours [...]

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Loop making process, Part 1: main groove (audio)

by on July 21, 2010 in music, recording, worship

I’ve always wanted to blog through the process of creating a loop and include folks along the way to get feedback at each portion. Then look back and see the evolution of the song as I made changes. So this post starts that journey. Part 1. Main Groove I’ve started to write a loop for [...]

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Gospel Community Worship Project at LCC

by on October 23, 2009 in recording, worship

I’ve been praying, contemplating and brainstorming ways to cultivate worship through music in our gospel communities(small groups) at Life Connection Church. Each of our communities has a different blend of people, giftings, weaknesses, background, not to mention gathering places. We don’t have gifted musicians in every group, that’s not even a concern of ours. But [...]

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Layin down tracks: Ryan Leslie Makes “Addiction”

by on June 11, 2009 in recording, video

Thanks Brett for passing this onto me. This is a pretty sick display of ability by Ryan Leslie. It reminds me of what I look like when composing. I always dress in a full suit and wear sunglasses in my bedroom, dancin around, shouting out to the nonexistent crowd. My wife loves it. Oh wait [...]

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Propellerhead “Record” Review: Reason + audio

by on May 14, 2009 in gear, recording, review

Record is Propellerhead’s latest software release that finally addresses the much requested feature of audio recording inside of Reason. But instead of adding it to Reason they created a new product. The price sounds right at $299 for all the features they’ve thrown in. Create Digital Music has a wonderful in depth review of Record [...]

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Recording your worship on a shoe-string budget

by on March 10, 2009 in gear, live, recording, tips

In the last few months my church, Life Connection Church, has successfully setup a recording strategy that allows us to capture and track each channel before it gets to the board. This has many advantages over capturing board mixes. I wanted to share with you what we’ve done on truly a shoe-string budget. What’s wrong [...]

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What my late night of sequencing looks like

by on September 11, 2008 in recording

This is late, late Saturday night when what I thought would take me 3hrs to program is taking me 6hrs+. I hadn’t even started on guitar work yet, so I spared you the real mess. The problem when recording late at night is you settle for garbage. You get tired and settle, I hate that. [...]

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