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Took a Leslie model 145 speaker and Combo Preamp to my old pal Brian Siewert yesterday.  We were on the road together for a few years playing in Wynonna’s band back in the ’90s.  Brian is an Emmy award winning composer; he’s recording a tribute to the old style organ soap music for “A Guiding Light” this week.  One of the things I like about this work is seeing old friends more often than I otherwise migh.  It was excellent to catch up with the many succesful ventures of Brian.  He’s also trying out my BeyerDynamic  M160 ribbon mic on the Leslie.   Update:  Brian played me some of his work when I picked up the gear; I wasn’t sure if it was him or the original 50’s recording he used as reference.  Nicely done.

Tommy Simms was producing at Vibe56 (www.vibe56.com) studio last week, his assistant David called me to get some acoustics.  I took them my Taylor 910ce and the legendary Olson SJ (guitar of choice for Phil Keaggy and James Taylor, among others).  I think that they liked them!

Bought a few (eight - does that count as ”a few”?) high end Renkus-Heinz CE or CoEntrant series PA cabinets at an auction.  I never really wanted to get into the sound reinforcement side of things, (too heavy and too much really talented competition), but I couldn’t pass up the deal.  Anybody have an idea on what to do with these things?  They should sound great, they look pretty good, too. Interesting design; they are not overly large, but well packed with components - and heavy.  The subs are either dual 15″ in a push-pull arrangement or four 12″.  The mid/high cabinets have either four or six each of 6″ polycarbon cone speakers and four or six 1″ drivers mounted to the same wooden horn.  They are designed to be a point source, each driver originates at at the same distance from the listener.  There are also some three way cabinets with 12″ woofers, they don’t go really low, but are efficient and well designed.