http://thompsonmusicrental.com/blog1 Home: www.ThompsonMusicRental.com Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:49:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New stuff at www.ThompsonMusicRental.com: Seventies era Wurlitzer 200 Electric Piano:  won on eBay auction this week.  It hasn't arrived yet, so it will require tweaking and tuning.  The eBay listing didn't suggest it needed work; it appears to be in excellent condition, but I'm pickier than most about instruments behaving very ... http://thompsonmusicrental.com/blog1/2007/01/26/new-equipment/ I've been a Nuendo guy for recording for a while now.  I've been using Nuendo since about six months before it was available for sale as I was on the original beta tester team.  I still really like the program although I've been enjoying using Cubase 4 recently as it has ... http://thompsonmusicrental.com/blog1/2007/01/20/okay-i-broke-down-and-got-some-pro-tools/ This weekend's big project has been designing and putting up the website for my recording studio - Sweetbriar Recording Studio.  I just now typed the whole name because I'm working on SEO (search engine optimization) to get Google and Yahoo etc. to find me and move me up the rankings.  A bit of a ... http://thompsonmusicrental.com/blog1/2007/01/08/first-post-for-2007/ Website home: www.thompsonmusicrental.com   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 ... http://thompsonmusicrental.com/blog1/2006/12/20/this-week-1220/ I’ve provided equipment for some interesting rentals recently.   Sound Emporium hosted T Bone Burnett producing Robert Plant and Allison Krauss.  T Bone’s equipment guy Paul called for my mid-sixties Vox AC-30 combo and the 1955 Gibson mandolin, I also arranged a ShoBro resonator (Dobro type) guitar from my friend Chas Williams ... http://thompsonmusicrental.com/blog1/2006/12/11/page-one/ Am I an old dog learning a new trick?   "Blogging" seems like an opportunity to share and learn.  I'll post some impressions of rentals I've provided.  Perhaps we can have exchanges related to which equipment makes a good tool for specific uses, or have an argument about "which is better".  Likely ... http://thompsonmusicrental.com/blog1/2006/12/10/hello-world/