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Ranchomojo Music Music recording, composing and publishing services; music for film, TV and the web. music, speech, ringtones, podcasts, jingles, karaoke, dance mixes, remixes

29/07/2024

Hello friends; it's me. This is the last you'll hear from me on Facebook, for a while. It's been decided that I can't defend myself.

26/07/2024

Waitin' to see if Snoop lights up a spliffy off that Olympic Torch

20/07/2024
19/07/2024

My story? In my naive and mostly misspent youth, I determined that I was going to be a troubador. Having no earthly idea how to go about becoming one of those, I decided to simply take my guitar everywhere I went and play music for anybody who asked, and play any request, whether I knew it or not. As long as they could hum a few bars. Over the next ten years or so, the plan worked out pretty good. Except for that night I played a biker party and didn't know Born To Be Wild. I still have scars from the multiple gunshot wounds. Long story, but the upshot is they were funnin'; they weren't even trying to hit me, but they was really, really drunk.

17/07/2024

Dang. Spotify just served up a Gene Deer track; Midnight Healing

10/07/2024

Ray Cooper autocompletes when you type "percussionist"; maybe not the best that's ever been, but certainly the best I've ever seen...at tambourine

02/07/2024

I signed up to serve the country my dad fought for. That country is gone. Read the dissent.

02/07/2024

GREAT time @ Wild Bill & The Bruisers, @ Digby's. If you missed it, you missed out.

Kenny Vaughan turned me on to this.
08/06/2024

Kenny Vaughan turned me on to this.

Recorded in 1974

04/06/2024

I don't even like the labels; 'vocal mic', 'drums mic', etc. Mics are all alike, they all do the same thing, they're basically a speaker in reverse; a transducer, and all that really varies is their accuracy or lack thereof, and there's a LOT more variation among singers than mics, so it might just be a 'drums mic' that's a perfect fit for a particular singer or performance. For my money, the lowly SM57 is king. Its durable, it's versatile, it's available. Is it the only mic you'll ever need? Sufjan Stevens' first record was made with one SM57. It made enough money, he bought more SM57s and he didn't buy any other mics, 'til after his fourth album, but mics are like potato chips; you can't have just one. Or CAN you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asSIbl0fJAo
01/06/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asSIbl0fJAo

Another great highlight from the summer open air 2021 at Gartenheim, Hannover/Germany. Joscho Stephan, Fredi Gebhardt, Sven Jungbeck on guitar and Volker Kam...

23/05/2024

Fortunately, I sucked at everything else, in life. My career, in a nutshell.

Don't click this, unless you got 90 minutes to listen to an 80 year-old soul singer.
13/05/2024

Don't click this, unless you got 90 minutes to listen to an 80 year-old soul singer.

Which performance by the legendary sir Tom Jones is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below👇🚨 This video features the following performances:00:00...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z-IkXE36DI
13/05/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z-IkXE36DI

Robben tells the story of this genre-defining amp, and we invite some friends over to play it!Welcome to the show.We are delighted, humbled and quite frankly...

RIP, Steve Albini.
08/05/2024

RIP, Steve Albini.

The Shellac and Big Black frontman, who recorded classic albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, died of a heart attack

Bet it's been a while since you've heard this one.
05/05/2024

Bet it's been a while since you've heard this one.

By request, Jay Ferguson singing 'Shakedown Cruise' - the first single off his third LP 'Real Life Ain't That Way'.

RIP, Dickie Betts.
18/04/2024

RIP, Dickie Betts.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer died at his home in Osprey, Florida, David Spero, Betts’ manager of 20 years, told The Associated Press by phone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XPf_qb7NsM
08/04/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XPf_qb7NsM

From my Living Room Series Rickie's "Live From My Living Room" video streaming concert was so popular that she decided to turn it into a series where she wil...

06/04/2024

Fun gig at Bonus Pints in Logansport, tonight

02/04/2024

There's no such thing as the perfect room, but you only need a good one and a decent monitor situation to hear enough nuance to make a difference, and while today's typical end user is unlikely to be in such a space with excellent sound reproduction gear, wouldn't you want everything sounding its Sunday best in the event of the unforeseen?
God forbid you should have a massive hit and get remastered over and over as new tech comes online.
You can listen to the Zombies or the Doors right now and they still sound fresh as a fricken daisy; that's the goal. I know invoking the Beatles is like violating Godwin's Law, but they used the best they could lay hands on, crap though the lot of it sounds, compared to now, and for a quarter of the cost, but a sound recording is like a land mine; we should build for a better future, in hope it arrives, rather than make excuses for the ghastly sh*te the punters listen on now.
That said, and you take any six vintage Neumann U87FETs and they're all over the map. Loaded with character and 'vibe', they may be, but luck to you getting a stereo match without a pedigreed pair and a graph plot. You don't know where it's been, how modded nor who repaired.
The sonic gurus of my youth, from Tommy Dowd on down have hammered this screed into my musical soul: It's the ear, not the gear. Make SURE you can hear what's being committed to history and do your best not to screw it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1QqLCpXMIw
27/03/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1QqLCpXMIw

It’s hard to say what, exactly, was in the water in Liverpool in the early 1960s that wound up producing the Merseybeat sound and hundreds of groups of varyi...

18/03/2024

If you know, you know. The best mic in the world won't fix a bad room. It won't fix a crap monitor situation and it won't fix a bad vocalist. (it sure as hell won't fix a poor recording engineer) But when you configure and calibrate a really great set of monitors, odds are you're gonna sell some microphones, because you'll be able to hear what they're really doing. The same goes for professional grade mic preamps and converters. Yeah, the differences can be subtle, but when you're stacking more tracks through the same system they add up to a LOT. Quick example, I could NEVER get a handle on compression, before I bought my first set of decent monitors. Suddenly, I could hear everything my compressor and EQ moves were doing. It was like that with the mics, too. I could make an entire record with an SM57; it's been done before, more than once. (Sufjan Stevens) When it comes to singers, there's no best mic, only a best fit. So no, you probably don't need a $2000 mic, until you do. But just as certainly, there are mics under $2000 that you'd do well to avoid. Ultimately, price is no indication of quality; making a record is like making whiskey; use a great recipe, assemble the best ingredients you can afford, and try not to screw up the process.

16/03/2024

Most of my unforgettable gigs had nothing to do with the zeitgeist. It was like a thing Muddy Waters said. "I get the blues and I just let go in the middle of it". The transcendental moments of my life have been the ones where I got out of my own way, and let the music play ME. I take credit for showing up, every night; credit for hauling the gear, sure. But I'm a lightning rod; an antenna; I'm a conduit, not the source.

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