“Filthy Rags” Project Finished

Posted on 14. Apr, 2015 by Tim Bushong in News

Harry and Melissa Becker are a husband and wife team who are, along with a drummer Josh and bassist Ken, known collectively as the band “Filthy Rags”. Hailing from Fort Wayne, IN, they are a working band who plays in every kind of setting you can imagine, and rocks every one of them. This is [...]

Boring, stupid, nerdy tech stuff…

Posted on 07. Apr, 2015 by Tim Bushong in News

I love technology. There—I’ve said it. I’m with Kip in this regard, although he’s in a precarious position regarding La Fawnduh and his song, in which he declares his undying love for her—and for technology. No woman wants to be compared to an Acer… equivocate much? Nonetheless, advances in technology make my work as a [...]

Sunny Taylor’s “Map to the Fire” Released

Posted on 08. Nov, 2014 by Tim Bushong in News

It was 18 months in the making, but well worth the extra effort—Sunny Taylor’s latest full-length CD, Map to the Fire, was officially released Friday night, November 7, 2014, at ‘The Phoenix’ in Fort Wayne, Indiana to a overly-packed house. All the cool kids were there! Rockhill Records‘ owner Jon Swerens was there manning the [...]

Southern Straightaway Country

Posted on 26. Jul, 2014 by Tim Bushong in News

Sure is authentic, county-fried country music, yessir. Bassist Dan Tanner and co. rolled into town back in the end of May to begin recording their new album. Now, I can’t play any samples (yet), but I’ll just say that it’s some swampy, stompy, down-to-earth country goodness from a bunch of ex-rockers. Here’s the deal: sometimes [...]

Mixing Pinestock Live

Posted on 28. Sep, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

My good friend Nick Weaver and his business partner have put together a cool, one-night local music festival called Pinestock, held just northwest of Churubusco, Indiana. This year almost every band’s performance was captured live on an HD24 Alesis 24-track digital recorder, and the tracks then came to your truly for mixing and mastering. It [...]

Out of Commission

Posted on 20. Sep, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

UPDATE: The 328—she lives! Thanks to Max DeHaven, Stanford-edumacated electrical engineer/designer from Middlebury, the power supply is back online. It’s way better than it was for the last few months, and everything is stellar-sounding, but we’re even gonna go in again and swap out all of the funky caps next month. He had contacted me [...]

Sound Replacement Alchemy?

Posted on 20. Sep, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

They say that you never really finish a record—you just stop, and I tend to agree with that. Chad VanMeter of Homeless J is a consummate artist. So much so that he has enough self-awareness and artistic courage to be able to take songs that have been around for a long time and make changes [...]

LOVES me some multi-instruments…

Posted on 09. Aug, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

Yup-nothing like a little fiddle, banjo, and Hammond organ to bring some “Americana” to the game. The Shiny Shiny Black project is well under way… Lee Holderman on some massive keys: No pics yet of Shawn or the banjo player, but Nate and I went outdoors to record hand claps. We over dubbed like crazy, but [...]

Little visit with Jack Joseph Puig

Posted on 01. Aug, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

(This actually took place back in March of 2010, and I posted this on the Phil O’Keefe blog on the ‘Harmony Central’ site, bit I thought it was worth re-visiting.)   Well- here’s my report from a very enjoyable evening at Sweetwater, with producer/engineer Jack Joseph Puig speaking about life in the music biz, and [...]

Guitar, Amps, and a Big Pedalboard

Posted on 31. Jul, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

That’s what you get when you beg/borrow, steal a bunch of your friends’ amps and guitars in order to find the perfect tones. In the last couple of weeks we started recording all the guitar parts for the “Shiny Shiny Black” project, and it’s been a lot of, er, fun! We first recorded Speedy (Anna) Pasquarello playing [...]

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