moonbaby

Well, I knew that this day would come...eventually. You see, I had posted an ad on RO to GIVE AWAY my trusty old Ramsa WRT820 console...:(
I had purchased this one 2 years ago in the hopes to put together a mobile recording rig. However, medical circumstances had dictated that I drop that dream and do something else with my music. Enter Scott, aka SSHACK here at RO.
After a slight delay, we were able to make plans to meet here in Jacksonville, with Scott driving down from the Atlanta ...

I have been collecting mics, off and on, since the middle 70's. Some have been stolen (including a U87, several Sennheisers, and a pair of C451EB's), some were traded off, others died unexpectedly at the hands of gorilla drummers. A few have broken my heart. Lately, I have been on a binge snapping up a number of used mics in good or great shape. In January it was a Beyer M160 and a Shure SM7b. Last month it was a pair of AT4050's (from 2 different owners) and a pair of Audix D2's. This past Sunday ...

OK. So in the past I have mentioned my long time buddy, Dale Ong. Dale and I met in 1978 when I managed a local music retail store after I got out of college. We had both been students of the mighty Moog synthesizer, the one with the patch cords all over the place. Back then we each had an EML synthesizer at home; Dale's was an EML 101 (an ARP 2600 type) and I had an EML SynKey which used computer punch cards to hold programs, as well as a borrowed ARP 2600. Real high tech, eh?

Anyway, ...

OK, so I'm doing live sound production at the local Ritz-Carlton ( Amelia Island, Florida ) when they have these "Ritzy" (pun intended) wedding bashes that have to be seen to be believed. It's basically an all-weekend gig where the families swoop down from up North. They fly down from New York, New Jersey, Boston, etc., party their collective butts off all weekend, then go back home. These bashes typically take up 3 ballrooms- 1 for the pre-wedding parties, 1 for the actual wedding (complete ...