And I played bass trombone on that Procul Harum recording. The recording engineer was Wally Heider; I remember driving him to the airport after we finished. Very good memories...

Here's my A77/B77 replacement. It's very useful for archiving old tapes, sounds great, never breaks down and is in Schiit silver.

I was very fortunate to play in Buddy's band in 1970. The memories have stayed with me forever - Google "Buddy Rich Band Tape" for another aspect of being on the road with him. Our checks came from WGD Inc. (World's Greatest Drummer) Experience of a lifetime...

VU meters the right-hand Tandburg reel-to-reel

Euphonium nerd alert to get us off barbeque - I've been a working bass trombonist for fifty years and have ten bass trombones in my collection. But the best instrument I own is my 1917 Boosey (before Boosey and Hawkes) 3 valve compensating euphonium. I LOVE that horn. And now, back to barbeque...

kd Lang sang LIVE to a pre-recorded background track in the Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony; other acts mimed to their pre-recorded vocal tracks. She has a great voice and the bravery to bring the emotion of live performance to an extremely high-pressure situation and it really paid off.

kd Lang sang LIVE to a pre-recorded background track in the Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony; other acts mimed to their pre-recorded vocal tracks. She has a great voice and the bravery to bring the emotion of live performance to an extremely high-pressure situation and it really paid off.

In Vancouver I've had better and more responsive luck listing on Craigslist than through Canuck Audio Mart. And, because it's Canada Day here's our jazz version of O Canada recorded last month by musicians in all ten provinces:

Thank you for the interest. Here's a photo of the control room during overdubs and there are videos of recording three pieces at: and the whole album can be streamed on Tidal/Roon or other streaming platforms - just look for Daniel Hersog. the album is called Night devoid of Stars. It may...

I'm so old I was the bass trombonist on the Procul Harum Live album. It was recorded in 1971 but there was no Robin Trower in the band at that time. My biggest thrill (aside from hearing Conquistador incessantly on the radio for the next year) was driving legendary engineer Wally Heider to the...

I'm a trombone player and was fortunate enough to play The Who show a few months ago with Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) on drums. He's fantastic - he seems to have picked up where his dad left off. As a young man I was a member of the Buddy Rich band and I've worked with great drummers for the next...

First, congratulations on all the new products, especially Mike's labour of love, the Sol. I'm in Vancouver Canada. I've just ordered a Sol, and it shipped today - hooray! I normally ship to Point Roberts in Washington state which is a half-hour drive from my house but I also investigated FedEx...

Here's an entertaining exploration of the outtakes from Gould's recording with Robert Harris and Michael Enright from our CBC Sunday Morning program - well worth a listen if you're interested in Glenn Gould, recording or wrong notes in recordings...

As a trombonist I've always loved playing both the Stravinsky Mass and the Octet. They couldn't be more different than Firebird and the Rite. Also, from Norman Lebrecht: The Berlin Phil has announced they are releasing a 22 CD set of the complete WW2 Furtwangler recordings...

As a musician I have always loved playing the Stravinsky Mass and the Octet. They are beautiful and could not be more different than Firebird and the Rite. And Norman Lebrecht has posted the Berlin Phil has released a 22 CD set of Furtwangler's WW2 recordings...

I had previously posted this in Baldr's forum but it seems to be more salient here. Perhaps shellac trumps vinyl: I believe I've found a prototype for a revolutionary Schiit product. I found it at the last place one would expect to find cutting-edge audio, in the rehearsal hall for our recent...

I believe I've found a prototype for a revolutionary Schiit product. I found it at the last place one would expect to find cutting-edge audio, in the rehearsal hall for our recent run of L'Elisir d'Amore. (Ying Fang was stupendous!) This solves several problems Schiit has been dealing with -...

In the Android Play Store, Stroboscopic Tuner by Adam Foster. It's amazing for pitch calibration and training, has a massive library of temperaments, and allows instrumentalists to visually evaluate resonance tuning. Also please check out Audio Tool by JJ Nunn.

In the past month we've done two experiments investigating The Gadget's lowered tuning with professional trombone players.As if we don't see enough of each other playing professionally in an opera company we often get together to play recreationally and to investigate combinations of beer, wine...

This post from today's Slipped Disc is particularly salient as well as having an irresistibly compelling title: http://slippedisc.com/2017/10/violinists-think-more-about-intonation-than-about-food-or-sex/

OK - for an overwhelmingly technical and amazingly and entertainingly readable text, please look at The Story of Harmony by Rex Weyler and Bill Gannon. They're from my town, Vancouver. (Bill Gannon is one of the principals behind Band in a Box software.) It's available many places on the web; on...

Traditionally and for the most part universally the oboe gives the A, usually with reference to an accurate electronic tuner. The Concertmaster tunes to that A and the strings or the orchestra then tune to the Concertmaster. In some orchestras the winds and brass tune to the oboe and the strings...

The later in the run the better the show and the last performance is often spectacular because everyone wants to get it right and leave with a good taste in their mouth. Especially in opera when the singers don't have to preserve their voices for the day after tomorrow performance...