This coming Wednesday,it will be three weeks since I wreaked my hearing (“ Fragile Shadetree-Engineered Mess ”). Since then, 4 hours is a go...

Earlier this summer, I hauled myself off to a self-funded writing retreat in Thunder Bay, ON, Canada. I gave myself a week to restart old wr...

For much of my life, I’ve said that the human hearing mechanism is evidence that if god is an engineer, he’s one lousy manufacturing enginee...

In an article about the NBA’s Allen Iverson’s economic troubles , the author quoted his artist-girlfriend, "To be radical in your art, ...

Way back in 2014, I bought a used Composite Acoutics Cargo travel guitar. I liked it a lot then and I like it more now. Peavey bought the r...

I recently did FOH and monitors for a rock band in a small (250 seat), historic, municipal auditorium . It was a four-piece group: two guit...

In late 1991, I left my job at QSC Audio Products and my 9 year career with that company for what turned out to be one of the dumbest career...

A few weeks ago, on summer evening, while I was enjoying a beautiful evening and ignoring a painfully loud and poorly mixed live music show ...

I did a live sound gig last weekend and experienced the ultimate in sound guy silliness: an arrogant, hipster waltz and polka-playing accord...

One of the weird and unsatisfying things about being a tech(nologist) rather than a musician is that we’re supposed to be music-neutral. Whe...