A.J. – Andrew Jacobs

musician, producer, engineer, mixer

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Archive for August, 2008

Stinging Nettles: More guitars and Bass

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

We’ve started the second batch of guitars for the Stinging Nettles record. This time it’s a telecaster. Again we’re going with a total of 4 tracks comprised of 2 amps, 1 room, and 1 direct. For amplifiers we went with two of the amps I have here: the Tech 21 Trademark 60 and the Epiphone [...]

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music posted

Friday, August 15th, 2008

I’ve posted some music from my old band Altercana on the Music page. Just sayin’

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Stinging Nettles with Everclear

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Hi all – A quick note to let you know that the Stinging Nettles will open for national recording artists Everclear on Thursday August 21st on the main stage at Chameleon Club. Tickets are available from the band for $16.50 as well as through Ticketmaster.

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Stinging Nettles: Recording elec. guitars

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Who said this wasn’t gonna be a blog?! Anyway, I’ll continue with the recording of the Stinging Nettles first full length record. Sunday afternoon as the drums were finished we decided to set up to do the first round of guitars. We had Monday evening booked as well to finish up.

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Stinging Nettles – recording drums

Monday, August 11th, 2008

The weekend in revue: Well, we managed to get 11 drum tracks done this weekend and even start some guitars. The drums are officially done as we have 3 tracks from a previous recording we’re going to use. Friday night we started by tuning the drums, setting up microphones, and getting sounds and levels. Everything [...]

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