My name is Kenny and I'm a nerd

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I record for me, friends, and acquaintances. I have done numerous paying recording projects for others over the years and even entertained the thought of opening a commercial recording studio with a partner in Phoenix when I was in my 20's. We had the gear and the facility already in the early 80's. I wasn't very entertained with that for long. I came to the realization that I knew practically every professional musician in town and not one of them had the money to pay for studio time at even a very modest rate. I decided that if I was going to go broke I was going fishing and wasn't going to work at it. I got a good paying day job and played in bands, ran sound, and recorded in the evenings and on the weekends. I had a group of friends who liked to write and record and I enjoyed doing it so I did their stuff for free. I was almost always in on the writing playing and arranging anyway so it was like doing one of my own projects. I did do a lot of session work as a guitar player, bass player, and singer for others though. I had a couple friends who were jingle writers so they needed players when recording commercials and such. They could hire me a check a lot of boxes and not need many other players.

These days I have retired from my day job and have a modest pile of nice gear assembled in the guest room of our house. I sold all the tape machines but one years ago. I still have my old TEAC A3440 and it still works. It has an intermittent problem somewhere in the playback for track 3 so I decided I would fix that before selling it. I think it's a bad solder joint or loose connection. If I leave it powered up for a couple days it will work just fine but if I shut it off and cool down, sometimes track 3 will playback and sometimes it won't. It's not a pressing issue so it sits in a closet until I decide to diddle with it.

I have been recording with a DAW since 2007. Got Pro Tools in 2008 and have been using it ever since. I have 16 channels of assorted analog mic pre's, a few EQ's, and some compressors from Universal Audio, Warm Audio, and dbx. I still have my old Lexicon PCM70 and more plugins than I will ever need or use. There are multiple terrabytes of sample libraries and virtual instruments and guitars in every closet and under every bed. I still have my Hammond RT3 and 2 Leslies. I have a nice collection of microphones from Neumann, AKG, Royer, Shure, etc. I have what it takes to do high quality work but don't very often anymore. One of my New Year's resolutions is to write and record some projects this year. I hate it that all this nice gear is mostly just collecting dust.

The good news is that I still play guitar a lot. Been doing that since 1967.  After playing in cover bands for decades I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in ever doing it again. I just might go postal if I were to hear someone say, "Play Free Bird," again.