Overview

Everyone has different tastes in music. I like a pretty wide variety from The Carpenters to Marty Robbins to Black Sabbath but I guess I gravitate to Hard rock / Metal the most, so if you're not a fan of this genre, you might not like most of this stuff. My main influences would probably be Sabbath/Ozzy, Metallica, Alice In Chains, and Godsmack so that should give you some idea of what this stuff is like.

All tracks are available in MP3 format and were encoded using the excellent LAME encoder.

Singles

These are a misceleanous collection of covers, collaborations, and songs that I haven't put on an album yet, and may never do so.

2007 Jun	Terrible Secret	(New version of Terrible Secret)
2006 Feb 12	Angry Chair	(Alice in Chains cover with Seth Bata)
2006 Feb 12	Plastic Man	(Seether cover)
2005 Oct 14	Jerry
2005 Jul 17	For Whom The Bell Tolls	(Metallica cover)
2005 Mar 31	Annika Lorraine	a cover of Staind's Zoe Jane tune
2005 Feb 24	Best Friend
2005 Feb 05	NIB	(Black Sabbath cover)
2005 Jan 08	Ring Around the Rosie
2004 Apr 12	Dee	(Randy Rhodes cover)
2003 Sep 29	Broken	(Seether cover)
2003 Jun 29	Brother	(Alice In Chains cover)
2003 Feb 25	Paranoid	(Black Sabbath cover)
1996	Notice the rain

Psycho S0nic 2unes (2003-2004)

As you might guess from the title, the Psycho S0nic 2unes album was recorded entirely on the Zoom PS-02. Well it was supposed to be, but I ended up upgrading to the PS-04 when I was almost done so a few of the songs were done on a PS-04. Many of the songs are collaborations with other Zoomers who hang out on this online forum. The forum is a fun place where people post songs and give each other help and feedback. See the album track list artwork for credits on who did what. The contributors were Seth Bata, Andrew Thompson, Danny Prouty, Paul Tedeschi, and Jonny Prouty, thanks again guys!

While the PS-0x's are great for song writing I'm not really happy with the sonic quality of the end product so I'll probably re-record some of them again just like on Unsolicted. Seems like I never get it acceptable (to myself anyway) the first time... or the second.

The equipment used on this is pretty straight forward: Just a PS-02 or PS-04, my Epiphone Les Paul or Guild acoustic, and sometimes a Shure SM58 instead of the PS-0x built in microphone.

Tracks

01 - Kick It Off 02 - Rotten Apple 03 - UTurn 04 - Marooned 05 - Hide 06 - Down To The River 07 - Mend

08 - New Life 09 - Pyre 10 - My Way 11 - Android 12 - The Carolina Crasher 13 - Such A Little Thing 14 - Virginia

Unsolicited (1997-2001)

The songs for Unsolicited were written in the mid 1990s, however my first attempts at recording them produced less than satisfactory results. At the time I was just learning about recording using my Turtle Beach sound card and Cakewalk Pro Audio. There was also the matter of my lackluster vocal performace. Really it was horrible! As a result I only shared the initial CD with some friends who gave me some good suggestions on how I might improve it.

I ended up re-recording everything and even dropped a few of the original tracks in favor of some newer things I had written that gave the album a more consistant feel overall. The re-recorded tracks are what you can download below, they were done in the 2001 time frame.

Most if not all of the guitar you hear was my Gibson Les Paul into a Digitech RP2000 for effects. On some songs I used Band In a Box to generate MIDI drum tracks which I fed into an Alesis DM Pro for drum sounds. Some of the songs I played a Roland SPD-20 drum pad and others I used a Pintech electronic set again into the Alesis DM Pro. Vocals were usually through an AT4033 into a dbx compressor and from there to an Alesis MidiVerb 4. Everything was recorded into the computer through an Echo Layla.

Tracks

01 - Dig 02 - Skipping stones 03 - Dead Shell 04 - ESSL 05 - Give it a try 06 - Leave you behind

07 - Chameleon 08 - Suislide 09 - Mind rape 10 - Terrible secret 11 - Circus