Choosing Drum Heads for Recording in the Studio Drum heads can affect the tone of your drums more than any other factor. If your drum heads are poorly tuned or worn out you cant expect the same sound. Drummers head preferences vary widely from double ply coated to more ringing single ply heads. Generally…
Readers please disregard this article. I don’t care if its Hip Hop, or R&B it seems like some people just love auto tune. Should you auto-tune? Or should you not? Who cares! Lets talk about all you music lovers out there who are major players in the industry. They use auto-tune on their vocals. They…
King of the Beachland: Matt Costa Meridian Stone Foxes Thadeous Anna Greene King of the Beachland Big night at the Beachland next week Tuesday- Matt Costa and Meridian play in the Ballroom – Stone Foxes and Thaddeus Anna Greene play in the Tavern. We’re giving away a bunch of tickets using this little raffle thing.…
An Evening with Monster House Press from Bad Racket Recording Studios Cleveland Feat. DELAY / American War / Lost Jon & The Ghosts / Canting Arms Saturday, April 6th 8:00pm | $6 adv $8 DOS Get Tickets This weekend, literary masters Richard Wehrenberg Jr. and Ryan J. Eilbeck of Monster House Press in Columbus, Ohio…
Is Bad Racket a Record Label? No. Not really. But were starting a non-profit entity communityartsandmusic.org Bad Racket is a recording studio that sometimes does things to help bands that might classify us a label, but we really don’t know. We’ve asked the question “What is a record label?” to a thousand people or more,…
There seems to be this buzz going around that there is some sort of renaissance happening in Ohio, and the rest of the Midwest too. Recent news reports have told us there are growing urban populations, growth in jobs across a bunch of industries, and cultural events gaining attention from around the country. Hopeful as…
I listened through a lot of the sxsw official showcasing artists… there are some nearly 800. There will also be several hundred “unofficial” bands down there, totaling somewhere around 2,000 bands. That’s happening right now. Insane. I do wish I was there Anyway, I found about 10% of the bands on the official showcase I…
Recording Drums at Bad Racket Recording Studios Cleveland I made my first drum recording when I was 14, with a boombox that looked a lot like this one. The kit was “borrowed” from my cousin for the summer. The boombox was a garage sale gift from my mom, had two mics, and a switch to…
We used only the finest reggae Samson CL-2 microphone into 5 triple rectifier retro-blasters and then feed the chain back into the Furman HR-6 Headphone adapter hooked up to 6 different tweeters on a carpeted 15″ speaker enclosure mounted with a 12″ speaker and a bit of wire. The whole thing catches on fire and…
6ixth City Tech | Free Show @ the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio The 6ixth City Tech Fest is this weekend, Saturday 7/23/2013 at the Great Lakes Science Center and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Bad Racket put together the music portion of the festival and we’ve arranged for all…