My First Post

As I sat this morning in my pajamas drinking coffee and looking at my email and website stats, it occurred to me that I could blog as well as anyone. So here I am. A little background information - 45 years old, happily married, one daughter about to turn legal, 2 dogs, one cat, 2 parrots, one cockatiel ....hmm am I forgetting something - No, I think that's about it. My day job is in the foodservice industry - I am the sales manager for a medium sized foodservice distributor in Shreveport, LA. For those of you who are not familiar with what a foodservice distributor does, we sell food and food related items to restaurants, hospitals, casinos, etc. It's not the most glamorous job in the world but it can be very rewarding when you work with customers who have built their businesses from a dream and understand what hard work, perserverence and a positive attitude are all about. Enough of that- this blog is about music and music production. I have been running my own home studio for about 6 years and while it never has provided enough income to eclipse my day job, the other rewards more than make up for it. I've met and worked with many different people from diverse backgrounds from real studio musicians to the rawest talent you can imagine and loved every minute of it. I decided a month or so ago to impart my "vast" knowledge to the newbies of the home recording studio world so I published Your Home Studio Dot Com - a basic tutorial on setting up and operating a home recording studio. I had a lot of fun putting it together and I plan to increase the scope to include more in - depth treatments of issues relating to recording and producing music in a home studio enviroment. I've got to go - My wife and I have two birthday parties to go to and we haven't bought any gifts yet.