Harmony-M vocal effects box

Scott | October 22, 2009

This little vocal effects box came up on EBAY for auction and I could not resist.   After reading FAQ pages on the support site I found I should update it with the latest software.   Well that meant buying an M-Audio Uno  USB to Midi cable and installing a freeware program called MIDI-OX to download version 1.1 build 18 [...]

Blues Battle

Scott | October 18, 2009

The Black Swamp Blues Society of NW Ohio/SE Michigan organized a Blues Battle and the bands portion of the fight took place at the Maumee Indoor Theater Saturday Oct 17, 2009 from 7 to 11.   The Maumee theater is only 4 miles from me so I had no excuse not to check it out.    The winner of the battle [...]

Finding Gear Deals

Scott | October 16, 2009

I’ve accumulated a whole lot of equipment in the short several months I’ve been learning to play the keyboard.    It happens there is a Guitar Center less than a ten minute drive from me.   They always have a dozen or more keyboards set up to demo play so I love going in there and plunking [...]

Johnny Rod – one man band

Scott | October 11, 2009

I had a chance recently to hear the first set of Johnny Rodriguez  at  Shawn’s Back Door which is located just off Heatherdowns near Eastgate.    I’m always interested in hearing one man band shows and Johnny’s been doing it for over a decade.  He’s been playing Friday evenings starting around 9:30 at Shawn’s for quite some time.      I believe this was the [...]