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My mic set up in my little home studio

Here's my mic set up. You can see the specially designed plexiglass PZM boundary I had made many years ago. It's shaped in a stereo configuration. I really like the concept of PZM. Here's what I know about it. I think the "PZM" (pressure zone microphone) was discovered in the 1980s. You can research it but I got my information from crown engineers. Crown owned the patent or patent rights. I'm writing from memory so it may not be completely accurate. The way I understand it, the "pressure zone" was discovered in the '80's. Here's how it was explained to me.

Blue Bossa by Stefan Vdb

Hey all,
I haven't been around here for a while. I know I know, no dessert for me.

I worked on a chapter in Jon Metzger's book called digital riffs.

At the end of each chapter there is a list of some tunes where you can aply the technique. I tried it on Blue Bossa.
I got the playalong track from www.learnjazzstandards.com.

I'm not really happy with the result. You can hear I'm not used to playing with others (even if it is on tape)

Great new mallet prototypes by Balter

Hey VW,

Wanted to share a video with some fantastic new mallet prototypes made for me by Mike Balter... these have been inspiring me to play!

Mike & I have been talking about this over the years, but recently he came up with something that really hit it out of the park. Nobody is really making anything like it, as far as I know.

Sorry the audio on here could be better, but you can still hear how good they sound. They are designed to work well with the pickups.

Cheers,
Steve

Questions by John Keene: Odyseey of Iska by Wayne Shorter, In pursuit of the 27th man by Horace Silver, Laura Nyro.

'Odyssey of Iska' came about when Wayne called me personally to play on new album. I was, of course, thrilled beyond belief to asked to play on such a project with those great musicians. Wayne wanted to try electric vibes, which I had been experimenting a bit with with Hubert Law's band. Maybe Wayne heard the recording I did with Hubert and was intrigued. Although I used the vibe pickups occasionally, I wasn't confident with the set up, amp, etc. So, my friend guitarist Steve Khan, came to the session with me and helped me set up, adjust the amp, etc..