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Welcome
This site is a collection of my poems, quotes, music and lyrics.
Along with tons of photos of old motorcycles.
Look in the BLOG section.
I have been writing for thirty five years, some of this work is in the poems, lyrics and quotes section. I have collected many interesting articles on motorcycle history and design along with a lot of physics articles. I have also inclued some original music. Feel free to write anything you want in the forum section.
My favorite women are Russian and Ukrainian women. In fact I am married to a beautiful Ukrainian woman.
Check out this site,
My love of motorcycles began at a very early age and although I have been riding for over fourty years I have never been seriously hurt except for cutting my right knee when I was sixteen. I still ride almost every day.
I began recording songs in the early eighties. About half of them I recorded by myself and most of the rest I recorded with Bob Sweet who has a great guitar style. We are so different in our musical styles that we complement each other very well.
My training as a sound engineer was from TREBAS Institute in Hollywood CA where I graduated 2nd in my class in 1987. I owned and operated R.A.D. Sound Studio also known as Rick's Place in Fullerton CA on Elm Ave. from 1995-2005. The Unit next door to the east was rented by Leo Fender in 1965. The next street to the north, Ash Ave. is where my friend Wilson Planck restores old Indian motorcycles. His restorations fetch top dollar whenever they are sold. Here is an example of his work.
Here are some of my thoughts on Mixing music:
Mixing music
In a sonically dense mix, each element of the mix must have it's own space in the stereo field or the spectrum of frequencies. Similar instruments like piano and acoustic guitar will eat each other if they do not have their own space. Do not be afraid to experiment, let your ears be your guide. Also let the song dictate what it wants to be. Someone else's opinion might be helpful or it might be harmful. I like to mix the drums from the drummers prospective, with a pair of piezo mics stuck together on a small plate just above the drummers head, pointed down at the front of the bass drum because it gives you two perfect hemispheres, making a perfect stereo image and then I pan all the other drum mics to agree with the overheads. The small plate ensures that the mic's only picks up the higher frequencies of the cymbles. The larger the surface a piezo mic is on, the lower the frequency it can pick up. So you can adjust the range of frequencies the mic picks up by altering the size of the plate. If you want a good sounding drum recording you must use a good sounding drum set. I like using Royer ribbon mic's for horns, I also use Royer's hand built tube mic's for acoustic guitars and vocals.
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