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Marc Chase - a soulful singer with a gritty voice - has partnered with Driftwood Tide Music to complete an album of modern blues music. To find out more, and hear some of his music, watch the short video below! Read Full Story

Hello friends, family, fans, and followers! I have assembled a website to temporarily represent my business - Driftwood Tide Music. The website makes reference to the "core" services I am currently offering, provides a partial list of past and current clients, includes a bunch of feedback from my clients, and includes a few sound samples. I do hope to have a more robust website up and going in the not-so-distant future, but in the meantime I believe this will serve my needs. I'll be re... Read Full Story

The date is December 29th, 2011 and the first copies of my debut solo album "Free" are beginning to "hit the streets". It's official, my album is now out! It is with both a sense of pride and humility that I release this project... this has been a labor of love, a lesson in persistance, and an exercise in compromise. At times I was like a person with two personalities at war with myself over how to accomplish this project. I'd like to share with you a few of my feelings about this project... Read Full Story

Today, the UPS truck showed up with a big box full of CDs. I'm so happy to have this labor of love finally done. I really appreciate the support of friends, family, and fans who helped fund the pressing of the CDs through their advance orders of the CD and other generous contributions. My next couple of posts I'll be taking time to say thanks. Rather than say them all at once, I'm going to spread this out over several posts. Today, I wish to say my first round of thanks to a group of friends... Read Full Story

The kickstarter.com fundraiser was a success, and the album is done. And now, we wait... Soon, a truck will come to the door with boxes full of shiny, shrink-wrapped CDs and download cards. Soon, you'll see my album "Free" listed online at sites like iTunes. While the "official" release will be at the end of this month, I've started a "soft" release. I've already shared the first two tracks with my kickstarter backers and will continue releasing another track every 2-3 days to them. Over the... Read Full Story

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I'm happy to report that there is just one song left that requires guitar tracking. This song requires probably 4 parts, 2 acoustic and 2 electric.  I hope to be able to track them all about 2 weeks from now.  That song already had bass and drums done, so it will go quickly.  Just 2 other songs needing drum work.  Progress really is being made! Read Full Story

I'm happy to report that I've been getting into the studio a lot over the last while, and I am chipping away at my album project, while still finding time to work on other projects here and there as well.  As the album takes shape, its looking more and more like a blues/rock driven album, with a little country and pop flavor sprinkled throughout.  As I've been mostly focused on guitar tracks lately, I thought I'd share a few pictures and tidbits on the recording process. This is the signal... Read Full Story

  After many years of faithful service, my Digi 002R has finally been pulled from the rack.  New in my rack is the Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56.   While I hadn't really been planning on replacing my Digi 002R anytime soon,  when forced to choose between costly repairs and upgrading to a new unit, going with the new hardware seemed to make good sense.    The Saffire actually improves and expands my capabilities in a number of ways.  First off, it's loaded with 8 preamps instead of 4, including... Read Full Story

My microphone collection has been pretty anemic for years now.  With the additions of a nice drum kit and an amazing guitar amp in the last year, the holes in my mic locker have become even more painfully obvious.  So, I have recently been in the market for an inexpensive dynamic microphone, suitable for guitar amps, snare drums, and general purpose use as a start to slowly rebuild my collection.  For recreating classic sounds, the Shure SM57 is the accepted standard, and has been for many... Read Full Story