Back in the Recording Saddle

One benefit to my job at the radio station is that artists stop by to do live acoustic performances from time to time. Given my music background, I've been called upon to produce and engineer said performances.

In the past month, we've had Francesca Battestelli, Kate Voegele and Angel Taylor grace our halls. In the next couple weeks, we're scheduled to see Plain White T's and none other than Rob Thomas.

If you're curious, I've posted Kate and Angel's performances online for your streaming enjoyment.

Here We Go Jackets

Tonight, the Columbus Blue Jackets play their first ever playoff game in Detroit.

To celebrate the event, some friends at work and I put together a rock anthem to encourage them along the way. I provided all instrumentation and production while Dan Trapp sang lead vocals and wrote the lyrics and Eric Case sang backup.

Check it out. Pass it along. Go Jackets!

The Mix Is Online

Last week, we launched the website for the new Mix 107.9 here in Columbus. It was a VERY fast turnaround, but in the end, it's by far my favorite site of the 90+ that we cranked out over the past year. I'm very proud of this one.

Check it out here.

Big day in Radioland

Today was a big day at the radio station. The building I work in plays host to three stations in Columbus. At 12pm today, the oldies station changed format to a hot AC station. In layman's term, this simply means that station just became a little more hip.

Anyway, it was up to me to throw together a visual identity for the new station in about an hour seeing as though this was a very quick decision by management. I was excited to take on the project, since I'd never branded a radio station before. I stand by the results. The new station will be called "The Mix 107-9" and will feature hits from the '80s, '90s and today.

I'm also putting together a new website that should roll out later this week.

By the way, get hooked now as we're playing 5,000 songs in a row to celebrate the change! Tune in at themix1079.com.

KGMI Site Launch

Another website I designed for Saga Communications launched today. This time around, it was for KGMI, a news-talk station in Bellingham, WA. This was a pet project for me for a couple reasons. First of all, they're a station from the Pacific Northwest, located only an hour and a half or so from where I grew up. so us west coasters got to stick together and represent! Second, since we started this project of 90 or so new site rollouts, I've wanted to get my hands dirty with a news site. Boring for some, I know, but I had some ideas I really wanted to execute with this one, and I was given the opportunity to do so.

Anyway, that all to say, it's up.