Posts by: alexhornbake

New Site Design

On October 6, 2011 By

I just finished re-designing this site. It’s drastically simpler, and there will be some more interesting and newer content up soon, interesting old content will be re-organized into a “projects” section, and ramblings and news will be left where they belong… right here on the blog.

The logo at the top of the [...]

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new city, new job

On November 17, 2010 By

Tarr Technology Consulting has retained my services as their Senior Site Supervisor. I’m enjoying work and loving new york city.

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I was just in Dublin this past week with collaborator/designer Sean McDonald at the Science Gallery’s BioRhythm Exhibit, debuting a piece of Interactive/Educational Software. Many thanks to Science Gallery for making it possible. More to come soon…

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Colour Revolt at Echo Mountain. “The Cradle” Drops Aug 10th.

Paste Interview, and new tune download

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Mixing: Wages

On March 31, 2010 By

A new project I’ve been involved in, Wages, just finished up the first round of mixes. Another project with Hank Sulivant producing.  I’m the engineer, bass player, and even have a song that I wrote and co-sing (Nick Campbell lends his voice to make me sound legit).  James Dedakis [...]

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I had the pleasure of engineering the Colour Revolt’s upcoming release with Hank Sulivant producing. Everyone involved where such pro’s, we really had a well oiled machine running in the Church at Echo Mountain. 7-days , all of the basics live to 2″ tape, tracking done.

What’s more astounding is that we weren’t [...]

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Arizona on Daytrotter.com

On August 25, 2009 By


The kind folks over at Daytrotter put up a nice post about Arizona. Sean Moeller was in Asheville for HatchFest earlier this year, and I had the pleasure of recording some great musicians live to 1/4″ tape, daytrotter style. It’s so awesome to work with folks that have a real [...]

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SSH tunnel and VNC

On March 12, 2009 By

So I had to figure this out this week, and it’s quite cool.

Mac OSX comes with SSH, so setting it up wasn’t too hard, and I found a new VNC viewer JollyVNC that is really top notch. The author also has a really inrteresting VNC based product called “screenrecycler” that turns any spare [...]

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Jtm45 offset chassis

On December 23, 2008 By

I mocked up a jtm45 chassis in SketchUp for Mathew at Suspect Device Audio. He’s working on an awesome marshall jtm45 offset prototype clone, sometimes called the “kitchen” amps, because jim marshall built them in his kitchen. It should be pretty cool, I’ll post pictures of the faceplate and chassis when we get [...]

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Sprinter… on the road

On November 1, 2008 By

So, we stopped yesterday after james complained that the van was surging, loosing power suddenly, and just not behaving right. I found a Dodge dealership in Toledo Ohio that apparently does has tons of sprinter experience and parts.

Two hours of diagnostics later, I was told we needed a new fuel [...]

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