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The latest happenings in the world of Michael Winger

Universal Audio Video Feature Cannons and Clouds, Michael Winger, Matt Boudreau and Broken Radio.

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A few weeks ago Universal Audio debuted their impressive new UAD-2 processing card and when they asked me to help them find a band to help demonstrate its power, I suggested Cannons and Clouds whom I’ve been producing over the last year and a half.. Matt Boudreau, who runs the downstairs big room at Broken Radio, engineered while I produced the track. You can see videos of the whole process at http://www.uaudio.com/media/videos.html

I could’n’t get the sharing links to work, so scroll down to the Tracking, Mixing and Mastering videos to see Matt, me and mastering engineer, Michael Romanowski talk about the card and the project. Matt also talks about it all in the artist interview.

I’ve been a big fan of Universal Audio ever since I started working as a producer. The first mic preamp I ever bought was their 2610 tube preamp which I used to record Four Year Bender, Beth Waters and Tim Bluhm. The new card is pretty amazing and I can’t wait to upgrade my computer to start working and playing with it.

West Coast Songwriter Conference Panel

I will be a panelist at the West Coast Songwriters conference on Sept 12 at Foothills College in Los Altos Hills, CA.

I’ll be speaking on the “New Directions in the Music Industry” panel with Derek Sivers (founder of CD Baby), Morty Wiggins (Formerly of Bill Graham Presents among other things), Jocelyn Kane (head of SF entertainment commission and Motogirl Productions) and Michael Aczon (SF entertainment attorney)

Judging by the lineup, it should be a really interesting panel and the conference features lots of great songwriters and workshops to get feedback on songs from publishers and licensing folks. Worth checking out at www.westcoastsongwriters.org

Cannons and Clouds Video

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We shot this video at Broken Radio last week with Cannons and Clouds as part of a documentary for Universal Audio. The band is performing this monday night at the Elbo Room in San Francisco with Super Adventure Club and Weather Pending.

Super Adventure Club Plays the Apple Store this Friday

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I’ll be playing several shows in the next few weeks

Friday, July 25

Super Adventure Club at the Apple Store in Union Square

630pm

Come and get your geek on!

Friday, August 1

Francesca Lee and the New Believers at Broadway Studios

8pm

I’ll be playing bass with Francesca and Co. A really cool venue in North Beach on a Friday night.


Sat, August 2

Super Adventure Club at Blake’s in Berkeley

ALL AGES

Mon, Aug 25

Super Adventure Club at the Elbo Room

EQ Magazine article on Super Adventure Club

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In our first national press interview, Super Adventure Club is featured in this month’s EQ magazine. Guitar Player editor, Michael Molenda, interviewed Jake and I about our keyboard and recording tricks that we use in the multi-tasking adventure that is our power duo.

Also featured is Death Cab for Cutie on the cover, who recorded their latest (#1) album at my friend John’s studio here in San Francisco.

Josh Redman and the St Lawrence String Quartet at Broken Radio

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Last week, I recorded Joshua Redman, an amazing saxophonist with NoneSuch Records. Joshua was recently nominated for a Grammy for his trio album “Back East”. At Broken Radio, we recorded an arrangement of “Autumn in New York”, arranged by Stephen Prutzman.?
Joshua is an incredibly talented sax player with a great tone and delivery. Also a super nice guy, as are all the players in the St Lawrence String Quartet who are currently in residency at Stanford University. It was a huge treat to work with such amazing people on beautiful arrangement of a classic song. I’m hoping we get to do more of it…

June 18 – Cafe Du Nord with Super Adventure Club, Francesca Lee and Cannons and Clouds

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A night of music featuring almost all the artists I’m currently producing.

Wednesday, June 18 at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco… (listed in order of appearance)

Cannons and Clouds

I met Zach Blizzard, the songwriter / lead singer for Cannons and Clouds more than a year ago as well and we’ve been steadily working on his band’s debut album. We played a show together a few months back at the Hotel Utah.

Francesca Lee and the New Believers?
I’ve been producing her new album for the better part of a year now. I’ll also playing bass with her on this show along with Super Adventure Club drum god, Jake Wood.

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Super Adventure Club

My band and pet project. Lots of exciting things happening with the band and it’s great to get back on stage again after a few years off focusing on studio work. Super Adventure Club has lots of exciting stuff in the works, including a new album we’re recording at Broken Radio.

Promises to be a great night. You can buy advance tickets at cafedunord.com

Mixing JL Stiles

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After a few months of tracking all kinds of incredible musicians in the big room at Broken Radio, we put the finishing touches on the mixes last week for JL Stiles forthcoming EP.

Check out the JLStiles.com website for updates on shows and all things Stiles-ish.

Recording Kaboom and other news

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Flying Kitchen will be recording Kaboom this Saturday for KFOG. Los Lobos, Collective Soul and Matt Nathanson will perform along with the largest fireworks display of the year at Pier 30-32. I’ve worked on Kaboom for a number of years as a production person, but this is the first time recording it, so it should be a nice change of pace.

Here’s info from the KFOG folks themselves:

KFOG KaBoom!  Saturday, May 10
Los Lobos * Collective Soul * Matt Nathanson
Northern CA’s Largest Fireworks display
set to a KFOG World Class soundtrack

Tickets at: http://www.kfog.com/kaboom/tickets.asp

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