Best Bard In The Universe Experiment

by Ken on August 25, 2010

Ken Theriot is the best bard in the universe.  Well, that is probably not true;), but feel free to ignore this post as it is merely an experiment to see if we could make the keyword “best bard in the universe” show up on the first page of Google.  We’ll leave yous know. It worked;).  [...]

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So Pennsic is coming up VERY soon.  If you’re in the SCA, I’m sure you’ve heard;).  So if you don’t already have your music together for the long drive to Slippery Rock, we can help.  The Raven Boy Music CD Baby Page has every one of our CDs available…all 12 of them.  And there are [...]

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More Home Recording Tips

July 23, 2010

I put this article out yesterday on Home Brew Audio.  It focuses on voiceover recording, but the tips and techniques are just as applicable to singing.  See the post here: 5 Tips For the Best Quality Voice Over Recording – No Matter What Microphone You Use

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Bards or Budding Bards – Get RBM Sheet Music Before Pennsic

July 19, 2010

Pennsic is coming up and I hear there will be bardic circles galore this year.  If you would like to perform any of our songs (which we HIGHLY encourage you to do;)…you don’t need our permission), you can find “bard book” versions of the sheet music for our most popular songs here: Raven Boy Music [...]

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Learn To Record Your Own Music With Your PC

July 8, 2010

I know this is a bit off-topic, but since Raven Boy Music CDs are all recorded and produced by Ken Theriot from a home studio, we figured there might be other folks out there who may want to do the same thing.  Believe it or not, it isn’t hard, nor is it expensive.  Ken recently [...]

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Record Yourself Singing 3-Part Harmony

June 11, 2010

This is sort of a “part-two” of the Singing Harmony With Yourself post I put up yesterday for the musicians (or budding musicians) out there.  As an example of what kinds of outlandish things you can do with your computer and a microphone, check out this video of Ken doing a cover of “Helplessly Hoping,” [...]

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Singing 3-Part Harmony…With Yourself!

June 10, 2010

I’m “importing” this post from my other venture called Home Brew Audio, which is all about showing folks how to record at home on their computer, and how to get the best quality out of what you’ve got, even if it’s only a PC mic going in to the factory sound card, and using the [...]

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Best Foot Forward: Fixed Poetic Meters

May 8, 2010

So, you slept through the poetry portion of your High School English class and you paid someone like me to write your sonnet for you, but now that you’re in the SCA you’re moved to create poetry.  All is not lost.  One of the things you’ll be happy to discover is that there are many [...]

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Good Article For Home Recording On a Budget

April 23, 2010

Since Ken has been the recording engineer and producer on every Raven Boy Music CD, he decided to go on a side-venture, called Home Brew Audio,  to teach regular folks how they can start recording from home for about $5.00 (assuming you don’t already have a PC microphone, in which case the budget is…$0!). Here [...]

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For The Bards

April 8, 2010

Ken is working on a side project, called Home Brew Audio to show folks how easy it is to record audio with your PC and get terrific results with just the stuff you probably already have.  That would be a computer with a sound card, some headphones or ear buds, and even a really cheap [...]

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