Played two concerts with my gospelchoir GetUp, part in the band with my bass, part singing in the choir. Went well, will be the setup for the next years.

The 6-string bass is back again. Next to building a quickly growing song catalogue with the cover band "Hard&Soul" I joined in July 2025, I took over the bass in my gospel choir as a substitute for our base player. A lot to rehearse these days, therefore no new songs.

My X32 digital mixer is back in action for your recording projects. Plus, I'm now crafting finished songs from band jam sessions of a friends' band, featuring exciting horns, rhythm, and guitar. Currently handling lyrics and vocals too! Let's create something amazing.

Sold the old Positive Grid Spark 40 and go me a serious amplifier, a Boss Katana Gen 3 Artist. This will help me through the next weeks until the X32 is back from repair, phantom power went dead during a recording session :(

Got me a new guitar. It was build for me from the guitar builder David Wilhelm with walnut neck, plum fretboard and redwood body. The pickups are from Häussel. Looks great, sounds great , lightweight - for more fun in making music.

Sad news. After struggeling almost one year to find musicians for my band, I finally give up. I will now try another approach: find an existing band searching a singer / guitarrist and infliltrate them with my songs. Singers are well wanted today...

With our new guitar hero Hellmut we staffed our string department, still searching for keyboard support. But with the current setup we are able to sign for first gigs, starting December 2nd on the Rudolf5 winter fest  at Karlsruhe.

With our new guitar hero Hellmut we staffed our string department, still searching for keyboard support. But with the current setup we are able to sign for first gigs, starting December 2nd on the Rudolf5 winter fest  at Karlsruhe.

With our drummer Harald, the bass-man Karsten and me we are working our way through the catalogue. Harald and Karsten are a trained musical symbiosis, still we are looking for keyboard and lead guitarrist (m/f/d).

Easy come, easy go. Soon after start we realized, that this was not working. Better fail early, so Karsten and me started search again. Found one drummer, looking for keyboard and lead guitarist (m/f/d) - maybe you know one...

We are now digging into the songs - a warm welcome to Karsten, Axel, Stephan and Frank. To find our sound might take some time, but the first four songs are in operation.

After I lost a litte bit the overview about my songs, I started to implement a discography of all songs , where I at least was part of the composing process. Starting with a strong 93 songs, this is updated...

OK, the OR80R is loud - I mean really loud. To bring this back to normal volume, I got a power attenuator designed by Mike Soldano. This helps to test my effect setup at home and to run the amp in the right power zone without getting deaf.

Now, planning for stage, there is the next serious equipment upgrade - an Orange OR80R amplifier. Pretty vintage, but it clearly suits the sound of my songs. Waiting for the first session in the rehearsal room.

After now having a book of songs that are worth hitting audience, I started to bring a band together. We now have some great musicians together (still looking for a drummer), start training on the songs and are prowd to announce Blackthorn Syndicate. More to come here in the feed.

Got the request from my department to write a jingle for the monthly employee information meeting. This was definitively something new for me, since there is not much time to deliver a statement, it should be not much longer than 20 seconds.

After Elon Musk running amok on Twitter, I ended my subscription there and decided to move to the open webforum Mastodon. Smaller and different, but with a charm. For You a warm invitation.

Ready to learn again. Started as a live mixing engineer at the KOHI Kulturverein at Karlsruhe. Fortunately I have great support from my  colleague Martin Haaß, who is an experienced engineer - and mixing live is really quite different from working at the studio console...

Holidays are great, especially at the Baltic Sea. But what to do as a musician when You don't have a guitar and get a bit bored? That's right, remix. Started with first three songs from 'The Doors', 'The Police' and 'Pink Floyd', more to come.

Did my first production support job from my former band mate Boris Horner (hidden beacon). Rebuild of song structure, sound additions and remix. Hear the difference from original  to updated  version.