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Happy New Year?

1/26/2025 Holy shit, it's cold!. If you check this site regularly you'll have noticed that I've not made any updates since mid December. You might think "laaaazzzy" and you'd be partly right though only with regard to this web page; I've actually been too busy to put anything meaningful up and figured you were probably busy trying to figure out how to return a defective Christmas gift to check.

My post-Christmas/New Year fun has included removing $20k from our savings to replace our downstairs boiler which died during the cold snap that brought in the new year. We live in a very old house that calls 100-year-old-houses "kid" and is really just a very large collection of repairs and upgrades that have no end. The boiler and the leak that caused the boiler failure fixed, we return to our holding pattern till we have time to gut the thing and do it right. But I digress.

The other big news is the formation of a duo I'm doing with my friend Bob Conroy we are calling Sellon and Conroy. Catchy, right? Anyway, I mainly sing and play keyboards with Bob playing guitar and some singing doing lots of great tunes we both love. Though we are still vetting new tunes, our current set includes a great many Beatles songs but some memorable tunes by the Moody Blues and many other artists from [mainly] the 60s and 70s. My amazing Nord keyboard and the suitability of the material to our capabilities has been making the experience a lot of fun and even exceptional at times. I think people are going to enjoy it a lot. You can contact me about booking the duo at bsbbooking@stecrecords.com or using my contact page.

Stay warm. - Bob

The No Muse Journals

The cover art for the No Muse Is Bad News Vol 1=10
Vol. 1 Vol. 6
Vol. 2 Vol. 7
Vol. 3 Vol. 8
Vol. 4 Vol. 9
Vol. 5 Vol. 10

"I really love the No Muse Is Bad News music. I just can't get enough of it. " - someoneijustinvented

Tone Generator

Beep, boop, boup. Yes. This does nothing but generate annoying test tones.

The Stec Records Web-Oscillator

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"But, why? The world is annoying enough!". Thats`s true, especially when it is distorted. And I don`t mean idiots distorting the truth, though they are certainly annoying (and counter productive), I`m referring to distortion you hear when you are listening or playing music through speakers. It can be difficult to isolate the distortion on liars but for audio systems (i.e. speakers), test tones can help you quickly isolate problems.

The ST Oscillator (tone generator) is free and reqires no installation but will generate sine waves (tones), square waves, triangle waves and saw-tooth waves at frequencies from 20Hz to 20kHz.

Note - Set the volume low before turning on your speakers and Un-muting. It can be loud.

ST Sound Pads

The Sound Pads panel lets you trigger/play built in drum and percussion sounds on your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer.

A screen shot of the Stec Records ST Sound Pads panel.

The buttons A pad from the ST Sound Pads panel. play softer near the edges.

Check Your Numbers

The StecTools Budget Calculator is a simple page for comparing profits and costs for things like musical events.

The Stec Records Gig Budget Calculator

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Anyone who has worked doing live music knows that it is next to impossible to earn a living wage from it. Though I don't have some magic solution, I did put together this simple online tool to help you find ways to improve your profitability. You might use the tool to determine how many seats you need to fill for everyone to get paid for instance.

The tool has two main sections: an Expenses section and an Income section. Expenses might include the cost to rent a hall or pay for each of the musicians and other staff. Income includes ticket sales as well as things like merchandise or sponsors. As you change the values in each of the fields the tool automatically recalculates the total income, the total expenses and the overall total (income minus expenses). By dropping different numbers into the quantity field of for tickets for instance, you can see where the breakeven point is for number of tickets verses the ticket price. You know that you will have to fill less seats if the ticket price is high enough but knowing exactly how high is useful information.

Road Trip

Check out my Road Trip album on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and almost 20 other stores or my dazzling Road Trip console.

A thumbnail of the cover of the Bob Sellon album Road Trip.

All of the songs from the Road Trip album are now available as separate [audio] videos on my The Bob Sellon icon. "Bob Sellon" YouTube channel.

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Music by Bob Sellon and friends. Features drums by Frank Sarcia (owner and operator of Port City Laundry), guitar by Ken Shano (Big City Wedding Band) , bass guitar by Jim Fabiano and piano, vocals, guitars and brass by Bob (me).

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Amazon Music
Spotify
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Apple Music

ST Metronome

My online metronome lets you set the tempo, choose a sound, set the reverb level and to save different settings for quick recall. Check here for more info or go directly to the metronome here.

A screen shot of the Stec Records ST Metronome panel.

No Muse Is Bad News Vol. 1

Beginning October 11th I'll be doing weekly releases of songs from the 2015 No Muse Is Bad News shows beginning with a series of solo performances of myself on piano/keyboards and vocal. Stay Tuned. Art for Bob Sellon`s No Muse Is Bad News, Vol. 1

Road Trip - Live!

We're taking Road Trip LIVE! For several months I've been working with some great musicians to bring the Road Trip album to the stage and may be doing appearances as soon as September 2024. Stay tuned.

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