n-Track Studio's Featured Artist of the Month

OCTOBER 2000


The Five W

 . Featured Artist's Web Page: http://www.mp3.com/peteminda


Where: Austin, Texas - USA

Who: Guitar and vocals, keyboards, drums programming by Pete Minda

 When: ~1998

Why: n/a

What: Contemporary Folk Rock

In Short:

 Influences are mainly Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young among many others.

Albums - Fringe Of Happiness, 1999

Pete Minda
 by Alessandro De Murtas
Featured Songs: 
Coming to you
Belong

"Pete Minda's singing can easily stand up to any one of his folk influences. His voice is touched with that boxcar tone found in some of the early American crooners, but with a more relevant passion and richer vocal and guitar tones." Eric Shea, LISTEN.COM. Pete Minda hails from Kansas City, Missouri. Inspiration came in highschool when he was listening to people like Bruce Springsteen and dancing in the theater aisles to Talking Head's STOP MAKING SENSE. Five years later, with college offering no real inspiration, Pete began playing guitar and writing songs. This brought him to New York City where he was a regular on the open mic circuit and played bass in a short lived band called SECTIONS. In 1994, he left New York City for Austin, Texas, where he currently resides. A rare combination of singer/songwriter and lead guitarist, Pete combines witty, insightful lyrics with a rockin, contemporary sound."I've always been really impressed by people like Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and even someone like David Byrne. Besides singing great and writing incredible lyrics, they can drop all of that and blow your mind with a great guitar solo. They are still communicating with the audience, just in a different voice." Whether performing solo or with a full band, Pete Minda brings warmth, humor, intensity and a high level of musicianship to his music. (from mp3.com)
Tips and Tricks from Pete Minda using n-Track Studio.
(..) I have been using n-Track Studio around a year and I really am getting better at using it. I have a pentium 2 celeron 500 witn 96 megs of ram. I master with sound forge and loop with acid and the taureg. As far as out board goes, I love my Mackie 1202, my Roland xp 10 and my Rode NT-1. It's inexpensive stuff but sounds pretty damm good!! I have a 70s Guild d-25 acoustic and a new fender strat. I use with great pleasure and ease, the Johnson J-Station.

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