Audiobook & Studio Recording Equipment:
I am currently recording in a small home studio booth, which has a noise reduction rate of about 50%.
I currently record using an Earthworks ICON microphone (full specs here) for remote (narration / audiobook) recording sessions.
BITRATE - 16
SAMPLE RATE - 44.1kHz
PEAK INPUT - 132dB SPL
You can sample my most recent audiobook work -
"A Million Quiet Revolutions" by Robin Gow - here!
self-Published Works
m e s s y
a quarantine EP
"m e s s y" (2020) is available on
Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and Youtube!
Album art was created by the incredible Dylan Yoshiharu.
TAKE 23:
The Gay, Unpolished, One-Take Album.
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"Gender Blender is a program consisting solely of
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Hello, my sweet summer children!
And WELCOME!
Take 23 is, frankly, my baby. 3 years in the making, Take 23 is a collection of my original songs and spoken-word poetry with one set goal: to achieve an album's worth of recordings (in this case, 11 tracks + an intro) without splicing the best of multiple takes together (my usual practice, and industry standard).
While every song and poem you will hear has taken multiple (sometimes up to 30) takes to get right, each track is its own single-take masterpiece.
This album is UNPOLISHED. I am poor and gay, so this entire album (minus the final song, whose audio was extracted from a camera recording) was recorded in an empty church hall on an $80 microphone, with basically no audio editing/enhancing at all.
The echoes you will hear were recorded on-site, live, because of my location.
Sounds from nature (thunder, rain, cars passing by, etc.) were also all recorded on-site.
Do NOT listen with the expectation of perfection.
DO listen with the expectation of sincerity, vulnerability, and some bangin' original storytelling.
And thank you, everyone - for being a part of my story.
~ Salem <3
(Released September 1, 2019)
“This is better than anti-anxiety medication.”
(Album review, 2020)
"An unpolished gem. A grand voice for many who are unheard."
-Mahto Topah