Thomas Doggett has been an active performer and educator for over 20 years and enjoys all styles of music.
Thomas began 2013 by performing in Gent, Belgium at the 3rd European Clarinet Festival with his wife Cynthia. The Duo performed Mad Rush to the End by composer Charles Savage. Mad Rush was the first of many works written for Thomas and Cynthia.
Tommy plays a TM Custom tenor saxophone designed by Randy Jones at Tenor Madness and an EWI4000s: Electronic Wind Instrument by AKAI.
Tommy’s teachers include Greg Banaszak and Bob Reynolds
In 2008, Tommy became a member of Corey Taylor’s Junk Beer Kidnap Band. Throughout 2009, JBKB performed at clubs and festivals including Rockfest in Kansas City, Lazerfest in Des Moines, End of the Summer Scorcher in Phoenix and the Key Club in LA.
At the beginning of 2011, Tommy joined the Free Style Variety Band. Prior to that, Tommy regularly performed with Des Moines’ premier R&B/Funk group One Nite Stand.
Tommy is featured on Cleo's Apartment's 2010 release: Off At The Shoulders and the 2012 Axis Manifest film production: Flick
Thomas was an ASCAPlus Award recipient in 2006 and 2007.
As an educator, Thomas has taught at Muskingum College, Ohio University-Zanesville, Kent State, Hiram College, Cincinnati School for the Creative and Performing Arts, College of Mount St. Joseph, South-Western Community College and Central College.
Originally hailing from Covington, Kentucky, Tommy established himself throughout Cincinnati, Ohio as a performer with Lo-Fi (2006 Cincinnati Entertainment Award (CEA) nominee "Best Funk”), The 4Track All-Stars (2005 CEA: Best Hip-Hop) and Two Turntables and a Saxophone (“One of the Top bands to see at Midpoint Music Festival in 2004” Citybeat).
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Here’s an audio sample of my sax and ewi through the TC Electronic Nova Repeater. The sax, ewi and Repeater are all run through the MOTU Ultralite mk3 mixer. I’m using the Ultralite’s eq & compression and routing the Repeater in parallel. This is the same setup I use when playing live with the exception that my live signal is mono.
My TC Electronic Nova Repeater came in today! I’ve been working with it for about an hour and a half. I’m real happy with the quality of delay. Here’s the setup that works best for me but first let tell you that it’s run in parallel through a mixer so I have the Kill Dry button engaged (the Nova Delay does not have this feature). I have the Spillover button engaged. I like to hear the delay fade when I turn it off, something I find more musical than the abrupt stop. I use the tap tempo and Audio Tapping to select the rate of delay. Even though I have the Division set at a quarter note, I may tap the eighth note or triplet. The Audio Tapping feature is awesome because it sets the rate at whatever rhythm I’m playing at that moment. I like a tight feedback so the knob is at 9 o’clock. The Tone knob is at 2 o’clock and the Mod knob is at 11 o’clock. Both of those knobs work well with the Tape Delay Type setting. The Tone knob brightens things up and the Mod knob adds a little more vibrato to the delay. I can’t wait to use it this weekend!
