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Umphrey’s McGee Jam On Some Pink Floyd at the Higher Ground Ballroom in Burlington, VT.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Posted by: Roger Smith | Posted in: Artist / Heroes
In many ways Burlington, Vermont is home to the modern jam movement, and the Higher Ground Ballroom, located smack in the center of town, is ground zero. I travelled to Burlington, to visit a couple music stores and to meet up with the guys in Umphrey’s McGee—they were playing the…
Godsticks using Source Audio
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Posted by: Randall Gollard | Posted in: Artist / Heroes, News
We are very happy to report that Darran Charles of Welsh band Godsticks is currently playing our Phaser/Flanger for their current tour. Darran, who plays guitar, keyboards and handles lead vocals, formed the band in 2006 with Dan Nelson on bass, and Steve Roberts on drums and keys, and were…
The Top 10 Greatest Flange Effect Recordings of All Time!!!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Posted by: Jeffrey McAlack | Posted in: Artist / Heroes
A couple of months ago, prior to recording the demo video for the Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger (see below), I did a little “flanger research.” This was a simple process of going back and listening to some well known recordings that use the beloved effect we call “flange.” Okay I'll admit…
Dan Zanes Adds the Soundblox Tri-Mod Phaser to His Pedalboard
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Posted by: Jeffrey McAlack | Posted in: Artist / Heroes
We ran into Dan Zanes—the Grammy winning children’s musician and former singer/guitarist of legendary Boston rockers, The Del Fuegos—at this summer’s Life is Good Festival. It’s always great to meet a fellow Bostonian who’s achieved big success in music (Actually, Dan currently resides in Brooklyn, but we’ll forgive him and…
Michael Franti News
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Posted by: Randall Gollard | Posted in: Artist / Heroes
If anyone on today's music scene could be the rightful heir to James Browns' vacant title of "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business", it would have to be Michael Franti - leader of Michael Franti's Spearhead. Incessantly touring and making music, Michael discusses some of his other projects including…
Life is Good for Source Audio (part deux)
Friday, September 24, 2010
Posted by: Will Cady | Posted in: Artist / Heroes, News
Day Two of the Life is Good festival took on a chiller vibe with more acoustic acts such as Guster, Jason Mraz, Brett Dennen and Corrinne Bailey Rae leading the charge. Jeff and I felt like we were really hitting the groove of things and perhaps most important of all,…
Life is Good for Source Audio
Monday, September 20, 2010
Posted by: Will Cady | Posted in: Artist / Heroes, News
In the spirit of supporting our local festival, Source Audio hit the road for a pleasantly short drive south of Boston to the Blue Hills Reservation to set ourselves up at the 2010 Life is Good Festival. With full backstage access, we had the chance to catch some of the…
Tony MacAlpine in action!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Posted by: Randall Gollard | Posted in: Artist / Heroes
Great news is that Tony MacAlpine is using our Multiwave Distortion on a worldwide tour. In case you vae not heard him in action, here's a nice sample of his band Cab, live at the Baked Potato. Please forgive the occasional waitress walking by: And here's a great…
Cool New DVD—“The Art of the Stompbox”
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Posted by: Jeffrey McAlack | Posted in: Artist / Heroes
One of the great things about stompboxes is their inherent collectability. If you’re a guitar player and occasionally exhibit the somewhat obsessive behavior of a collector (and I really haven’t met many musicians who don’t suffer from this subtle personality flaw), than effect…
Tony MacAlpine - new Source Audio User
Monday, August 09, 2010
Posted by: Randall Gollard | Posted in: Artist / Heroes, News
All of us at Source Audio are proud to report that another supreme guitarist has been using our Multiwave Pro Classic Distortion live - Tony MacAlpine. Tony rose to prominence on the Shrapnel label in the 1980's, and was seen as a contemporary of Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert,…