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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
"Can't We All Just Get Along?"
Perhaps easier for great sounding audio devices than for the Humans.
In fact, it's very easy for the Hot Hand and the Line 6 Pod XT Live to exist "hand in hand" (bad pun intended). In fact, once you try the…
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The Ease of Recording Software
How many of you use audio or midi recording software on your computers? If you do, and you didn’t 10 or even 20 years ago, you don’t know how lucky you are. Those decades-old software systems were the Model T’s of their day - yes, revolutionary - but, as I…
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
What inspires you as a musician? Of course, we are inspired by listening to and watching great musicians (especially evident after the Namm show where great players are all over the place), as well as great events that happen in our life. But what about your equipment and guitar sounds?…
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Electric Guitar is Alive and Well!
All I can say after surviving NAMM 2007 is that the guitar is alive and well.
Almost everywhere I looked, I heard terriffic players, and outstanding equipment was never more than 50 feet away - some by well know companies with huge booths upstairs, some by new bare-bones…
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Monday, January 15, 2007
Songwriting - How Do You Challenge Yourself?
The other day I had listened to a recording that I had just made of an instrumental tune that I was quite happy about initially - and I could not get over the feeling of "sameness" it gave me upon completion of the listening. "How could that be?” I asked…
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Guitar Tones - Equal to Your Music?
The other day I decided to listen to a number of recordings I have made within the past few years, which I have been pretty happy about.
I used 2 studios, including my home studio, and used high quality gear (guitars, amps, amp simulators. computer software and hardware),…
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Monday, January 08, 2007
Guitar wah wah - past and present
What comes to mind when you think of the "wah wah"?
Could it be: George Harrison's song of the same name?
Eric Clapton's solo on "White Room"?
The "Theme From Shaft"?
the great riff on UFO's "Rock Bottom"?
When I…
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Sunday, January 07, 2007
Guitar Effects - What are your Favorites?
Do you remember the first time you heard "All Along the Watchtower" by Jimi?
Or "Walking on the Moon" by the Police?
Or "New Year's Day" by U2?
How could a guitarist ever forget those unmistakable, yet otherworldly sounds. Most people who are not…
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