So you’re out on the road, or jamming in a friends basement or sitting in a park strumming away and you want to record the sparkly... »
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I’ve been doing a lot of recording lately and have had need of a good virtual guitar amp. I wanted something that sounded good and most importantly, free. It seems that these two requirements rarely go hand in hand. After plowing through many weak amp simulators I finally hit paydirt. AcmeBarGig has the best virtual amp I’ve ever... »
Places to Watch Music Documentaries
If you’ve got some spare time, and want to learn more about some of your favourite artists? Go over to documentaryheaven.com and check out the music category. Also check out snagfilms.com for an abundance of music documentaries. And as always there is CBC. Just go to Inside the Music Audio Archives. Don’t forget musicfilmweb.com,... »
Respect The Form of a Song
Where has the time gone? Between work, family, and outside projects I’m afraid I’ve neglected to post. Well it’s time to remedy this. The past two months have been quite busy for me. I’ve been writing up a storm of songs, though few are complete. There are missing lyrics here, unfinished arrangements there, and now... »
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If you’ve got a song about a place in Canada, or the gumption to write one, then send it in to CBC Radio 2. This may be your chance to be featured on the radio. CBC has been doing their Songquest for a few weeks now. The gist of it was that they gathered suggestions for places... »
Musical Flash Gizmo Roundup
If you’re looking to kill some time and feed musical creativity then click away dear readers. www.balldroppings.com/js/ — Sounds a little dirty, but it’s a fun program where you make little tunes by having bouncing balls strike lines that you draw in space with your cursor. www.thepixelplant.net/dmf/dmf.html — Tinydrum3.0 is a cute little sequencer. Try the random setting to get some... »
Bar Graph of Certified Music Sales
This can be either very inspiring, or very depressing for the struggling band. I won’t go into the history of record sale certification here, I’m just interested in giving a sense of scale of record sales. The Wikipedia page has a good rundown on the particulars of certification for the curious. These numbers come from the RIAA’s... »
Amelia Curran Should be on Your Playlist
There is this quality that runs through Canadian music that I would sum up as being lyrically dense. When you listen to likes of The Weakerthans, or Joni Mitchell or Gord Downie, we don’t shy away from the complicated turns of phrase. When it comes to writing songs that have something to say, Amelia Curran... »
What Came Before the Phonograph?
While it’s tempting to think of audio recording as starting with Edison and his phonograph in 1877, the truth is that recording had been happening for 20 years longer than that. If we discount devices to playback pre-recorded music (musicboxes, orchestrions) or simulated speech (Wolfgang von Kempelen’s speaking machine) the first recording, as we... »
Redeem Your Lyrics With a Memopad
I am constantly jotting down lines on any scrap that I can get my hands on, receipts, envelopes, napkins. My pockets would be stuffed with gems, which I would invariably lose. To remedy the dissipation of my fortune I invested in a cheap memo-pad. True I could have sprung for a moleskine. I’ve used them before and quite enjoy the... »
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