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... »
Of Interest
Portable Recording Equipment to Grab Your Brilliance
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 bits of music that flow forth. Time was that you might have had a portable cassette recorder to capture your brilliance. These days a host of tools exist, with a host of features... »
Cool Percussion Instrument
The Hapi drum is a tuned percussion instrument that you tap to have it chime sweet notes. You can try it out virtually to see how it sounds. They come in pentatonic scales for their standard tunings, although other uncommon tunings are available. I would love to get my hands on one. It seems to me... »
The Best Tab Site Ever
Most online tab sucks. That is not to say that they are incorrect or incomplete (though this is a common crime of online tab) but that often they are an unreadable mash of ASCII that is from a system produced when monitors could only display 16 colours. Just look at the example below. As far as... »
Sansa slotMusic Player, What Are You Thinking?
SanDisk has rolled out a new music player that plays music off of microSD cards. The cards come loaded with music in the same way that a CD is. The player will also play cards that you load yourself so that you may make your own mix tapes. It seems to me that this is one step backward.... »
Build Your Own Instrument
For all those interested in building your own instrument visit Harp Kit. They have all sorts of kits and plans available for a myriad of traditional instruments. Harps, dulcimers, banjos, even a Hurdy Gurdy! I wouldn’t mind picking up a guitar kit so that I could build a fretless guitar to experiment with. http://www.harpkit.com »
How to Start Your Own Boutique Pedal Business
Me wanty. dano at beavis audio research has released the Beavis Board. This makes prototyping guitar effects so much easier. I’ve played around with a couple of breadboards, building fuzz circuits here and there, but was always disappointed by having jacks, 9 volts, and switches hanging off umbilicals. It became too much of a bother to get... »
Trying Out Ribbon Wound Strings
Okay, it’s recommendation time. Last night I restrung my guitar. It was sorely needed and I thought it would be the perfect time to try out ribbon wound strings as I’m currently playing around with a new guitar slide. For those that don’t know, ribbon wound, or flat wound strings, are strings whose overwindings are made with... »
A Distortion Pedal Recommendation
I was recently shopping around for an overdrive pedal at my local music shop. I tried out a T.C. Electronic Classic Booster + Distortion this pedal is nice. Really nice. I have an Epiphone SG running through a Traynor amp, so that’s the setup I had going on in the store just to make sure everything sounds good together. While this... »
Give Me a Beat
I’ve tried all sorts of metronome software. Frankly, much of it is dreck, expensive dreck. I hate it when someone wants to charge as much for a metronome program as an actual metronome would be. Let’s be honest, having to have boot up my computer just to get a rhythmic click-click is a pain. If you’re charging $30... »
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