Author: jakekelly

What To Write: People Like To Feel Good.

Posted by | Mar 7, 2021 | |

Not that there aren’t exceptions, but people like to feel good.  If they are going out to dinner, generally they like to order food that will make them feel good.  When they get the check for said dinner, they like...

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Jake Kelly

Posted by | Dec 4, 2020 | |

Jake Kelly plays guitar for the retro/kitsch country band the Podunk Poets that currently is making a splash in the Los Angeles area.  Never one to sit idle for long, Jake also records and releases albums of his own...

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Songwriters In The Round: Part 1

Posted by | Nov 29, 2020 | |

It happens in living rooms all across this great nation whenever there’s a party with two or more songwriters in the room and a guitar close at hand. Someone will plead, “Play us a song!”The floodgates are now open, and the...

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    STL Tones, the leading commercial seller of Kemper Profiles, has expanded its offerings with the launch of the STL Tonality Howard Benson Guitar Plug-In Suite, the first in the ongoing STL Tonality series of plugins. The incredibly well crafted guitar tones from GRAMMY®-nominated producer and multi-instrumentalist Howard Benson, with the award-winning engineer/mixer Mike Plotnikoff, have […]
  • PMC Monitors – The Only Choice For A Shared Studio
    Choosing a pair of studio monitors is a very personal business. What works for one person may not work for someone else. No wonder, then, that when composer and producer Marco Martini and Sam Wheat, formerly chief engineer at London’s Metropolis Studios, agreed to share a studio together they demo-ed numerous monitoring systems before finding […]
  • Front-of-House Engineer Ethan Carlson Praises ShowMatch System from Bose Professional
    At a recent tour stop with pop singer and actor Jesse McCartney, front-of-house engineer Ethan Carlson had a chance to work with the Bose Professional ShowMatch DeltaQ line array system and is now among the growing list of FOH engineers who praise ShowMatch for its performance and sound quality. Specifically, Carlson singles out the system’s […]
  • Sleep Wakes Up With Heil Sound
    In April of this year, revered stoner metal trio Sleep seemed to awaken from a lengthy – twenty year – slumber to release their first full length album of new material since the fan favorite LP Dopesmoker. Not that the band members have been dormant thewhole time. Bassist/vocalist Al Cisneros, guitarist Matt Pikehave played in […]
  • IK Multimedia introduces Dimebag Darrell CFH Collection for AmpliTube
    IK Multimedia announces the Dimebag Darrell CFH Collection for AmpliTube. This new collection features models of the exact gear used by “Dimebag” Darrell Lance Abbott on Pantera‘s groundbreaking album, Cowboys From Hell. Mac/PC users can enjoy nine brand new models including two amps, two cabinets and five stompboxes. Dimebag is considered one of the most […]