Without Lights It’s Just Radio
When I am not doing the editor thing or playing I do sound gigs. And there is a real visceral feud...
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How to Master Your Album or Demo
Mastering is the last creative step in your album project before you burn the final CD used for duplication. After recording mixes of your songs on your computer’s hard drive, you’ll put together a CD album or demo...
Read MoreThe International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is Now Taking Submissions.
Now is your chance to enter what the NY Times calls “the songwriting competition to take note of,” and for a chance to share in over $150,000 in cash and prizes, including a Grand Prize of $25,000 cash and over $25,000 in...
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Crew of the Week: Todd Rundgren's Utopia Tour 2011
Seems somehow appropriate that the crew kicking of our new Crew of the Week feature would be the...
Read MoreTitatanic Guitars Prepares To Launch At NAMM
100 years after the launch of the Titanic, a Belfast company has designed a range of limited edition guitars to celebrate this milestone. Welcome to the launch of Titanic Guitars (1912-2012). Steeped in history,...
Read More4 Tricks To Getting Signed
For 99.9% of bands, the goal is to sign with a record label—Call it an acknowledgement of hard work, a badge of pride for the years of sacrifice, gutting it out on the road, a platform for personal expression, delusions of...
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Q3HD=Stereo Recording+HD Video
The Q3HD from ZOOM is a handheld camcorder that records audio and video in HD. The Q3HD Handy...
Read MorePLASA NEWS: HARMAN’s Crown Audio Showcases XTi 2 Series of amplifiers
PRESS RELEASELONDON, United Kingdom — 11 September 2011 Resetting the standards for portable sound amplification, HARMAN’s Crown Audio is showcasing the XTi 2 Series of amplifiers. Offering increased control, an enhanced...
Read MoreVIDEO REVIEW: Universal Control and Capture for Presonus StudioLive Mixers
Yep. We reviewed tha actual StudioLive 24.4.2 mixer a while ago but more than just the mixer comes in the box. There are also three powerful software packages that extend the ability of the StudioLive way beyond just being a...
Read MoreJuszkiewicz Maintains Gibson Complying With The Law
Gibson’s CEO has said repeatedly that the only reason his company is in trouble is because U.S. workers are completing work on guitar fingerboards in the United States. In an interview earlier this week, CEO Henry...
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A-T's New Ribbons
When Audio-Technica says that they’ve solved the problem of ribbon mics being fragile, they didn’t...
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