Pray For Sound To Release Everything Is Beautiful
Pray for Sound had its origins as a solo studio project started by Bruce Malley in late 2011. He...
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Category: Touring
Stage Plots: What They Are, Why You Need One, How To Make One
What goes where? That is the question and the stage plot is the answer. This simple picture is...
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When You’re The Opener
I thought it’d be fun to go through what it encompasses when I open for a national act. As...
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Four- Scream Halloween
In honor of the season, I dug up an old article I wrote for Mel Bay Publications’ Guitar...
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A Capo Conversation
Never in a million years could I have guessed that the day would come when I would be in a...
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And, My Guitar’s Name Is…
The thought about naming one of my guitars has honestly never crossed my mind. Don’t get me wrong;...
Read MoreMy Home on the Road – Touring Musician
Most of my year is spent staying in casino hotels and doing my lounge gig with a country-rock band, The Voodoo Cowboys. I spend a lot of time in hotel rooms and after a while they all start to look the same. Sure, some are nicer...
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Review: QSC K-Series
QSC K-Series powered speakers demonstrate their versatility and “K” pability. Thinking...
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Music Around the World: Salt Lake City & Rock Springs
From Germany to New Zealand to the USA. How’s that for picking up some air miles and extra...
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Universal Language
Is language truly a barrier? For the zillionth time in a row – musically speaking – I...
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- Now Available for Pre-Sale: The STL Tonality Howard Benson Guitar Plug-In SuiteSTL 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 StudioChoosing 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 ProfessionalAt 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 SoundIn 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 AmpliTubeIK 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 […]