Universal Language
Is language truly a barrier? For the zillionth time in a row – musically speaking – I...
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Category: Touring
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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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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- Preventing Wireless Mic Dropoutsby Bruce Bartlett Chffffft! That’s the sound of a wireless mic dropout. The microphone makes a burst of noise or cuts out. That happens because the mic’s radio signal was lost, either by a weak transmitted signal, a weak received signal, or interference with other radio waves. Fortunately, there are many things you can do […]
- Westone ES5 IEMsIt was not that long ago–less than a year–that I swore off personally reviewing in-ear personal monitors. I have done so many reviews that I have multiple units from most of the major players. I have not heard/used the stuff made by JH Audio or Fidelity but have or have used multiple models by Future […]
- Preventing Clipping In Recording And Mixdownby Bruce Bartlett (1) When I record myself or our band, I’m clipping the waveform even though I’m not exceeding 0 dB at the top of the level meter. What’s going on? Reply: Make sure to set your record meters and playback meters to read peak levels, not RMS levels. The peak levels show how […]
- Insert Effects Vs. Send EffectsBy Bruce Bartlett Many people confuse INSERT effects with SEND effects. What are they, and where do you place them in a DAW during a mixdown project? An INSERT effect is inserted into a track, in series with the track’s signal, to process that signal. Examples of insert effects are EQ, compression, gating, and de-essing. A […]