Here’s a sweet competition from IK Multimedia and Dave Pensado and it’s open worldwide. The spiel: “This Spring, IK Multimedia has teamed up with Pensado’s Place for six weeks of exciting prizes in an amazing Pro Audio Giveaway! Each week a new winner will receive a power bundle of award-winning mixing and mastering software from…
It was 48 years ago today, January 10 1969 to be precise, when George Harrison left the fraught Let it Be sessions never to return to the world’s biggest band. In honor of that sad event, let’s take a look back at some of George’s best solos, collected here in glorious isolation. What is Life…
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When it comes to the plugin producers out there who are cool enough to give their stuff away for free, they don’t get much cooler than Alexander Petrov-Savchenko, better known as AXP, better known still as the juicy brain behind Soft-Amp. Over the years he’s released some stone-cold killer guitar plugins: The sweet Marshall Guv’nor-clone, the SoftDrive; the…
A quick rant: I love Reaper. If you’re unfamiliar, Reaper is complete multi-track audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment. There’s too much going on in Reaper to put it all here. Suffice to say: if Pro Tools can do it, so can Reaper. This is full-blown professional-quality recording solution. But you…
KVR’s 2016 Developer Challenge is on again (check out all the entries here) and among the hopefuls are the bright sparks at Evil Sound Lab, creators of the meaty Malefica virtual high-gain distortion pedal. We liked the sound of their pedal sim and thought it might be worthwhile to pick their brains about things laptop-guitar-ey, so…
I’m no vocalist. Let’s get that out there right now. And I must admit, I’m no expert when it comes to mixing vocals either. I often find myself unsure of what compressor I should use and how I should set it; what EQ moves I should do – Cut the lows? Boost the highs?; and…
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Is there a greater staple of classic rock radio than Hotel California? Truly, most of us have heard it so many times now that one could ask just what there is left to say about The Eagles’ classic tale of fame, excess and the overwrought metaphor. Well, as this glorious isolated track shows, there’s more…
Check out this sweet doco from the BBC, The Joy of the Guitar Riff. “The guitar riff is the DNA of rock ‘n’ roll, a double helix of repetitive simplicity and fiendish complexity on which its history has been built. From Chuck Berry through to the White Stripes, this documentary traces the ebb and flow of…
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