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Lick of The Day App

The Lick of The Day App for iPhone and iPad is put out by Guitar World, the 800 pound gorilla of guitar magazines. Like most guitar players I am a lick junkie, and this app provides a steady stream of new licks and instructional features. The licks are also accompanied…Click on the title for more

Lick of The Day App

Mackie Onyx Recording Interfaces

With Pro Tools 9 opening the door for 3rd party recording interfaces, there are a lot more options opening up for home, studio, and portable rigs. Mackie's Onyx firewire interfaces are among the products now compatible with the latest version of Pro Tools - here are some of their standout features: The…Click on the title for more

Mackie Onyx Recording Interfaces

A Pocket-Sized Listening Environment

Focusrite has paired their VRM (Virtual Reference Monitoring) technology with a simple headphone interface, giving you multiple references for your mix and simulating high quality listening environments and speakers through your headphones. The VRM Box ($99) uses impulse responses of 10 professional studio monitors, combined with mathematical models of 3…Click on the title for more

A Pocket-Sized Listening Environment

Electronics in Music Workshop in Williamsburg, NY

Williamsburg-based community arts center Vaudeville Park has announced several new winter workshops, which will begin in February and March, including on focused on Electronics in Music. This 3-part workshop returns after a successful run in the summer of 2010. Attendees will learn about electronics, synthesis, and sound design by working…Click on the title for more

Electronics in Music Workshop in Williamsburg, NY

Moogify your iPhone with Filtatron

Moog Music brings high quality sound-shaping to Apple devices with the Filtatron - a real-time audio effects app that's easy to have fun with and comes packed with features. While it's not a synth, the Filtatron combines filtering and effects to manipulate the sound from the on-board oscillator, sampler, or…Click on the title for more

Moogify your iPhone with Filtatron

Fryette Amplification to Release Pedal Line in 2011

Fryette Amplification is best known for their hand-built, high quality guitar amps and cabinets, and soon they'll add a line of pedals to their repertoire. The Sound Effects series of tube-driven pedals will debut with the S.A.S. distortion and Boostassio boost, and should be available for around $199 street. Premier Guitar…Click on the title for more

Fryette Amplification to Release Pedal Line in 2011

Studio Projects CS5 Review

As a rule, I love large diaphragm condensers because condensers tend to be very accurate and the large diaphragm gives their sound a really desirable smoothness. But cheaper mics can sound harsh or they can lack that true-to-life accuracy. So you pay for quality, right? Yes, but you don’t always…Click on the title for more

Studio Projects CS5 Review

Stutter Edit Plugin and a new Nord introduced at NAMM

Gigging musicians will want to check out the Nord Piano 88, which has been designed with live performance in mind. This new 88 key stage piano from Nord weighs in at just 39.6 pounds, but it's heavy on features. In addition to 24 banks of 5 programs totaling 120 different…Click on the title for more

Stutter Edit Plugin and a new Nord introduced at NAMM

More NAMM 2011: Rupert Neve Portico Plugins and AKG Groove Pack

Steinberg is teaming up with Rupert Neve Designs to release the first plugins modeled after Rupert's Portico Series analog gear. The 5043 Compressor and 5033 EQ will both be available in VST and AU formats, for a price not yet announced. "Particularly known for designing all-analog signal processing equipment, Rupert…Click on the title for more

More NAMM 2011: Rupert Neve Portico Plugins and AKG Groove Pack

NAMM News: Blue Reactor Mic, Eventide Space Reverb

New product news from NAMM 2011: A uniquely-styled multi-pattern condenser from Blue Microphones, and the latest addition to the Eventide stompbox line. Blue's new mic, the Reactor, will be available this coming spring for $499 retail. While the mic body could double as a hockey puck, the large diaphragm condenser…Click on the title for more

NAMM News: Blue Reactor Mic, Eventide Space Reverb

Blues Writer An iPhone App for Songwriters

A new App in the iTunes store called Blues Writer, is designed to help songwriters with the creative process. When stumped for a verse, you can double click and select a word from Schirmers Complete Rhyming Dictionary, which includes over 96,000 rhymes. The built in Instrumental tracks help put a…Click on the title for more

Blues Writer An iPhone App for Songwriters

Bucktone Effects debuts with Black Powder Pedal

New pedalmaker Bucktone Effects is officially on the scene, and shipping its inaugural product, the Black Powder. This distortion/overdrive pedal allows you to break up and compress your signal, while affording you control over the tone of the resulting sound. In addition to gain and volume knobs, the Black Powder…Click on the title for more

Bucktone Effects debuts with Black Powder Pedal