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Kevin Garrett has emerged in 2015 as one of NYC's most prominent young songwriters. Unapologetically moody, soulful at heart, incurably ballad-prone, Kevin's songs have the aura of old time classics, but their production process is as modern as it gets, centered - as often the case these days - around the artists' home studio. We asked Garrett a few questions about it and the creative process triggered by it.... Click on the title for more
Brooklyn songwriter Nola Wren is a perfect case to exemplify how electronic music is tempting more and more musicians through fun, increasingly user friendly products capable of inspiring young artists and unleashing new creative energy. A talented songwriter gifted with an expressive alto (vaguely reminiscent of Kate Bush), Nola in just over one year reinvented her sound, transitioning from her from her early folk recording to a new synth-pop "phase" that is resonating with many fans. Her natural sense for style is only helping the cause.
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The New Electrochop from Magnetic Effects is designed to give your guitar sound a really retro echo-esque tremolo. The sound gets imitated with oscillators and can either create a driving rhythmic pulse to the song, or phase through it like a Steve Reich Piece. It is a super choppy tremolo that features the classic, unique LFO section from the Vox Repeat Percussion. A new audio circuit has been designed around the LFO, resulting in a tremolo that sounds like the Repeat Percussion but with a fuller, louder sound and more controls.... Click on the title for more
Disaster Area's newly released DMC-7 and DMC 4-B (big brothers of the DMC -3 and DMC-6) are designed to give guitarists more control over the complex function of their Midi equipped pedals, placing at the tip of their foot functions often only accessible through heavy "finger action". What you can use this pedal for is limited only by your imagination: cycle through presets, flip back and forth between effects, synchronize pedals and activate them simultaneously, activate "secret" functions...
The DMC-7 - the flagship of the series - stands out with its extra built in tuner.
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