Synapse online
For those of you that have a lot of free time you're looking to waste, you could do worse than browsing the archives of Synapse Magazine, the seminal 70s music technology rag. Cynthia from Cyndustries has graciously…
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Wiki, Wiki, Wiki...
KvR has started a Wiki for music/tech. Interestingly enough, there are no entries yet for how to make the Cher vocal sound, the most effective use of a "trance gate," or which is better, Fruit Loops or Acid. Well, all…
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Plate Reverb... just plug in.
This is one of those things where I guess I knew in the back of my head there must be somebody making 'em. It just never occurred to me to look. Have a gander at Platesonics, AFAIK the only current builder of plate…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Sorry, no wall of modulars today. I figured since 90% of what we (and I mean the royal "we," as in "me") talk about here is recording technology, I thought this week I'd send you to the mecca of same, the Phantom…
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t00by goodness...
From the creator of the Pinky mannequin synth comes the Incubator tube synth, with two VCOs, two VCFs, a beam modulator, wave clipper and VCA. There are two different VCO designs, and lots of sound samples.
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Chandler / Abby Road EMI limiter plug...
The EMI Limiter plug-in I mentioned back in October is now available to demo from the Chandler site. Currently TDM and RTAS only (bleck) and iLok is required (doubleplusbleck). AU and VST are in the pipeline, and should…
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Things You Don't Want To Hear Your Bandmates Say On Stage...
I was just listening to "Shadows In The Rain" off of Sting's Dream Of The Blue Turtles album (yeah, whatever. Sue me.) and the beginning where Darryl Jones goes "what key is this in?" always cracks me up, especially…
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Sphere graphic equalizer...
In keeping with our sudden fascination with all things Quad Eight-related, here's an interesting item. Helsing Audio has parted out a Sphere Eclipse console, and is selling the excellent 920 graphic EQ cartridges as…
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Codin', codin', codin', keep those doggies codin'...
Sorry my entries have been less than ubiquitous the last couple days, but I got my teeth in to a really interesting plug-in concept, and have been obsessing over it. The net result being a new Audio Damage product that…
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Cheap-ass (yet inexplicably really good) Mic Pre...
I just came across this bad boy. I don't know how on earth I missed it, seeing how I continually browse every possibly pro-audio DIY site. Anyways, what we have here is a pretty nifty combo. 925 Audio sells a kit to…
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The best band ever?
I'm sitting here working on the graphics for a future AD product, and I've got my iTunes cooking, and I can't decide. Which is the best band ever? Agent Orange or Killing Joke? It's got to be one or the other. UPDATE…
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DIY '59 Bassman in a roadcase...
As the subject says. The blinding logic of this stunned me a little bit. One of the biggest pains of touring is dealing with the guitar cabs and their cases. (The biggest pain, of course, is the drum set and the…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
I'll admit that the usual suspects for Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday are a little bit too neat. Usually, the studios I put up here are on the clean side, which bodes ill for their actually being used at any point. Pictured…
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L@@K!! RARE 1951 FENDER STRAT MINT!! (NOT VINTAGE GIBSON)!
I don't normally cross-post (rather, I just post, without looking to see if the other blogs have also posted; an altogether better habit) but this one was too good to pass up. I think this may have made the rounds…
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Nice new stuff from Carl Martin...
They're not on the website yet, but Carl Martin just announced some tasty new pedals, the Crush Zone, Surf Trem, and of particular interest to us here at AI, the Red Repeat (obviously, that's what I've pictured above.)…