New Powerbooks. Yawn.
Apparently, the above image is copped from the Apple site, where crafty folks have figured out how to get to the press releases before they have gone live. So that's what's gonna be announced tomorrow. Kind of blah, in…
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Hugh Le Fucking Caine
There are giants, and then there are BOLD ITALIC GIANTS . Hugh LeCaine is definitely of the latter group of giants. Pictured above, playing his 1945 creation, the Electronic Sackbut (sometimes this shit just writes…
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Chandler EMI Abby Road compressor for VST!
I was a little worried, but one of the Chandler Guys hopped on to the pertinent thread over at Gearslutz and said that the EMI Comp plug they're working on will be released first for TDM, with RTAS and VST to follow in…
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Homemade Mellotron w/ Walkmen
Just picked this up off of BoingBoing. Mike Walters has created the Melloman, which is fundementally the same as a Mellotron, except made with cassette Walkmen. (Yeah, technically it would be "Walkmans" but I just can't…
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The most awesomest hand-built outboard...
I don't know who the hell this guy thinks he is, but he's just making the rest of us look bad. Take a browse through his Gallery, and be amazed at the quality of the work. The site is rather thin on information, and I'm…
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WTB: Ensoniq ESQ-1 or SQ80
Okay, it's official. I'll take one. Just gotta find one, right? When I lived in Chicago, it was as simple as going to the various Music-Go-Rounds until one turned up. Now that I live about 40 miles East of Bumfuck, OR…
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Mic Pre Kit Roundup...
I was assembling a list of all the mic pre kits available on the web, and I thought it might be informative to put it up here, where everyone could enjoy it. So, what follows is a list of every single mic pre kit I…
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Compressor School...
For those of you that feel like you jumped in the deep end of the pool with all this compressor talk, I just came across this page, which is an excellent and easy-to-read discourse on the various different kinds of…
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Some really nice DIY...
If you head on over to this thread on the Prodigy-Pro forums, you can read all about David Cannikin's beautiful clone of the Gates Sta-Level compressor, pictured above. The real Sta-Level is an incredibly rare piece…
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Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
Yup, it's Friday already, and you know what that means! What follows are 3 photos that are from what I believe is the now-defunct Pacific Coast Productions. Don't quote me on that, and if I'm mistaken, I'll gladly print…
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The Most Flyest, Awesomest Keyboard Of All...
Okay, persuant to our conversation of yesterday, here is the result of my extensive research in to what would constitute the best keyboard to control Nuendo, Photoshop, \ and\ 3D Studio Max. This is the single most…
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AD: Phase Two update...
Adam just sent me a working (mostly) iteration of the upcoming Audio Damage plug Phase Two, our clone of the Mutron Bi-Phase. No UI yet, and some of the features aren't working, but let me just say that it sounds good…
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A New Controller...
Okay, my keyboard controller (which is a no-name 4-octave thing) is not fitting in to the New Plan, and I'll tell you why. For some reason I can't fully explain, and thus won't bother, I use a controller which is…
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Chock full of synthy goodness...
Back when I was a whippersnapper, knee-high to a short goat, I got a spankin' new Atari 2600 for Christmas. Little did I know this would be my initiation in to the endless cycle of product upgrades and system flame…
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Putting my money where my mouth is...
So, today I ordered PCBs for the Gyraf clones of the SSL 2-buss compressor and Urei 1176 compressor. I figured if I was gonna talk all that shit about people being better off going DIY for certain pro audio needs, I…