My Guitar Pedal Wish List (11/3/09)

November 3, 2009

As you may or may not know I am mainly a guitar player, and I realized as I was talking to my friend from Effects Bay.com about pedals… my birthday is tomorow and Christmas is less than 2 months away, and so I think its time I come up with a wishlist of pedals that I [...]

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How to Build a Home Recording Studio

November 1, 2009

A Question I am often asked by my musically inclined friends is: “How should I begin building a recording studio?” or similar questions. And here, we are talking about building it up over time, buying all the hardware, software, instruments, mics, knowledge, and space to do this in one step could take tens of thousands [...]

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Sony Vegas Intros (Just for Fun)

October 30, 2009

I just thought I would throw a couple videos together since I just got my screenshot video program, so I decided to show you how to make sweet intros in Sony Vegas… here you go:
“Tutorial” Video (9:57)

Also here are just some example intos I threw together! (1:19)
 
Check out the Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack [...]

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Lessons Learned Today

October 27, 2009

My band Modern Dissent recently started started recording our 2nd CD! Today we recorded bass guitar and I learned a few things in the process, so I thought I would share those things with you. But before I get to the part where I tell you the lessons I learned today, I want to tell [...]

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Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Tube Amp

October 23, 2009

So far on this blog I have reviewed all the pedals I own, and quite a few other musical things I have in my studio, but I have been too scared to review my amp, I feel like this monster of tone would be too easy to innacuratly portray, but I am about to try my best.
First… the specs…
40 [...]

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Electro-Harmonix Stereo Clone Theory

October 20, 2009

Austin Sather… The Bassist who is a maniac (and my best friend), wrote a review of the EHX Clone Theory for me, he owns it and loves it, so here’s what he has to say about it (with a little bit of editing from me)…
“There are a lot of chorus pedals out there, but the [...]

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Danelctro DJ-1 Pastrami Overdrive Pedal

October 7, 2009

I just started using this pedal last weekend, I am borrowing it from a friend who’s away at college right now, (Thanks Corbin). I think that Danelectro in general is just a great company, and I am actually looking to buy one of their guitars sometime in the next few months. My point is that quality [...]

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Bose L1 PA System

September 25, 2009

A While ago I asked my good friend Jeff Peterson who is an amazing sound engineer and has taught me quite a bit, and one of the best bassist I have ever seen play, to write a review of  The Bose L1 PA System, I thank him very much for doing this, so without further [...]

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Electro Harmonix Memory Man Delay Pedal

September 16, 2009

I just recently got this pedal, and I’ll be honest, when I first started messing with it, it was a little hard to use, I’m not the type to read directions so thats probably part of it, but after a few minutes I had the basic idea of what all the knobs did in all [...]

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Audix DP7 Drum Mic Pack

September 1, 2009

Seven amazing mics in one package, what’s not to love? The DP7 has two ADX51 overheads, one D6 kick mic, one i5 snare mic, 2 D2 tom mics and 1 d4 floor tom mic. (Check out my review of the D6 for more details on it.) All of these mics can also be used to mic [...]

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