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The TC Electronic PolyTune Guitar & Bass Tuner

By Big Al on Sunday, January 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Here’s a cool little gem from this year’s NAMM show. The TC Electronic PolyTune. TC Electronic explains it this way… PolyTune is the world’s first polyphonic tuner, and a game-changing total tuning turnaround that will have future guitarists wondering how we ever got by without it. Basically, you strum your guitar and it shows you [...]

Bohemian Rhapsody…With A Bluegrass Spin!

By Big Al on Friday, January 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is a music video from the upcoming Hayseed Dixie album, “Killer Grass,’ to be released February 2010. It’s from the included DVD included. Here’s a cool twist…the DVD also contains all of the multitrack WAV audio files for the complete album (over 2 Gigs)! It also contains a bonus song, “Love Cabin,” which must [...]

What’s Your Favorite Audio Myth?

By Big Al on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Back in October one of my favorite acoustic room treatment gurus, Ethan Winer of Real Traps, conducted a workshop at the New York AES convention. The topic? Common audio myths. Today I received a note from Ethan about a video from the event. Here’s what’s in the video according to Ethan himself: For copyright and [...]

Slipperman’s 10 Commandments of Audio Engineering Beatdown

By Big Al on Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | No Comments

If you’re thinking of hiring out the services of your home studio, then this post will be a combination of humor and stark reality. This was just reposted on the Womb Forums by Otek and is a sage piece of prose by none other than industry pro and audio poet laureate of the audio engineering [...]

Presenting The Yamaha NS-10M Studio And . . . Chewbacca?!

By Big Al on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Chewbacca promotes the Yamaha NS-10 Studio near field studio monitors in this newly found long lost commercial. NS-10′s – May The Force Be With You! Using a screen reader? Click here for the video.