The Musician's Room: What's New?
I just received this cute image in an email from RSPE Audio Solutions and couldn't help but pass it along. Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas from the Studio!!!
11/18/2013 The therapy has failed. I recently became obsessed with sound of the late 1950s Fender 5E3 Tweed Deluxe amplifier. After doing some research, I commissioned a reproduction from a custom builder. You can follow the saga, HERE .
11/06/2013 I feel the need... the need for tweed. More to come.
10/29/2013 I've been meaning to mention that the Taylor K4 preamp/equalizer is back in stock on the Taylor web store. Now I have.
09/25/2013 Visit THIS page for a fun, two-minute electric guitar comparison!
08/24/2013 I WANT ONE:
08/16/2013 Rest in Peace, J.R. Baker, founder and owner of Soundseat, Inc. I've never met a nicer guy. J.R.'s own seat, pictured above, is now empty.
08/16/2013 The guitar from the picture on the splash page now has a name: "Miss Right."
07/31/2013 "I'm fixing the roof where the rain gets in..." Or, at least the roofers are. New roof at Casa Womack after storm damage. Peace of mind.
07/17/2013 After reading his book I had to listen to his album. More on Don Felder's Road to Forever HERE
07/03/2013 After decades languishing in a succession of bad mastering jobs, YES' 1977 album, Going for the One, has been remastered lovingly by Steve Hoffman at Audio Fidelity. The disc has been released as a limited edition 5000 copy run and is available right now from Amazon. It is short-run subscripton mastering, so get 'em while they are hot!!!
06/20/2013 Electric guitarists: I had a thought, and it certainly isn't a new one, but one which we could stand to be reminded of on occasion: Has it ever occurred to you that much of the sound that we love in electric guitar occurred because rebellious people took perfectly good gear and abused it, flogging it until it literally screamed?
06/17/2013 A couple of entries below I reviewed the Taylor K4 preamp/EQ. Since then a couple of things happened:
1) Taylor has temporarily removed the K4 from their online store. They had fallen behind in production and had a backlog of orders. They will put the K4 back on the site when they catch up and have some stock.
2) I called and asked Taylor for a couple of parts for my unit that I bought off eBay for the review. There's now an update near the bottom of the review that covers that call and the results. You can find that, HERE .
06/04/2013 I've come across a rather interesting guitar pedal that sets out to create a great lead sound in a box. To find out whether it manages to pull that sound off, you can read my review of the Mad Professor Golden Cello, HERE .
05/12/2013 I think it is about time I review the Taylor K4 Preamp/EQ. I know it isn't a new item but there are lots of misconceptions and misunderstandings about the unit. Perhaps with my background as both a recording engineer and a guitarist, I can shed some new and useful light on the box. More HERE .
04/15/2013 (Tax Day) I recently took a session call that turn out to be a fun challenge. You can read about it HERE .
04/03/2013 Remembering Edith Rachel Merritt Schaeffer (November 3, 1914 – March 30, 2013), a beautiful mind and person, author and wife of the late Francis August Schaeffer.
03/20/2013 For lovers of YES' Close to the Edge, Audio Fidelity has released a hybrid SACD of the album. My review of their remastering job can be found HERE .
03/15/2013 Have you ever gotten stuck on a mix that just wasn't quite right? Try getting out of the way and "mixing against the grain!" More, HERE .
03/01/2013 As promised, HERE is a report on the vintage 1973 Traynor YRM-1 Reverb Master amp mentioned below. If you ever play one I think you'll share my opinion that it is an amazing vintage tone machine.
02/22/2013 I had them send me the amp pictured above and mentioned below and it arrived yesterday. After comparing its serial number to my old receipt from the '70s, the amp turns out not to be my original one but one that was built the same month and year (Sept. '73) as my first one. Is that more or less eeire? I got to play with it and learn to drive it again last night and that was fun. Traynors are kind of the secret tone monsters of the amplifier world, lying somehwere between Fenders and Marshalls in sound. They are also extremely well built and reliable. I'll probably write up a description for you to go on the site's new VINTAGE GOODIES AND PAWN SHOP PRIZES page.
02/09/2013 Department of eeire crap: I was browsing the inventory of a guitar store about two hundred miles from here and came across an early-1970s Traynor YRM-1 Reverb Master amplifier. And not just any Reverb Master: it looks like MY amp that I sold sixteen years ago. In another photo I can see that it has a particular stain on one of the end panels. I spent hours trying to remove that stain when I owned it. I miss that amp.
02/01/2013 I recently fired up some great old tube gear in a rehearsal space and was confronted with the scent of old amplifiers. It took me back over my career and some very vivid memories. You can experience it with me, HERE.
01/14/2013 First article of the New Year: I've reviewed the Rocktron Banshee Talk Box. You can read that review, HERE.
01/06/2013 Happy New Year!!! The holiday break is over and we are headed back to work. Over the break I've been working with Intua's BeatMaker2 for iPad, whose logo is shown above, building rhythm parts and small music pieces and experimenting with samples for it. I'm going to try to put together a review soon.
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