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Gear Review and Announcement: IK Multimedia Releases the new StealthPedal!

Posted in buying gear, effect pedals, Effects, GAS, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, IK Multimedia, mac, Music, musicians, new gear, pedals, tagged effect pedals, Effects, GAS, gear, gear announcements, gear reviews, guitar, guitar gear, guitar pedals, guitarists, Guitars, ik, IK Multimedia, Music, musicians, pedals, recording, steal, StealthPedal on June 4, 2009 | 10 Comments »

IK Multimedia Stealth Pedal Summary: It’s official, IK Multimedia’s StealthPedal has just been released! The new StealthPedal is a lesson in packaging up familiar components to produce something totally unique. This is the first of its kind: A USB-powered guitar audio interface/software controller that you can use for recording or playing live as well as [...]

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Gear for the Home Studio

Posted in amplifiers, amps, buying gear, GarageBand, GAS, gear, guitar, guitar gear, Guitars, Home Studio, inspiration, instruction, mac, Music, musicians, recording, songwriting, tagged amplifiers, amps, GarageBand, gear, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Home Studio, mac, Music, musicians, recording, recording gear on December 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

There are different schools of thought around this subject, but I thought I’d throw in some of my own thoughts, since I’ve been at it awhile. Note that I won’t be talking about techniques necessarily, though I will include some tips and tricks… So without further ado… First, let’s establish something here: You don’t need [...]

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GarageBand: It Must Be Karma! Another Crash! But I’m ECSTATIC!

Posted in GarageBand, gear, Guitars, iMac, mac, recording on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Talk about putting a product through its paces! My Mac fatally crashed yet again! Yikes! When that happened, I didn’t panic because based upon Boyd Jarvis’ input in my previous article on my Mac crashing, I went down to my local Apple store, and purchased a copy of Disk Warrior. I also talked to a [...]

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A New Journey ~ Part III

Posted in Guitars, iMac, mac, Music, musicians, recording, songs on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I finally got a couple of songs to a mostly finished state though I have to tweak the vocal volumes on one of the songs. You Stir My Soul Great God For the past week, I’ve been ever so tickled by the ease of recording that GarageBand provides. But no matter how easy the recording [...]

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A New Journey ~ Part I

Posted in GarageBand, guitar, Guitars, iMac, mac, Music, musicians, performing, recording on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been a gigging musician for several years, playing in all sorts of venues. 90% of my gigs are just me singing and accompanying myself with a single guitar and keyboard, which has worked for me for a long time. But as of late, the artist in me has yearned to stretch his wings and [...]

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Need to spec a song quickly? Do it on your Mac!

Posted in guitar, guitar gear, Guitars, iMac, mac, Music, musicians, recording on August 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »

For those of you who’ve known me for a long time, I’ve been a PC devotee for as long as I can remember, and used to scoff at the Mac as being a toy. But a few months ago, I decided to try out a MacBook Pro at my previous job, and what I thought [...]

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