Have I mentioned lately that I love the Line 6 JM4 Looper?
I’ve been a musician for years, and I mainly play acoustic shows. You know, singer-songwriter kind of stuff. While a bare-bones guitar/vocal performance can be quite entertaining, the recording engineer in me wants to add more to it.
Enter the JM4.
I’ve always been absolutely fascinated [...]
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Line 6 JM4 Looper Review (with Video)
Sweetwater Sound – An Insider’s Review
Many of you know that for the last three years I have been a Sales Engineer at Sweetwater Sound. However, last Thursday was my final day at Sweetwater. (My wife and I have moved back down to Tennessee. I left the company on great terms. I’m actually pursuing a cool new opportunity…more on that to [...]
Review: Dropbox (getdropbox.com)
We’ve all been there. You’re working on a song, and you wanna send it to a buddy to critique. What do you do? You email it, of course!
Ugh…Thirty emails later, and you’ve successfully taken up 150 MB of space on your email server. Not to mention the fact that if you ever want to send [...]
AKG D5 vs Shure SM58 [Audio]
You may remember a shoot-out I did between the Shure SM58 and its big brother the SM7B. It was interesting to hear some of the similarities between the mics, especially since one costs almost three times more than the other.
Ever since then, I’ve wanted to compare the 58 to a microphone I use quite a [...]
Review: Stereo Mic Bar [with Audio]
Last weekend I was recording acoustic guitar for a friend. He was having trouble getting a good recording of his guitar, so he asked me to give it a shot.
It was a beautiful Langejans guitar. I had never heard of the brand, but this was a gorgeous guitar with rosewood back and sides. The guitar [...]
Review: Tech21 Sans Amp Character Series – VT Bass and California Pedals
This guest post is brought to you by my brother-in-law Joel. Joel’s a great bass player/producer, and he’s been building up his home studio over the last year. His Crummy Church Signs blog, while unrelated to the topic of home studios, is hilarious. You can also follow him on Twitter here.
I’ve always been nervous about [...]
Review: Fishman SoloAmp
Right now I’m sitting in my studio listening to a recording from a show I played a few weeks ago. How was it recorded? Directly from my Fishman SoloAmp into my Mbox 2 Mini. (And yes, I have an audio sample for you.)
If you are a singer-songwriter or a solo musician of any kind, you [...]
Auralex MoPADs Review
When I first heard about the Auralex MoPADs, I was skeptical. Once I got them in my studio, however, I changed my tune.
The MoPADs are monitor isolation pads. They’re designed to live between your studio monitors and the surface on which they are resting. Why is this important?
Good Vibrations
We all know that sound, by definition, [...]
