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Neumann U87 Studio Microphone Well Deserved Reputation as the Best
The Neumann U87 Ai Set Z Studio Condenser Microphone with Omnidirectional, Cardioid and Figure-8 Polar Patterns, Shockmount, and Windscreen. Arguably the best known and most widely used studio microphone in the world (for good reason), the easy-to-recognize U 87 is a classic! A distinctive design and legendary Neumann sound make this mic a must-have for pro ...
iBand Gigs with iPhone Instruments
GEEK ALERT! Geeks Form First iBand With iPhone Instruments Small format, handheld touch screen musicians are the future, so you had better get used to it. If you haven't seen Pocket Guitar (iPhone guitar) or iAno (iPhone piano) function on Apple's iPhone then you're going to jaw drop when you hear the newly formed ...
Guitar Amp Sim Power User Tips
While some people debate endlessly whether amp sims sound just like the “real thing" or not, others are forging ahead and creating new sounds with these new tools. Reality check: If you want the exact sound of a Vox AC30, well, buy a Vox AC30. But if you want a sound that's based on an AC30 ...
Class D Amplifiers Are Shrinking and Greening Your Electronics
Class D Amplifiers Technology has democratized the music industry in many obvious ways -- notice how every band, regardless of stature, has a MySpace page? But one of technology's more subtle effects has been to make our sound systems smaller, lighter and greener. The special sauce: Class D amplifiers, the first real advance in speaker design ...
World Mural Project
Four Score and some years Musicians Find it Hard to Land a Gig Forty years in the future, humanity will be on the brink of mass extinction due to its blatant neglect toward the environment; robots will steal most of our jobs (even mine); I'll be too old to care about technology. But those are just ...
Bass Management: Taming the Wild Upright Bass
Recording Technics These days, the upright bass is not just used in jazz, classical, rockabilly, and country music. It's everywhere from roots rock to hipster lounge to salsa. It's also known by many names: double bass, contrabass, bass violin, bass fiddle, string bass, and, thanks to some Wikipedia research, bull fiddle. Whatever it's called, ...
Science and Art of Recording Acoustic Guitar
String Theories IT DON'T PHASE THEM Some of the most innovative guitarists in the world -- and the engineers who record them -- share their scientific, artistic, psychological, and sometimes complex approach to capturing a good acoustic guitar sound. It's an often painstaking and complicated process. And you thought all you needed was a ...
MLB to Track Homers with Holograms, Database
For years, bleacher bums could pretend that their home run ball was hit by Barry Bonds, rather than Duane Kuiper. No longer. Major League Baseball will now validate home runs with a special hologram, which fans can verify in an online database. In addition, through a partnership with IBM, a special portal will be made available ...
Who Wants to Play a Rock Star? You Do
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It turns out everyone just wants to be a rock star. Music-genre video games “Guitar Hero" and “Rock Band" are bona-fide smash hits, entering the rarefied air once reserved for only the elite first-person shooters, “Mario" games or sports titles. And success breeds imitation. Music games seemed to be everywhere at this ...
Universal Says DMCA Takedown Notices Can Ignore "Fair Use"
Intellectual Property SAN JOSE, California -- Universal Music told a federal judge here Friday that takedown notices requiring online video-sharing sites to automatically remove content need not consider whether videos are protected by the “fair use" doctrine. The doctrine permits limited use of copyright materials without the owner's permission. The music company made the argument Friday ...
