SoHo, Manhattan: Travis Harrison — record producer, engineer, founder of Serious Business Records & Studio and Guided By Voices super-fan — met late era GBV guitarist Doug Gillard when his band, The Unsacred Hearts, shared a bill with Gillard at Piano’s.
Harrison gushed about GBV, Gillard dug The Unsacred Hearts, Read more...
Gigging musicians will want to check out the Nord Piano 88, which has been designed with live performance in mind. This new 88-key stage piano from Nord weighs in at just 39.6 pounds, but it’s heavy on features.
In addition to 24 banks of 5 programs totaling 120 different program Read more...
Catch MTV’s latest teen docu-drama-style show, Skins, this week? The chiptune theme song, by Brooklyn-based duo Starscream was tracked at NYC’s Stratosphere Studios, with producer/engineer Gabe Liberti. The cast of the show also joined Liberti in the studio to record vocals.
Stratosphere has also welcomed songwriter and former Epic Read more...
Among new products introduced at Winter NAMM last week was Korg’s new Kaoss Pad Quad, which employs new effects, functions and features that let users create their own combination of Kaoss effects with simultaneous control of up to four effects in real-time.
Each of the four effect modules – Read more...
At Winter NAMM over the weekend, Waves announced the upcoming release of their modeled plug-in version of the original Aphex Aural Exciter.
The “Waves Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter” plug-in is based on one of two prototype tube-powered units developed by Aphex during the mid seventies.
The original Aural Exciter traveled Read more...
