Berkeley, CA based Keith McMillen Instruments has come up with a handy little device called the Batt-O-Meter ($29.99).
Essentially a battery tester for musicians, the Batt-O-Meter plugs in to any guitar pedal or electric instrument with a 1/4″ jack, and displays the remaining life and voltage delivered from the battery. Read more...
By Ezra Tenenbaum for Delicious Audio
The instrumental music played by Steve Marion, aka Delicate Steve, is strange and wonderful. His first full length album “Wondervisions” — released after a 10 year career of recording, producing and playing with other bands — features sonic delights only a “wise” musician/producer could Read more...
Amptweaker’s newest pedal is the TightBoost, a boost pedal with some nifty extras built-in. Along with True-Bypass, the TightBoost comes with four controls: Boost, High, Mid, and Tight.
While the Boost and High controls do what you expect them to, the Mid features a parked wah tone that increases gradually Read more...
Most fuzz pedal manufacturers can nail the vintage sound of the ‘60’s and ’70’s if they use the right increasingly rare high-quality components and simple circuit designs.
Unfortunately, many of these pedals are pretty ponies of the one-trick variety: an expensive addition to your board that only serves to produce Read more...
SOHO, MANHATTAN: Whether you know it or not, you’ve been listening to Jesse Harris a lot. For this NYC music man, the song — sung by him or somebody else — really is the thing, and his songs get around.
It was Harris’ pen that produced one of the most Read more...
In the first week of November, just as they began shipping an unprecedented new product called Pro Tools|HD Native, Avid made an even more stunning announcement: They would break free of Digidesign’s mold by demolishing the distinctions between HD and LE software to offer one platform – Pro Tools 9. Read more...
DUMBO, BROOKLYN: In October, SonicScoop hoofed over to Dumbo to chat with guitarist, songwriter and producer Justin King and check out his new recording studio, Vinegar Hill Sound.
Up to his elbows in gear and gypsum board dust, and surprisingly lucid after many an hour of hand-soldering, Justin sat Read more...
Artist: This or the Apocalypse
Song: “Charmer”
Why I Luv It: Metal-core band This or The Apocalypse from Lancaster, PA landed on my radar earlier this year. That’s when my MTV video editor/friend Andre Sosnowski gave me the heads-up that the band was getting in the studio with Josh Wilbur Read more...
As a mix engineer, I’ve spent increasingly more and more time in front of my home rig in the last couple years and less time in front of big mixing consoles in studios stocked with outboard gear.
Because of this, it’s essential that the tools I’ve grown accustomed to in Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: You’re not ready until you’re ready to take it on the road. With all bets officially off on all other forms of music revenue, touring is one of the most tangible avenues available for promoting a band.
David Galea, an agent at the NYC office of the elite Read more...
