Ends and Odds – Book Order Updates, AU LAB and more
Hey Everyone, I hope this finds you well! Just a few quick updates. Book Orders and Lessons Learned The page has been a little light on lessons (minus the 12-tone post) lately, but I’ve been busy juggling a few other things and getting the book orders out the door are amongst them. I had been … Read more
A Game Changer? The Sonuus i2M musicport overview
I haven’t done a gear review in a while – so I thought I’d bring something exciting to the table this time. Lately, I’ve been thinking more about Midi guitar. Not in the traditional sense of, “wouldn’t it be great to get some flute sounds out of my guitar for this smooth jazz solo?” but … Read more
Apogee Duet 2 Announced
For those of you familiar with my series of posts on using a laptop as a guitar preamp, a key component of this rig is the Apogee duet. Apogee just announced a new version of the Duet that has some really interesting features and may be worth exploring. The superficial: Well the new unit looks … Read more
Hardware vs. Software – Or Praises And Perils In Live Laptop Use
Before I drag this article kicking and screaming down the bloody cobblestones of memory lane, I’ll mention that the kick off for this post was a recent effort to stabilize my laptop rig. A couple of months ago I found out that the 4 gig chip that my laptop would support had come down in … Read more
GuitArchitecture, Sonic Visualization And A Pentatonic Approach For The Holidays
Happy Holidays! . I know I’ve been posting a lot of gear related items lately – and based on the statistics for site visits – this seems to be what people are primarily interested in – so this has driven the posting content recently. While I’m happy to blog about gear (not incidentally, my 8 … Read more
POD HD vs Pod Farm: A Cost Comparison
One thing that occasionally drives me crazy is trying to find out about a piece of gear – finding a googled link – reading through a multi page posting involving specific gear only to get to a final point of, “Oh I don’t have the unit and I’ve never tried it – but I’ve read the … Read more
Apogee Duet Break Out Box Overview
The Apogee Duet is a pretty remarkable piece of gear – and it terms of A/D/A conversion – it does a great job at it’s price point. The Duet 1/4″/XLR cables, however, are a little hit and miss: You’ll notice that the connecting wires are thin and a little fragile looking. Also – because of … Read more
AU LAB/POD FARM 2.0/LIVE LAPTOP RIG TUTORIAL PART 6 – Dual Rig Distorted Tones
In previous instances – I haven’t had a whole lot of success with running both A and B channels on a dual rig – but I thought I would try to steal a tone idea from Joe Bonamassa, and give it another shot – this time running a dirty and clean tone at the same … Read more
Recycling Shapes or Modular Arpeggios for Fun and Profit
When improvising, I need to be able to access sounds immediately. One tool that I use for this is Sonic Visualization (which is really a cornerstone of the GuitArchitetcure concept). In Sonic Visualization – I associate shapes with sounds so that I can make changes, modify or develop ideas in real-time. Here’s one example of … Read more
