BIAS – Custom Amp Builder App for iOS
Positive Grid are releasing a custom virtual amp builder that lets you change just about everything and use the amp right away in JamUp.
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Impressive JamUp Showoff
The JamUp iOS amp sim is recognized as one of the best, if not the best. Here’s a video where Jeff Loomis and Keith Merrow show what it’s really capable of!
Read more62 Short Videos On How to Make a Better Mix
Mixing and studio blog The Recording Revolution released a very popular series of 5-minute instructional videos about recording and mixing. Now they’ve released a second series of videos – 31 fresh 5-minutes video, all worth every second of your time.
Read moreNew Years Resolution: Play More Guitar
With a hectic life as a parent of two and a demanding job, it’s often easy for me to sit down with the computer rather than play guitar when I have a moment of spare time. But this year is going to be different!
Read morePer Nilsson of Scar Symmetry Relases Instructional DVD
Sneap Talks Kemper
Master of production Andy Sneap talks about the Kemper profiling amp. God, I want one of those! :-). The fact that it looks like something out of a Russian nuclear silo control room only adds to the GAS.
Read moreOla Englund Demos Evertune and True Temperament
The guitar as an instrument is flawed by design. It’s difficult to keep in tune, and a traditional guitar neck actually cannot be intonated to completely play the correct tone on each fret. Ola Englund demos two inventions that were made to overcome these flaws – the Evertune bridge and the True Temperament neck.
Read moreVideo: Reaper for Guitarists 1 – Getting Started
I said on a guitarist forum that Reaper is really easy to get started with. One member didn’t really agree and challenged me to make a tutorial to prove it, so – here it is! My first video tutorial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOdHnhd-sHM The tutorial covers really basic stuff and only assumes that you have installed Reaper on […]
Read moreMore Chord Theory: Power Chord Variations
Power chords are three-string chords which use can use to play almost any rock or heavy metal song you can think of. You usually write them down as fives, like E5 that you play like this: E — B — G — D -2- A -2- E -0- The template for a power chord is […]
Read moreThree Virtual Bassists – One Bass VST for Each Size Wallet
To make a song as a bedroom guitarist you need someone to play the other instruments, you know the ones us guitarists don’t care so much about: bass and drums. For drums there are excellent VST plugs, foremost the Swedish Drumkit from Hell (which I use myself) and it’s big brother Superior Drummer. There are […]
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