YouTube settings with HTML5
Most guitarists and other musicians like to learn from YouTube.
When the guitar player is moving quickly, it is helpful to slow down the video with this trick that uses an HTML5 browser.
1. Go to YouTube and turn on the HTML5 Trial
2. Update your internet browse to support HTML5. YouTube lists the most common ones that do.
Avid Pro Tools Mbox division sold
Avid makes the Pro Tools audio editing software (DAW) that is used to make more movie soundtracks and recordings than any other program.
The founders of AVID created the genre of non-linear audio editing. That has not been enough to keep them profitable.
JR Rotem with his famous clients (Ethan Miller / Frederick M. Brown / Michael Tullberg, Getty Images)
J.R. Rotem has hit the charts with a recognizable sound for his hip-hop clients.
Surprisingly in a world where ProTools is the professional digital recording software (DAW) of choice, JR Rotem actually likes the sound he gets from Sonar.
He has produced mega hits Rihanna (‘SOS), Sean Kingston (‘Beautiful Girls’ and ‘Take You There’), Leona Lewis (‘Better In Time’), Iyaz (‘Replay’), Jason Derülo (‘Watcha Say’ ‘In My Head’), Nicki Minaj (‘Fly’), and others. Most of those hits were recorded using Sonar DAW software.
Jim Marshall of Marshall amps - the sound of rock and roll (photo credit Damien Maguire)
James Charles “Jim” Marshall OBE (July 29, 1923 – April 5, 2012) was a man with poor health, a musician and business person.
In the 1960s he created the Marshall guitar amp and changed the volume of rock music forever.
He died on April 5, 2012 at a hospice in London, UK surrounded by his wife and four children. Continue reading
By Stephen Pate – Updated with Webinar info – If you want to hear the music louder, turn up the volume don’t compress the life out of the music. Dynamic Range Day hopes to educate recording engineers, musicians and the public about the benefit of more natural sound.
The advent of MP3 players and the ubiquitous iPhone and iPod have changed the way we hear music, and it’s not for the better.
Continue reading
When Sir Paul McCartney released Kisses on the Bottom last month, it was accompanied by a live event of Sir Paul, Joe Walsh, and Diana Krall.
The Live studio concert is more entertaining that the CD, in my opinion. Sir Paul is interactive and engaging with the small audience.