Where 7 Famous Bands Played Their First Ever Gig, courtesy of hometogo
What Does YOUR VOICE Sound Like To Others?
November 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Over the years I’ve been privileged enough to have sat in master classes with Chris Beatty.
While he kinda looks goofy with this exercise, it is an intriguing test acheter viagra to understand how others hear what you actually sound like.
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Repairing Willie Nelson’s Trigger
October 27, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Willie Nelson’s guitar, “Trigger,” is in for repairs at Erlewine Guitars in Austin, Texas. Mark Erlewine shares a close-up look at the famous hole in the top. Mark’s been Trigger’s caretaker for ages, and he gives us the inside scoop on Trigger’s history.
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Why “Good Vibrations” is a pop masterpiece
October 23, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Musicians and music enthusiasts call The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” one of the greatest songs ever written. What makes it so good? Take a look at this analysis.
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Can You Hear the Difference Between a Cheap and Expensive Violin?
October 21, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Why are some violins so expensive? Rob Landes went to Peter Prier and Sons in Salt Lake City, where he put to the test a violin he purchased on Amazon for $62, and an antique Italian violin for $285,000.
The first song he plays is Hallelujah, and the second is AC/DC “Thunderstruck”.
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The Making of $300,000 Speakers
October 7, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Oswalds Mill Audio makes $300,000 speakers from wood like ash, cherry, and walnut—plus slate and special cast iron. The sound quality is as good as the materials.
Made is a series of simple, gorgeous short films that demonstrate how everyday luxury objects are made, and honor the process and artisans behind them.
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Sounds of the Nightmare Machine
September 30, 2017 By Leave a Comment
What happens when a horror movie composer and a guitar maker join forces? They create the world’s most disturbing musical instrument.
Affectionately known as “The Apprehension Engine,” this one-of-a-kind instrument was commissioned by movie composer Mark Korven. Korven wanted to create spooky noises in a more acoustic and original way—but the right instrument didn’t exist. So his friend, guitar maker Tony Duggan-Smith, went deep into his workshop and assembled what has to be the spookiest instrument on Earth. [pb_vidembed title=”” caption=”” url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lTYPvArbGo” type=”yt” w=”680″ h=”385″]
A Strat is Born
September 26, 2017 By Leave a Comment
This short film “A Strat is Born” takes you on a high-speed ride through the creation of a Fender Stratocaster guitar at Fender’s U.S. manufacturing facility in Corona, Calif., showing you every step from bare wood to onstage and set to a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Wayne Kramer.
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How the sound of 80’s music was born
August 27, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Even if you’ve never heard the term “reverb drum,” you’ve heard the effect itself in just about every ’80s song to top the charts.
Phil Collins was playing drums for Peter Gabriel’s album, “The Intruder,” when a mic hung in the studio specifically to speak to the musicians caught the sound of him playing.
As producer explained to Music Radar:
When Phil was playing the drums one day, I opened this microphone to speak to him to hear what he was saying while he was still playing the drums and out came the most unbelievable sound. Everyone went, ‘oh my god’, that sounds incredible. So we go okay, that was the compression on the mic. Then we had the compressors and noise gates in each channel so I said okay, let’s put up some room mics, listen to the drums through those and compress them…
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