Using the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 with M-Audio 2626 as Slave If you have an old micpreamp / soundcard which no longer has driver updates – or is Firewire 400, or which Mac updates have rendered obsolete, here’s an idea that worked for me. An ADAT-slaved micpreamp will allow you to use your up-to-date 8 …
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Live music should be all about small gigs with great bands and enthusiastic audiences. But instead, the reality is small gigs with no audience, or massive gigs with massive audiences (and equally massive ticket prices), that are way too large for much in the way of musical communication. This interesting Wired article about legendary US promoter Peter …
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This very cool article by Ray Padgett in his forthcoming book, includes recordings of early takes (including a wasted Brian Jones playing piano very badly), and Hendrix’ guitar stems. Jimi spent months agonising over ever bit of the track. He started recording just drums and acoustic guitars, with Dave Mason on 12-string. It was all rather struggle, …
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I went today to a lecture by Robin Cahart-Harris at the University of Oxford Psychiatry Department (where I do stuff in my guise as a research foundation director). Robin was visiting the department from Imperial College London. The title of his talk was “Psilocybin for depression: outcomes, mechanisms and future plans”. Robin is interested in …
Just recovering from a weekend of serious music with Jez Coad producing, with Steve Turner on bass and Jeff Walker on drums. I’ve played with these guys over the last (ahem) thirty years, gigging and in the recording studio set up by Jez in an oast I had down in darkest Kent. Steve and Jeff played in …
Now this is a really good idea!! I discovered variable overdrive through using a volume pedal to swell signal into an overdrive stomp box. But I never really caught onto its possibilities until I bought my Axe FX, which allows you to control any effect using an expression pedal. In the Axe, I was able …