Guitars can be very expensive, but some beginner acoustic guitars are actually quite affordable. How much you’re going to spend on a guitar depends on your wishes and preferences. You can easily find a good entry-level acoustic guitar for approximately $100-300. On the other hand, profession...
"Charlie, I'm pregnant and living on 9th Street," begins the Christmas card narrative in which a woman writes to an old flame, reporting how much better things are going since she quit drugs and alcohol and found a trombone-playing husband. Waits' signature early career pia...
Nick:We always try to have as much fun as possible. We were forced, in a way, to approach this process very differently than we ever have, because we were all recording in different parts of the country, living in different countries, and occasionally meeting up in ...
“There had to be some differential to make people realize these weren’t the authentic American product,” Martin Fredman at CBS/Fender said, “but that they were getting something made under the auspices of Fender. They just wouldn’t pay so much money for it.” The revised Squier Vintag...
this should leave the sound pretty much unchanged, but in stereo the sample's spectrum will be smeared across the stereo image in a complex way, shifting it out of the centre. Often, the EQ can push the widened image subjectively off-centre too, so spend a few minutes tweaking both EQs...
6. 'A Hard Day's Night' (1964) The first album to include songs written entirely by the band (well, John Lennon and Paul McCartney), 'A Hard Day's Night' is pretty much 30 minutes of pure Beatlemania. From the shimmering chord that kicks off both the album and the title track, th...
Martin Small says:I am always trying to find ways to fuse things that I'm passionate about. And I love American rock guitar and rock, pop and blues, and I love investing. The two have more in common than you might think. Every great rock, pop and blues song that's ever been writte...
— Martin Grubinger, award-winning percussionist and drummer1 A Day In the Life of a Percussionist Your day will look different depending on the current gig you have, but most percussionists find work in an orchestra or ensemble. So here are the typical things a percussionist does on a ...
Unless you’re a superhuman singer, you’re bound to end up with some differences between the original take and the double—and that’s the point! That said, too much variation can cause the double tracking effect to collapse. If this happens, the two tracks will start to sound like inde...
6. 'A Hard Day's Night' (1964) The first album to include songs written entirely by the band (well, John Lennon and Paul McCartney), 'A Hard Day's Night' is pretty much 30 minutes of pure Beatlemania. From the shimmering chord that kicks off both the album and the title track, th...