The acoustic guitar is an amazing instrument. And it has evolved through the years, as all inventions do. Never has there been a better time to be a buyer, tough, because you have options and features that would not be available to the buyer of yesteryear. The dreadnought acoustic guitar ...
Hall Reverb recreates the expansive sound of large concert halls and auditoriums. It’s characterized by a longer decay and a grand, open sound, which is ideal for orchestral pieces, cinematic scores, or any music that requires a sense of grandeur. ...
Somehow we ended up in one of those tin-roof camp chapels that doubles as an auditorium. In the dark, we chose a place for our sleeping bags onstage against the back wall and right next to a bookshelf full of vintage (1927-1959) Hardy Boy Mystery Stories that I did not have in ...
Jamie Lin Wilson: I got a guitar Christmas of 2000 after watching the Dixie Chicks' Houston show on the Fly tour. My cousin and I bought tickets on a whim, and a few weeks later she gave me my first instrument. To say this record had a profound influence on my life is an understate...
You probably realized that a tiny room will create a much different type of reverb than a spacious auditorium will. Though there are basically an infinite amount of 'verbs' you could configure, they all fall into a handful of main categories, plus a couple special categories. ...
Dan and I grabbed dinner at Tandoor nearMerrill Auditoriumand made our way over to the venue so Dan could introduce me to Peter McFarland, who is the Senior Lead Event Coordinator at Portland Ovations. I’ve been writing concert reviews for whatbreesees.com for eight years, but had somehow...
Is the scroll on an F style mandolin hollow or solid, and what is the stated purpose of the scroll? Does it have a practical purpose or is it just for decoration? There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't. Ibanez M-522 Gold Tone...
it came to detail, with Lindsey Buckingham re-stringing his guitar every 20 minutes to maintain the crispness of tone while recording Never Go Back Again, and Christine McVie's Songbird being tracked during an all-night session at Zellerbach Auditorium to achieve an authentic concert hall ...
Map of a Blue City ruminates on what it means to be lost—the confusion and fear, of course, but also the excitement of so many undreamt-of possibilities. Its history is an odd map of its own, full of false starts, blind alleys, and dead ends. The album bears the weig...
Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification or the need thereof. Acoustic guitar, acoustic piano Acoustic The properties or qualities of a room or building that determine how sound is transmitted in it. Acoustic (medicine) A medicine or other agent to assist hea...