Posted on Fri 15 November 2013 in entries • Tagged with digitech, digitech whammy, electro harmonix, electro harmonix slammi, pitch shifter pedal, whammy pedal
This review was written by Joe Mann, who is part of the Absolute Music guitar team and one of our guitar technicians...
I currently own a Digitech Whammy & so when we got our first shipment of Electro Harmonix Slammi pedals in, I couldn't resist performing a side-by-side comparison to see …
Posted on Fri 08 November 2013 in entries • Tagged with izotope, izotope nectar, izotope nectar 2, vocal software
This review was written by local engineer, Dave Thomas...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I have been engineering for 20 years and have a modestly equipped home studio comprising of Cubase 7, Pro Tools 10, UA Apollo Duo and an AKG c414, which I use as a vocal microphone. I also engineer …
Posted on Tue 08 October 2013 in entries • Tagged with drum clinic, jojo mayer, mike dolbear
Wow, what a clinic! I think it's fair to say that everyone who joined us in our Bournemouth pro-music superstore last Friday was absolutely blown away by Jojo's seemingly superhuman skills on the drums. However, behind the scenes, Jojo was also dishing out a special stick warm-up exercise with Mike …
Posted on Tue 08 October 2013 in entries • Tagged with Eric Johnson, greg howe, overdrive, overdrive pedal, scott henderson, xotic, xotic ac booster, xotic bb preamp, xotic rc booster
Following on from my recent review of the AC Plus (CLICK HERE to read it), I thought I'd write a quick article comparing Xotic's venerable AC Booster, RC Booster & BB Preamp models. These units have become modern classics & can be found on the pedalboards of many a tone-hound (from the …
Posted on Mon 30 September 2013 in entries • Tagged with acoustic drum kit, drum kit, mapex, mapex saturn iv, russ miller
On 10th June this year, we were joined in our Bournemouth pro-music superstore by multi-platinum recording artist Russ Miller for a special drum clinic. Russ is considered by many to be one of the best drummers in the world and has worked alongside artists such as Ray Charles, The 5th …
Posted on Mon 30 September 2013 in entries • Tagged with focusrite, focusrite saffire, focusrite saffire pro 14, focusrite saffire pro 24, focusrite saffire pro 24 dsp, focusrite saffire pro 40, focusrite scarlett, focusrite scarlett 18i20, focusrite scarlett 18i8, focusrite scarlett 2i2, focusrite scarlett 2i4, focusrite scarlett 6i6, focusrite vrm, vrm
Focusrite's Scarlett and Saffire interfaces have been adopted by many professional and home recording artists and producers across the world. Given their price, the quality of the preamps and converters on these units have made them into two of the most popular interface ranges ever! However, whilst the Scarlett line …
Posted on Fri 20 September 2013 in entries • Tagged with booster pedal, Eric Johnson, greg howe, scott henderson, steve stevens, xotic, xotic ac plus
Xotic effects have become synonymous with tonal quality & their range of boosters/ overdrives have been adopted by players such as Eric Johnson, Scott Henderson, Steve Stevens & Greg Howe (to name but a few). Models such as the AC Booster, RC Booster & BB Preamp all became instant classics shortly after their …
Posted on Fri 13 September 2013 in entries • Tagged with fulltone, fulltone full drive, fulltone full drive 2 mosfet, fulltone fulldrive, fulltone fulldrive 2, fulltone fulldrive 2- mosfet, fulltone fulldrive2, fulltone fulldrive2 mosfet, guitar effect pedal, overdrive pedal
Whatever else may be said, Mike Fuller has certainly garnered a reputation for quality with his Fulltone brand of vintage-inspired effects pedals. In 2007 Mr. Fuller decided to update the self-proclaimed 'most popular boutique overdrive ever made' & the FullDrive 2 became the FullDrive 2-MOSFET. The inclusion of the MOSFET (Metal …
Posted on Tue 03 September 2013 in entries • Tagged with control surface, controller keyboard, midi controller, midi keyboard, nektar, nektar panorama, nektar panorama p1, nektar panorama p4, nektar panorama p6
We were recently joined in our Bournemouth pro-music superstore and studios by Tim Chandler, Product Manager for Nektar's Panorama controllers. After hooking a Panorama P4 keyboard, Panorama P1 control surface and Reason Balance interface up to his Mac computer, Tim proceeded to demonstrate how their products could significantly improve your …
Posted on Fri 23 August 2013 in entries • Tagged with guitar switcher, lehle, lehle little dual, lehle little lehle, lehle little lehle 2, lehle little lehle ii
p-split, lehle sunday driver, lehle swithcer, switcher Slug: lehle-switchers-review Status: published
For those who are using a number of pedals, long cable runs, or even multiple amps, how exactly to rig all of these pieces of equipment together without suffering a loss in tonal quality can often be a cause …