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 Thu 03 October 2013 in Computer Music • Tagged with RME, rme adi2, rme babyface, rme fireface, rme fireface 800, rme fireface uc, rme fireface ucx, rme fireface ufx, rme octamic, rme octamic ii, rme octamic xtc
RME are renowned not only for producing professional interfaces with superior quality preamps and converters, but also for creating products that are extremely well built and reliable, with rock-solid drivers. This reputation has led to Synthax Audio UK (the UK suppliers of RME) announcing that they will provide a 5 …
Posted on Thu 03 October 2013 in General News • Tagged with reverb pedal, tc electronic, tc electronic hall of fame, tc electronic hall of fame mini, tc electronic hall of fame reverb
Fancy a top quality professional reverb, but running out of room on your pedalboard? How about one that's TonePrint enabled, so that you can access all the usually hidden parameters of the pedal and create completely custom sounds... or of course download presets that have been programmed by industry artists …
Posted on Thu 03 October 2013 in Computer Music • Tagged with Native Instruments, native instruments maschine studio, native instruments maschinw
Introducing the Maschine Studio, Native Instruments' new flagship groove workstation, ideal for music production and performance. The Maschine Studio is essentially an expanded Maschine controller, adding more buttons for an improved hands-on workflow, a jog wheel for faster browsing and editing and hi-resolution colour displays, which show even more information …
Posted on Thu 03 October 2013 in Computer Music • Tagged with midi controller, Native Instruments, native instruments maschine, native instruments maschine 2.0, native instruments maschine mikro, native instruments maschine studio, native instruments mk2, pad controller, sampler
Native Instruments have released an updated 2.0 version of their Maschine software, which provides a number of powerful new updates and tools for working with their popular Maschine, Maschine Mikro and new flagship Maschine Studio controllers. In this article we're going to look at what new features have been …
Posted on Tue 01 October 2013 in General News • Tagged with analogue synth, bass synth, waldorf, waldorf pulse, waldorf pulse 2
It's been a long wait but the Waldorf Pulse 2 is finally here! The original Pulse was considered by many as the ultimate analogue bass synth and for good reason! It had a HUGE, powerful sound and was even rather handy at producing tearing leads! I should know as I …
Posted on Tue 01 October 2013 in General News • Tagged with bass amp, bass combo amp, tc electronic, tc electronic bg250, tc electronic bg250-112, tc electronic bg250-115, tc electronic bg250-208, tc electronic bg250-210
TC Electronic have announced a new range of bass combo amps, consisting of the BG250-112, BG250-115, BG250-208 and BG250-210. Each of the amps is TonePrint-ready, so you can customise its sound by loading in your choice of professionally-programmed presets from TC's TonePrint library. You can even use the free Toneprint …
Posted on Tue 01 October 2013 in Computer Music • Tagged with budo, grieves, hip hop, propellerhead, propellerhead reason, propellerhead reason 7
American rapper Grieves originally swore by his Akai MPC2000 sampler, but having been introduced to Reason 7 by his long-time collaborator Budo, Grieves made the switch to software and hasn't looked back!
Grieves found the visual design of Reason extremely useful and loves the way that it is equally at …
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 …