Reaching Out Through Music - Fundraising Concert
I've been teaching guitar at the Reaching Out Through Music program one afternoon a week since last September. The program's chief mandate is to offer private instruction to inner-city children and youth who cannot otherwise obtain music lessons for financial reasons. There's a fundraiser for the program happening on Saturday, May 9th. If you'd like to lend your support, here are the details: Time: Saturday, May 9th at 7:30 p.m. Location: St Simon-the-Apostle Anglican Church 525 Bloor St East Toronto, …
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Here's a couple shots of me playing with Audio X last weekend... ( Photo by David Leadbitter ) Jamie Bonk (Guitar) | Dave Patel (Drums) | Lori Nuic (Vocals/Guitar) | Wendy Irvine (Keys/Vocals) ( Photo by David Leadbitter ) Jamie Bonk (Guitar) | Dave Patel (Drums) | Lori Nuic (Vocals/Guitar) | Wendy Irvine (Keys/Vocals)
USB FireWire Audio Interface Showdown
If you lurk on various music tech forums like I do, it's pretty hard to miss all of the talk regarding USB and FireWire audio interfaces. The general consensus seems to be that for audio, USB is vastly inferior to FireWire -- that you'll get far less performance out of a USB device than you will out of a FireWire one. Well, I'm a hands on guy, so I wanted to test this out for myself. This clearly is not an exhaustive, definitive test, but honestly, I was surprised by the results. Here's the gear I used …
Safe Computing - Part 1
Over my almost thirty years of working with computers, I've picked up a few tips and tricks that I'd like to share. I'm going to start very generally and over the next few months (hopefully!), I'll get more specific. So here we go! Suspenders and a belt . I think everyone knows this one... But still, I've seen lots of people lose LOTS of data -- including songs and entire albums (yikes!). So... If the only place that your data exists is on your one and only hard drive, your data (meaning your songs, …
Music LessonsSeth Godin gets it right in his blog entry, Music Lessons. If you're an artist releasing your own music, this should be required reading. Meet My Little Friend
Actually, meet my two little friends -- the Mackie SRM150 's. Without a doubt these are some of the best pieces of gear I've purchased in a long time. So what exactly is the Mackie SRM150?Well, it's a lot of things. Mackie calls it a Compact Active PA System -- an apt, but fairly broad and non-committal description. It can be used as a PA, but it has so many other uses. With a three channel mixer, three band eq, phantom power, an audio "thru" with a mic/line switch, 150 watts of power …
The Sweet Indie Label Software Suite
So you're a musician and you want to start up a record label, eh? Well, it's not all fun and games. For me, the most not fun thing is all of the business I have to do. And if you're an indie musician like me, you're going to have to do the same not fun things that I have to. Lots of not fun things. If you want to keep your focus on music and not business, I've found one "trick" is to streamline your business software. And the best way, in my opinion, to do that is to buy a Mac. Yeah, I'm …
Record Companies Rediscover InnovationThis seems like a good idea. The bundling of records, merchandise, live shows, etc. has been done before, but whether through creative thinking or simply lack of choice, the record companies look like they are changing. April, 2009 Posts
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