UPDATE, 03.07.13: I should have mentioned a point that several readers noted in comments: The capo only alters the tuning of open strings. Which means that while you can play many harmonies normally available only in dropped tunings, any notes above the capo appear at their usual frets. For example, all barre chords are […]
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William Bennett, 1956-2013 I lost one of my oldest and dearest friends yesterday — and one of the deepest musicians I’ve ever known. Bill Bennett, longtime oboist with the San Francisco Symphony, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage onstage last weekend while performing Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto at Davies Symphony Hall here in San Francisco. He […] I’ve installed TriplePlay on the homemade strat. For the last few months I’ve been working with Fishman on the documentation for TriplePlay, their long-awaited wireless MIDI guitar system, which will finally ship this quarter. I had a blast demoing TriplePlay at MacWorld a few weeks ago, and I’m looking forward to doing so […] Is this what your studio will look like in 2023? The recent post on Auto-Tune for Guitar generated much interesting discussion, plus a few good Auto-Tune jokes. Thanks, guys! :beer: The comments from smgear particularly impressed me, because he managed to assemble a wish list for a future digital guitar with more detail […] I had to share this image sent by reader Gerald Good. (Thanks, man!) Gerald Good made this pretty picture. (Click to embiggen.) It’s a handy stompbox wiring diagram that’ll work with all the stompbox project on this site, and most other simple circuits. It’s not the only way to do it — there […] Has anyone checked out this video for axes equipped with Antares’s Auto-Tune for Guitar? I haven’t tried one of these myself, though my pal Art Thompson at Guitar Player gave Peavey’s Auto-Tune-equipped AT-200 a glowing review. I’d heard of the product, but must admit I hadn’t given it much thought, assuming it was chiefly […] UPDATE: My apologies if this page failed to load properly before. After a much screaming and crying some careful troubleshooting, it seems to be working correctly now. I put together a little slideshow of some of the interesting things I saw last week at the 2013 NAMM show in Anaheim. I covered some of […] This first installment of my 2013 NAMM report focuses on products for the digital guitarist. In the coming days I’ll be doing posts on analog amps, guitar, stompboxes, and accessories. (But maybe not as quickly as I’d like, because I’ve also got to cover MacWorld in San Francisco this weekend.) This is cross-posted from Create […] NAMM is loud. My idea was to scour NAMM’s five massive exhibition halls in a fast, efficient fashion, and then retire to a nearby cafe to pen witty yet informative summaries, which I’d post effortlessly via my cunning little i-devices. Instead I’ve been running around like a chicken with its head cut […] 
It’s that time again, folks. “It’s the most won-der-ful time of the year…” Oh wait — that was last month. Now it’s January. NAMM time! I’ll be there for the duration, partly to hang out with my Pure Guitar pals, and partly to meet with Fishman about the upcoming TriplePlay release. But mostly […] |
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