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 DPA Microphones  — once known as Danish Pro Audio, a company that was created by two former Brüel & Kjær employees — has a long-standing and well-deserved reputation for...
My band, the Podunk Poets, recently did a gig at the Peavey Showroom in Hollywood.  In addition to the company’s guitars and amplifiers, they have a stage set up in there, some casino-style...
When you get to the point where you are playing rooms big enough where you have to actually mic your guitar amp instead of being constantly told to turn it the hell down...you may be faced with an...
Forget everything you know about mixing boards and mixing, Line 6’s Sound M20d is a game changer.   Instead of rows of knobs replicated for each channel, a simple touch screen and a couple of...
After posting my Gretsch Electromatic G5420 review, I received this email…   Hi, Jake, I saw your demo of the Gretsch G5420. Very nice. I like the way you harmonized "Something" by G. Harrison...
Last month I wrote about the uses of small format consoles in churches. So, it would only make sense for me to write about large format consoles this month. By Jamie Rio   Actually I will be...
Cerwin-Vega…the company best known for pro audio speakers that has recently been acquired by Gibson…has introduced a new line of mixing consoles: the CVM-1022 (10 channel board priced at $149), CVM-...
One of the great pleasures in life for songwriters is playing one of their songs with a full band backing them up:      hearing the drums emphasize the backbeat and breaking into...
I love a really well-crafted studio recording. There are some artists who use the studio almost as another instrument. Dozens of takes to get the perfect sound. Alternate versions and arrangements...

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