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Moog Taurus Pedal11.14.08

The Moog Taurus pedal is an analog synthesizer that is played with your feet. It helps fill out the song your playing with that real church pipe organ/deep base register sound. The best example of this sound is when The Police used this pedal at the beginning of Don’t stand so close to me. This [...]



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How about those Yamaha audio mixing consoles08.25.08

I’ve was talking to my buddy Rick from the now defunct G-Force Media, and we got to talking about Mixing equipment. He has this ancient Yamaha board and he swears by this thing! It’s very HUGE looking and kinda intimidating to sit down behind with tons of knobs everywhere on it.

As we were chatting on [...]



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Who Killed the Electric Car08.16.08

Has anyone out there seen this fabulous documentary called Who Killed th Electric Car? My wife and I have just finished watching this doc for the second time, and it just keeps boggling the mind.

I realize that this is quite the off topic subject for a guitar blog, but I just honestly want to gauge [...]



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The Performer tuning system by Transperformance08.11.08

The Transperformance tuning system called the Performer, will make tuning your guitar on the fly very simple. It is an interesting dream of many guitarists, whose idea’s have finally become a reality.
I’ve been recently researching modern day guitar tuning technology and I have found some very different approaches in how to achieve this.
On my [...]



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So who is and isn’t a musician here04.17.08

I was just wondering to myself today about how many of you, my good readership, are musicians and who isn’t. I’d like to know for a number of reasons. No, this is not to embarrass anyone or start some kind of mid evil Inquisition folks.

It’s just to:
(1) to tailor topics.
(2) and concentrate [...]



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