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The Philocast HD – Using the iPad as a Control Surface for Logic Studio
In: Music|Technology
10 Apr 2010Check out Saitara Software’s site for AC-7 Pro, and of course download it for yourself from iTunes. Additional information for the nerds: Footage captured with a Kodak Zi8 camera, audio captured with a Rode Video Mic, edited in Final Cut Express. Ass kicking intro riff played and recorded by me. Submit this post to
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- Tags: AC-7 Pro, Apple, Control Surface, Logic Pro, Logic Studio
Just when I think record labels don’t get it, they go and prove that they REALLY don’t get it
In: Music
10 Aug 2009It’s called CMX. It’s not by itself either. CMX is a knee-jerk reaction to a project Apple us supposedly calling “Cocktail.” The premise is to package additional content into what would represent a digital album. You would of course get the music, but also liner notes, photos, videos, lyrics and the like. The goal is [...]
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- Tags: Apple, Music
Do you hate DRM or just BAD DRM?
In: Music|Technology
16 Jul 2009Digital Rights Management has been a hot topic for quite awhile now. With record and movie companies going after users who download content without paying, people seem to immediately go to DRM as the culprit that record and movie companies use to control their customers and limit what they can do. As of now that’s [...]
Did MP3s stop us from caring about lyrics?
In: Music
24 Jun 2009I was listening to the new Dream Theater album today, downloaded via ZunePass and is phenomenal by the way, and I had a thought. I really miss CD jackets. I miss being able to read the lyrics. I also hate having to try and read them from the myriad of spam and malware filled lyric [...]
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Antares Auto-Tune does not fix a bad singer
In: Music
4 Jun 2009Antares Auto-Tune, the most beloved tool of the music recording industry lately, and also the latest hip-hop effect in fashion is getting a really bad reputation lately. I want to take a minute to put one myth to rest. To put it clear and simple. If you cannot sing, Auto-Tune will not make it sound [...]
Music Review: Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown
In: Music
22 May 2009I would say that Green Day is a guilty pleasure, but that would be somehow slighting them on their contribution to music. I have loved Green Day since the first time I heard Basket Case, and none of the albums have tarnished that vibrant impression of a Billy Joe Armstrong looking psychotically at the camera [...]
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Music 2.0? Musicians are the new bloggers
In: Music
14 May 2009Before we get started, I want to clearly define something. The Music Industry, as protected by the RIAA, is largely considered as the business of music: Record Labels, Concert Promoters, Merchandising, Distribution and the like. Ironically there is a huge piece missing from the traditional definition, the artist. Key #1: If you are an artist, [...]
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- Tags: Music, Recording
EVH Guitars cost $3,000? Eddie Van Halen should be ashamed…
In: Music
25 Feb 2009When I was a kid, playing guitar, I always wanted the same guitar that my heroes were playing. At that time it was either a Fender Stratocaster, a Gibson Les Paul, an Ibanez RG or a Jackson of some sort. Of course the ones my heroes were playing were high end custom shop models costing [...]
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- Tags: Eddie Van Halen, EVH, Fender, Wolfgang
The utterly amazing Guitar Rig 3 by Native Instruments
In: Music
10 Feb 2009I am going to pre-warn my readers that this might be the most overly indulgent, completely butt kissing, over the top glowing review I have ever written. Recently I purchased Guitar Rig 3: Software Edition (*more on why that was a mistake later) and I have to admit to being completely and totally smitten by [...]
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What’s that you say? Subscription sucks because you want to own your music? Here are some numbers for you. iPod Classic 120GB Zune 120GB $224 @ Amazon $239 @ Amazon.com $0.69 DRM $14.99/mo. 16,000 songs 16,000 songs $11,040 61 years @ 14.99/mo. What’s that you say? let me explain a little further. I pay $14.99 [...]
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- Tags: iPod, iTunes, Zune
iTunes, let go of my computer please…
In: Music
23 Nov 2008I am really curious about something. iTunes is a media player, right? QuickTime is a codec and a browser plugin for the most part, correct? I mean, iTunes plays MP3 and other media files, I can see there being file associations to open iTunes with certain file types. I know that it’s meta-data is all [...]
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- Tags: iPod, iTunes, Zune
Senses Fail – New Music For You!
In: Music
6 Nov 2008We all love new music and since I have been on the Zune Pass diet, which is all you can eat, I have been finding tons of it. I thought I would share one of those jewels with you. Senses Fail is an American Pop-Punk band from Ridgewood New Jersey. I have been listening to [...]
Behind the Philocast – Studio Tour
In: Music
29 Oct 2008The Philocast is produced in my home on a “When I get an idea” based schedule. I would do them more regularly, but I would have to force topics and they might be more boring than they probably are! I thought for those curious about what I use, I would do a breakdown of the [...]
Now you can get cool new tones for your line6 gear. Stay tuned for a podcast explaining the settings, a sample of the tone being played and of course the file to load it in your Pod with Line6 Edit. Enjoy! This week’s tone is one I created for recording some riffage on Steve Vai’s [...]
Zune Software Shows Psychic Abilities….
In: Music
13 Oct 2008Ok, apparently the Zune software is psychic. Look at my picks for today, we have Buckcherry (Metal), Avenged Sevenfold (Metal), Saving Abel (Metal), Dragon Force (Metal), System of a Down (Metal), Three Days Grace (Metal) and JOURNEY!? How did they know I loved some Journey. Wow, I gotta say, way to go Zune, you know [...]
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