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JamMan Looper/Phrase Sampler Pedal

Almost two decades ago DigiTech developed the PDS 8000 pedal for loop-based audio performance. Now DigiTech takes looping from the original 8-second volatile recording memory of the PDS 8000 straight into the 21st century with the innovative JamMan pedal, which is capable of saving up to 6.5 hours of loops and sample phrases. The JamMan Looper/Phrase Sampler is an effects processor dedicated to loop creation, manipulation, playback and overdubbing, based on the classic Lexicon JamMan rackmount effect. The new JamMan offers tremendous loop capabilities at resolutions up to CD-quality 44.1 kHz in a compact, easy-to-use stompbox format specially tailored to the needs of guitarists and performing musicians.

Just bought one of these to play around with!

Aron is the guitar tech with Weezer and currently is blogging from the current Weezer tour! Killer podcast - check it out!

Parking in Bitterman Circle
Parking In Bitterman Circle Podcast #14- Couch SurfingHere’s the latest podcast from Philadelphia, PA, especially for you.
It’s time to share the glamour of the road, travel and checking in
early because the bus can’t stay….

Aron,

Just a quick note to say I’m really enjoying your podcast! I was also in Boston playing music in the early 80’s! I am also a huge Lowell George fan… certainly don’t hear any of that on mainstream radio these days.

Since you dig Lowell , Doyle and Susan T., check out one of my tunes:

We Gotta Go

Please keep the Podcast’s coming! Highly Recomended!

Music Thing: The FlipTone Amplifier - Engadget - www.engadget.com.

Musicians are, as I’ve said before, a very traditional breed. Even digital synths often emulate designs that are 40 years old. So it will be interesting to see how acoustic guitar players take to the FlipTone amplifier. The specs are unremarkable - a 25 watt amp with a few digital effects, EQ, various inputs and outputs and laptop-style rechargable batteries for $600. But the form factor is amazing - a A4-sized brushed aluminium briefcase with a flat panel speaker forming the lid. Guitar amps have never looked like this before, although it’s not the first amp to use flat-panel speakers. The ThinAmp is a much cheaper, plastic-cased version which came out last year.

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DH

We’ve been huge fans of this concept of podcasting. Adam Curry is leading the charge.

This is very important because Podcasting represents a whole new distribution platform for music promotion and personal content. It’s a continuation of the macro trend of media fragmentation that has been going on for the past 4 decades.

Check this out!!

The Podcasting Strategycast

Adam Curry gets Sirius - Podcasts - podcasts.engadget.com /
Adam Curry gets Sirius

Posted May 2, 2005, 5:36 PM ET by Barb Dybwad
Related entries: Podcasts, Portable Audio

Much like Infinity Broadcasting has gotten curious about podcasting, Sirius satellite radio seems to be the latest broadcast media outlet bitten by the DIY bug.

Skype is about free VOIP! Yes free… call anywhere in the world for free with better quality of land lines!

Click on the link and downloand and feel free to give me a call or leave me a voicemail. (Voicemail is not free BTW)

My Skype name is davidhenderson007….. Skype Me!

This looks interesting!

Indy: The Google of Indie Music

By Jon Newton 4/18/05

Thanks to the Net, Indie music has come of age. All musicians need is an online connection, a bit of initiative, a little imagination and they’re cooking. The trouble is, there’s now so much out there, how do you get to hear to it all?

As we write this, we’re listening to Italy’s Cum Distortion —– thanks to Indy, Freenet creator Ian Clarke’s latest brainchild which, he promises, does for freely available independent music what Google does for the world wide web.

Jon Newton

“Over the past few months, while working on Dijjer in public, we’ve been working on a sister project in private called Indy’, and we’re now ready to release it to the public at-large,” he says.

It uses collaborative filtering, similar to that used by Amazon to recommend books, etc, to prospective buyers, to learn about your musical preferences in relation to other Indy users.

Everything it plays is from online indie music freely available on the web and you can rate each piece at between one and five stars. Using that as feedback, Indy will find and download music that’s keyed to what you like as opposed to what you don’t like : )

“Eventually it becomes like your own personal A&R machine,” says Clarke, going on:

“Artists benefit too, since the user can just click on the name of the mp3 and immediately visit their websites to learn more about them, or perhaps buy their CDs or other merchandise.”

DVForge-Brands-JamPlug-Product Detail-JamPlug FM
JamPlug FM

Turn Any FM Radio Into A Guitar Amplifier

To build a miniature practice aid that plugs into the output jack of an electric guitar or bass, and that transmits a radio signal that lets any nearby FM stereo receiver become an on-demand amplifier. Make it so that the signal is strong and clean, and so that a musician can take advantage of any stereo system, at home or in a vehicle, for use as an impromptu practice amp.

The same tiny size as our original JamPlug miniature guitar amplifier, the JamPlug FM replaces the built-in amp function of the earlier product with a strong, clean FM radio transmitter. It lets you use any FM radio receiver as an on-demand guitar amplifier. In your car or truck, with a boombox at the beach or school, with any home stereo system, the JamPlug FM reliably transmits the signal from your electric guitar of bass, so that the stereo system picks it up and plays it.

Macworld: News: M-Audio Black Box connects guitar to Mac
M-Audio Black Box connects guitar to Mac

By Peter Cohen pcohen@maccentral.com

Avid Technology Inc. subsidiary M-Audio has introduced the Black Box, a new device for guitarists that combines amp modeling, beat-synced effects, guitar and mic preamps and drum tracks with an audio interface designed for recording on a Mac or a PC. Co-developed by M-Audio and Roger Linn Design, the Black Box can be used standalone or as a plug-in hosted by popular music software – Black Box’s software supports Core Audio and ASIO. It’s compatible with Mac OS X v10.3.7 or higher and requires a G3/500MHz or faster, 512MB RAM and USB. It ships this month for US$329.95.