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Fairlight inventor Peter Vogel (who owns the domain name anerd.com) has posted a huge archive of audio clips - demo tapes, interviews and strange things sent in by users. If you're a historian of naff sounds and clunky drum programming, you'll be in heaven. There are a few strange delights, like a bizarre section recorded by David Vorhaus, friend of Delia Derbyshire and the man who recorded Orch 4, the most famous preset ever. (Picture: Ulrich Rutzel at the Fairlight) (Via DVDBorn)  

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The all important pre-production phase is skipped because of laziness or mis-understanding. Learn how to use Pro Tools to make it easy and cheaper to create a great production.

This article examines the many factors you should consider as you design a musical education for your children or yourself. The major question to answer is the location of the lesson. Will your kids be taught at home by a traveling piano instructor or will you travel to the piano teacher's studio?

Let's assume you're an adult who has always wanted to play piano but has never gotten around to it. Don't be shy, you are in good company. A recent survey says that 8 out of 10 people wish they had learned the piano. Many of you perhaps had piano lessons as a child, but you didn't have the time to play much as an adult. Now, you have the time and have decided to try again. Good. I'm here to help you find what might be the right strategy for YOUR musical education.

Listen, the hype is huge about how to become a music producer. Schools are ramping up their marketing campaigns to sucker one more up-and-coming producer into their music production degree program.

Here's good news for those who are interested in learning how to become a singer. Though it is quite easy to learn singing for your personal reasons, in order to do it professionally will take a distinct kind of a person. To be a professional singer, you need to be tough as many a times you will be facing difficulties such as criticisms and rejections.

Having a good singing voice is one thing but being able to sing comfortably enough to be in front of a group of people is another thing entirely. If you want to learn how to sing, there are several different methods that you can use. Although many individuals go to a private instructor, this is not necessarily your best choice.

Scientists at Cornell University have constructed the world's smallest guitar out of crystalline silicon, twenty times smaller than a human hair. I learned about this reading physicist Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible, a book which explores cutting edge technologies and the realm of science fiction. Kaku is a co-founder of string field theory, a branch of theoretical physics which aims to explain the underlying structure of the universe in terms of vibrating strings.

In the first tour for eight years, demand for tickets has been unprecedented. Tina Turner rocks the country again, and many believe this might be the greatest and possibly the last chance to see her perform.

Playing a musical instrument requires the application of knowledge and skills in a real time environment. As such it is a great context to learn NLP and Accelerated Learning skills. Consider the actions need to play a guitar.

The honest, first hand experiences that have been combined to help the average person looking to not spend a fortune on music online. A helpful article to the people who are unaware of the consequences.

This article examines all the factors you might want to weigh as you shop online for a piano method for your child. Find out how to match the method to the personality of your child, and arrive at the right choice of piano instruction for you and your child.

When recording a person singing and playing acoustic guitar, one must decide whether to record the guitar and vocal "live" at the same time, or whether to record the guitar first and then overdub the vocal, in the "studio" style. The author describes the performance and recording factors involved in this decision and tells how to get a good recording with either approach.

You will read a lot of huffing and puffing about acoustic guitar recording techniques, and, to judge by the postings on internet forums, the use of inappropriate microphone placements is at the root of a lot of disappointment experienced by players and project studio owners. Described in this article is the technique I used for my 2006 CD, Interim Reports, and beyond. (Note: this is primarily intended for solo guitar, or guitar and vox, tracked separately but will suit a number of other applications.)

A problem a few guitar players appear to have is brittleness or thinness of fingernails which frustrates them in their endeavors. Where these problems are caused by diet they may be mitigated by seeking advice from a nutritionist in order to correct any deficiency. However, where this doesn't affect a cure, an alternative solution will need to be found. Without carrying out an exhaustive survey of the means used by guitar players to reinforce their poor fingernails, and their efficacy, this article contains a few alternatives which will suit different players and styles.

Within limits I do my own tweaking. I can mess around with saddles and truss rods quite happily confident that "I know what I'm doing". The only setup issues that I would want to take to a professional would be anything to do with the nut. I've never felt the desire to get into the ungluing and gluing side of things or to invest in nut slot files and other accouterments associated with minor guitar surgery - partly through laziness and partly through the knowledge demonstrated by efforts into picture hanging around the house that DIY skills are not part of my oeuvre.

Lurking around online guitar communities one's bound to come across a variety of opinions on this, that, and the other to do with the best example of this and the best way to do that. It's all excellent fodder for contemplation and is occasionally informative. Most of what one reads is, though, borne out of ingrained prejudice or the recycling of received wisdom, or reiteration of some pronouncement of this guitar god, or that. This exchanging of views is commendable, no doubt, but fresh insights or genuine authoritative advice is rarely found - particularly for free.

Sometimes I'm asked at gigs and it catches me off guard. It's always a difficult question to answer succinctly to a stranger, and causes me to stutter and stammer incoherently. "I've always done it", is as lame a reason as it is true.

Replacing your guitar strings need not be a daunting task. Read this article and learn how easy it is and you can save money and time not needing to bring your guitar to the shop for repairs.