Drum Buddy or The Auction Gavel

The drum buddy is one of the coolest strangest pieces of gear every. One will be up for auction from FRESHKILLS over Marti Gras. We you have several thousand dollars you need to get rid of make a bid.

ESP or Foretelling the Future

ESP at NAMM announced 50+ new or improved models for 2008. You can read about on the ESP site and follow the link to the images.

True Bypass or Just the Facts Man

Pedal guru Jack Orman has an interesting article on true bypass. In contains actual measurements and facts. Normal this discussion is more mojo based.

LastFM or Another Thing Done Right

About a week ago I started listening to LastFM again after and it seems it was perfect timing. The had a big announcement today.

In short there are going to have full length tracks available for listening. Plus the artist and labels get paid. It might depended on there coming subscription service being [...]

Bubblegum Sequencer or Hubba Bubba

“Make Music With Candy”

This is pretty cool. We need more interfaces like this. I would take gum over a mouse any day.

A Bunch of NAMM Links or Gear Lust

CDM

Wire to the Ear

GEARWIRE

Sonic State

The Guitarist

Gear Junkies

WORST.COVERS.EVER. or A Whole Lot of 70’s Suits

To lighten things up a little on Monday(which is Holioday a lot of people our off but not me) here is a list. Apperantly after porn & piracy the only other thing the Internet is good for is lists. There are a lot of them even other worst Album cover list. [...]

23 Tubes or Sweet Zombie Jesus

Metanonix makes “different” gear. Different meaning insane. N.O.S in most cases means “vintage” or “classic” in their case once again means insane. They have out done themselves this time with the G-1000. Pricey and probably not very practical but defiantly original.

From the site:

There is nothing like the G-1000. Not even [...]

Traverso or Open Source DAW

Traverso is a DAW released under a GPL license. Which means of course it is free. While there maybe a lot free instruments and effects but this not a lot of free DAW’s out there. Traverso I think would be good for people needing something quick easy. It is not [...]

Picth Shifting or Mom & Pop Developers

de la mancha has a nice collection of freeware plugins. The newest release Octav8r is a pitch shifter on steroids. It is really well thought out any versatile. From the site:

Octav8r is a 7-node pitch-shifter that generates 6 differently pitched stereo versions of the audio input added to a ‘dry’ non-shifted signal to generate [...]