Commercial Appeal
The music industry is in such rough shape that some of your favorite bands have resorted to selling automobiles.
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Programming and Producing Drum Beats Course and Book
I’ve been busy rolling out a new book and a new Berklee Online course that I’m very excited to tell you about.
Stutter Edit Plug-in by BT: How-to
The Stutter Edit plug-in, conceived and developed over the past fifteen years by pioneering electronic music artist and composer, BT, is pretty amazing.
Sidechain Compression in Pro Tools and Reason
Sidechain compression is a wonderful production trick. Originally, it was used to duck music behind an announcer’s voice on the radio.
Neunaber Wet Reverb Guitar Pedal Review
Here is this week’s amazing pedal to add to your arsenal of tone shapers: The WET Reverb pedal.
Imaginary Barlines in Musical Notation
Jonathan Feist explains the concept of imaginary barlines in music theory, a notation convention designed to help the music reader know what’s syncopated.
Two-Rock Custom Reverb Signature Amp Review
Berklee Online guitar instructor and course author Thaddeus Hogarth reviews and demos the Two-Rock Custom Reverb Signature amplifier.
Ethos Overdrive Pedal Review
This week I am writing a review on one of my favorite Overdrive pedals: the Ethos Overdrive Pedal.
Cusack Screamer V2 Overdrive Pedal Review
Today I am posting a review I wrote for Berklee’s Guitar Faculty newsletter, Open Position. I thought it would be nice to share it with a larger community of tone-seekers.
The Tone Power of the Stratocaster
One eye-opening revelation in the quest for tone happening to me back in the early ’90s: I was playing with a relatively popular Boston-based band called the Heavy Metal Horns.
