A couple of months back I posted a bunch of free samples of my Roland TR-707 run through a handful of stomp boxes. I pulled out my old Kawai R100 drum machine and did the same with a whole new set of distortion pedals. There’s also the original factory drum sounds too. The Kawai was…
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Roland TR-707 Sampled Through Stomp Boxes – Free Samples
I put together a collection of free samples using my Roland TR-707 and a bunch of stomp boxes (all fuzz / distortion) I had in the studio. I also ran the machine through my RNC (Really Nice Compressor) too for some clean / super compressed beats. I put the samples up for free on GitHub…
Evernote, an Essential Studio Tool
I use Evernote for a bunch of things including grocery lists, clipping articles for work that I may need for later, and even planned an entire month long trip to France (I’m also using Evernote to write this article). One of the other uses for it is when I’m working on music. For mixing and…
Wildhoney Brooklyn Vegan
Wildhoney’s new EP Over and Over got featured this week in Brooklyn Vegan with spring tour dates announced too. Be sure to catch them if they are coming in or around your town. “Baltimore’s Wildhoney are unabashedly flying the early ’90s shoegaze flag, recalling not only the obvious UK influences, but also their American compatriots…
Beyond Inversion Rolling Stone Review
Pretty cool news, Joe Gross from Rolling Stone gave the Beyond Inversion compilation on Accidental Guest Recordings a 4/5 star review! Get all of the info you need on this very excellent compilation at this link, looks like they are doing a re-press too. “Great underground rock compilations – the D.C. hardcore classic Flex Your Head or…
Roomrunner’s Ideal Cities makes a Rolling Stone top 20
Congrats to my buds Roomrunner for making Rob Sheffield’s Top 20 Albums on Rolling Stone this year! Very cool news. -> 15. Roomrunner, Ideal Cities Full disclozh: I am sometimes (and 100 percent justly) mocked at the Rolling Stone offices for how much I heart the Nineties. When MTV did a Beavis and Butt-Head reboot a couple years ago, my…