South African Music Magazine
Techniques for the home studio In this month’s issue we are going to look at some common EQ techniques for treating drums in the mix. A drum kit is an interesting creature to record and mix. It is often viewed as a single instrument, however, it is actually made up of many different individual drums. Usually Read More »
Hi and welcome to the next instalment of play better guitar. Last month we started looking at bass lines that would be played on a guitar in a solo guitar setting. We will now look at a basic accompaniment to the bass line as this style is really fun to play and will require a fair Read More »
We have looked at Major scales, Minor scales, Pentatonic scales and the modes of these scales in previous articles. Standard scales use 8 notes to move from a root note through an octave (oct meaning 8) to the next root note. For example E Major is as follows:E – F# – G# – A – Read More »
There are a myriad of effects available to the guitarist; over-drive, wah, phaser, delay, reverb and dozens more. Unfortunately each time you add another effect to your setup you complicate things as you can connect the pedals in a different order and certain effects will sound or work differently depending on where they are placed Read More »
There’s never been a better time to be an independent musician. These days, indie artists are sold in the same stores as major artists – at least online, and that’s where more and more music lovers are looking for quality tunes. Services like Tunecore and CDBaby now offer digital distribution for singles, which makes it Read More »
“We have people in Prosound who have been in the sound industry for many years and have the most amazing wealth of knowledge. The question was: What can we do with this knowledge?” The launch of a Sound School by leading pro-audio company Prosound is set to fill a gap in the market with its highly-focused, practical sound courses. Lecturer and sound engineer Read More »
The Aero 8A was designed to provide audio professionals with exceptional line array performance In March Dave Skinz attended a D.A.S. Seminar hosted by Viva Afrika at Kyalami Racetrack in which the international team of experts dispelled the myths of Line Array rigging and specifically to show off DAS’ Aero 2 and Aero 50 series. Needless to say Read More »
“Plugging in to a TCT is like hearing your instrument for the first time. So much detail…” A few months ago I reviewed the Wharfedale TCT100H stack. Now I’m taking its smaller sibling, the TCT35C combo and the WGR10 practice amp, for a spin. Wharfedale, a renowned pro-audio manufacturer, teamed up with veteran guitar amp Read More »
“This really sounds rich and natural while boasting interesting, usable features in a compact housing that’s really a major plus.” There are literally hundreds of great delay pedals out there and many classics are made by Electro Harmonix whose wizards have been hard at work in recent years churning out dozens of new designs and updates of many of Read More »
The G-system is TC Electronic’s flagship floor-based guitar effects processor. The unit owes its effects lineage to TC’s successful high quality rack-mount processors, but aimed at the professional player who needs a flexible floor-based unit and will seamlessly integrate into almost any setup without compromise. First impressions It’s difficult to explain just how good my Read More »
