Music

It’s an hour and a half movie.

More details about the “Grandma Drummer” have emerged.

Impressive.

Don’t judge a book by its cover. This elderly lady visits the Coalition Drum Shop La Crosse, WI, sits down behind a Gretsch Catalina Birch kit and proceeds to TEAR SHIT UP.

I absolutely love the Pultec EQ. The ability to simultaneously boost and attenuate frequencies gives you some unique possibilities when mixing tracks. All of the music I mix is done with Universal Audio plug-ins, including their Pultec collection. John Paterno gives you some tips and tricks on using this classic EQ.

Scott is such a great singer and songwriter.

This is a classic song.

If you’re going to get someone to list their favorite Punk albums of all-time, Rollins is a solid choice.

Apogee’s Symphony 64 | ThunderBridge enables Apogee’s flagship audio interface, Symphony I/O, to connect to any Thunderbolt equipped Mac for true Thunderbolt compatibility and performance. Capable of up to 64 channels of input and output at sample rates up to 192kHz, Symphony 64 | ThunderBridge delivers impressive channel counts at unprecedented speeds for a latency and hassle free recording experience that meets the requirements of the most demanding professional audio I/O applications.

Apogee’s gear is some of the best in the industry, trusted by studios and engineers. It’s great to see a solution that allows the Symphony I/O to be connected to Thunderbolt equipped Macs.

Taylor Guitars continues to celebrate its newest body shape, the Grand Orchestra, with the addition of two new rosewood/spruce models, the 718e and 818e.

My Taylor acoustic is one of the most amazing guitars I’ve ever heard.

Stairway to Heaven covers often suck, but not when you’ve got Ann Wilson on the mic, Nancy on guitar and John’s son Jason on drums.

Alex Vollmer is an incredible guitarist and he put out the first in a series of lessons on how to play some of the greatest guitar solos ever written. The first is for Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love.”

I haven’t had a chance to try this one out yet, but I really like the Pod family of products. This is on the high-end of the product spectrum, so it’ll most likely be a hot item.

I always start with the drums—kick, snare and move my way through the kit.

More great releases from Universal Audio. This is why I love this company.

Apollo Flex Routing

Universal Audio’s latest UAD Software v7.1 provides some extremely useable enhancements to the Apollo Audio Interface. Key among them is Flex Routing, which enhances your workflow with new features such as headphone bus routing, selectable pre/post Aux sends, and the ability to freely route any console input to hardware outputs.

Millennia NSEQ-2 EQ Plug-In

Revered for its startling realism and transparent musicality, the Millennia NSEQ-2 has quickly become a go-to parametric EQ for many of the world’s leading studios and mastering houses. Its unique Twin Topology design and pure Class A transformerless circuitry offers a less-is-more approach to the audio chain, yielding a powerful, sonically neutral, analog EQ that brims with spectacular clarity.

Pultec Passive EQ Plug-In Collection

Building on a decade of the world’s most intensive modeling research, UA has recreated the famed Pultec EQ experience – one that’s nearly indistinguishable from the original analog hardware.

Slash is such a great guitarist.

This is great. A list of all The Beatles songs and strange little things that happen on each of them.

Funny hearing the rewinding of the tape as they start.

Jason Everman has the unique distinction of being the guy who was kicked out of Nirvana and Soundgarden, two rock bands that would sell roughly 100 million records combined. At 26, he wasn’t just Pete Best, the guy the Beatles left behind. He was Pete Best twice.

Then again, he wasn’t remotely. What Everman did afterward put him far outside the category of rock’n’roll footnote. He became an elite member of the U.S. Army Special Forces, one of those bearded guys riding around on horseback in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban.

What a great, but crazy story.

These two do a great job.

This is the way I do it. There is no substitute for putting a mic on an amp—mixing in a DI can also add something to the song.

This is a great video for anyone that wonders how live concerts get mixed properly.