by Kyle
on May 1, 2009
in Link roundup
Here’s what caught my attention this past week. Video: How to make a baby – it’s not what it sounds like. Really cool and creative way of tracking and capturing pregnancy. One of those, wish I would have thought of that videos. Ragamuffin Video: Top gospel choir in the US – mad sangin skillz. Photo [...]
by Kyle
on April 30, 2009
in gear, how to, tips
I’m always on the search for music gear that I want/need/lust after. I also have nowhere close to the amount of money I need to get the gear I thirst after. Craigslist is an obvious place to start when looking for local gear that people are trying to part with. The problem is so are [...]
by Kyle
on April 17, 2009
in Link roundup
Here’s what caught my attention over this week: John Piper’s 4 part interview with Matt Chandler. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, Matt Chandler has the highest CWPM(Convicting Words Per Minute) rating out of anyone I’ve heard. ChurchCrunch’s 3 tips for not sucking at ‘Christian’ blogging. I can’t say the post is entirely [...]
by Kyle
on March 27, 2009
in gear, live
Guitar players know how live rigs work, you go through phases, tone phases, effects phases, minimalist to surrounding yourself in stompboxes. You sell things only to buy them back a couple years later. Well poor musicians like myself do anyway. So I find myself rebuilding a lot of what I tore down a couple years [...]
by Kyle
on March 10, 2009
in gear, live, recording, tips
In the last few months my church, Life Connection Church, has successfully setup a recording strategy that allows us to capture and track each channel before it gets to the board. This has many advantages over capturing board mixes. I wanted to share with you what we’ve done on truly a shoe-string budget. What’s wrong [...]
by Kyle
on February 19, 2009
in gear, live, music, video
Live looping is a technique made more popular recently by people like KT Tunstall, but it’s not really a new concept at all. Basically it consists of one or more musicians capturing live audio in a loop and adding more layers on to the loop throughout the song. Usually accomplished with something like a Boss [...]
by Kyle
on January 13, 2009
in gear, music, video
This new Voice Box pedal from Electro-Harmonix looks awesome! Basically you route your mic and guitar through it and you’re able to pitch match harmonies and different vocal effects. It has a vocoder and built in reverb. I pretty much love everything Electro-Harmonix makes but this looks really fun. I’d love to get my hands [...]
by Kyle
on January 2, 2009
in gear, video
1 $20 dollar hand saw from Lowe’s + 1 $15 dollar contact microphone = endless hours of whale mating noises. Very handy. You can see some more of TJ’s instrumentalist skills at Brian Wurzell’s blog.