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Finger picks brighten and clarify your fingerpicking. Using the flesh of your fingers to individually pick the strings usually creates a muted and muddy sound. But by attaching a plectrum to the end of each picking finger, each note is picked with …
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Digital Signal Processing, or "DSP", is often referred to as a "feature" of modern audio equipment and music gear. Why is that important? Well, two reasons. One, it tells you how they're handling the audio signal - and the potential trade-offs …
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Orange Amplification brings back their 1970’s OMEC brand with a new product: the OMEC Teleport. The Teleport is a soundcard with a twist – in addition to being a studio-quality USB recording interface, it fits inside a guitar pedal – perfect for a …
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Effects pedals for fingerstyle guitar? Yes. Definitely. Acoustic guitar is typically a minimalist business. The truth, however, is that even a simple acoustic set up can benefit from a reverb, a stompbox tuner, a light delay....the list goes …
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A good guitar capo is integral to acoustic guitar life. The ability of capos to recreate luscious open chords in new keys is critical to the acoustic guitar's versatility. For example, if a singer wants to move the song up a key, it usually sounds …
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I was recently jazzed to try out the EarPeace HD high fidelity hearing protection ear plugs. From Beethoven to Pete Townsend, the dreaded enemy of any of any musician is hearing loss. And while we typically think of huge Marshall electric guitar …
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