My top picks for Winter NAMM 2012

January 26th, 2012

Like many other musicians I look forward to seeing what new products are announced when Winter NAMM comes around each year. Last year I spent some time posting quite a few new products that caught my eye. This year I didn’t really have the time to post about them as it was a flat out week on the home front with my wife’s and my son’s birthdays all within the days that NAMM was on. Now that NAMM is over I thought that I might write a post covering the new products that excited me the most this year. So lets get started: Read the rest of this entry »

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Positive Grid JamUp Pro – review

January 18th, 2012
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JamUp Pro is a fantastic, easy to use app.

In conjunction with the JamUp Plug I reviewed last month, Positive Grid have provided me a copy of their premiere guitar amp and effects modeling iOS app, JamUp Pro.

JamUp Pro is one of the newest guitar apps to appear in the iTunes app store, and it has really taken off with a bang. With 6 multi-stage amp models and 14 studio grade effects available from the launch date, and more to come according to Positive Grid, it is great value at $19.99.

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Positive Grid JamUp Plug – review

December 14th, 2011
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The JamUp Plug is a great little iOS interface at a great price.

Nowadays there are a range of instrument interfaces available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. With so many available, and a wide range of prices and connectivity it can be hard to work out which one is best for you. Most connect through the headphone jack of your iOS device, and they all provide an audio connection for your guitar or bass with varying degrees of success.

One of the latest players in the iOS instrument interface is Positive Grid, with their JamUp Plug. Like many of the other interface manufacturers Positive Grid have their own iOS app to use with the JamUp Plug – JamUp Lite and JamUp Pro. I’ll be reviewing JamUp Pro soon. Read the rest of this entry »

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Help a brother out

December 13th, 2011

Help a brother out.

I have really enjoyed running my blog over the past year or so. It’s reinvigorated my love of writing, and guitar playing. I love getting feedback from my readers too. Many  have found my reviews helpful, and people have really been digging my DIY posts. I’ve been lucky enough to have a few companies, distributors and shops help me out with providing gear to review as well. I’m a pretty poor musician with a mortgage, family, and the associated costs that come with these things. I don’t get to spend too much on gear, so all of these businesses who have helped me out, I hope my reviews have helped you out too.

My wife and I recently had our second child. It’s been a fantastic experience on a personal level, but along with a number of costs regarding house repairs we have found ourselves in a far tighter position financially than we expected we would be in. This of course means that I have even less money (read nearly zero) to spend on musical gear, and bits and pieces for DIY projects.

I can canvas gear companies, distributors, and my local music stores to borrow gear to review to some extent, but I have a number of DIY projects I’d like to post about on my site, and no money to purchase parts for this.

What I am leading to with this post is a request to help a brother out. If you have enjoyed reading my site, found it helpful, learned something new, etc I’d love it if you could spare a few $$$ to donate to me. I understand many are finding it tough financially these days, but even if every visitor could spare $1.00 I would be eternally grateful. I would be able to continue working on DIY projects, and posting (hopefully) interesting content for you all.

You can donate money via the PayPal donate button below, or using the donate button on the side of every page.

I’m also looking at advertising to the site in an effort to raise some money, so please don’t be put off by the sight of some ads. I will endeavor to make them as relevant as possible to guitar and music. If any music instrument and gear companies would like to help out I’ll offer reasonable advertising rates too. Money and guitar gear will be accepted!

I want to keep this site alive with great regular updates, and I hope you can all can help me with this. Any donations is greatly appreciated.

Thankyou! :)

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Win a JamUp Plug and JamUp Pro iOS app from Positive Grid!

December 13th, 2011

Win a JamUp Plug and JAmpUp Pro iOS app!

I’ve been testing out the JamUp Plug and JamUp Pro iOS app recently. I’ve found the Plug to be an awesome instrument interface, and JamUp Pro has some great sounding amp and effects modelling. Reviews for both of these will be appearing very soon.

Positive Grid are having a great Christmas giveaway where one lucky winner per week for the next four weeks can win not only the JamUp Plug, but the JamUp Pro app too!

This is a great little combo for those of you with an iOS device, so get over to the giveaway page, sign up and good luck!

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