Archive for December, 2011

Positive Grid JamUp Plug – review

Wednesday, 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. (more…)

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Help a brother out

Tuesday, 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!

Tuesday, 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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Chris Brooks, “The Axis of All Things” – review

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

"The Axis of All Things", Chris Brooks latest guitar feast.

Chris Brooks is an immensely talented guitar player hailing from Australia. I’ve heard a little of Chris’s playing in the past, and thought it was quite impressive. So when he asked if I would be interested in reviewing his latest album “The Axis of All Things” I could not say no. This is the first music review I’ve published on my blog, and I hope you like it.

Let me start off by saying I’m always a bit apprehensive when it comes to listening to solely instrumental guitar albums. I quite often find that many guitar players in this realm, whilst extremely talented musicians, have a habit of trying to make their music either far too technical, and/or too quirky, and miss things like melody and harmony. Everything sounds like a massive exercise, and I end up feeling exhausted after a few tracks. I always feel that the sign of an excellent instrumental guitar album is when a non-guitar player can appreciate it. This, I believe, always comes from the music having strong melody and harmony first and foremost, and any acrobatics and craziness is just the icing on the cake. (more…)

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