From serious recordists to beginners, PreSonus’ FS Mobile Studio package provides the tools for high-fidelity recording. With two matched “pencil” condenser microphones and X/Y stereo bracket included, FS Mobile Studio is great for live recording, multi-track song production, demos, songwriting, podcasting, and field recording for video or sound effects.
This limited-edition bundle is available worldwide at select PreSonus dealers—until the supply runs out!
The FS Mobile Studio bundle includes:
FireStudio Mobile™ FireWire audio and MIDI interface with cables
Compact, lightweight, and built to travel, the bus-powered, 10-in, 6-out FireStudio™ Mobile features six line-level inputs and two mic/instrument inputs with our sweet-sounding, high-headroom Class A XMAX™ mic preamplifiers. Read the rest of this entry »
“We revamped the entire site to make it more user-friendly”, says James Robinson, Operations Mgr. “We’ve also added our new recommendations in outstanding guitar instruction and, of course, we’re still showcasing the latest electric guitars for sale, bass guitars for sale, and acoustic guitars for sale, as well as vintage guitars, guitar amplifiers, and so much more. If it’s related to the guitar, you can probably find it here.” 
Rapper Jay Z is making news on two fronts today. First off congrats to Jay Z and his lovley wife Beyonce. They announced today that Beyonce is pregnant with the couple’s first child.
The PreSonus Central Station studio-monitor control system and its CSR-1 remote control are widely considered standard equipment in commercial and personal studios, providing outstanding audio performance at a great price. In the past, the Central Station and its remote control have been separate purchases, but most people bought both; so PreSonus is now offering the two items exclusively as a single package, the Central Station Plus. With an estimated street price of $599.95, the new Central Station Plus package saves customers $50 over the previous separate purchases. 
It will be announced sometime in the near future that WYSP, Philadelphia’s top rock radio station for many years, will be abandoning their current format and going to be simulcasting sports talk radio from their AM sister station WIP. Apparently meetings are being held to discuss the turnover as I am writing this.
42 years ago today Janis Joplin performed at Woodstock with her Kozmic Blues band. Her guitarist in that band, John Till, went on to form the Full Tilt Boogie Band which resulted in the classic lp, Pearl. What many people don’t know is that a year later Janis and John would visit the Boston area – performing at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, August 12, 1970.
With the death yesterday of Warrant lead singer Jani Lane once again we needed to check in on Leif Garrett. And yes Leif is unbelievably not only still alive but still sober.
80’s hairband pioneer and rocker Jani Lane was found dead yesterday at the age of 47. Jani (born John Kennedy Oswald) had great success with the band Warrant. Warrant were Mtv favorites with hits like Cherry Pie, Down Boys and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Warrant fell victim to the emergence of grunge like all hairbands. Lane once said in an interview he knew it was over when he walked into Columbia Records and saw a poster of Alice in Chains Dirt hanging on the wall. 
Charvel is proud to introduce its new Desolation series guitars. These are entirely new instrument designs not previously seen in the high-performance guitar maker’s 30-year history, offering more tonal and stylistic options for discerning players everywhere and bringing a long-acclaimed tradition of high performance to more guitarists now than ever before.
The new Morley mini series packs all of the classic Morley punch in an incredibly compact unit. I have used every traditional wah and volume pedal ever developed. Nothing gives me the response and tone that Morley delivers. Of all of the wah pedals to chose from I find Morley to be the most vocal.
While taking an exit off of Route 128 at 3:55 PM today the voice of the late Dennis Youst boomed out as I turned the radio back on, the first words were “Bring back that Sunny day” from the Classics IV hit “Stormy”, a kind of response song to “Sunny” two years later in 1968. The Classics IV also covered the hit written and performed by Bobby Hebb, who passed away a year ago today, August 3, 2010
To celebrate the July 19th release date of Time of My Life, the latest album from 3 Doors Down, the Zoo is giving away ONE copy of the CD, courtesy of Republic Records, to ONE lucky winner.
There are so many options to think about when selecting music recording software. What makes the task harder is the varying prices of music programs. Yet another issue is finding a program that is user friendly.
Morley, makers of Wahs, Volume and switching devices announced the release of their newest product, the Effects Loop Corrector (Model ELC). The Effects Loop Corrector increases the signal in weak FX Loops for more headroom and a fuller sound. Conversely, the Effects Loop Corrector can also lower hot FX loop send signal that cause effect pedals to clip or distort. Basically, it corrects the variations in FX Loops signals that exist from amp to amp. 
The band Deep Purple launched into the mainstream in America with the 45 RPM “Hush”(1968), written by pop/folkie Joe South. Their lead singer was Rod Evans and the group’s single was an amazing production that fit on the AM radio airwaves perfectly with other songs from the time period, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes’ “Journey To The Center Of The Mind” (1968), The Electric Prunes “I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)” (1966) but most especially, as I point out in my review of their The Book Of Taliesyn CD on AllMusic.com, the initial Deep Purple, formed in 1968, appears to have absorbed the elements of producer Shadow Morton’s work with the Vanilla Fudge debut album. The parallels are not uncanny, they are indicative of how pop was fusing with progressive rock in an acceptable way. 
Singer Tony Bennett, who recorded the classic pop standard “Body And Soul” with Amy Winehouse at Abbey Road Studios in London this past March, made the following statement upon news of her passing:
