Month: January 2014

Six Scary Questions Beatbuddy
Guitar

Six scary questions—BeatBuddy

This whole interview people from within the guitar and music industry thing is still new to me. Luckily the people I’ve approached so far have been very welcoming and accommodating of my six (plus one) questions. As this series is a first for me, I thought it would be wise to interview someone familiar with firsts. So today’s interview is with BeatBuddy—the world’s first guitar pedal drum machine. I’m glad I managed to snare these great responses.

I appreciate any opportunity for a musical pun. Stick around, the questions begin … now! … Six scary questions—BeatBuddy

Amplifiers

52 Amplifier Heads, week 4—Two-Rock Exo-15

Last week I wrote about a 15 watt amplifier head. I can’t just come straight back down from those lofty heights. I am now used to the power. I’m power mad! In my search for an amp head that spoke to my metal urges, I discovered the Two-Rock Exo-15. Two-Rock is a cool name. The Exo-15 is an awesome looking head (it appears to be an all metal construction) and the videos I’ve seen make me think the amp could deliver (distorted or not). … 52 Amplifier Heads, week 4—Two-Rock Exo-15

Six Scary Questions Sonoma Wire Works
Guitar

Six scary questions—Sonoma Wireworks

The Six scary questions series of articles wouldn’t be a series without at least two articles in it. Thanks to Sonoma Wireworks, we have a series! Sonoma Wireworks has been creating software and hardware for the musical community for quite some time now. I’ve used their software and hardware, but I hadn’t asked them six scary questions yet. Because my questions aren’t actually scary, I still haven’t. I did get answers to these questions though. … Six scary questions—Sonoma Wireworks

Amplifiers

52 Amplifier Heads, week 3—Egnater Tweaker

This week I’ve decided to step it up a bit. Where the previous amp heads were one and two watts, the Egnater Tweaker is 15 watts. This is a bigger amp head, but from the research I’ve done this still a reasonably priced amp head. Awesome. What also impressed me while researching this amplifier, was the quality of video on the amplifier itself. Egnater has a great little introductory video that explains the amplifier’s features while this YouTube video provides some very good sound bites of the amplifier’s natural tones. And it sounds great! … 52 Amplifier Heads, week 3—Egnater Tweaker

Guitar Gear

PlecPicker plectrums

For Christmas I treated myself to some PlecPicker plectrums. I discovered PlecPicker on Twitter and was instantly drawn to their glow-in-the-dark plectrums. Do you know how many plectrums I’ve lost in the dark?! Heaps is how many. Not anymore thank you very much. These plectrums glow an awesome green!

Of course you’ll not really see what I’m talking about on this website because green isn’t allowed here. All colours are banned. The black and white image below does show how with the lights out all you can see is the plectrums. It’s that simple. They glow. You don’t lose plectrums. … PlecPicker plectrums

Six Scary Questions Rock Prodigy
Guitar

Six scary questions—Rock Prodigy

I decided recently that it would be a good idea to start a new article series where I interview people from the world of guitars and/or iOS development. One of the first companies I thought of was Rock Prodigy as they cover both fields. Luckily for me, they agreed to be the first company I questioned. I am very grateful for that.

The format of this article series is simple. I ask six scary questions and one not-scary question. None of the questions are really scary questions. They’re just questions that I—Scarebear—really wanted answers to. The last question I imagine everyone wants to know the answer to.

So, without further ado … … Six scary questions—Rock Prodigy

Guitars

Black and White—my first recorded riff with bass

On Boxing Day—or post-Christmas as I sometimes like to call it—I purchased my first bass guitar. It was a cheap bass guitar, but I’m not a professional bass player so I don’t need much. Truth be told, I’m very happy with my purchase. So happy I decided that I needed to play this bass on a guitar track of mine. It was time to dig up an old riff and add another layer to it. Seeing as how the song now has guitar and bass, I decided to call the tune Black and White (the track was previously called Drop D because it is played in drop D tuning—ingeneous). I love both of those non-colours just as much as I love guitar and now, bass. … Black and White—my first recorded riff with bass