Entertainment
The Performance Rights Act – Strange Fruit in Tough Economic Times
Thursday, March 11th, 2010On most mornings, you like many Americans, drive to work listening to one or more radio shows where you hear the latest news, traffic and weather reports, and listen to your favorite music. These radio shows provide comic relief as we endure the drive to our dreaded 9 to 5’s. And not only comic relief, [...]
Famous Guitars: The Fender
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Guitars have in one form or another been around for thousands of years. There are paintings in Egyptian tombs showing instruments which are similar. For all those thousands of years, instrument making has been a specialised art, and the best instrument makers were students of music themselves.
In the twentieth century all that changed. A new [...]
How to Record Drums – The Best Tips For Home Studios
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010If only we lived in a world where every kick drum, snare and toms were tuned to perfection! Where rooms not only sounded good, but actually enhanced the sound of the instruments which occupied them. Not to mention having the perfect tools to capture such instruments from the microphone itself; to a quality lead, mic [...]
How to Record Electric Guitar
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Recording in the home studio is done more and more these days. The electric guitar is well suited to being captured within the restrictions of this environment. Guitar amplifiers are naturally quite loud, so compared to recording violin, less soundproofing is required, not to mention the possibility of using the vast array of Amp Simulators. [...]
Are You Collecting the Most Valuable and Rare Coins in the U.S
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010There can’t be a boy in the country who hasn’t at one point in his life decided to collect coins. It’s not very often that youngsters who collect coins come up with a rare one, but it has been known to happen. Many adults too, are into coin collecting and will read plenty of books [...]