The DigiTech JamMan looper is one of a few good loopers on the market that's really made a name for itself. The looping process doesn't vary much, but Bill Holland overviews the features and demonstrates basic looping on the JamMan.
The BBE BMAX-T joins Owen O'Malley for a sweet, low key studio bass session. Take your time enjoying every single abalone-tipped knob on the front of this smooth little number.
Dave Chale, the drummer from Louisville's Cabin, is back with an unidentified Epiphone cabinet. The grill hs been removed for anonymity or to protect the innocent or something like that.
We continue on from our last iDJ2 video where Bill Holland left off, testing out the pitch controls with the chipmunk effect. I, on the other hand, would put on some Sleep, slow it down as much as I could and make it seem like that pizza you ordered is taking literal days to get delivered. That's how I roll. Welcome to Ice Town.
Circuitastrophe was the first annual Circuit Bending symposium held in Cincinnati, Home of the Bent. After the workshops and jams, Reed Ghazala (aka the Father of Circuit Bending) held a real live 21st Century Be-In. But how to power all those late night benders with no juice?
The Shure 55SH Series II is for the singers who really like a mic that gets right up in their face. With old school charm and a cardioid pickup pattern, this mic takes center stage.
Remember the early-to-mid 90s Nickelodeon game show What Would You Do? where people would get hit by all sorts of pies, and then Marc Summers would ask random audience members if they had hidden talents? Who knew that Bill Holland could play such a mean harp?
Soniccouture releases Tremors, a loop library chock full of your wildest Dubstep dreams. It's also only a couple degrees of separation away from Kevin Bacon.
Zero-G and Xfonic team up for Vocal Foundry. If it's anything like a regular foundry, the vocals will be produced like metal castings from either ferrous or non- ferrous alloys!
As if you couldn't get enough Van Hagar back in 1993, Peavey unleashed this goodie upon the world. Despite it's diagonal positioning in this ad, however, this amp turned out to be quite useful for touring artists.
The Universal Audio LA-610 channel strip is, in layman's terms, a magic box that will make whatever you plug into it sound better. Owen O'Malley and his sweet lightning bolt guitar strap test the merits of this preamp / leveling amp.
Alex from Get LoFi joins us at Circuitastrophe Event, a circuit bending event in Cincinnati, Ohio. He's up to making his own circuit bent bike, this one, thankfully, is stationary (at least for the time being) to avoid circuit bent fender benders.
We put our game interfaces on to review the Yamaha GO46. It's a little FireWire interface that offers low latency recording for those home studio engineers who don't need eight simultaneous XLR inputs . . . or are you miking up a full kit in your bedroom?
In addition to have 12 scenes capable of storing a dozen different stompbox models each, the Line 6 M13 has a built-in looper as well. The next version is rumored to have built in amps, guitars and guitarists, so you can do what you really want to do -- sip lemonade!
Cabin's bassist, Billy Lease, became a bassist by the Darwinian laws of population control. He talks about making the switch from a six-stringer to a Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass.
Bill Hollands goes all Benjamin Gates in this overview of the Novation Remote 25SL. This compact little warrior is preconfigured to work with a bevy of plugins, making configuration a thing of the past.
For those of you tired of lugging around those Yamaha CP-70's, just pack up your laptop setup and load on SoundFonts Electric Grand EG70. SoundFonts very carefully reconstructs the sounds and nuances in plugin format.
Homegrown Sounds releases WAV Recorder, a free plugin (donations welcome) that records directly to WAV for the times when you don't need your whole home studio setup running.
Everyone knows that theremins are neat, but if you haven't played one, it takes more than just wiggling your hands around. It doesn't take THAT much more, but there's obviously a lot more to it than that.
We talk to Sarah Teeple of the Ladybirds about one of the two microphones she uses on stage. The Shure Beta 58A is a highly touted dynamic mic with a supercardioid pattern that comes in handy.
Line 6's Dave Lenat shows how far the M13 can take your tone. Thanks to the Line 6 FM4 effects within and some crazier effects -- like a reverb with its own stringy tonality, you'll never be at a lack of juicy tonal options.
While it may not be the right guitar for everyone, the Guild F-50 suits singer-songwriter Jimmy Lloyd fine. He spend six months looking and found the best for all his musical worlds.
Billy Lease, who primarily plays bass for Cabin, occasionally switches out the four-string for an electric guitar. He shows us his Epiphone Les Paul, which he has modded out to meet his needs.
It's no shame for Line 6 that Ben Felker eventually replaced his broken DL4 with a Moog MF-104Z. You just can't beat an analog delay without the analog part, and this MoogerFooger series delay keeps it simple and sensational.
Everyone from Blue Oyster Cult to R.E.M. to the Smashing Pumpkins has dug a little EBow in their tunes. Even Brad Delson from Linkin Park messed around with some EBow. Here, J. Irving-Giles does the same with the Heet Sound Plus EBow.
The ProCo RAT has been around the block. It is one of the pedals you see all the time--being used by a wide variety of guitarists. One of these is Chris Perricelli of the power pop band, Little Man