Matt Mercado has been engineering drums for recording for 15 years now, and the technique he's developed is a blend of the traditional and the unorthodox. For example, have you ever heard of someone using an SM58 on a floor tom? If it works, it ain't wrong.
There is an awesome Flash game on the internet called Rose & Camellia where your character, a common-born widow who married into an aristocratic has to defeat your in-laws in increasingly difficult slapping matches. In second place comes aM Laboratory 909, a Flash emulation of the Roland TR-909.
This is the best of Gearwire as selected by Bill Holland and Patrick Ogle. We tried to get Mo Rocca, Jim Breuer, and the rest of the B-List stars that live on VH1 now, but they were too busy -- oh wait, no they weren't.
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Improviser Jim Baker uses the Arp 2600 to make unique sounds in his curious brand of "folk music." In this introductory video, Gearwire's Gretchen Hasse talks with Baker late one Tuesday evening after his set at Chicago's...
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As a music enthusiast, my recreation often finds itself blending with my professional life. While visiting Michigan's Upper Peninsula for a wedding, I found...
Recently Gearwire featured the Harmony Rocket (model H-59) as a guitar that inspired “irrational exuberance.” It is a guitar that just has something – nostalgia, a unique sound or it just looks good. Objectively...
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Zack Kim knows his way around an Ibanez Paul Gilbert signature model guitar. In fact, he knows his way around two of these guitars and can play them at the same time. Two hands, two guitars, too cool. Enjoy this rendition...
Visualizing invisible sound waves is a job best left to oscilloscopes or software, you say? What about fire, smart guy? In this clip we find a new method to visualize sound waves using nothing more than a standard household...
A Stylophone, TR-808 and a TB-303 walk into a bar....Check out the video hijinks as the classic Stylophone 1960s stylus instrument that sounds like an apartment building door buzzer gets paired up with the techno tweedledee...
