If you don’t know who Dan Higgins is, you have heard him…..in movies, on TV soundtracks, albums, etc. He’s everywhere. Check him out. [Continue]

The SOS Forums had this interesting thread about a bloke who can turn his guest room into a studio in about 10 minutes. My studio set up consists of a control room/office which is unusual in that it has no parallel surfaces, even a sloping roof. This room is loosely triangular being a maximum of [Continue]

Gearjunkies.com has opened a neat new little site called Gearjunkies UserStudios. Here, people can flaunt their pro, semi-pro, project, or home studios. Though, right now, it seems that a lot of info is left out such as microphones, computers used, etc. But it was just launched, so, hopefully, that will be coming soon. [Continue]

The idea, which I have had for years, was to have a digital studio where I didn’t go through reams of paper every year. I finally did it. Using an iMac, and it’s video spanning capabilities, I made a digital music stand. While the technology has been there, the costs were way too high. The [Continue]

Ok, so we all know that the latest Macs all run Intel processors. You might have heard of an Apple Beta program called Boot Camp where you can get your Mac to boot up as a *shutter* Windows XP computer. You might also have heard of a program Parallels that lets you mitigate Windows to [Continue]

Yes, it is only November. But there is no time like the present to start thinking of presents for people (woohoo, good play on words there E). To start things off, iLounge has a very good, free, Holiday buyers’ guide available. Of course the guide is for people who own an iPod. And if they [Continue]

I am the proud owner of a new Mac Mini. I must say, it is the slickest piece of hardware ever. Small, quiet, fast. Everything my Aging Cube was and more. It’s roughly 3 times faster than my Cube (450Megahertz compared to 1.42Gigahertz). Digital Performer works faster, Finale works faster. Printing is faster. Loading iTunes [Continue]

I know this is kind of late, but what did Saxophonist wish for and receive (music related) this holiday season? For myself, I upgraded to Band in a Box 2005, and Digital Performer 4.5. I bought more RAM for the Jazz-Sax.Com server (up to over a Gig now) and I bought a couple of Dick [Continue]

One of my projects this summer (2004) was to redo my music studio. I was inspired by watching a lot of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy episodes. Here are the results! [Continue]

Seems every website out there has some sorta list of things to get. I felt left out. So, here is the first annual Jazz-Sax.Com Christmas Shopping list for the budding saxophonist or the professional. Enjoy!Items Under $50 CDs! such as anything by Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman, Phil Woods, Coltrane, and the latest Dave Weckl Album. [Continue]

Wired magazine has an interesting article about how a number of artists and schools are going to laptops to do music. Artists such as Steve Vai. A couple of things that I thought were interesting. One, Berklee professor Michael Bierylo hinting that days of learning piano are over and computer learning is in. And two, [Continue]

What do saxophonist want for Xmas? The latest Phil Woods album? The latest Michael Brecker album? Or perhaps you are feeling like going over to the Dark Side this year? Some of the things on my list are WolfPaK Tenor Sax case, Rode NT4 Stereo Microphone, Rode NTK Tube Mic, Mic stand, Band in a [Continue]

Peter Gabriel has a great studio called Real World. Pretty neat looking place. An old English build converted into an ultra high tech studio. However, I still think the coolest setup is Skywalker Sound. Not only do they have the latest/greatest high tech gadgets, but perhaps one of the best recording stages anywhere. [Continue]

PGMusic has been at it again. The have bumped Band-in-a-Box to version 11. It is for PC only. Is it worth the $49 upgrade price? YES YES YES. The New features are interesting. I don’t know if I would use them, but the Free Bonus 8-PAK that you get makes it well worth it. Styles [Continue]

I have a little virtual studio. It consists of a roland sound canvas, an Alesis Nanopiano, an old EMU Proteus 1 and a Korg M1 keyboard. I like what I can do with my system. However, I’m wishing somethings were a little more “realistic”…. Anyone have some suggestions for an additional tone module? Would adding [Continue]