I found this interesting…..
Month: October 2020
Giant Steps As Synesthesia Art
From OpenCulture.com:
Kandinsky never heard Coltrane, but if he had, and had access to 3D rendering software, he might have made something very much like the short animation above from Israeli artist Michal Levy. “Roughly 3 per cent of people experience synaesthesia,” writes Aeon, “a neurological condition in which people have a recurring sensory overlap, such as … envisioning letters and numbers each with their own inherent colour.”
Best iPad Stands for Musicians
Well done video.
Geek Geek Tool for 23 Times Cheaper
I’ve always thought the “Reed Geek” was sorta bullshit. Way too expensive, and you can do all that stuff with a knife. Now their secret is out.
The Future Of The EWI
With the plethora of new “EWIs” out, which I would say fail to really capture what the instrument is, we now have this. Which looks like it is coming soon!
Sheet Of The Week – You Need To Calm Down (Taylor Swift)
Should be the song of the 2020 year.
You Need To Calm Down by Taylor Swift for Eb Instruments (118.2 KiB, 13 hits)
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You Need To Calm Down by Taylor Swift for Bb Instruments (119.2 KiB, 8 hits)
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Picking Apart Ben Wendel’s Pedal Board
The Woodwind & Brasswind posted a video of Ben Wendel showing his pedal board.
One of my “quarantine” projects has been figuring out a good performance pedal board for if/when it is safe to go out and perform again. Let’s dive a little deeper and figure out what exactly his setup is.
First off, it is a mess. Seriously Ben, you shoot this video in a room that is clean, and looks great. But the cables for your pedals? Maddening……a disaster Ben. FEMA has been notified. 1/2 a Beard if it was on Riffs, Beards and Gear. You need a board, and clean cables. How can you show up with that mess? Yikes.
Ok, so, the actual gear. Ben pretty much spells out what he has except for two KEY items. The microphones. Which is sort of important. The best I can tell he is using a AEA N8 Ribbon Microphone as his “dry” saxophone mic. Which is awesome. But…..it needs phantom power. So where is the phantom power for the mic? I don’t see it on the board. The “effects mic” seems to be a Sennheiser e908b microphone, another mic that needs phantom power.
Also, is there an iPad or something on the stand?
Here is the list of equipment I see:
AEA N8 Ribbon Microphone – $1099.00
Sennheiser e908b – $279.95
Mooer Volume Pedal – $85.00
Boss RV-3 Reverb/Delay – $148.00
Mosky Mini Obsessive Overdrive – $33.99
Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork – $174.40
TC Electronics Ditto – $109.99
Boss RC-30 – $299.99
MXR Mini ISO-Brick – $99.99
Sheet Of The Week – Dynamite (BTS)
Yes. That song.
Dynamite by BTS for Eb Instruments (152.6 KiB, 10 hits)
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Dynamite by BTS for Bb Instruments (158.5 KiB, 11 hits)
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Sheet Of The Week – Heather (Conan Gray)
Nice song by Conan Gray.
Heather by Conan Grey for Eb Instruments (107.1 KiB, 6 hits)
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Heather by Conan Grey for Bb Instruments (104.5 KiB, 6 hits)
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