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Jensen® Loudspeakers News Release January 2012Jensen® Announces New Website Jensen® Musical Instrument Speakers is pleased to announce the launch of their updated, more current new website - www.jensentone.com Musicians are always looking for their true personal tone, and may spend a lifetime trying to find it. There are many ways to alter tone. Read the rest of this entry » The Forum is back up and running!!!We were down for 5 days but we are now back up and running! The upgrades were successful and the board is running smooth and faster then ever. Thanks for your patience. Victor Posted in Vintage Amps Forum News | No Comments »
Why You Need an Intersample Meter When Mastering by: Victor Mason
Victor Mason, Mojave™ Ampworks LLC visiting Jason Bonham, Joe Banamassa
Very Glad to have attended one of the first of a few new shows with a new band, Black Country Communion. The show was at Grove City Theater in Anaheim. Everyone was in great spirits and sounded terrific.  Mojave™ Ampworks LLC's Victor Mason, and Craig Tathwell both pictured on either side of Jason Bonham after the show for Black Country Communion Posted in Vintage Amps Forum News | No Comments »
Review: Amplitube 3 by IK Multimedia: Get Great Bass Guitar in Your DAW by: Victor Mason
Guitar Hands Cleanser Review by: Victor Mason Guitar Player Hands
True Life trial using the “Guitar Hands®” lotion. So you think this will be boring? NOT. To cut to the quick, this product is ideal for end users who pick up a guitar or bass instrument. Guitar Hands® is a very interesting product. There are several ways you can approach playing guitar. One is, you don’t care what your hands look like and don’t care if there is oily dirt on them, your guitar probably looks the part. I’ve seen it a hundreds times. Not only is the fret board disgusting, the tone of the instrument always suffers as does the tuning. If the gunk is like a snotty tar that coats your strings and fret board, it stands to reason it will dampen the sound resonance of the fret board. All things considered, that is the wrong way to handle your ax and your hands, not to mention poor hygiene. Phase Correction Using Logic’s Sample Delay Plug-In by: Victor Mason
A while back I was wrestling with trying to correct phase for my microphone set up. The microphones all had a different distance between one mic to another. This would not have been such a big deal with only two mics, but I have 5 microphones in use. That tends to “complicate” things, just a little bit. The end result is, if you have more then one mic and they are not in exactly the same position, you’re most likely going to experience some phase distortion. The farther apart your microphones, the more time lag and thus more phase distortion. Read more: http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/logic-pro/phase-correction-logics-sample-delay-plugin Posted in Vintage Amps Forum News | 1 Comment »
New Kit from ModTM Kits DIY, the ThunderDrive
The ThunderDrive is an overdrive pedal kit that provides a strong clean signal boost in the early gain settings and smooth distortion at maximum gain settings. Adjusting volume and gain controls provides a wide variety of tones in spite of its simple construction. It is capable of overdriving the preamp section of your guitar amp or adding its own layer of distortion at lower volume. The current draw of this pedal is very low at 1.3 milliamps, allowing for long battery life. Mastering for the Masses by: Victor Mason
Mastering. The post production phase where a completed mixed down track or CD album is treated through a processes performed by a “Mastering Engineer”. The Mastering Engineer readies the mix for wide scale reproduction and or broadcast. Posted in Vintage Amps Forum News | 2 Comments »
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Your mix is done but a “digital bug” lays dormant waiting to be unleashed on the listener. Unless you have taken the steps needed to check for them, odds are against you that you have them and probably don’t even know it. You’re not alone, the vast majority of commercial mixes are laden with them. What is this Bug? It’s called intersample peaks, and they are present on most mixes, yet they are chronically overlooked by many engineers. Let me explain. 
Trying to get that “Most High” Bass Guitar tone hasn’t always been the easiest feat for me over the years, especially since I use a Midi keyboard for my Bass Guitar sounds. Luckily I’ve been graced with 
Article I wrote for Mac Pro Video.
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