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Jensen® Loudspeakers News Release January 2012

Jensen® 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


Victor Mason, Mojave™ Ampworks LLC visiting Jason Bonham, Joe Banamassa

Visiting Black Country Communion

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.

Victor Mason and Jason Bonham 06--10-2011

Mojave™ Ampworks LLC's Victor Mason, and Craig Tathwell both pictured on either side of Jason Bonham after the show for Black Country Communion

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Guitar Hands Cleanser Review by: Victor Mason

guitarfingers_01-275x174Guitar 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.

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Phase Correction Using Logic’s Sample Delay Plug-In by: Victor Mason

cp_256_title-pic1Article I wrote for Mac Pro Video.

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


Mastering for the Masses by: Victor Mason

image-1Using the T-Racks Stand Alone Plug-ins without Mastering experience.

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.

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Tips for balancing multi-core performance In Logic

Logic Pro and Logic Express 8 or later can use all cores on 2, 4, and 8 core Macs. Keep these tips in mind as you work with Logic to balance performance on a multi-core system.Logic CPU monitor

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Using a Compressor to improve your mix by: Victor Mason

CompressorThe Compressor: a wonderful device that makes our music “POP”, sound full and bring up that detail, open up that track from behind the door. The compressor is one of the most talked about, most used, most influential, and probably the most important device to come along and give a listener a way to hear music they otherwise would not be able to.

The Compressor is also a mastering tool as pointed out by Steve H in his tutorial series Logic 401, Logic’s Mastering Toolbox.

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Respected music photographer Rick Gould is offering a small quantity of his original photo prints.

Edward Van Halen - Photograph by Rick Gould

Edward Van Halen - Photograph by Rick Gould

“For the first time ever, respected music photographer Rick Gould is offering a small quantity of his original photogrpaphic prints for sale.

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Marshall JTM45 circa ’64 Clapton version serial # 1002

This is the Clapton edition, all the trimmings. Factory stock, all parts working perfectly. Part of the David Kronemyer collection.  Radio Spares transformers. 1964 model as is the case all of the capacitors were reconstituted and revitalized so they can be used safely. Read the rest of this entry »