Jason Nicholls is a jeweller and guitarist, whose company Endless Knobbing specialises in knobs from music gear cast in silver (he'll do them in platinum or gold too, if you like). Boutique British valve amp makers Audio Kitchen are using his knobs, but he'll make you a keyring for £55 and up. [via Music Thing]
AudiOdyssey is an experimental computer game designed to be accessible to both the visually impaired community and mainstream gamers. The user stars as Vinyl Scorcher, an up-and-coming DJ, on his quest to get club patrons dancing. Swinging the Nintendo Wii controller to the beat, Vinyl lays down the various component tracks of a song, and keeps the party jumping. If he does an especially good job, he can even freestyle! But beware - if dancers get too rowdy, they're likely to bump into the turntables, messing up Vinyl's tracks. Think you have what it takes?
download the game totally free [Windows only!]
iStockphoto is one of the most important site to find great royalty free stock images. Their prices are low, the pictures and videos are great, yes we all know it. But here is an another reason to visit them. They just started an audio section, for royalty-free music clips and sound effects. iStockaudio works like the photo and video part, you can buy the things you like/need for as low as $1 each and you can upload and sell your works too. As they said: - For years now, iStock has changed how the world looks. It's time to change how it sounds. - Word.
Thanko releases the i2i Stream, a new MP3 streaming device. Just plug your DAP into the i2i Stream and you can share music with friends within a 10 meter radius. It provides a frequency response of 10Hz-24,000Hz, a bit-rate of 16bit at 48kbps Stereo, an audio latency of 20ms, and it should cost around 89€. [via Akihabara News]
Dancefuel is a web based digital download music store designed to service the dance music culture, in particular for DJ's, producers, clubbers and enthusiasts. Dancefuel allows users to access the world of club music through secure, legal, hi-speed, high quality downloads in MP3 format on a pay per download basis. But they real goal is that the Dancefuel is the first online music store featuring KEY and CODE track info!
AMP is a universal active speaker for Ipod or laptops. Active speakers don’t need an external amplifier as the amplification happens inside. So all you need to do, is hook it up to a music source and you’re set. The AMP refers to the time before transistor radios. At the time, radios looked like giant pieces of furniture, as it took a lot of space to put all the technology needed. Nowadays, because of innovations like the transistor, music equipment has become something that is sold as boxes meant to be hidden. The AMP however doesn’t hide its true nature. The AMP is equipped with a mosfet amplifier and a 3-way speaker cone-set. The audio jack ensures the freedom to connect any portable music device whatsoever.designed by Pieter Maes
We are very late to party about this, and its really sad. We have no excuse. While we been dead the Microphone Shower Sponge has been sold out! But there might be a small chance, if the new shipment arrives within 1-2 weeks.
This is a very useful list by Create Digital Music, not for musicians only.
Any computer – Mac, Windows, and Linux – can experience degraded audio
experience pretty fast if a background task starts stealing CPU or a
driver is misbehaving. In contrast, a fully-tweaked Windows machine,
equipped with a set of tools to diagnose potential problems, can be
rock-solid for audio performance. That’s an especially big deal for
those of us using computers for live music.
It's rather strange that this class of device is something of a surprise in 2008. But it is probably true, Numark, the DJ equipment specialists made the first turntable which records music from the black discs directly onto CD now. LP2CD (it's the code name, hah) will hit the shops in the autumn at a price that is still a secret. What is already opened is an official product page, go click here to get informed. Noizone has summarized the essential points in a short article.
Alesis now has an offer: record your favourite performance in pro quality with your iPod. Their small black shoe is ProTrack, a device that accepts 5th generation iPods to record audio on them. It has two built-in microphones, and two professional mic/line level inputs (XLR type) that are capable of putting enough quality onto the disk. A good LED metering device and a limiter circuit at the input stage care for your recording level - overloading is almost impossible even with the loudest music on Earth. Only if you want it...
Check the product's page for more info, or the article at Noizone.
Hitachi Maxell released new jewelry like earphones with a choice of ten colors, the HP-CN11. These earbuds provide a frequency response of 20-22,000Hz, an impedance of 16Ω, sound pressure sensitivity of 100dB/mW, and 10mm driver. Ah and they can do 110% BlingBling effect :D
Continue reading "Crystal Jewelry Earphones from Hitachi Maxell" »
If you read music blogs everyday you must heard about the SoundCloud in the last couple of days, weeks. This is a great new startup from Berlin, Germany. They do the same what the Flickr does with pictures or what the YouTube does with videos. They help you to share. Awesome, right? I guess we all had problems with sending music files especially wavs or bigger mp3's. Now the SoundCloud is the answer. You can upload files, share them with the world or with only one person. There are some social network features, but not so annoying and the very best part is commenting the parts of the track, by puttingmarkers on the waveformr (something like commenting parts of the picture in Flickr). So we are jeaous and extremely excited at the same time, we wish long long life and many happy users for the SoundCloud.
BTW you might noticed the Dropbox in the sidebar, thats an another nice SoundCloud feature! Great, isn't it? Here more cool features:
ZERO LIVE CONTROL MIXER is an all-in-one 'core station' designed for live performance artists, remix producers, and serious computer musicians providing a digital mixer, audio I/O, MIDI controller, and effect processor all in a single unit. Each channel can be switched between sources such as a turntable, CD player, microphone, computer, instrument, MIDI controller, or MIDI controller + audio to implement a sophisticated live mixing setup with the simplicity of a FireWire connection. This gives you an incredibly powerful and flexible tool designed specifically for live performance and remix production. Two models are available: ZERO4 is a four-channel version designed for the needs of the modern DJ, and ZERO8 is an eight-channel version covering the needs of advanced laptop musicians, studio remixers and DJs requiring more channels.
OK this was the official propaganda, lets see how it's doing on a Skratchworx test. Continue reading to see the ratings right now, jump over to the Skratchworx for the whole story.
Continue reading "Korg Zero8 Live Control Console
Skratchworx test" »
This what you need in these hot days. JVC Japan’s XA-AW33 is the world’s first water proof MP3 player designed specifically for bathing using. Featuring a floating design that’s completely water proof. Using just 4 AAA batteries and get up to 15 hours of playback time with 256MB of your favorite songs. [via technogad]
The Sound of eBay is a net art project by Ubermorgen that translates scraped eBay user data into music. To make the concept even better, they have amazing 8-bit porn design. Irresistible!
Tiger Electronics and Sega Toys put out a new robot model after the E.M.A Robot introduced last week. This time, our AMP (Automated Music Personality) Robot won’t give you a French kiss, but will provide you with music! It features two tweeters and mid-range speakers, audio input jack, four control motors, two obstacle-detection sensors, 49 LED lights, 14 touch sensors, and provides an output power of 12W and a frequency response of 17Hz-20,000Hz. You’ll be able to plug your MP3 player into A.M.P, put it in a secure case in the robot’s back, and control your robot with a remote control. It should be available in the US and Japan at the beginning of November, as well as on GeekStuff4U.com
continue reading at AkihabaraNews
Finally Korg made something gorundbreaking: this new family of devices called Nano is a big help for the laptop musicians. All three USB devices are ultra-lightweight, slim, and easy to transport even inside your laptop bag. Find out more about these cuties over at noizone.com
[via noizone.com]
Allen & Heath rises the level with a new DJ controller, Xone:4D.
It has a 20-channel USB audio interface with 24/96 resolution, four
stereo ins and outs, sends 105 different MIDI controller at a time, and
has LFO and a step filter, running after the BMP counter. All input
channels have three-band EQs, and all this wonder costs around 3000
USD. Much more info at the product page.
Recent Comments
Apollo Zero: Call me, Giorgio
Apollo Zero: Call me, Giorgio
short film and interview
short film and interview
short film and interview
plus a bonus mp3 download