Monday, December 31, 2012

Your new studio consideration?

Hey folks! Guess this would probably be my first proper post.

I'm a person who's rather obsessed with in-ear monitors (musician level earphones). Ever since I bought my first one, I've rarely listened to the music on my MP3 players with regular earphones. In ear monitors are especially useful to musicians. A well designed in ear monitor comes with a great noise isolation capability, allowing the musician to pay attention to his music as he plays without having it muffled by the noise from the crowd. While those with bigger wallets go for custom acrylic moulded in ear monitors, the rest of us prefer the universal ones (fits all ears). I am a huge fans of the Westone's in ear monitors. I've tried every one of their models, the UM3x being my favorite. When I listen to my music with Westone's monitors, it's so much easier to distinguish each instrument in a song. For entry level musicians, or a person who's looking for a dynamic sounding, comfortable earphone, I recommend the UM1. To those wearing these for the first time, you'll be surprised at how well these fit in your ears (after a minute or two to figure out how to wear them properly). The sound quality for these, well worth the price, they're built for clarity, detail, precision. Listening to these I found that the dynamism in my music was enhanced, or to say it simply, made more "fun". The UM-1 comes in various colors, and now they come in packs of 5 too, Westone calls this the Jamhub (above). I love this idea. For those of you who wanna get your monitors as a band or build your own studios, these're probably a good option. The color variety makes it easier when you link up your earphones to the various ports, avoiding mix ups here and there (a huge time waster when you're jamming). You can check Westone's website for more details.

Well that's all from me for now, Happy New Year!

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

LTD Elite

ESP is coming up with a new range of LTD called LTD Elite. (In case you don't know, yes, ESP, LTD, Grassroot, Edwards, they are all by ESP.

Notable features are that these LTD Elite are Japanese. The regular LTDs are made in various places; China for most of the non-deluxe models. Deluxe ones, I believe, are Korean. 

And of course, they have a totally new headstock logo.
They won't be officially introduced until January 2013 though. I am interested in the basses. Since bass and workstation are the next on my To-Buy-List.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

HACKED

My gmail got hacked. I don't know how and why did that happened but because of that I was unable to post anything for a few days. My sincerely apology to all the readers.

Anyway, I'm planning of writing more about effects, multi-effects in general though some of these ideas are applicable on analog ones, too. It's nothing much really. Just my personal understanding of different types of effects and tips and tricks I'd learned over time.


Saturday, December 1, 2012

The "Mobius" rises

Strymon has added one more awesome pedal to its list once again. This pedal is named "Mobius", which is a all-in-one Modulation effect pedal.
As you can see, it follows the similar construction as Timeline. The below is a Youtube Video they uploaded.

Its status is still "coming soon". So if you are eager to get them, please contact the distributors.
If you are in Singapore, it would be SV Guitars.
If you are in Bangkok, check with Pedals' Park Music Playground.