Posts Tagged ‘amplifier’

GarageBand Guitar Sampler

// March 23rd, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Guitar

Welcome to my GarageBand electric guitar amp/effect sampler. With the release of the Apple iLife ‘09 suite, came a big update to the GarageBand program. There were a lot of enhancements to the product, such as lessons, interface tweaks, and some new songwriting features, but none of those come anywhere near as important (to me) than the new guitar amp and effect models now built-in to GarageBand. The following is a sampling of the default amp/effect models included with the software. They are infinitely customizable and they very well may contribute to the retirement of my Line 6 POD 2.
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Garageband a POD Killer?

// March 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // Guitar

The latest version of Garageband in iLife ‘09 includes a number of new features and of all those new features none were as interesting to me as the new built-in electric guitar effects. A little over a year ago, I got my hands on an old, beat up, non-functioning Line 6 POD 2.0. At the time it was a critical (missing) piece from my home studio and I desperately wanted an amp/effect processor to liven up my recordings. I spent about $80 getting it back up and running again and while it still has some issues, it generally works OK. With the new guitar amp/effects built-in to Garageband, the question was, can it compete with the POD? If so, could I simplify (or even improve) my recording environment by simply removing the POD from the mix?
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Bye Bye Blues Cube Blues

// September 4th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Guitar

There comes a time in every person’s life where they must say farewell to some prized posession and today I said goodbye to my classic Roland Blues Cube 30. The BC-30 is an older, discontinued Roland amplifier that has exceptional, tube-like tone in a solid state amplifier. I bought the amp back in the late ’90s to replace my old Fender 15w Champ. Shortly after purchasing this new amp, I moved in to an apartment and its lack of a 1/4″ out meant I couldn’t play it very often at all. Unfortunately, it sat idle in the corner for years only getting juiced up a couple of times a year. I found myself playing on that old Champ more and more as it was the only thing I had at the time that was neighbor friendly.
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