Posts Tagged ‘pod’

A Tale of Two Stratocasters, Pt. 1

// April 18th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Guitar

There is a hierarchy, or ladder, in the world of stratocaster guitars and my Squier may not be at the very bottom of that ladder, but it surely wont get hurt if it falls off. Somewhere near the top of that hierarchy is the Fender American Standard and while there are plenty of better strats than the AmStd, it’s high enough up that ladder to get a nose bleed.

This past weekend, I was able to get my hands on a friend’s Fender American Standard for the whole weekend to play with and I figured this would be a good opportunity to highlight the differences between the these two strats.
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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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