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Brand New Noise
Richard Upchurch made a simple audio recording unit housed in a wooden box for his nephew who took it to school. Then several teachers wanted one. And before he new it, he was making and designing new music and sound gizmos for a living. The Krankie featured below is just one of the instruments that…
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Arturia MiniFreak
Arturia’s MiniFreak 6-voice synthesizer comes as a nice surprise to many of us synth crazy home recording artists. In many ways it’s an upgrade from the awesome little MicroFreak. The name gives that away. But in many ways it’s getting its own freak on. Like many of you other synth crazy unfortunates reading this, I…
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Teenage Enginering PO-80 Record Factory
The Teenage Engineering website describes the PO-80 as: PO-80 record factory is a compact and portable record cutter, made in collaboration with yuri suzuki. engrave and playback 5″ discs with ultra-analog lo-fi sound – simply plug in any audio device to the 3.5 mm audio input and cut your own record in an instant. yep, it’s really that…
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Signature Sounds (free loops)
Signature Sounds offers a load of free loops and one shots from this musician’s creations over many years. Judging from the titles of the packs below the selections appear to be curated by someone really into recording everything around. The field recordings are from around Edinburgh, Scotland. The only ask is a donation if you…
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Azu Tiwaline’s Reaktor Instruments
Native-Instruments’ new blog from 1-21-21 features Azu Tiwaline and her shortlist of favorite Reaktor instruments. Some have been around for years and could be called “old skool” electronic at this point (is that a thing now?). Check it out at https://blog.native-instruments.com/5-reaktor-favorites-by-azu-tiwaline/
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What Is a Producer Tag? How-to Tips and Ideas
If you’re a producer looking for ways to make your mark on a song, one of the best things you can do is create a producer tag. Producer tags are short, recognizable audio clips that help listeners identify the producer of a track. They can be used to “sign” a beat or instrumental, providing protection…
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My Studio In 2022
Since my daughter moved out I’ve been arranging my recording studio in my little duplex apartment. I rented out a storage unit to house and organize all the cassettes, CD’s, zines and other things sent to me for review in GAJOOB. It’s a lot, and freeing up that space allows me to work toward an…
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Martin Goldmann’s Ambient Moods
Martin Goldmann is a German electronic artist with a blog and youtube channel where he writes and talks about synthesizers and creating beautiful ambient music. I like Martin’s easy-going personality and his videos are often laced with dollops of humor (see the recent spit-take that prefaces his opinion on the OP-1 Field’s pricing). i recommend…
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Youtube Channel Review: Blezz Beats
Blezz Beats is a swedish electronic/beats producer who features his Maschine in videos and course such as his Maschine Noobs Mastering School. He also offers a bunch of cool plugins and such on his website, along with activities artists can participate in. Recent video topics in April 2022 were: Live Soundation Collaboration (Soundation is Blezz’s…
Homemade Music is published by Briyan Frederick Baker (GAJOOB, Tapegerm Collective, Discover Sounds) focuses on making music in your own space. It’s more about the activity than technical.
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