Mix Tape -- September

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A Couple of Cool Websites

Now Play It is an online subscription music tuition site with a twist. Now Play It features an original band member as your tutor as they guide you through one of their songs. Tutors include Alex James (Blur), Gaz Coombes (Supergrass), KT Tunstall and many more.

There also in-house tutors that guide you through many popular songs by showing the chords on screen whilst the film clip plays in the background. Tutorials are not restricted to guitar though. Piano, bass and drums are also covered.

Click on the logo for a link to a preview movie of what the site has to offer.

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The website Vintage Pedal is an online search tool that can help all pedalphiles track down that one highly sought after score.

By tracking the Most Watched Items on eBay (a search function not found on eBay), the most popular items, therefore the more rarer pedals, are at your disposal. These are separated in categories such as Delay, Compressor etc.

So go track down that Ludwig Phase II Synthesiser now!

The ToneQuest Report

Got told about a great online subscription mag: The ToneQuest Report. In a previous issue, there is a great interview with Neil Young's guitar tech, Larry Cragg (pictured with Young's Old Black).



Here's an excerpt...

TQR: Some might wonder why go to all that trouble
instead of just turning down the guitar volume…

Are you kidding me? No! When you turn down the volume
of your guitar you’re dumping so much of the tone and high
end to ground that it’s just a terrible thing to do. A volume
pedal does the same thing. You’ve got to leave the guitar volume
on 10 and control it from the amp. Remember that both
volume controls on the tweed Deluxe are interactive, so we
have controls on both volume pots. With the volume on the
input that the guitar is plugged into cranked, you get some
something extra special from the second input being turned
up as well, in a very special way. The idea for all this was
Neil’s, and it was up to us to figure out how to make it work.

There are some sample issues available for download and subscription info can be found here.

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