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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 

Category: Music
Please welcome professional singer, vocal coach and singing teacher Cheryl Hodge to Songstuff!

Cheryl will be writing regularly for the vocals section of our site, and taking part in the vocals board discussions.

Cheryl has been teacher to many students; including pop icons Grammy winner Paula Cole, Juno winner Frazee Ford, and Canadian Idol finalist, Alyssa Klazek. She graduated from and taught at Berklee College of Music (voice faculty for 8 years), and for the last 18 years she has been the head of the Selkirk College Vocal Department. Cheryl has recorded 7 CDs and writes and gigs regularly with jazz guitar great, John Stowell.

Vocals Area

Vocals Board
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 

Category: Music
We have just introduced a brand new site area for singers:

Vocals Site Area

The Vocals area will include articles and tutorials, and links to useful resources. Subscribe to the Songstuff blog for regular updates as the Vocals area develops and grows.

We hope that you enjoy this new resource.

To accompany the new area we have introduced a new Vocals board

Come along and take part in the vocals board where you can talk about all things singing related.
Thursday, October 01, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Music

Ocean Way Drums DL

Ocean Way Drums DL is a 24bit/48k expandable format providing stereo mixes for each instrument within the drum kit. read the review here:

Ocean Way Drums DL


T-RackS 3 Deluxe Edition

T-RackS 3 Deluxe is the flagship mastering product from IK Multimedia. Billed as a considerable improvement on the previous version of T-RackS, T-RackS 3 claims improved metering, plus upgraded modules from T-RackS 2, and offers 5 new high-end signal processing modules. So What exactly does the deluxe version offer, and is it a worthwhile investment for your hard earned money when compared with the T-RackS 3 Standard Edition?

Read the review of T-RackS 3 Deluxe Edition
Thursday, August 27, 2009 

Current mood:  pleased
Software

Songstuff forum software has been upgraded. There's a stack of new features including:

    Associate your account with your Facebook profile and pull in your avatar, photo, about text and status updates.
    Improved user profile options and tools
    Reputation system
    Boards, blogs, members and gallery new content view


Coming soon - Blog themes, a choice of look and feel for your blog.

Skin

We have a new skin across the whole site. It's based roughly on a piece of rack gear. I did say roughly didn't I?

This skin is much faster than the previous skin, with some more speed improvements to come on the forums.

Songstuff Songwriting and Music Resource
Saturday, April 18, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Music
New in-depth review of AmpliTube - Fender. AmpliTube is a software amplifier simulator, the Fender edition providing amp simulations of fender gear including lots of classic amplifiers, effects racks and stomp boxes. Fender tested all the simulations with the tests they use on the real gear and by side by side comparison...
Read more about AmpliTube Fender.
Metal Amp Room is software exclusively for hard rock and metal and features a very simple interface and a wide range of accurate metal sounds.
Metal Amp Room
Monday, March 23, 2009 

Current mood:  rockin
Category: Music
A new in-depth review of AmpliTube - Jimi Hendrix by John Moxey.
AmpliTube is a software amplifier simulator, the Jimi Hendrix edition providing amp simulations of the kinds of rigs that Jimi Hendrix used including amplifiers, effects racks and stomp boxes.
http://recording.songstuff.com/article/AmpliTube_Jimi_Hendrix
Saturday, February 21, 2009 

Current mood:  artistic
Category: Music
Great in-depth review by Steve Mueske of FXpansion's BFD2 drum workstation software. BFD2 is the second generation acoustic drum sampler that allows you to record life-like drum tracks. The article is here:

http://recording.songstuff.com/article/BFD2

Sunday, December 28, 2008 

Category: Music
New article posted discussing MIDI Synchronization:MIDI SynchronizationIt's a useful primer on the basic concepts with a little detail thrown in for those wanting to know a bit more. Midi Sync
Sunday, December 28, 2008 

Category: Music
Review of Spectrasonics Omnisphere has just been posted. Omnisphere is the successor to Atmosphere, and is Spectrasonics new flagship synthesizer. Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Sunday, December 28, 2008 

Category: Music
Steve Mueske brings you an in-depth review of Power Suite 5, a suite of mixing and mastering plug-ins by Wave Arts. Steve's attention to detail and unbiased approach has become a trademark of his refreshing and informative reviews. Don't miss it!