This video demonstrates how you can do basic vocoding using Photoshop and Photosounder (an application for Windows & Mac that translates sounds to images and vice-versa)
Turn Photoshop Into A Vocoder
Build Your Pedalboard With Pedalboard Planner. 
Caution: To all pedalboards geeks, you might spend way too much time on the website: Pedalboard Planner!
Vintage Pedal Prices 
Here is a list of a few vintage guitar pedals and their current values. Prices are based upon pedals in *excellent* condition.
What artists should know about Last.fm 
How can Last.fm listeners discover your music?
Getting to know your guitar’s hardware 
If you are not already familiar with your guitar’s hardware then you should read this post.
Guitar Lovers Beware of United Airlines 
Be careful when traveling on any airline with your guitar. Read Dave Carrol's experience and watch the video of his song.
Top 10 electric guitar effects pedals, for Week 27, 2009. 
I was expecting to see mostly distortion pedals in a Top 10 pedals list, but that was not the case. Here are the Top 10 electric guitar effects pedals, for Week 27, 2009.
How to play fingerstyle blues guitar: part 2 
A tab and audio lesson on self-accompaniment
Submersible releases DrumCore FREE 
Submersible Music has released DrumCore FREE, which offers many of the features of the full DrumCore software package.
Midi mapping the Nocturn to Traktor tutorial 
In this tutorial i'll show you how to map the Novation Nocturn to control Native instruments Traktor DJ software using midi.
Pro Tools 8.0.1: No Windows 7 or 10.6 Support, End of the Road for Legacy 
Pro Tools got an update at the end of August. A number of readers have pointed out that this is a milestone for what it includes, what it doesn’t include, and what it represents.
Strange Instrument #6: Should We Call It a Hybritar? 
This is one of the weirdest guitar-related instrument I ever saw...
Basic Guitar Chord Theory 
In this basic guitar chord lesson, you will learn to build a guitar chord two different ways:
Free download of E-MU Proteus soft synth 
E-mu are currently giving away their Proteus VX 2 synth
Design your own guitar online with DesignMyGuitar 
DMG (DesignMyGuitar) is a new independent guitar brand of Belgian origin. It is unique in that it allows the guitar player to design their own guitar online.
Top 10 Selling Epiphone Electric Guitars, Week 37, 2009 
Here are the Top Ten Selling Epiphone Electric Guitars, Week 37, 2009. Change from Week 28 in brackets. Epiphone continues to do well with their Les Paul models, and the Wilshire model is a winner....
Most Expensive Electric Guitars 
Here are the Top 10 most expensive electric guitars, Week 33, 2009:
Stratocaster Controls - History 
Some electric guitar players are not aware that the Standard Stratocaster controls have changed over the years.
Native Instruments decides Music Trade Shows Kompletely Useless 
Native Instruments sent a big F.U. to the music trade industry today, announcing that it will no longer appear at NAMM, Musikmesse and other trade shows.
DarkWave Studio Now Free & Open Source 
Experimental Scene has released DarkWave Studio, a Windows app designed for the composition, synthesis and recording of digital music, as a free and open-source application.
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