Cool Photo Blog Documents Band's Live Set-ups

My friend Steve showed me this site the other day.  Otherbandsstuff.com is a blog run by someone who works at a live music venue.  He takes pictures of the band's gear when they play there and posts them to the blog.  Kind of cool to see what other artists are carting around with them on the road!

Your Monday Morning Dose of Studio Porn

I don't know that it's anything new, but I only just ran across the FUCK YEAH STUDIO PORN tumblr this afternoon.  Some seriously drool-worthy set-ups here.  And a few that would drive me absolutely nuts.  Funny how subjective what makes a good working space is.

A Look at Audio Past

Stumbled upon the Preservation Sound blog the other night and thought it might be of interest to y'all. I'll let them sum up what they're about themselves:

"Preservationsound.com is a collection of ideas and information about audio.

More specifically, the history of audio, and our relationship to audio. Audio, broadly defined, is the electrical representation of sound. Sound has existed for at least as long as anyone has been around to hear it, but audio is a relatively new technology. The ability to ‘capture’ sound and then ‘play it back’ divorced from its origin in time and/or space is the most basic function of audio technology. In addition to this role, audio technology can also be an instrument; a tool to create unique sounds that do not originate as acoustic sound. I do not mean to imply that these are separate functions; capturing and playing back sound will always change the sound, regardless of the intent of the audio operator. There is always a grey area between documentation and manipulation; every audio operation creates the potential for a new sound. We have developed a great many audio tools and technologies to maintain the ‘fidelity’ of audio: that is to say, maintain a ‘true-to-the-original-sound’ quality in our audio signals. We have also developed a great number of tools and technologies to enhance, distort, combine, separate, and generally manipulate audio. It is these tools and technologies that I am interested in exploring. I am interested in their effects, their methods, and their development. Most of all, I am interested in their potential to create meaning for the people who experience these new sounds. Sounds that have been brought across great distances, through spans of time, bearing the artifacts of the particular tools that have crafted them."

Cool Acapella Blog

Discovered this blog thanks to the wonderful Slicing Up Eyeballs blog. Studio Multitracks features isolated tracks, most of them acapellas, from famous songs from the 50's through present day. So if you've ever fancied doing a remix for one of your favorite artists, check it out...

[via Slicing Up Eyeballs]

Waveformless Reader Blog...

Just a quick plug to let people know Waveformless reader David Winn has started a blog about his musical dabblings and the experience of being an upstart musician. You can check it out here. There's not much there at the moment, but it's certainly fertile ground for discussion...

IHaveSynth Launches New User-Driven Blog

Our friends over at the IHaveSynth site have launched a new blog called WeHaveSynth.  The new blog is to be user-driven and will give readers a place to share their synths and their experience with other readers.

New Synth Patch Blog

Vaccine is a brand, spanking new blog that will be aimed at sharing synth patches. I hope it takes off, as the internet could use more of that sort of thing!

Got Synth?

IHaveSynth (currently in Beta) is a new site for all things synth-related. It looks to be pretty ambitious too, consisting as it does of news, reviews, a blog, a forum, and more. Be sure to go on over and check it out!

Cool Blog for Old People

If you're an old coot like me, or even if you just have an appreciation for the alternative music of the 80's, you should definitely check out slicingupeyeballs.com (Relax, the seemingly gory URL is a lyric from a Pixies song...). The blog covers bands from the era, news on reissues, remasters, reunions, and other words begining with 're-'.

Incidentally, the stack of tapes at the top of the page looks SO much like my cassette collection from back in the day that it's scary.