Jan 23

This article aims to help differentiate between your different effects units. How many of you often use distortion and overdrive indifferently? Ever since the magnetic pickup was placed onto a guitar, players have sought ways to alter the source to give new and interesting sounds.
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Written by Alex on Monday 23rd January 2006 at 12:02pm and posted in Reviews, Technical
Dec 30

Green Day - Bullet in a Bible is a 2 disc set with a live DVD video and an audio CD. The DVD features the "American Idiot" tour in it’s UK stage. Recorded over the 2 day event at the Milton Keynes National Bowl in June 2005 we are treated to a mix of new tracks and some old classics.
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Dec 23

We last saw the Audio Phonics guitar tuner way back at version 1.02. This was actually one of the very first articles to grace the pages of blind-summit. We now return with the latest version, a beta, 3.06. The new software looks great, performs well and has a host of new features. Perhaps the only downside is the registration aspect. Although the software is free to download and has a limitless trial, they have added a register / continue trial prompt. Having said that - a small price to pay for an excellent program.
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Dec 20

If you are anything like me with your mp3 collection, you will know about the incredible time consuming act of track tagging. With any large collection - say over several hundred songs, it can become difficult to keep track of files unless you have some system of naming and organising the files. I have constructed a piece of software from scratch to do just the above and I present it here and here alone for you all to test.
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Dec 20
With the release of Hypnotize, the fifth System of a Down album, they complete the second half of the 2 album release. The band had a large collection of songs that they wanted to release on an album, however there were too many tracks. Splitting them over 2 CDs was the answer.
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