Part II of our roundup of gear, guitar and music blogs. We read ‘em, so you don’t have to. Design Workshop blog features some beautiful luthier work including a $28,000 one-of-a-kind. Carl Verhayen’s blog, and The Guitar Channel for prog rock fans. Read more…
Blogging the Blogs »» January 20, 2012
Two helpful posts from blogger @hishamdahoud on Hypebot, the first an overview of the 2011 State of Online Music from NextBigSound:
… the numbers are quite staggering: 64 billion new plays, 16 billion profile views, and 3.5 billion new fan connections. Metrics include data taken from SoundCloud, Twitter, Vevo, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, and Wikipedia.
Dahoud points out Soundcloud having the largest growth; noted the indie artists ranking on Soundcloud versus the big pop artists on the other services; and pointed out each service had it’s own most active day of the week. All from the same infographic.
The other post from Dahoud is about an interesting new web tool for artists:
Artist Growth, a sophisticated set of cloud-based artist management tools that also utilizes specialized apps for mobile devices, has officially launched. Created by Nashville based musicians turned entrepreneurs Matt Urmy and Jonathan Sexton, Artist Growth’s proprietary technology integrates finances, calendars, inventory, contacts, social media and mentoring resources within a single cloud-interface.
This certainly sounds like a tool that indie artists will want to use. There’s a video demo at the bottom of the post here.
Eye candy from NAMM 2012 via GuitarNoize a great indie guitar blog. Link to GuitarNoize post.
This new G5-VG Stratocaster comes with built in COSM effects from Roland. Awesome! I use the Roland Micro BR-80 which is sweet and has the same built in guitar efx, very effextive. LOL. Seriously, at the flip of a rotary dial near the tone pots, you can get these sounds: strat, tele, humbucker, acoustic, 12-string, sitar, drop D tuning, and on and on. The demo is incredible, must see for guitar fans.
The fluid and tasteful Alex Hutchings demos the G5-VG here.
Love to try this one, see what the acoustic or 12-string sounds feel like coming out of the axe.