Your Amplifier Salesman Is Lying to You
08/03/10 03:12, by ed.lapple, Categories: Edward Lapple , Tags: a440, amp, amplifier, lee de forest, sine wave 
When the friendly man in the music store smiles reassuringly at you and says the 1000-watt, 8-speaker monster stack that you are about to finance is the hottest amp in the world, Watch It! He’s Lying. When your session bud tells you his ‘57 Tweed Twin is the mellowest amp that there is, he’s lying.
Monday Morning Blues with Dan Grigor and the Green Screen Trio
06/28/10 03:14, by Dan Grigor, Categories: Monday Morning Blues, Dan Grigor , Tags: 12 bar, 12-string, am, barefoot, bass, blues guitar, e, e7, grigor, monday morning blues, pentatonic 
This video really isn’t so much green screen as it it composite but it was still a challenge to shoot and edit. Once we had a setup with the jib and the lights and the background that we liked it took, on and off, 4 days to edit the 6-camera, 2-day shoot.
This is so much fun to do. Perfecting the system is a journey. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Part of the Monday Morning Blues series and you can find a play list of all of them here. It is a great way to start your week. Make it a part of your Monday morning.
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Dear Daddy, What would you say to your Dad today if you could
06/19/10 20:12, by Dan Grigor, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Dan Grigor , Tags: dad, daddy, fark, fark.com, father's day, flamenco, grigor, guitar, music. father's day poems 
The best thing my Dad ever did for me was buy me a guitar. He was kind of a mess otherwise. My folks split when I was rather young. For a while, Wednesday visitation with my Dad was spent driving to the city and taking Flamenco guitar lessons. The memories from then are a little hazier every year and another year has gone by. I remember flash cards with notes on them; I remember listening to the teacher play and watching my Dad close his eyes and listen. You could almost see the stress leaving his body as he was soothed by the music.
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Let’s Have a Level Playing Field
05/25/10 15:52, by ed.lapple, Categories: BFMN Exclusive , Tags: amplifier, distortion, ear method, edward lapple, signal path, signal to noise level If you are going to record your music, you need to know the basics of proper level setting.
Let’s say that you want to record your guitar. What would the signal path be?
Well, the strings vibrate over a magnetic pickup; the output of the guitar is plugged into an amplifier; the amplifier probably has a pre-amplifier stage and an output stage. At least one microphone will be routed into a pre-amplifier input stage in the mixing console. From there, the signal flows through the channel volume fader, the sub-master fader, master fader and then to the input stage of a tape recorder or digital recording device such as your PC. We could also add external equalization, a compressor or a myriad of other external boxes but, KISS KISS, let’s keep it stupid simple, or something like that.
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Tuesday Morning Slept Through Monday Blues
05/18/10 10:47, by Dan Grigor, Categories: Monday Morning Blues , Tags: jam at the cam, loop pedal, monday morning blues I have been trying to have a new Monday Morning Blues song for you each week. This week I had a wacky Monday. Took some time to sleep, then I took a nap and an afternoon snooze, played some guitar with Frank. By the time I got to recording something for Monday morning I was dog tired, it was 3 in the morning and I didn’t have any voice for the song.
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