Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Dr. Horrible Trailer

Check out this trailer for "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the upcoming web-only musical by Joss Whedon, starring NPH, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day. It's going to be awesome!

Teaser on Vimeo
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Oldest Recording of Music Played by a Computer

From BBC News (article includes an audio link):

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Oldest' computer music unveiled
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Throw Away Your DI Box!

Somebody has come up with a phantom powered guitar cable that has it's own preamp. Why didn't anyone think of this before?

FET Preamp Cable
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

A New Audio File Format

Korean engineers have developed a new digital music format with a file extension of MT9. The product name is "Music 2.0," and it seems to be a multi-channel format. According to what little info I can find, the interface will allow the listener to separately control the volume of guitars, drums, vocals, bass, and other mix elements. This leads me to believe the audio files will be imbedded with "stems" of each mix element, although I have been unable to confirm that assumption. It is expected that the format will be formally adopted at the upcoming international MPEG conference this year. The company which developed it is Audizen, and I encourage anyone who can read Korean to visit the site and find out more!

Here are also three articles I found on the subject:

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/05/25/music-20-engineers-unveil-mt9-format

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/05/133_24597.html

http://english.etnews.co.kr/news/detail.html?id=200805230009
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

We Lost Another Giant

On June 2, legendary singer/songwriter/guitarist Bo Diddley passed away of heart failure. He was extremely influential, and he will be missed.

Read more about him on Britannica.com: Bo Diddley
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