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Omigosh! The First K2BShow EVER!

November 15, 2010 in Updates

That’s right peeps, we’re actually doing it!  The taping of the first ever KennyKennyBergleShow is this Wed., 11/17/10, at Columbia Street West right here in good ol’ Fort Wayne, IN.  After being bumped from another venue by a CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT (yeah, it’s in the monologue for sure!), we’ve managed to trick the nice Columbia Street West people into letting us tape there!

It’s from 7:30 PM to about 9:30 and it’s totally free (except whatever liquor you may feel the need to consume to survive), please come on down and see music technology AND television history being made.  Also feel free to heckle, at least that way we know you’re still awake!

Of course, all the segments will be posted here and soon there will be a new page devoted to the video of the entire show.

The excellent musical guest is Carson McClain, a noted electronic musician, who will give us a demo and lesson on ‘Electro’ music and the gear used to produce it.  That will be fun and entertaining and there will be dancing in the aisles if we don’t get arrested!

Also, Special Guest Marcel James, of Antelope Audio – famed and fabulous Master Clock manufacturer, has just returned from LA and the infamous Marvin Gaye studio where he helped the engineers there with the latest of Michael Jackson’s previously unreleased material, coming out in December.  He has a secret he wants to share with our studio audience about that record, can’t wait!

All this and too much KennyKenny and it’s all free!

TheKennyKennyBergleShow, or TheK2BShow, is not responsible for any psychological or psychiatric expenses arising from the attendance of this first and mostly unpredictable show.  Just sayin’…

Check out the Facebook event page for this show here – TheK2BShow Facebook event page. Please let us know you’re attending so we can have enough Tuaca (one of our sponors!) on hand.  Thanks and wish us luck!  :)

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OH Wow, ProTools 9!

November 9, 2010 in Gear, Music, Updates

Well, if you haven’t heard yet, ProTools is officially at Version 9 now!  AND it works on ANY audio interface hardware – ASIO, Audio Units, ANYthing!  Does it mean that we’re old because we still have an unopened box of Sound Designer 1.0 from 1984?  :) (For you youngsters, Sound Designer was the great-grandaddy of ProTools and the first product ever to come from what was known then as Digidesign.)   Old is good sometimes, but mostly new is better in the case of software.

There’s a ton on new features in ProTools 9, see an overview here and then click here for detailed info on the new features.  One of the MOST requested and exciting features of the new PT9, other than working with non-Avid hardware, is ADC, which stands for Automatic Delay Compensation.   Basically, that is when one adds a plugin into the session, the DAW software now polls the plugin for its inherent latency and then compensates the timing of the playback accordingly, giving a much more phase-coherent and solid-sounding track.

Not sure which ProTools is right for you?  Click here for a comparison chart of all the new PT9s and the previous PT8s. There is no more ‘LE’, only ProTools9 and ProTools9HD, with the addition of the Complete Production Toolkit 2 option for PT9 only (PT9HD already contains the features of the Complete Production Toolkit 2).

OK, what a deal!  How much for it and can one get an upgrade from older versions of ProTools?  Click here to find out (and don’t get sidetracked – they are ‘upgrades’ meaning one must own previous ProTools to qualify, Avid calls them ‘crossgrades’.)  Even though they are called crossgrades, they are not ‘crossgradeable’ from competitive products, only from previous versions of ProTools.  Just sayin’…

Have fun!

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New ‘Music to Listen to’ Page added!

November 5, 2010 in Gear, Music, Updates

OK, well now we’re in big trouble because we have a page that is for LISTENING TO MUSIC!  There’s a cool concept.  After all the talk and demos and products and specs, there’s the actual music!   We’ve added this page for anybody that wants to send us music to post on this page.  Soon you will be able to upload it yourself to this page, which will really be rad.   Check out the offerings and that page by clicking here.  Have fun and thanks for any comments you can post about the music.

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Very Cool Rubblebucket Vid by Benchmark

November 2, 2010 in Gear, Music, Updates, Video

Benchmark has been producing ultra high-quality audio gear for the production studio for the past 27 years.  When the audio is critical, (and when is it NOT?) broadcast and film guys insist on the pristine sound of Benchmark gear .  Music studios are catching on and in recent years Benchmark mic pres and converters are cropping up in studios across the country.  As an historically ‘engineering-driven’ company, Benchmark is realizing the power of the web so they’ve started a really cool video marketing series called “Masters From Their Day”.  You’ll see all of them here on TheK2BShow site or if you can’t stand the wait for each episode, check them all out at the Masters From Their Day website. Click here for the main home page for Benchmark.

This first video from Benchmark is an excellent band from Brooklyn – Rubblebucket.  It’s a good-looking video directed by Isaac Deitz and if you’ve not been in the studio yet as a recording artist, it’s a great slice of life inside the studio.  All converters and mic preamps are, of course, Benchmark, and the un-compressed .wav file is available for free download here.  Also,  -VERY COOL Alert! – they posted for free the individual tracks for you to download and remix the entire song!  Get those tracks here – Rubblebucket remix page. If you remix this song and want others to hear it, email us and we’ll post it here and you get a free K2BShow, glow-in-the-dark guitar pick, the collector’s edition!   Enjoy!   :)




To see if Rubblebucket is playing near you, click here – The Rubblebucket dates page.

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Novation Unveils New ULTRANOVA Keyboard

October 28, 2010 in Gear, Music, Photos, Video

The cool new ULTRANOVA synth has its roots in Chris Huggett's SuperNova II

Novation debuted a cool new keyboard today at Sweetwater called the UltraNova.  Created by Chris Huggett, famed OSCar inventor, it features a built-in mic for the very hip Vocoder function as well as true conductive-rubber pots for accurate and instant programming.  Three intense oscillators that can multiply themselves and stack them on top of each other for thickness and, of course, a K2BShow favorite, wackiness!  Matt Darbyshire, Product Specialist for Novation, showed it off in the Sweetwater Morning Meeting and trained the Sweetwater sales engineers on the vast and powerful features of this new 37-note wonder.  The factory sounds are thick and rich and of course, tons of knobs to tweak away, including a “Tweak Mode” button that lets one control any parameter from an extra bank of 8 soft-knobs. See a video about that here.  Also, the patch selector is an iTunes-style  browser that makes it easy to pick any of the over 300 factory sounds AND it comes with a free patch editor/librarian software too!
Check out more about it here, but please don’t hurt yourself, this baby packs a punch!  :)

Here’s a video of Matt doing a short performance on the new ULTRANOVA!


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Shawn Phillips Reveals the Future of Musicians

October 26, 2010 in Updates

OK, Wow! 70s icon Shawn Phillips recently came to Fort Wayne and blew us away with his current music and his familiar chestnuts too!   (Thanks, C2G Ministries, for a great show with great sound!)  He had a ton to say about the future of music and musicians, check out the full interview here very soon. Suffice it to say that his talk included how right now, not in the future, musicians are controlling virtual instruments and physical instruments with nothing but brainwaves, via encephalograph-style sensors hardwired directly to the brain. Oh Wow! Check back for the full video interview, will be posted soon (Did you know Shawn gave Joni Mitchell guitar lessons in the 60s?  Betcha didn’t know Shawn gave sitar lessons to George Harrison way before The Beatles met Ravi Shankar!)  What a great musical gem, check out Shawn’s site too!

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Speed Metal God Bob Gore tours Europe

October 19, 2010 in Updates

Speed Metal God and friend of TheK2BSHow, Bob Gore, is in Germany now and blowing minds all over Europe with his fantastic guitar playing and music making.  One stop on the tour is to visit Django’s Selmer guitar #503 at the Cite de la Museum in Paris.

Check that here – http://www.citedelamusique.fr/anglais/m … _coll.aspx

Good luck Bob, have fun, and report back when you get home, we all want to know how it was!

http://www.bobgore.de/

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COOL New Moog synth – The Slim Phatty is unleashed!

October 14, 2010 in Gear, Music, Updates

OK< Wow!  Check out this great new, AFFORDABLE, true-Moog synth.   The Slim Phatty was just announced today!  At under $800, with free shipping from Sweetwater, this is probably the most synth-for-buck that is on the market today.  Great modulation and CV options, small, light and DID WE MENTION – it’s only $795 for that really fat and satisfying Moog sound?   Check it here –  http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PhattySlim

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TheK2BShow helps Michigan Commission for the Blind!

October 12, 2010 in Updates

Recently TheK2BShow host, KennyKenny Bergle, travelled to Detroit to the studio of blind gospel musician Bruce Smith to setup and train him on ProTools and Ableton Live software and a Sweetwater Creation Station music computer.

This is an ongoing program by The Michigan Commission for the Blind, supporting audio production and music creation for its charges that are music- and production- oriented.  See more about the Commission here – http://www.vi-info-center.org/Page_19.html

Mike Ellis Enterprises, an audio and video production house that serves the blind community, is also integral in the Commission’s program and KennyKenny has been training the employees of M.E.E., Inc., for several years now.  Their website is here – https://www.meewebsite.com/Default.aspx

This is not the first time KennyKenny has been in Detroit on a training mission.  In 2008, he setup the Detroit branch of The Salvation Army’s recording studio and trained the workers there on how to run ProTools and various audio hardware.  See more about The Salvation Army and their mission here – http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/www_sa.nsf

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Ableton Live 8.2 update is FREE!

October 8, 2010 in Gear, Music, Updates

Ableton announced its latest upgrade to Live8 – 8.2! It’s free and worth doing (painless really) so if you own Live8, go to the Ableton site and download the 8.2 free update. It fixes several pesky bugs and gives you some more cool stuff! Here’s the link – http://www.ableton.com/latest-versions

If you don’t own Ableton Live, Man, you are missing the coolest creative boat in the industry!  It’s such a gas to make music with Live!  Check it out for yourself – here’s the link to the FREE trial version of Live8 – http://www.ableton.com/download-suite-trial

Also check out The Bridge software by Ableton, which allows you to see and control Live sets inside Serato Sratch and vice versa.

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