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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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Drumagog 5!

October 5, 2010 in Updates

Oh Wow! Drumagog 5!

Drumagog revealed the new version 5, way more features and cool stuff for the same price as previous version 4!   Call your Sweetwater rep to get your copy now.  Version 4 (and lower) owners get their upgrades here – http://www.drumagog.com/support

Also there’s a FREE downloadable demo for Windows and Mac, get it here –  http://www.drumagog.com/

Unveiling the new Drumagog5 at Sweetwater during a morning meeting

Don’t know what Drumagog is?  It’s ‘drum replacement’ software.  Need to replace some bad sounding drums with better sounding drums?  Drumagog is a great way to do that!  Download the free trial demo and see/hear for yourself!

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