Archive for October, 2009
Nich’ klauen, Digger! Kaufen!!!
Softwarepiraten der Welt und legale Anwender – teilt Euch mit! Weltweite Umfrage zum Diebstahl von Musiksoftware unter www.imsta.org
IMSTA, Toronto/ Hamburg 21. Oktober, 2009 (ictw) - Die International Music Software Trade Association (IMSTA) führt auch in diesem Jahr wieder eine weltweite Umfrage zum Diebstahl von Musiksoftware durch. Auf der Website der IMSTA werden ALLE Anwender von Musiksoftware aufgerufen an dem Survey teilzunehmen. Alle, heißt in diesem Falle legale und nicht legale Anwender. Das Ziel dieser Umfrage ist es, einen Überblick über das Rechts- und Unrechtsempfinden der Nutzer von Musiksoftware zu erhalten. Zum anderen ist die Umfrage gleichzeitig die Gelegenheit für Anwender völlig anonym ihre Sicht der Dinge mitzuteilen.
Die Ergebnisse dieser Umfrage werden im Rahmen der Internationalen Musikmesse NAMM Show im Januar 2010 den Mitgliedern der IMSTA präsentiert. Die IMSTA macht sich für Copyright Marketing stark und sammelt Daten, damit die Unternehmen bessere Entscheidungen treffen können.
Jeder Teilnehmer der Umfrage kann einen von 18 ausgeschriebenen Preisen gewinnen, gestiftet von den IMSTA Mitgliedern.
Piraten der Welt – teilt Euch mit! Natürlich anonym!
Die Umfrage ist zu erreichen via: www.imsta.org/imsta_survey.html
Pressekontakt:
Deutsche Botschaft der IMSTA
integrative concepts – Public Relations, Marketing and Media Services
In with the old, out with the new!
I did it, now, like 20 something years later. Early wisdom realised too late. What am I talking about here? I am talking about guitar sound, great guitar sound. And a life full of false beliefs and struggle and disappointment. But now i have come full circle, embrace the old and the new and am bold enough to tell you: “DON’T BELIEVE THE F…….g HYPE!”
My first tube amp was a Radio, which my Grandma didn’t use anymore. It had great distortion, decent sagging and a very soft sounding speaker that i blew much to fast. It wasn’t loud but incredible for practising. When you dialed down the volume of the Les Paul copy i used (what my mates then said I was not supposed to do, you loose treble!) then you got soft crunch and further down the volume gave me clean sound – everything on Living Room level. I was very happy with that and exercised my guitar playing every minute I could spent. But it was not supposed to be like this (that’s the mates again, who didn’t know shit but that’s how it was in the heydays of rockmusic in germany and for me it was much much later to find out).
To reach the next level as a player i needed to play with a band and that required something louder, obviously. After three weeks of hard work in gardening during the holidays i got a HiWatt 100 Watts Top and a selfmade 4 x 12 Cabinet with celestion speakers which I built with the help of my grandpa who was a carpenter. My only FX device then was an MXR Distortion Plus. I got that because i liked the sound, very close to how my grandma’s radio sounded: real tubes plus that extra kick. With this rig i got my reputation as a guitar player in the city to a decent level quickly. But then all the mates again said, that’s not how it is supposed to be … you need more FX, Distortion Pedals are bad, the real thing is an Amp, and, it is the 80s: “Dude, get yourself a Rack!”
That Top 40 band then one day asked me to join them: “What do you play?”
Me: “I like Ritchie Blackmore, but getting into that funky stuff as well!”
They: “Naw, what do you play like, equipmentwise?”
Me: ” HiWatt and Les Paul copy!”
They: “Yes …?”
Me : “Yes, what?”
They: “Effects? Preamps and stuff!”
Me: “No, just a distortion pedal!”
They: “That is some weirdo, Distortion – get a Mesa Boogie, or a Tube Preamp man ….!”
::: I think you get the idea.
My playing wans’t important in the first place dureing my interview. My gear was. And I must admit, I got washed away, I got weak. Since then, when i got rid of my MXR and the Hiwatt I was too often unhappy with the sound. I had to fight with the gear all the time. Soundwise and breaking down wise because of all the complexitiy.
To cut a life long story short: I am home now. I am back together with my first true love. My MXR Distortion plus. With any decent sounding amplifier, even a digital modeling one, this little box makes you sound. If you can play. I am so grateful to Jim Dunlop that they have reissued the original one. I got it today, it sounds great. And it is dead cheap. Simply kick it, treat your guitar with energy and use the volume knobs.
Welcome back to musicianship, Good bye gear heads!
Here is JDs Demo Video – cool thing!