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It’s that time of the year when gear manufacturers and retailers, along with musicians and other industry members travel to Southern California for the NAMM show. The Noise Room will be there exploring new products, meeting old friends, and shooting…

2014 was the best year yet for The Noise Room. We expanded our NAMM coverage to bring you even more videos from the event, interviewed nearly 60 bands and artists performing at South by Southwest, and produced our first show…

http://youtu.be/OhutsmNah4k Whether playing live or working in the studio, you can learn new tricks by working with other people. This also comes into play when working on sessions other than your own. Avid and Puremix have put together a six-part…

While many people are out shopping this weekend, we thought it would be better to stay in and create music by giving away a copy of Egoist for the iPad. Egoist is a groove instrument from Sugar Bytes that makes it…

Sometimes working with other people’s music can inspire your own creations. About a year ago I joined Blend where producers share source project files (Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic, GarageBand, Maschine, Reason, etc.) to not just remix but completely reimagine,…

Neil Young’s music has been with me for as long as I remember. As a teen I would sneak out of the house to see the midnight showing of his Rust Never Sleeps movie. After moving to California in the…

While on a family vacation in Pennsylvania I took a drive to Nazareth, PA and visited the C. F. Martin guitar factory. As an owner of a Martin guitar it was a treat to see how the guitars are made.…

Bobby Owsinski started his career as a guitar and keyboard player, songwriter and arranger, eventually becoming an in-demand producer/engineer. He is a co-founder of Surround Associates and has worked on surround projects and DVD productions for a variety of acts…

Many guitarists who are recording their own music use amp simulators or all-in-one pedals such as the Eleven Rack from Avid, the POD HD from Line 6, or the ME-80 from BOSS to get their sound. This option makes it…