The Queen Is Dead
Vale Aretha Franklin. The very best of the best.
Sons Of Steel
In 1987 our old friend Rob Hartley found himself in the leading role of a very quirky, extremely witty Aussie sci fi comedy, the highly entertaining Sons Of Steel. The brainchild of writer/director/producer Gary Keady, S.O.S. also featured another amazing Aussie vocalist, the legendary and always outrageous Jeff Duff. One day back then I got […]
Rick Veneer and The Vigilantes
Mark Allen just posted this video of the Vigilantes back in Perth in the eighties. Nostalgia. Sammy Conscious on the Les Paul, Clayton “Ed Furst” Black on drums, the lovely Roger O’Vanout on bass.
Rick and The Goose
The acoustic blues team of Rick and The Goose which is myself and the lovely Barry (Little Goose) Harvey is now sadly off the road. Poor old Goosie, who played double bass and drums (at the same time!) while I bashed the guitar and harp and sang a bit, is now suffering from frontal lobe […]
The King Is Dead
R.I.P. Chuck Berry, the King of Rock’N’Roll. Go, Chucky, go go go!
Maxim Amplifiers – Peter McCarthy
This is the story of the late amazing Peter McCarthy, guitar and amplifier pioneer who created wonderful amps and guitars under the Maxim brand in his workshop in Bridge Road, Richmond, Melbourne for many years. Peter centre (on guitar) in the 1930’s I have a few lovely old amplifiers from the 60’s and later (all […]
Brainworx bx_subfilter
The new bx_subfilter is a very useful section taken from the larger bx_subsynth plugin, which itself is based on the dbx 120XP subharmonic synthesizer with some very useful additions not found on the original hardware . This free plugin doesn’t include the subharmonic synth section, but is the filter section with an addition not found on it’s parent […]
Lindell TE-100 E.Q. Plugin
Hey folks, it’s been a while, but I’m back with a sensational new plugin from Lindell and the Plugin Alliance team. As the manual says, “This plugin faithfully reproduces the behavior and character of the K&H® UE100 tube equalizer, a 60s all tube active equalizer that weighs 25kg and contains no less than 14 tubes!” […]
Acme Audio Opticom XLA-3 Compressor
This little gem is a new release from the brilliant brainworx stable, part of Plugin Alliance, the home of some very classy software. The high end hardware Acme Audio Opticom XLA-3 optro compressor limiter this plugin models is an all valve (tube) unit, as described on the Acme website: “The opticom xla-3 is an all-tube […]
Clayton’s Album Revisited – The Importance Of Gain Staging
Having finished the mixing and mastering of the new album for Clayton Black late last year, we thought that was that. I happened to mention a few weeks later that if Clayton had any second thoughts about any tracks and wanted a couple of changes before release, I’d be happy to do so. He mentioned […]