Ryan Shaw

May 23, 2012 Ryan Shaw On Ryan Shaw’s sophomore release, Real Love, almost everything was made from scratch in co-producer/engineer and musical and songwriting collaborator Jimmy Bralower’s basement studio. The instrumentation is a mixture of real playing, programming, loops, and manipulated sounds. More » Read interview outtakes with Ryan Shaw. More » Do you use “lo-fi” techniques (bit reduction, saturation, intentional aliasing, etc.) in your recordings? Vote NOW at emusician.com » Garritan Instant Orchestra Review » GForce impOSCar 2 Review » Minneapolis' First Avenue Venue Receives New Electro-Voice Sound System » Mackie Offers DL1608 Video Podcast Series » Vienna Symphonic Library Introduces Two New Vienna Special Editions » IK Multimedia Announces iRig MIX » This month’s question: What’s your best tip for promoting your music? Our favorite answer wins a copy of Steve Gordon’s The Future of the Music Business, Third Edition: How to Succeed with the New Digital Technologies. Send your answer to ElectronicMusician@musicplayer.com. » Your Take – What is your favorite trick for boosting kick drum in the mix? » Show us your studio! We’ll print our favorite photos in an upcoming issue. Send pics and captions to ElectronicMusician@musicplayer.com » S-Gear Scuffham Amps "…the tones are warm, full, dynamic, interactive, "tubey", highly tweakable…you really will forget that you're playing through software." Try the expressive natural tones in our guitar amp software for yourself! Get the FREE 15 day trial today. Available for MAC and PC, plug-in (AU, VST) and Standalone App. At this price you can't afford not to! Price: $75 www.scuffhamamps.com Portable Vocal Booth RealTraps Now Available The RealTraps Portable Vocal Booth provides an elegant and affordable way to capture dry, clear sounding vocals, even in locations that are less than ideal acoustically. This clever device mounts on any microphone boom stand, or use it on a table top or other flat surface. SRP: $299.99 www.realtraps.com/p_pvb.htm Your local CD and DVD replicator with offices in NYC and on Long Island Play-It Direct Now Available Play-It Direct: one stop production services for world class quality CD and DVD Duplication and Replication, Graphic Design, Printing, DVD authoring and CDROM programming, all under one roof. Think of us as your personal production team. Choosing Play-It means: Unparalleled 1 to 1 service – Strict attention to detail – Competitive pricing! SRP: Competitive pricing! www.play-itdirect.com 1-800-815-3444

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