Gear Reviews
Fluid Audio SRI-2 Interface Review
Small format interfaces are great, but the gain in desktop real estate sometimes means a loss in features or functionality, or porting over processing back to the DAW. Fluid Audio keeps things small, but maintains practical features with great sound in their new...
Mad Professor Double Moon Pedal Review
The Mad Professor Double Moon controls are pretty simple, and the added tone control works nicely, giving a bit more cut, as some choruses can tend to soften things up signal-wise. An eleven position rotary switch gives plenty of options of modulations: three modes of...
Enter our BOSE F1 PA System Giveaway
Need big sound to go? Enter below. We're looking for a dynamic live performer to win and test out the Bose F1, inspired by arena line arrays, but made for today's on-the-go artists. Ideally, the artist we select will be a solo act, small combo or live band in need of...
How To
How to Price Your Band Merch: A Simple 4-Step Guide
Setting prices for your T-shirts, vinyl, seven-inches, and even buttons is not unlike designating a price for any other retail good. You've got to consider not only the cost of the product, but also how much people might be willing to drop for it. It's actually a...
Quick Recap: Todd Rundgren and Dam Funk Live in Boston
In Milwaukee last month Todd Rundgren’s epic musical career spans nearly half a century. Somehow, the energy that he possesses during his live show remains just as relentless as it always was. Last night at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre, Rundgren’s dusky, psychedelic churn...
Quick Recap: The Used at Boston’s House of Blues
At Santa Ana's The Observatory Orange County earlier this month The Bert McCracken that appeared before us in 2002 fronting a band called The Used possessed a formal restlessness that ironically was his greatest asset and biggest flaw. When the consistently disheveled...
Buying Guide
REVIEW: Warm Audio WA-84 Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
Musicians have poured their time and money into perfecting their sound, regardless of the instrument or style of music. So, it makes sense to record in the purest way possible to capture it. A small-diaphragm condenser mic can achieve this task in most cases, across a...
REVIEW: Warm Audio WA-251 Tube Condenser Microphone
Warm Audio has rolled out a 251-style mic that sounds great and is well within reach, pricewise, to the discerning user. Build wise, this new WA-251 from Warm Audio is really robust. The all brass capsule design is based off of a CK12, with a 24k 6 micron gold...
Avid to Introduce New Products at Avid Connect in Nashville
Avid will host a three-day celebration of the music community that creates, produces, performs and distributes its music with Avid creative tools and solutions. The event takes place July 18-20 in Nashville “Music City USA” while the Summer NAMM music conference is in...
Industry News
Enter to Win a Harbinger MLS900 Personal Line Array PA System
We're looking for two dynamic performers to win and test out the new Harbinger MLS900 Personal Line Array PA System. Need big sound to go? Enter below. We're looking for TWO great artists to demo the new Harbinger MLS900 personal PA for us. Ideally, this will be...
AI is the Next Tech to Create Opps for Artists & Disruptors
When you give musicians new technology, they find new ways to congregate around it and create new music--and new business opportunities. The next technology poised to do this is AI. The rock band as we know it wouldn’t have sprung into being, were it not for the...
The New August/September Issue is Out Now
Performer Magazine releases its latest issue, featuring a cover story on Rubblebucket (new album, Sun Machine, out now!) INSIDE you'll find info on portable PA systems, sync licenses, how to stream music in China, metadata, content marketing for musicians PLUS key...