Gear Reviews
MOOG Mother-32 Semi-Modular Synthesizer REVIEW
The Moog Mother-32 semi-modular synthesizer is an amazing little piece of kit. Housed in a desktop enclosure, the Mother-32 can also be integrated into your Eurorack system, which makes it a double-threat: a standalone analog synthesizer/sequencer and a killer...
3 Tips For DIY Recording, Touring and Band Promotion
Before anything, take time to deeply connect to the foundational reasons as to why you do what you do as a DIY band. Determine what it is about your music that’s most important to you. That understanding will help you sustain focus on meaningful goals and remain...
Ponyboy Overdrive Pedal V2 Review
PROS: Great price, excellent sound, versatile EQ. CONS: Requires power suppl. PRICE: $119 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUtZtHfqHhE There’s a gaggle of small pedal companies out there, and amazingly enough so many pedals derived from or inspired by the Klon Centaur....
How To
Songkick Introduces Tourbox for Artists: Get More Fans To Your Shows
New publishing tool helps musicians power tour listings across all of their pages and profiles…enter once, publish everywhere. If you’re a band looking to tell hundreds of millions of fans around the world where you’ll be playing live, look no further. Songkick...
Starting an Indie Label and Getting Signed
An Conversation with Anchor Eighty Four CEO Cody Jones LA-based Anchor Eighty Four Records was first established in January 2010, after CEO Cody Jones moved from Northern California to seek a more business-oriented musical career at Epitaph Records. A musician...
Best Practices for Following up with Press
A Quick List of Do’s and Don’ts [Editor’s note – at Performer, we receive countless CDs each month, and even more digital submissions. And as advocates for DIY and indie artists, we believe in honesty. We’d rather not sugarcoat topics for our readers, even if it means...
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[REVIEW] Warm Audio WA-412 Mic Preamp
Does the Warm Audio WA-412 4-Channel Mic Preamp & DI deserve a place in your studio rack? Read our review below to see what we think of this new unit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niAS_ftpx90 Even in the digital age, getting the signal that goes into the DAW to...
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[REVIEW] Yamaha HPH-MT5 Studio Monitor Headphones
The Yamaha HPH-MT5 Studio Monitor Headphones have earned our editor's pick as the best home studio headphones under $100. PROS: great frequency response, good isolation, very comfortable. CONS: none. PRICE: $99 We know budgets are tight, especially if you’re putting...
MY FAVORITE AXE: Solilians on the Roland Alpha Juno 1
Solilians open up about their favorite keyboard, the 1985 Roland Alpha Juno 1. ABOUT THE BAND Solilians kaleidoscopic potpourri of space drone dreams evolved out of psychedelic lounge folk band So L'il, who between 2001 and 2012 released four full-lengths and two...
Industry News
Photo Gallery: Joanna Newsom Live at the Orpheum Theater
Joanna Newsom Orpheum Theater (Boston, MA) December 6, 2015 Divers, the newly released album from Joanna Newsom, found a warm welcome in Boston as Newsom commenced a globe-spanning winter tour at the Orpheum Theater. Striking with confidence, Newsom opened her set...
Bands, Here Are 3 Reasons Sync Reps Are Ignoring Your Tracks
3 Reasons Sync Reps Are Ignoring Your Tracks If you’ve been trying to get Master/Sync licenses (Syncs) for your music to be used in advertising, games, movies, etc., you’ve probably been dealing with a Sync Rep. If you’re unfamiliar with how this process works,...
5 Takeaways from CD Baby’s DIY Musicians Conference
5 Takeaways from CD Baby’s DIY Musicians Conference Answering to years of popular demand, CD Baby hosted its first ever DIY Musicians Conference in Chicago from October 24-25. Over a thousand artists from forty-five states and eleven countries flooded the Congress...