SonicMonkey

SonicMonkey is the online musical playground of Michael Hacker, an Arizona-based guitarist, songwriter, recording geek, and techie. Michael is the owner of SonicMonkey Studios (a.k.a. the spare bedroom in his house) and likes Pro Tools, Line 6, and other stuff that he wishes would give him a sponsorship. Michael occasionally talks about stuff. Sometimes, he posts musical sketches (read: filler). Even more rarely, he finishes a song.

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Les Paul (6/9/1915 – 8/13/2009)

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Les Paul, the man who pioneered the solid-body electric guitar, effects including tape delay and phasing, and multitrack recording… is gone.
Rock and Roll would not exist without you, sir. Rest in Peace.

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McDSP June Specials

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

McDSP is offering 20% off on their Emerald and Classic Packs this month in TDM, RTAS and AudioSuite formats. Additionally, you can snag Analog Channel LE (the one Charles Dye always talks about on PSN), Chrome Tone LE, CompressorBank LE, FilterBank LE, ML4000 LE, Revolver LE and Synthesizer One LE for $79 (per plugin, [...]

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Happy New Year

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

It’s (almost) 2009… stay tuned for some big news!

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iTunes Problems

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

According to Apple’s own support forum:
Podcasts which were recently added to the Store, or which recently changed their image, are experiencing delays in the appearance of those images. Once the issue has been resolved, podcasts with valid images will display correctly.
In the meantime, the best action to take is to ensure that the image in [...]

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More NiN News

Monday, March 17th, 2008

From Trent Reznor:
Nine Inch Nails is pleased to announce the expansion of the Ghosts project into the visual world. The band has teamed up with YouTube to host a “film festival” around Ghosts. The concept is for you to take whatever tracks you feel inspired by and create what you feel should accompany them visually. [...]

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Reznor Speaks Out

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

In an article on ARS Technica, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor called Radiohead’s well-publicized internet album-release “insincere.” While he admitted the idea was “shrewd,” he said it amounted to nothing more than tricking fans into paying for low-quality MP3s, while promoting just another traditional record release.
For more details, read the full story on [...]

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NiN

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Trent Reznor made this announcement on the Nine Inch Nails website yesterday. Could be interesting. Frankly, I still don’t see it helping the small, independent musician to get noticed.

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iMusic?

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

According to RUMINT, music mogul Jay Z and the squeezalicious Beyonce may be preparing to join up with Apple, Inc. to start a new online record label of some sort. Jay Z is currently the CEO of Def Jam Records and Beyonce is, reportedly, nearing the end of her contract.
According to MediaTakeOut.com:
Jay Z will [...]

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