How to make an animated GIF from a movie clip the free and easy way
Note up front: Yes, I made the above image. It's the "I'm as mad as hell" scene from Network.
If you ever wanted to know what kind of musician puts forth the most effort and gets the least results, the chiptune musician is it.
Trying to become a rock star in this day and age is a total waste of time because nobody wants you to be.
Insuring your music gear, whether it's a guitar, amplifier, violin, cello or something else isn't something most musicians think about - until they actually need it.
I just recently bought a microphone because the one I have is old (probably at least 15 years old) and never really sounded that good. So I decided to buy a SM58 clone of sorts, the Pyle PDMIC58.
When the 2010s decade started, some really good things happened with guitars.
One of those good things is that bunch of guitar companies starting bringing back their older, classic designs that hadn't been made for years if not decades. Another good thing is that we started seeing guitar colors that hadn't been around for a while either. And yet another good thing was that in the sub-$500 range, some really good guitars started appearing from just about every major brand.
On the flip side of that however is the utterly stupid thing known as the extended range guitar, which is absolutely one of the most useless guitars that exists.
You may have seen my Twitter profile and wonder how I get visual effects like that for a banner image.
I use nothing but free tools on the web. Yeah, I have image editors, but I find the online way of doing it is faster and easier.
Here's how it's done.
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I've been a Weird Al listener for a long time, and something a lot of people don't take into consideration is just how damned good of a musician he is.
The way that I master audio files today for my songs is by using what I call a "smash compression" technique. Audio pros would probably consider this a really bad way to master an audio file, but I like the way it sounds and it works for me.
This is how I smash-compress a master audio WAV brought out of the ZOOM R8 and into Audacity.
There was a time in the 80s when neon-colored guitars sold fairly well. Has that time come again?
