The Music Toyz.com Studio Minute – this week a very cool video on how to Mic an Amp with Engineer Drew Malamud from Artists House Music.com. Drew talks about using different types of mics to get and record the sound you want and also the evils of phase cancellation when using multple Mics. Very informative for breaking away from using just a SM-57 ! Click on the picture to watch the Video !

The Memory Lane 2 expands on the innovations of the original Memory Lane offering several new features requested by players and a new twist that further bridges the feature gap between analog and digital delays while retaining the warmth and unique sound of bucket brigade delay devices in an all analog signal path. With this newly revised version of our highly acclaimed analog delay pedal players now have the ability to control delay time via an expression pedal input, footswitch between two independent delay times: one set via the Delay knob, the other set using the tap tempo footswitch function. In addition, we’ve added a dotted 8th note setting for producing ‘U2 style’ rhythmic delays. You thought the Original Memory Lane was impressive, just wait until you get your hands on one of these! VERY LIMITED TO START ! GotoMemory Lane 2

Les Dudek – being a kid of the 70s and 80s I would research and listen to music all day and night. I remember listening to a Les Dudek album at my sisters apartment and I thought this is really good stuff. I never bought his albums because there was always something else in the way. I never did figure where he came from (bands) and where he went he just fell off my radar ? He was a cross between Boz Skags and Trower some of his songs had GREAT univibe sounds etc, and great songwritting. Anyone have any info of where Mr Dudek went and what bands he was in before going solo ? To watch video click in the middle of the picture !