For just £5, you can get up close and personal with Russ for this unmissable in-store event. To book tickets or for more information, contact Austin (our Drum Manager) on 01202 597180 or [email protected]
Hello... I'm Marc... and I'm a gear junky...! I've been playing the guitar and gigging in various bands for many years and in 2012 I got myself a job at Absolute Music to feed my habit and share my passion and knowledge of the products that I know and love. I'm going to use my blog to write short reviews of some of my favourite products to hopefully help others in their quest for finding the right gear for their needs and budget.
Hello... I'm Marc... and I'm a gear junky...! I've been playing the guitar and gigging in various bands for many years and in 2012 I got myself a job at Absolute Music to feed my habit and share my passion and knowledge of the products that I know and love. I'm going to use my blog to write short reviews of some of my favourite products to hopefully help others in their quest for finding the right gear for their needs and budget.
In this review I'm going to be talking about the Orange Dual Terror valve amp head. Why? Because as with most of my reviews, I own it!
They say that nothing ever comes for free... well, 'they' are wrong because we're giving away EZdrummer Lite and EZmix 2 Lite for the princely sum of, well, nothing!!! No catch! Simply add them to your basket and check-out for £0.00 and we will send you a download link to claim your free software. No purchase necessary!
EZdrummer Lite is a cut-down version of Toontrack's popular EZdrummer software (currently on offer at £49 - usually £79 - click here for more information). It comes with a selection of professionally recorded drum sounds along with a MIDI groove library, plus plenty of tweakable controls in order to customise your sound.
EZmix 2 Lite is (as you can guess) a stripped-down version of EZmix 2 (currently on offer at £69 - usually £98.99 - click here for more information). EXmix 2 is a piece of preset-based software that can quickly get your tracks sounding professional with minimum effort! EZmix 2 Lite comes with 30 professionally programmed presets for mixing and mastering, plus guitar and bass amp simulation settings.
If you are having any problems checking out with your free software, please e-mail [email protected], specifying your full name, post code and which product(s) you would like and we will send you the download codes.
As you may know, we've been running a number of crazy-priced Ableton Live 9 deals for a couple of months now, whereby you can grab the full Ableton Live 9 software, PLUS a piece of professional hardware or software for (in many cases) LESS than Ableton Live 9 costs on its own! As an example:
• Ableton Live 9 software costs £339 on its own.
• In our cheapest deal, you can grab Ableton Live 9 plus a selection of Novation and Focusrite plug-in effects and instruments for JUST £179 - CLICK HERE!!!
• That's a SAVING of £160 and you get extra plug-ins!!!
For more examples of our CRAZY OFFERs, read on! You need to be quick though - these offers will end on Wednesday 22nd May 2013 (next week) at 3pm and we will not be able to offer them again. There is also limited stock and once they are gone, they really are gone.
Many of you will have heard that one of our competitor UK stores Digital Village, ceased operating in its previous form on Friday 10th May 2013. As this affects us and our customers, our suppliers and many friends of ours in the industry, we thought we'd give you a bit of insight into the situation as it currently stands...
DIGITAL VILLAGE CLOSING - THE FACTS
On 10th May 2013, White Rabbit Records Ltd (the parent company of the brand Digital Village), went into administration and seven of its eight stores – DV Birmingham, DV Cambridge, DV Southampton, DV Bristol, DV West London (Acton), DV North London (Barnet) and DV South London (Clapham) – closed without warning.
Hello... I'm Marc... and I'm a gear junky...! I've been playing the guitar and gigging in various bands for many years and in 2012 I got myself a job at Absolute Music to feed my habit and share my passion and knowledge of the products that I know and love. I'm going to use my blog to write short reviews of some of my favourite products to hopefully help others in their quest for finding the right gear for their needs and budget.
In this review I'm going to be talking about the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB audio interface, which happens to be my interface of choice in my own home studio...
Here's a quote that we're very proud to share as it comes from President of Electro-Harmonix and living legend Mike Matthews:
"Absolute Music is one of the BEST Electro-Harmonix dealers in the whole world."
Wow! Mike, you've made us blush! And we're being 100% truthful when we say that we think that Electro-Harmonix make some of the BEST pedals in the whole world too! Their range is simply immense! Can everyone feel the love here?!!
James Tyler Variax guitars aren't your average electric guitar. Their built-in modelling technology means that they can sound like a range of classic electric guitars and you can switch between different tunings with the turn of a dial, as demonstrated in this video with a JTV59P. This makes JTV guitars an ideal studio and live performance instrument, for anyone that requires to switch guitar sounds and tunings but does not have the budget or desire to own multiple different guitars.
An exciting announcement from our guitar department now... we've recently had our first delivery of genuine Japanese ESP guitars, including a super-rare Eclipse-I CTM in Vintage White. This is a UK exclusive and only one of two in the whole world!
Please note that although we try to upload all new guitars onto our website as quickly as possible, there may be some that we have not got round to yet so please pop into our store or give us a call on 01202 597180 to discuss our full range.
If you are unfamiliar with ESP guitars, CLICK HERE to read our article on the company.
On Monday 10th June at 7pm, we are proud to announce that we will be hosting another of our popular drum clinics alongside Mapex. This time we welcome multi-platinum recording artist Russ Miller, who is widely considered to be one of the world's top drummers, having worked with artists such as Ray Charles, The 5th Dimension, Natalie Cole, Tina Turner, Bobby Caldwell, Nelly Furtado, The Psychedelic Furs, Hilary Duff, Steve Perry, Andrea Bocelli, Daniel Bedingfield and Meredith Brooks. In the Modern Drummer Magazine Readers Poll, Russ has consistently been voted as one of the top 5 studio drummers in the world, peaking at number 2 in 2010.
