Rough Mix: An Unapologetic Look at the Music Business and How it Got That Way : a Lifetime in the World of Rock, Pop, and Country, as Told by One of the Industry’s Most Powerful Players

Raising Sand
Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and bluegrass crooner Alison Krauss may not be the likeliest of musical combinations. But on this welcome collaboration album, they work beautifully together, wringing a kind of magic from other people’s songs. The key to the album is its versatility. Between them, Krauss and Plant can handle a vast repertoire on their own, and here they take on the lot, from folk laments and country soul to searing blues and upbeat rock & roll. Overseen by Elvis Costello producer T Bone Burnett and backed by high caliber musicians like guitarist Marc Ribot and multi-instrumentalist Mike Seeger, Raising Sand sees the duo create stellar covers of songs by Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Mel Tillis and The Everly Brothers, among others. Highlights include a killer version of Roly Salley’s “Killing the Blues”, and a cover of the Plant-Page collaboration “Please Read the Letter,” though in truth, it’s difficult to find a weak spot on the whole album. –Danny McKenna
List Price: ?11.99
Amazon Price: ?7.98
Used Price: ?5.50
Customer Review: I so wanted to like this
Over hyped and over produced. The songs are OK but the production is amongst the worst I’ve heard in recent years. Poor Alison is smothered by ponderous bass lines and Robert’s voice.
Customer Review: magical
I find this album beautifully performed. I did not have any previously conceived ideas about either performer but found the music spellbinding. It has a gentle mystical quality and their voices harmonize beautifully. I think the bringing together of two artists from differing genres of music,in this case has created something unique, well produced, and beautifully balanced.

MAGIX Music Studio 11 deluxe
List Price: ?49.99
Amazon Price: ?19.96
Customer Review: Good product
Having the older “magic music studio generation mm 6[1998]“i thought best to update. The “MAGIX Music Studio 11 deluxe” has the standard issue midi and audio studio that come with every adition of the music studio product. AUDIO STUDIO the audio studio has exellent sound quality and has lots of little goddies to go along with it,it has a copper and silver synth for creating dance melodies. It has a beat box for creating fully cutomizable drum beats with various different types of drum kit. and a vecoder which is a voice changing module for creating different types of sounds(mainly vocal harmonies and voice changers for creating robot, ghostly and evil type voices). the UI is quite difficult to understand with tons of different commands. There is also the amp simulation( i find this rubbish and sounds nothing like an amplifier and looks like a decrepit marshall). There are the classic effects which for a computer program sound AMAZING, with effects such as delay, chorus, flanger and taped echo, which are great effects for guitar, vocals, bass and drums. I would have like to have seen a noise gate with the progrom cut out some interfearence, but with shuffling the equipment about solved the problem quickly. i still have no idea where the harmonizer that tells you song chords is, there is nothing in the manuel about this. Midi STUDIO this is very simmilar to the old version i have with no apparant sound changes. the instuments sound nothing like the instruments there supposed to be. This “Sampletank Se” was very difficult to find with there being no useful infomation about it in the manuel. There is a sepperate manuel for the sampltank on your hard disk when installed but this still does’nt tell you how to open it. when compared with “Cubase” the midi studio is a disappointment. this product’s manuel his tons of jargon that it does not tell you the meanings of. It has little or no useful info in it and is not worth the paper it is printed on. if you are buying this for the midi studio DON’T. If you are buying it for making your own recordings for a band or whatever then definatly get it it has great recording sound quality very professional sound quality. i bought this from here for ?19.99 which was well worth it. i have noticed it has gone back up to ?44.99 at this price do not buy
Customer Review: Its OK, but a good sound card is required
The only problem I encountered was after I unistalled Magix and replaced it with Cubase. The remnant files left by the removal were excessive, plus they stuck to the hardrive like glue, laying claim to most of the files needed by other applications for special effects, rendering them useless. Only a complete re-format of the hardrive and installing my software again, excluding the Magix application, cured this! Actual product review: This is cheap in the world of home studio software. Positives are: easy to use graphical interface, good effects and mixing desk – all fairly straightforward. The tutorial files are also excellent to practice your editing/engineering/production skills on before trying them out on your own music. However, if you buy decent sound card hardware, preferably one that will take Guitar size jack plugs and has inputs for full size condenser mic’s with additional phono outputs (right and left) for connecting external amplifiers – it will come with far more advanced ’studio software’ thrown in. So shop around the on-line music shops, as opposed to PC World and the like, and read the small print first to see what applications are included free, before going for the Magix offering.

Music cd South American Pan Pipes by the Sea
On a Peruvian beach the sun sets on another blissful day as the mighty Pacific ocean gently washes over the golden sand. The idyllic setting is only enhanced by the gentle sounds of the pan pipes, played as only the South Americans can.

Rock school: Graded solo exams in rock, jazz & pop : the official pack for The Rock School … and Trinity College of Music Examinations

Rough Mix: An Unapologetic Look at the Music Business and How it Got That Way : a Lifetime in the World of Rock, Pop, and Country, as Told by One of the Industry’s Most Powerful Players