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The History of The Electric Guitar: How Music Was Changed Forever In The Beginning The guitar's soft melodic tone made it difficult for people to hear it when being played alongside other instruments. So during the 1930's an inventive individual decided to change that and invented the first electric guitar. Little did he know, or have imagined way back then how the invention of the electric guitar would significantly affect the course of 20th century music. Like most new things, the electric guitar had its critics but it quickly won people over because of its ability to allow musicians to play much more creatively and express their own individual styles. The First Pickup In 1924 an inventive engineer working for the Gibson guitar company named Lloyd Loar, designed the first magnetic pickup. Using a magnet, he converted guitar string vibrations into electrical signals, which then were amplified through a speaker system. This first pickup was crude, but it was a great beginning. The First Electric Guitar In 1931 the Electro String Company was founded by Paul Barth, George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker, and developed the first electric guitars marketed to the general public. They made their guitars from cast aluminum and were played on a person's lap using a steel slide much like today's steel guitar. Because of their unusual material, they were affectionately called "Frying Pans." The early success of the frying pans prompted the Gibson guitar company to build their first electric guitar, the ES-150 which is a legend today.
Music and Technology - A Perfect Mix To many people, listening to their favorite music as they go about business is a necessity. To others, it is simply a diversion as they go about the boring day-to-day chores we have in life. For some, it is a sensual experience and a form of creative self-expression, whether as an active participant or merely an avid listener. I myself don't just enjoy music; I live and breathe for music. I am a musician/songwriter and when I am not writing music or playing music somehow life is not the same for me. This is how I express my emotions, share thoughts, and converse with the world around me. Many times I get lost in the height of a passionate compositional piece, only to find the time has passed by so quickly that I have forgotten all of the things on my mind that have been bothering me. Read the rest of this article |
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Artist Managers and Booking Agents As a former talent booking agent with the William Morris Agency, I am always amazed at either the scope and talent of an artist's business team or the why and how an artist exists within the mediocre framework which they are operating from. And believe me, I've seen plenty of both. It would seem that many managers fall into these positions, like in many fields, not out of genuine talent or know-how, but by mere presence alone – They were friends of the artist or a brother to one of the members of the act and so forth. If a manager, important at every turn of an artist's career, is so important, than what exactly is it that makes up a good manager or booking agent? Most everyone thinks of contacts. No doubt that contacts are important in this business. The thinking is – "Just as long as they act like they know what they are doing and talk a big game dropping some names along the way," than they must "know" what they are doing and they can get the job done – Or can they?
How To Make Your Movie Sound Like A Real Movie I get a lot of questions on if I can "do" sound sweetening,
usually by frantic filmmakers, calling in the middle of the
night. They are frantic because the sound in their movie or
video is bad.
They've used a cheap mic, plugged into the camera, or worse,
have used the on-camera mic.
They had a friend aimlessly point the mic at the floor, or the
sky, anywhere but at the actor muttering his lines, and moved the
mic randomly during shooting.
Some, from the sound of it, have pointed the mic directly at the
whirring camera, or rumbling electric generator, or humming air
conditioner, or buzzing fluorescent lamp. They've bumped the mic
against the wall, or the ceiling, or trees or bushes.
They're far away from what they're recording, not even in the
same vicinity. There's so much "room sound," you can barely hear
the actor mumbling along.
So, the Sound Guy (whoever they can get for a few minutes -
usually a well-meaning person with no experience) turns up the
level too far, which just makes the sound distort horribly, or
too low, which buries the good sound in the mud.
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