A blog about life amidst technology.

Avid Releases New Fast Track Solo and Fast Track Duo

Avid recently updated a bunch of hard­ware and soft­ware (see this post on Macru​mors​.com for full details) but the one point I found inter­est­ing is that the new ver­sions of their Fast Track Solo and Fast Track Duo include the abil­ity to plug into iPad 2 or newer or iPad minis.

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I have an older Fast Track series audio device and they work great as portable record­ing stu­dios for pod­cast­ing or music pro­duc­tion. Paired with Garage­Band for iOS ($4.99 in the App Store) it’s crazy how pow­er­ful a record­ing stu­dio you could have in your backpack.

Guitar Teacher 2.0

Anthony Stauf­fer, gui­tar teach to the masses over at Ste​vieS​nacks​.com, has started a new blog called Gui­tar Teacher 2.0 where he’s plan­ning to share his story of “run­ning an acci­den­tally suc­cess­ful business.”

In 2007 I started putting free gui­tar lessons on YouTube. In Jan­u­ary 2008 I began sell­ing longer videos. In 2009 I left my job to keep. Today Ste­vieS­nacks has been my full­time job for over 3 years.

This blog is the place where I write about the day-​​to-​​day work and deci­sions involved with run­ning an acci­den­tally suc­cess­ful business.

My work at Ste­vieS­nacks is com­pli­cated, tedious and extremely nerdy. Some­times when I have a nerd vic­tory, I need to share it with someone.

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Dave Grohl’s SXSW 2013 Keynote

Cov­er­ing every­thing from his start in music, Nir­vana, Kurt’s death, The Foo Fight­ers and his new doc­u­men­tary on the stu­dio where Nir­vana recorded Nev­er­mind — Sound City.

Watch Dave Grohl’s SXSW 2013 Keynote

Bono’s TEDtalk on Poverty

Titled “The good news on poverty (Yes, there’s good news)”:

Direct link to video


Replete with rock puns and good news on the data about extreme poverty around the world.

Amanda Palmer: The Art of Asking

…you’re falling into the audi­ence and you’re trust­ing each other.

Direct link to video

Via Patrick​Rhone​.com

Remembering War 30 Years Later

It’s been 30 years since U2’s War album, their third, was released. It’s cur­rently only $5.99 in iTunes for the remas­tered ver­sion or $15.99 for the Deluxe Remas­tered Edi­tion which adds 4 remixes of New Year’s Day and 3 of Two Hearts Beat as One, in addi­tion to other tracks not included on the orig­i­nal album.

U2 War Album Cover

@U2.com inter­viewed pro­ducer Steve Lil­ly­white about the record­ing process:

You know I haven’t lis­tened to the album for many years, because I never do. And there are some strange things that are unique to War that are not like any other U2 album. Things like trum­pet solos. — See more at: http://​www​.atu2​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​t​r​u​s​t​-​t​r​u​m​p​e​t​-​s​o​l​o​s​-​a​n​d​-​l​o​n​g​-​l​o​s​t​-​i​n​t​e​r​n​s​-​r​e​m​e​m​b​e​r​i​n​g​-​w​a​r​-​3​0​-​y​e​a​r​s​-​l​a​t​e​r​-​w​i​t​h​-​s​t​e​v​e​-​l​i​l​l​y​w​h​i​t​e​.​h​t​m​l​#​s​t​h​a​s​h​.​t​N​O​W​2​8​l​A​.dpuf

And if you weren’t a fan of their last album, you’re not alone:

Don’t get me started on the last album.