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This weekend I am departing on an audio adventure in the South of France.  Quick back story … About 5-6 years ago I started to notice a pattern.  My favorite current albums of the time were Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, Beck’s Morning Phase, and I dug that smash radio hit Uptown Funk by Mark...

What do the albums: Jimi Hendrix – Are you experienced, Axis Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland and Led Zeppelins – II, Houses of the Holy,  The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet, and The Beatles “All you need is Love” have in common?  One man recorded all these albums; Mr Eddie Kramer. A while ago I was asked...

Currently I am listening to the Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue.  It’s my audio cleanser, it’s what I play when I need to hit the reset button. I usually do this after an explosion of sound and that’s what happened when my band, The Spades, played our first show in six years Saturday night...

Let’s get gear’y here. Rarely does an effect illicit such drooling from guitar players than the Binson Echorec. It’s a truly unique delay unit made arguably most famous by its extensive use by David Gilmour and Pink Floyd. See the picture above of a Binson echorec sitting on Gilmours amp and on the stage from...