Musical Instrument News & Deals
The Shure SM58 is an absolute workhorse of a microphone. Vocals, instruments, cabinets, there is no job the trusty SM58 cannot handle.
From Alto Music, you could win a Shure Beta 58A, the souped up version of the venerable microphone. Get on this one for a chance to add a Beta 58A to your mic locker.
Full Compass Systems is one of the best pro audio dealers out there, and they’ve recently started getting into the giveaway game. Right now, they are giving away a Roland R-05 MP3-WAV portable recorder. I own an older cousin of this unit, the R-09, and it has been an absolute workhorse. Highly recommended!
We’ve all heard about modeling guitars and amps, but what about modeling studio monitors? The Focusrite VRM Box claims to do this trick!
The high-quality USB headphone interface gives you the option of listening to your mix on multiple sets of speakers, in different rooms, just using headphones. And now you have a chance to win a VRM Box from the Pro Tools Expert website.
The Blue Yeti Pro is one of those microphones that just looks cool, and your home studio would look cooler with a Yeti Pro in it.
The world’s first USB and XLR microphone combining studio standard 24 bit/192 kHz digital recording resolution—the highest digital resolution on the market—with analog XLR output, the Yeti Pro retails for $249. And, thanks to Blue, you now have the chance to win one of these excellent mics for your own studio.
For the first time, I’m posting a giveaway for a product that, although it is obviously used to make music, I’m not totally sure what it is!
Enter to win a Feeltune Rhizome LE, which appears to be a really badass drum machine that you can also hook up to your PC or Mac for recording.
This is an excellent home studio giveaway from Gearnuts. Enter to win a potent and portable M-Audio Keystation Mini 32 keyboard controller plus easy-to-use, feature-packed Sibelius 7 notation software, and you’ll turn your computer or iPad into a powerful composition and arrangement tool.
I bug you each month to register for the ProAudio.com recording bundle giveaway. There are only a few days left in March, so I ask you…are you registered?
If not, you could lose out on your chance to win a Lexicon I·O|22 recording interface, dbx db12 active direct box, Shure PG27-LC condenser microphone, and everything you need to hook up your home studio.
There is an audible difference between typical “live” microphones and the high-end condenser mics found in studios.
Sennheiser is trying to bridge that gap with their e965 microphone: ultra-detailed condenser performance, in a rugged handheld stage mic. From Gearnuts, you have a chance to win an e965, which retails for $699, in this microphone giveaway.
This, I want. I want it badly. I’m already envisioning this gear in my studio.
Sweetwater Sound’s March gear giveaway is a droolworthy Blue microphone and mic preamp giveaway. Enter to win a Blue Bottle Rocket Stage 2 mic, B7 Bottle Cap cardioid mic capsule, Robbie single-channel tube microphone preamp, Robbie rackmount, and a coupon for one free Bottle Cap mic capsule of your choice.
If you’re anything like me, you keep headphones unti they fall apart. In fact, my current pair is looking pretty rough and I could use some new cans. The good people at ProAudio.com are looking to remedy this issue for one of us, by giving away a pair of AKG Quincy Jones Q701 headphones, worth $399.