Jessy J live at Buzz City performing “Tropical Rain”

Rehearsal TV presents Jessy J live at Buzz City performing "Tropical Rain"

Smooth jazz recording artist, saxophonist Jessy J is on the show today and we’re all in for a real treat. Jessy and the stellar group of musicians she has in her band are going to perform a soothing song for us off her 2^nd CD titled “Tropical Rain”.

By the end of her performance you’ll see why Jessy is an international star who performs for crowds around the world. Check at her website (www.jessyj.com) to find out where her next live performance is at and go to the show. And while you’re there you can pick up her latest CD “Hot Sauce” on the Heads Up | Concord Music Group record label.
 
All of us here at Buzz City want to thank Jessy and the guys for letting our cameras in during their rehearsal, it was incredible!  The Buzz City show airs on the internet TV channel www.RehearsalTV.com.  Take a look around.

Credits:
Song:  “Tropical Rain”
Band:  Jessy J – saxophone; Eric Mondragon – keys; Iajhi Hampden – drums; Michael Angel Alvarado – guitar and Frank Abraham – bass.
Location:  Auditorium at Hothouse Studios
Buzz City sponsors:  Hothouse Studios
Produced by: Rehearsal TV

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How to Create a Wet-Dry-Wet Amp Rig

 
There are approximately 19,372.3 different ways to use effects within a guitar rig. You can use inbuilt amp effects like tremolo and reverb. External pedals like wah-wahs and overdrives. Little units that actually plug directly into your guitar. Effects racks. Multi-effect floorboards. Even an iPad can be used in line with the rest of your gear to provide effects or even synth sounds. But there's one particular method which is preferred by many pro players, yet it's relatively unknown and definitely under-utilized by the average shredder in the street: the 'Wet-Dry-Wet' rig.

Put simply, this is a rig using one unaffected mono signal along with a stereo effect chain feeding its own speakers. The idea is that your spatial effects like delay and reverb, (and sometimes modulation effects like chorus and flanger) can live in their own stereo rig while the unaffected guitar gets its own speaker. Aside from adding quite literally three-dimensional depth to your tone, it also gives you unprecedented clarity because the effects aren't all being crammed through a single amplifier and competing with the dry sound. This is especially a concern with effects like delay and reverb, where their detail can be smeared and mushed up in a mono rig.

There are lots of ways to accomplish this, and the pros often do so with elaborate buffered, power-conditioned, mega-thousand-dollar-costing rigs. If you have the budget, go nuts! A common way to do it is to plug your guitar into your amp, send the amp signal to a splitter/dummy load and into separate power amps - one for the dry guitar feeding a 'dry only' speaker cabinet, and another into a stereo effect unit or ten, then into a stereo power amp to drive the 'wet' speakers.

There's a much cheaper way which may not give you quite the fidelity of a full pro-assembled rig but it'll get you pretty close: a stereo combo amp with a stereo effects loop. There are plenty of these on the market, especially used solid state or hybrid tube/solid state amps from the ‘90s. And it's not much different to using a regular effect loop. Just plug a cable into your main amp's effect send, hook up some stereo effects, then send the outputs of the last effect into the effect return of the stereo combo. Your dry sound will continue to be sent through your regular amp but the effects will go through the combo. You may or may not need a ground loop eliminator if you happen to get some hum, and it's a good idea to use a filtered power supply for your effects. But once you've laid the ground work this can be a very effective technique.

A few tips:

* Use a delay that allows you to turn the dry sound all the way down. That way you won't get weird phase cancellation issues between the dry and effect speakers.

* Some effects should remain a part of your dry amp's signal chain: overdrive, fuzz, distortion, tremolo, wah-wah and octave pedals are particularly suited to being a part of your main sound rather than a parallel effect.

* Some effects like phasers and flangers will be more pronounced when used in a wet-dry-wet rig because their swooshy character will contrast with the dry sound.

* You can even get creative with the stereo signal chain and use one speaker for delay and the other for reverb. Or, for a classic ‘80s hard rock delay sound, try two or three slapback repeats at around 40ms delay time in one speaker and a couple of longer repeats in eighth notes in the other speaker.

* Most harmonizers give you the ability to send separate harmonies to different outputs.

* If chorus makes you feel a little queasy through a wet-dry-wet rig, try the Eddie Van Halen trick of using a stereo pitch shift effect (harmonizers are capable of this) with one voice shifted just a few cents higher than the dry note, and the other voice set just a bit lower. You'll get a broad, rich multi-voice sound that doesn't waver in the way the chorus does.

* Take advantage of stereo pan effects and subtle tremolo!

* Use an expression or volume pedal to fade the effects signal in and out as needed. This can really add drama to a solo or a particular part of a song.

The only real problem with running a wet-dry-wet amp rig is that it can be hard to go back to a regular mono effects setup!



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Paul McCartney Pokes Fun At Curfew Mishap

Sir Paul McCartney has poked fun at the curfew controversy which ended his encore showdown with Bruce Springsteen in London last weekend by bringing rehearsals for the Olympics to an abrupt end.
The former Beatle has posted a new video on YouTube.com featuring the set up for the rehearsals at a secret location.

Appearing excited that his London Games opening ceremony spectacular is just a week away, McCartney introduces a slice of what he and his band might play – counting in a rendition of I Saw Her Standing There.

The rocker gets through the first verse of the song when the power appears to stop the band in its tracks.

Looking mystified, McCartney yells, “Who pulled the plug?”

The star’s encore performance with Bruce Springsteen at Hyde Park last Saturday ended abruptly when concert organisers pulled the plug after the two stars sailed past the venue’s strict end time.

Springsteen poked fun at the curfew calamity earlier this week when he took to the stage at Dublin’s RDS Arena in Ireland on Tuesday and switched a huge fake generator back to ‘on’, before launching into the final minute of Twist And Shout – the track he failed to finish in London with McCartney.

He then held up a placard with the message “Only the Boss says when to pull the plug”.

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Day Three of the 2012 NAMM Show



The third day of the 2012 NAMM Show continued to offer attendees more industry insight and business tips to take home with them, starting with a Breakfast Session called “The Top Web Marketing Trends for 2012” presented by John Arnold, marketing author and columnist at Entrepreneur.com.

The session demonstrated the best ways for companies to spend their time and money, and recognize the new technologies that are less likely to pay off. It also outlined how to start using tools such as social media, search marketing, mobile devices and marketing locally on the Internet.

As attendees filed through the convention center doors, they were greeted by the music of Polka Floyd, a tribute band with the unusual twist of an added accordion and a polka beat.

Meanwhile, the Hands On Training (H.O.T.) Zone offered numerous educational sessions focused on the pro audio, entertainment technologies and music business operations segments. Today’s sessions drew hundreds of attendees and included a Logic Pro Clinic, “Cloud Technologies for Pro Audio,” “Bass Players Summit-BX3 Revisited,” “The Virtual Recording Studio Program,” and “Lawyers, Deals and Money: Current Trends in Music Business and Law.”

The NAMM Foundation kicked off its “Music Education Days,” a program that provides an opportunity for music educators to interact with each other and music industry professionals to address mutual concerns about access to music education for all children. Today’s program included a welcome breakfast, a keynote session called “One Is Too Small a Number to Achieve Something Great,” presented by Marcia Neel of Music Education Consultants, Inc., and a session called “A Place In the Choir” presented by John Jacobson, a.k.a. Mr. “Double Dream Hands.”

The NAMM University sessions continued at the IDEA Center on the show floor, and included presentations on “How to Ignite Your Business In Five Minutes or Less!,” “Call Your Store and Change These Four Things Now,” “Monetize Your Facebook Page,” and “Financial Questions Every Music Retailer’s Afraid to Ask.”

Tonight on the main Lobby Stage, NAMM will proudly present the second year of its “Celebrity Jam” featuring the Band from TV Stars including Scott Grimes, James Denton, Greg Grunberg, Adrian Pasdar, Bob Guiney, Jesse Spencer, Anthony Ruivivar and others will show how much they love to play music when the cameras stop rolling.

Also tonight over at nearby Downtown Disney District, will be the finals of NAMM’s SchoolJam USA bringing together the best teenage bands in the country to battle for bragging rights and prizes for their band and their school music programs. The event will be co-hosted by teen pop sensation Greyson Chance and singer/songwriter Shaun Barrowes. The winning band will be announced tonight.

The show continues through tomorrow and will feature the traditional “Best In Show—This Year’s Hottest Products,” Breakfast Session with Frank Alkyer, publisher of Music Inc. and a panel of music products professionals sharing their best picks from the show floor this year.

Celebrity sighting included Tommy Lee, George Benson, Stevie Wonder, Donovan, Greyson Chance, Greg Grunberg, Scott Grimes, Bob Guiney, Chuck Lowery, Tinsel Korey, David Crosby, Shaun Barrowes, Maya, Joel and Benj Madden, and Jackson Brown.

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Every January, over 1500 musical instrument manufacturers from across the globe descend on NAMM in Anaheim, California to show their latest products to musical instrument retailers. As the largest musical instrument retailer in the nation, Guitar Center often gets the first shot at presenting these products to the public at large. This is just a small sampling of some of the gear creating the most buzz at this year's NAMM show. View now.

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Photo Shoot TV Presents Alicia Marti



First set of images from Alicia Marti's photo session at Photo Shoot TV. What a fun time it was working with Alicia and Joven. These photos were requested by Cover Girl magazine for consideration as a featured model.

Photo Shoot TV is using studo 1 "the auditorium" as it's set for the filming of their TV show. All of us here at Hothouse Studios are stoked to be chosen as the location for their show.

Photographer: Joven Calingo
Model: Alicia Marti
Location: Hothouse Rehearsal Studios

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Happy New Year from Hothouse Rehearsal Studio




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Rehearsal TV’s Nikki Calvert

Here’s our host for Rehearsal TV Nikki Calvert giving us some directions during rehearsals prior to the taping of a new episode of Hi-Fi Friday. For some reason this photo reminds of the movie Pulp Fiction.

Rehearsal TV is shot in our mini stage studio 1 here at Hothouse Studios in Santa Fe Springs, CA. Tons of band rehearsal videos are shot here at Hothouse Rehearsal Studios.

Flo Guitar Enthusiasts at Hothouse Rehearsal Studios

A special thanks to Jeff Floro of The.Flo.Guitar.Enthusiasts Joe Mazzeo, of the Grumps, Henry Cendejas, and JimmyRay Hawkins for bringing all the gear and playing on our video. You guys are the best. Joe built a custom switch for us to change speakers at a moment's notice, besides putting all those speakers in all those cabinets. An amazing collection of vintage and new speakers were assembled. Henry brought in some amazing amps and everyone loved his EVM 12L cabinet. It sounded amazing. JimmyRay brought a couple of guitars he assembled which sounded amazing and played some awesome stuff which really showed the differences between the speakers. The edited video will be coming soon, and some surprises.

Here’s an outtake of the video…Joe Mazzeo, of the Grumps, warming up before performing for the video.. He is playing his Jackson through a Ceriatone Chupacabra 50 watt head through his Marshall 4x12 cabinet with Celestion Greenbacks.