markmcguigan.com: A little clean up
October 4, 2010
As you’ll see I’ve been sprucing up the general look and layout of the website.
Let me know if anything has b0rked!
A little more tweaking to follow.
SOLD: E-MU 1616 Cardbus Laptop Digital Audio System
March 13, 2010
I’m all Mac now and now use the rather awesome MOTU Ultralite mk3 for all my recording needs.
So my E-MU 1616 PCMCIA CardBus laptop audio interface is now up for auction.
The E-MU 1616 Cardbus Laptop Digital Audio System features:
Premium 24-bit/192kHz converters – 112dB signal-to-noise ratio for pristine recording and playback of your tracks
The ultimate portable system – for recording, editing, mixing and virtual instruments – use the E-MU 02 CardBus Card alone for its hardware-accelerated effects and premium stereo headphone/line output or together with the MicroDock for complete analog and digital I/O flexibility.
Hardware-accelerated effects – over 600 standalone and E-MU Power FX VST plug-in effects with no CPU overhead
PatchMix™ DSP zero-latency hardware mixing and monitoring – with super-flexible patchbay – no external mixer needed
Ultra-portable MicroDock offers 16 audio inputs, 16 outputs plus 16 channels of MIDI I/O – everything from balanced analog and turntable inputs to ADAT and S/PDIF (swithable to AES/EBU) for seamless integration with your entire studio
Two E-MU XTC™ studio-grade, ultra-low noise preamps (-127dBu EIN) – with analog soft limiter – Mic/Line and true Hi-Z inputs via Neutrik connectors, , 48V phantom power and 60dB of gain
Compatibility with most popular audio/sequencer applications – ultra-low latency 24-bit/192kHz ASIO 2.0 and stereo WDM drivers
E-MU Production Tools Software Bundle – includes Cakewalk SONAR LE, Steinberg Cubase LE and Wavelab Lite, Ableton Live Lite 4 for E-MU, IK Multimedia AmpliTube LE and T-RackS EQ, Minnetonka diskWelder BRONZE, SFX Machine LT, plus E-MU’s Proteus X LE Desktop Sound Module – everything you need to create, record, edit, master and burn is in the box
FA: Guitar Signature Licks – The Best Of Pat Martino
March 11, 2010
For auction Hal Leonard Guitar Signature Licks: The Best Of Pat Martino by Wolf Marshall.
The Guitar Signature Licks series are really great books with accurate transcriptions and a step-by-step breakdown of the techniques, musical concepts and background of each song featured.
Book is in great condition and comes with CD with scarily accurate performances of the transcriptions. Mixed so that the left channel can be used as a backing track for your own practice.
Learn the trademark Riffs, solos and compositions of the modern Jazz Guitar Virtuoso!
In depth explorations of 14 works:
All Blues
Along Came Betty
Blue In Green
El Hombre
The Great Stream
Interchange
Nefertiti
Nightwings
Noshufuru
Oleo
Road Song
Stone Blue
Strings
The Visit
FA: Creative Guitar 2: Advanced Techniques by Guthrie Govan
March 11, 2010
Clearing out some more items here’s a chance to get ahold of a great book by *the* Guthrie Govan!
For auction Creative Guitar 2: Advanced Techniques by the amazing Guthrie Govan.
Book is as new with unopened companion CD containing audio of all the examples in the book with musical demos and backing tracks created by the great man himself.
The book summary states:
The Creative Guitar series aims to provide the frustrated rock guitarist with new directions in which to explore his art. This second book in the series takes things up a gear, building on the foundation of skills in its predecessor. Creative Guitar 2: Advanced Techniques studies in depth the various techniques used in today’s guitar stars in their playing, including eight-finger tapping, playing harmonics and the undiscovered world of emulating other instruments.
With an accompanying CD full of riffs and examples to illustrate the exercises in the book, Creative Guitar 2 aims to provide guitarists with a lexicon of new musical ideas and a performance style that sounds both easy and professional. With each new technique broken down and approached simply and clearly, Creative Guitar 2 will take your guitar playing skills to the next level.
Chapter Breakdown:
1: Alternate Picking
2: Sweep/Economy Picking
3: Legato
4: Tapping
5: Eight-finger Tapping
6: Pick and FIngers
7: Extending The Fretboard
8: Extending Scales
9: Emulating Other Instruments
10: New Chordal Ideas
11: The ‘Wrong’ Notes
12: Approaching New Scales
markmcguigan.com 48th guitar blog in the WORLD!! ;)
October 10, 2008
Spotted over on truthinshredding, a top 100 Guitar Blogs has been published and this site ranks in at 48!
All ‘teh’ fame! 
markmcguigan.com: New theme
May 30, 2008
You may have noticed that I’m now just about up and running with a new WordPress theme.
When things went a little wrong with the old theme ( still no idea what happened even after trawling through the code ) I browsed many many themes looking for a suitable replacement. I just couldn’t find anything that I liked so I took the step of looking through the premium themes aka ones you pay for. 
Yes I *paid* for this theme I am using now. Outrageous I know. Having left the murky world of Software Engineering few years ago after 8 years of pain I am past the point of coding things from scratch. Especially these days with what little time I have.
So, things will do for now but I’ll probably tweak things further, colour scheme, logos etc.
Here’s to a new chapter at markmcguigan.com!
El B0rko
May 27, 2008
Something has b0rked…
So until I have some time to fix the bug, back to an old boring theme 
Update: I’ve decided to redesign the whole site so things may look a little ‘interesting’ for a while
