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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.

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

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

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