Metal Machine Music

Rolling Stone has a review of Lou Reed‘s recent live performance of Metal Machine Music – Reeds’ controversial symphony of noise. When Metal Machine Music was released in 1975, people did not know what to make of it. The album, influenced by the drone music of La Monte Young and John Cale,  consists entirely of… Read More Metal Machine Music

Devastor Offers Three Types Of Distortion

D16‘s Devastor, is a multiband distortion unit that offers three blocks: dynamic-gain module, diode-clipper distortion and three filter sections. Each of the filters can process the signal before or after the diode-clipper. The filters are not the peaking EQ type which are used in classic multiband distortion. They are like those found in analogue synthesizers… Read More Devastor Offers Three Types Of Distortion