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About Me

Gearwire.com is created by musicians, for musicians. Check us out for equipment walkthrus, band interviews, and video coverage of music conventions including NAMM, AES, SXSW, and many others.
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Check out the Gearwire Crosstalk podcast . It's our weekly radio show featuring the latest in gear news, product developments, and more.
You can also connect with fellow musicians, sound techs, engineers, and home studio fanatics in the Gearwire Forum.

The Gearwire staff:
Jaime Endick, Manager
Bill Holland, Producer
Gretchen Hasse, Producer
J. Irving-Giles, Editor
Joe Wallace, Freelancer
Rob Warmowski, Freelancer
Pat Ogle, Freelancer
DJ Puzzle, Contributor
Drew Krag, Contributor

My Interests

Guitars, keyboards, amplifiers, podcasting, digital recording, home recording studios, self-released independent music, drums, stompboxes, rack effects, all kinds of gear.

I'd like to meet:

People who enter Gearwire's Most Valuable Forum Poster Contest...Plus, gearheads from around the world, anyone with an obsession for stompboxes, keyboards, guitars, digital recording, and home studios. If you've ever taken apart a guitar or keyboard, click HERE .

Heroes:

Miles Davis, Steve Albini, Frank Zappa, The Residents, Radiohead, Coltrane, Fugazi, Wilco, Warren Zevon, Buck Dharma, Bun E. Carlos, Johnny Cash, Kerry Livgren, Daniel Amos, John Lee Hooker, Peter Tosh, U Roy, too many others to name. All musical mavericks of the world.

My Blog

Gearwire Newsletter - A Good Week For Guitarists

Gearwire.com NewsletterVol. 2, No. 10A Good Week For Guitaristshttp://www.gearwire.comWith AES around the corner, it seems as if manufacturers arewaiting to drop their biggest news this upcoming weeke...
Posted by Gearwire.com on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:16:00 PST

How Would YOU Like FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS Worth of GEAR?

Gearwire's Most Valuable Forum Poster Contest--where you nominate your favorite musician forum poster for a collection of gear valued at over five thousand dollars. You can even nominate yourself!Just...
Posted by Gearwire.com on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:56:00 PST

SubGenius.com Founder Ivan Stang Tells All At Gearwire.com

How did the Church Of The SubGenius begin its INSANE long-running multimedia assault plan? Who is Reverend Ivan Stang and how did he manage to stay on the air on KPFA for decades--to this very day? Wh...
Posted by Gearwire.com on Wed, 16 May 2007 06:58:00 PST

AES Vienna Video Avalanche

Gearwire.com still has a ton of videos from AES in Vienna, Austria. Have you seen our latest? New field recorders, some interesting new microphones, and a look at nearfield monitors from the fascinati...
Posted by Gearwire.com on Tue, 15 May 2007 12:51:00 PST

Church Of The SubGenius

Many of us at Gearwire.com have been longtime fans (and in some cases, members of) The Church Of The Subgenius. Well, looks like Gearwire will finally make the SubG connection soon as we fired off so...
Posted by Gearwire.com on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:57:00 PST

Les Paul, AES Vienna, And More

Gearwire.com has tons of updates including a few more parts in our exclusive interview series with legend Les Paul, plus our upcoming coverage of AES Vienna. You remember our coverage of Musikmesse in...
Posted by Gearwire.com on Tue, 01 May 2007 01:11:00 PST

Gearwire Interviews Les Paul, Adds Comment Fun

We FINALLY turned on comments at Gearwire.com so now you can post your two cents worth for each and every article, interview, how-to video, and guitar demo we put up. In the meantime, the second part ...
Posted by Gearwire.com on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:02:00 PST

Nine Inch Nails Veteran Alessandro Cortini Interview Now At Gearwire.com

Checjk out part one of our three-part series with Nine Inch Nail Alessandro Cortini is now at Gearwire.com. Click this to read the article. Thanks for reading.......
Posted by Gearwire.com on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:47:00 PST

Back From Musikmesse in Frankfurt Germany And...

What a show THAT was. Check out the great new sounds from Waldorf. They showed off a prototype electric piano called the Zarenbourg, and it has really tasty e-piano sounds. Very nice stuff indeed. The...
Posted by Gearwire.com on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:49:00 PST

miniMusic Palm-powered MIDI

Now at Gearwire: an interview with miniMusic pres Chad Mealey on the MixPad handheld MIDI program that lets you play and remix MIDI files, and in the pro version soon to be released, also lets you edi...
Posted by Gearwire.com on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:38:00 PST