Author: Jody Whitesides

  • How to Use MainStage for Seamless Guitar Tone Switching Live

    How to Use MainStage for Seamless Guitar Tone Switching Live

    Here’s the 3rd installment of videos around getting great guitar tones from a computer using MainStage. This video showcases how to split up guitar sounds into multiple patches to switch between within songs.

    MainStage Song Parts For Multiple Guitar Sounds

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    The reason behind setting them up this way is simple – it’s the best way to control the system for the Tuning function, as well as for making patch changes function via a single button press. Because we all love simplicity when playing live.

  • Unlock the Secret to Arena-Sized Guitar Tones Without Amps

    Unlock the Secret to Arena-Sized Guitar Tones Without Amps

    Part two in my getting great guitar tones in MainStage talks about creating multi amp setups. Imagine if you could take the amplifier rigs of people like The Edge, Joe Bonamassa, Aerosmith, Joe Satriani, and reduce them down to a single laptop with a midi foot controller. You can. Watch and find out how.

    Multi Amp Setup

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    This is scratching the surface of what this software is capable of doing. See me live and join the revolution in guitar tone by utilizing multi amp setups to achieve big sounds.

  • How I Composed the Powerful Nightwatch Theme on A&E

    How I Composed the Powerful Nightwatch Theme on A&E

    That day or rather that night has finally come! Nightwatch on A&E has its season 2 premier tonight and yours truly composed the music that opens the show.

    Nightwatch Theme

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    You read that correctly. I wrote the opening theme music for the show Nightwatch on A&E – airing at 10/9c. Set your DVR now, save the show! Watch each week. Tell your friends to watch. Hopefully you don’t end up on the show in the future – and I really do mean that.