Dragon's Hyperkool Musiclynx ™

This is a useful, interesting, but hopefully not exhausting jumping-off page for musicians and other interested people. I try to cover a few oddball things that you might not have known about...enjoy!

General Interest

• Sites and Sound Links, a nice site itself!
• What page is complete without references to the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA)?
• Other important places to visit are the Ultimate Band List, the guitar guitar page (not a typo), Music Events Calendar, and the Harmony Central Music List (which has a lot of new recording resources).
• Fans of the greatest guitarist in history must check out the Jimi Hendrix page (one of many)
• Fans of the greatest guitars in history should check out the Gibson home page.
• For fans of De Blooz only.
• Sunhawk.com is a pioneer in the delivery of digital music productsm including sheet music, via the Internet.
• SongSpyder.com: Musician's resource center for all things related to the online music business.

Just the FAQs, Jack

• The 4-track FAQ!
• ...and the Home Recording FAQ!
• The Usenet newsgroup rec.audio's Recording FAQ
• ...and rec.audio.pro's complete FAQ
• The DAT FAQ
• A very complete list of pro audio FAQs from Full Compass
• All the top Home Recording sites in one place!

For People who like to Record Music...

• The Unofficial TASCAM 424 Home Page (also has lots of good generic recording/mixing tips).
• The Equally Unofficial TASCAM 488 Home Page
• Check out the Mixmasters mailing list and improve your recording skills.
• Ram's music making tips
• Click over to the recording resources on Yahoo.
• You gotta check this 4-track site out, if only for the cool design!
• One page that has a little of everything: the Recording Handbook.
• Check this out: Tons of multitrack, MIDI, CD, and music software for every kind of computer!
• Pro Sound News is a great magazine that's free to qualified subscribers.
• Get yer blank media here...and order online!
• Recording Connection: a music industry talent placement service with 5,000 students worldwide who train on-site at major recording studios, record labels, radio and TV stations, film studios and video production companies.
  
  
  
  

For People who like to Make Music...

• Here's a site full of great music links, and nothing but!
• One of the Mixmasters has a business where he sets up Web sites for bands; the price is right and the package looks great! Check it out...
• Check out my review of the Musician's Pocket Memo.
• A fantastic site about the history of electric guitars (gotta see Strat #100!).
• Is your music protected by law? Do it now!
• Here's a link to the BMI home pages that will help answer your questions about royalties and such.
• Hysterical fun for guitarists and other wackos.
• The Creative Musicians Coalition can help you sell your music inexpensively; it's more like a co-op than a big impersonal marketing bunch.
• Ed Drury's Didjeridu Page
• RealAudio Homepage (get free encoders here, too)
• Sweetwater Sound, my favorite mail-order music store.
• Bananas At Large, my favorite in-person music store.
• A way-cool online used gear store with terrific prices.
• Get Your Music To The Right People with TAXI: the Independent A&R Vehicle that connects unsigned artists, bands and songwriters with major record labels, publishers, and film & TV music supervisors.
• Here's a link to a studio run by a colleague's sister-in-law's stepbrother (no kidding).
• If you buy used gear over the net, you must know about the Used Gear Price List.
• Just found this terrific electronic music site in both English and French...lots of terrific links of all kinds.
• s t u d i o g u r u | the pro audio resource. Your launch pad to the pro audio universe!
• Thompson Music Center: new and old instruments for sale
• How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet! This sounds like a terrific book for all of us...
• This is the secret link for the Musician's Friend technical tips archive.

Publishing CDs

• CDMAN! Canada is an independent CD manufacturing service designed to provide musicians affordable audio CDs and enhanced CD-ROMs.
• GlassHouseCD.com is run by experienced musicians, not accountants...and yet you can barely buy blank CD-Rs for these prices!
• Here's a place called SuperDuper! 10 points just for the name :-)

Building and Fixing Musical Things...

• How to build your own equipment rack
• All about how patchbays work
• How to build a set of bagpipes out of PVC tubing!
• Building a kludge dulcimer
• Make your own electronic gizmos using Leper's Schematics
• Another cool schematic page.

MIDI Stuff

• The all-important MIDI home page.
• Cakewalk home page, for the best software sequencer under Windows.

Fun Stuff

• You think you've met some fools...here's some proof you're always smarter than somebody :-)
• Play DJ Cool Dude with this free online scratch simulator!

Musiclynx is a trademark of David Fiedler, and all opinions are mine, too.