We are happy to have acquired some really cool new effects pedals from our friend Rich Flickinger at Flickinger Tone Boxes. Rich is a musician local to us here in the Triangle and has a very cool approach. So far, he’s released the Angry Sparrow Fuzz, Rude Bomb...
This past Monday I visited the Moog Music headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina. The lovely Linda Lafferty, Director of Sales, gave me a tour of the facility, a hands-on demonstration of the Moog Guitar, and updated me on the upcoming promotional events and news...
The link between fine wine and fine guitars can often rightly be called false or pretentious. But this is simply not a universal truth. This “crossover” audience of alleged guitar aficionados who also love wine is too often bombarded with advertisements...
What do you get when you take a Gibson Les Paul Standard and send it to Bill Nash? The next best thing to a true vintage Les Paul, that’s what! But it’s so much more than a vintage recreation. Let me fill you in on how this new relic from Nash Guitars...
Sound Pure Studios just had the pleasure of recording up-and-coming international pop star VV Brown on a vocal tracking session while she was on her U.S. publicity tour. We couldn’t have asked for a nicer client! And, quite honestly, we were so impressed with...
We had the pleasure of hosting Josh Ritter and his band at Sound Pure today. Fresh off the tour bus from a show in Baltimore, they paid an early morning visit to our shop and studio. Also in town was Dawn Landes (Josh’s wife) and her band, who happen to be...
We had the pleasure of recording the UNC Big Band in our studio over the past weekend. The band was smokin’ and the session was a blast. The setup consisted of 5 saxes (two tenor, two alto, one baritone), 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, piano, bass, guitar, and drums. Part...
When my girlfriend, Bronwyn, sent me a text that said “I just made a milkshake for Bruce Springsteen!” on Thursday April 15th around lunch time, I simply did not believe her. A minute later I remembered that she would never joke about something like that, especially...
Sometimes we have to think, “man, we love our job.” When the legendary Bruce Springsteen showed up today at Sound Pure for an impromptu visit of the Guitar Boutique and Sound Pure Recording Studios, we were thinking just that. The Boss had a chance to...
Welcome to the Sound Pure blog located here on the brand new www.soundpure.com website. It has been a LONG road for us to get this new site built, but we believe it was worth the wait. It represents three years of work from every single member of our team, and will...
