A big thanks to everyone who struggled into Manchester City Centre on a freezing wet Tuesday evening for the second of our three new “See How It Sounds” Apple Logic Studio seminars! Apple demonstrator John Moore’s excellent presentation was well worth the frankly miserable journey to Manchester’s Trafford College Music Base but we have to admit to… Read More
If you’ve already bought the Edirol R09HR or are thinking of purchasing it then you’ll be interested in this news. Edirol have updated the firmware of the R09HR to version 1.04. This update can be downloaded free of charge from Edirol’s website. It can then be installed onto the Edirol R09HR via a computer connection. … Read More
We’ve just had word that these units are due to land with us late next week and we’ve already got orders for them. Make sure you don’t miss out on the must-have musical gadgets this year The nano Series from Korg – Serious Music Production in a Seriously Small Space Meet the most compact family… Read More
Starting Saturday 18th October for one week only, we will be holding a special Piano Sale at our Stockport and Liverpool stores. There will be a good selection of traditional acoustic pianos on sale including some really high-quality pre-owned pianos, alongside heavily discounted brand new instruments from Yamaha, Kemble, Winchester and the astonishing Perzina. We… Read More
Epiphone Les Paul Special 2 in Heritage Cherry Sunburst The Epiphone Les Paul Special 2 has two humbucker pickups, a rosewood fretboard with a bolt-on Mahogany neck and great alder/ mahogany body wood giving this model the powerful, sustaining tone character of the best Les Pauls. The Les Paul Special II guitar is hot enough… Read More
Noel Gallagher paid our Dawsons store in Manchester a visit when he stopped off there as part of the Oasis ‘Dig out Your Soul’ 2008 tour today. Jonny West, our biggest Oasis fan and resident acoustic expert at the store didn’t waste any time in showing him the brand new range of Farida acoustic guitars… Read More
Meet the new Pro Tools® 8 — the most advanced audio creation and production software, featuring a gorgeous new interface; dozens of new plug-ins; five new virtual instruments; exciting new scoring, MIDI, editing, and mixing capabilities; deeper controller integration; improved ease of installation and use; and enhanced performance. All our Digidesign Products include a FREE… Read More
On Saturday 4th October Craig Blundell from Roland visited our Dawsons Basingstoke store to demonstrate the complete suite of Roland V-Drum Kits, practice pads and accessories. He played the Roland TD-9K and TD-9KX plus the Roland HD-1 starter kit and also the Roland HPD-15 Handsonic. The Roland SPDS Sample Pad also made an appearance. The… Read More
Fancy a Novation keyboard that glows in the dark? The Limited Edition Novation Remote 37SL does exactly that. The ReMOTE 37SL includes all the features of the best-selling unit but also comes with a custom paint job and graphics from Novation. The styling also glows in the dark under a UV light – Ideal for… Read More
Landing Mid to End of November here’s a brand new Firewire interface from Focusrite. The Saffire Pro 40 has 8 high quality Focusrite pre-amps, 24-bit/96kHz processing, 20 inputs and 20 outputs this looks to be an outstanding interface. It comes with a suite of Focusrite VST-AU plug-ins to provide compression, reverb, gating and EQ. The… Read More
