Back Packing with a Solar Charger

by on October 1, 2012

In this age of technology, we go everywhere with our electronics. Our cell phones, iPods, iPads, computers, GPS devices, and other electronics are always within reach. We don’t go anywhere without them. For many people, camping or backpacking, or even hiking, is a way to escape civilization for a time, and enjoy nature. But these [...]

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Velodyne – Debut of New Headphone Line at IFA and VMA’s

by on September 25, 2012

The Marketing and Sales groups at Velodyne Acoustics, Inc. have been buzzing with activity the last several weeks. The focus has been working with the design, production and launch of the new vTrue and vFree headphones. What does all that entail, you ask? A lot of hours of hard work put in by many people [...]

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How to get stuff done

by on September 25, 2012

Go to a public place, preferably where caffeinated hot beverages are served. Drink a hot beverage. Play John Mayer’s album Battle Studies (or music of equivalent mellowness) through noise-reducing headphones, thereby creating for yourself a private world of focused concentration. Start. The rest will take care of itself. Take it from someone who knows.   -Benevolent Siren

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Don’t Miss This Sale On The EQ-Max 10 Subwoofer!

by on September 20, 2012

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Velodyne’s EQ-Max goes on sale, offering perfect equalization for an affordable price. Have you always wanted a high-end subwoofer but didn’t think it was within your reach? Think AGAIN! Velodyne’s EQ-Max 10, which took home the CEPro Award for Best Subwoofer 2011, is now on sale for $449.77. The subwoofer features [...]

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Velodyne Supports the Community: Music Matters Family Festival

by on September 19, 2012

  The Surf Spot in Pacifica, CA will be holding its first annual Music Matters Family Festival September 23, 2012. 100% of the proceeds will go to Music Matters in Pacifica. MMiP is a new program of the Pacifica Education Foundation that advocates and raises funds to support the instrumental music program for 6th through [...]

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It may be September, but I’m listening to Christmas music anyway.

by on September 18, 2012

Why? Because Christmas music is lovely, and it’s finally starting to get cool in Massachusetts (from whence I am now blogging). As I haven’t lived through an East Coast winter in a decade, the cool seasons are a single unit in my sense memory; cool weather simultaneously means Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. And since Halloween [...]

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How to work through the pain of a breakup…

by on September 13, 2012

…A band breakup, that is. When your favorite musical group parts ways or retires, a very real grieving process starts to take place. And darn it, you should grieve. You know who isn’t sad when their favorite band goes away? Robots, and no one else.   Anyway, here are the 5 stages of grief seen [...]

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Timbre: Emotions in Music

by on September 11, 2012

Timbre, also called tone color or tone quality, is the quality of a musical note that differentiates different types of sound, such as a trumpet and a guitar. When these two instruments play a note with the same loudness and pitch, they still sound different. That is because the timbre of the instruments is different. [...]

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Velodyne to Host Benefit for VH1 Save the Music and R.O.C.K.S

by on September 6, 2012

Velodyne is sponsoring a VMA event to benefit VH1 Save The Music Foundation today in Los Angeles. We believe very strongly in restoring instrumental music education to America’s public schools. Learning to play a musical instrument, especially at a young age, offers a variety of benefits, ranging from stress relief to doing better at school. [...]

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