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Take a stroll down marketing memory lane with the following features from as far back as ten or more years ago! The gear has changed, but our desire to take care of our customers and provide expert advice will always remain.

A bi-monthly publication spot lighting everything new in the pro audio and recording equipment industry! With SweetNotes you can stay on top of all the new happenings at Sweetwater and the gear we all use to make music and recordings.

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Browse through our past coverages of the industry's top trade shows from your number one source for information, Sweetwater.com! Turn to our Show Reports for daily updates from each and every Winter NAMM, Summer NAMM, and fall AES shows and you'll find out about all the latest and greatest keyboards, microphones, software applications, speakers, and more.

The 105th AES Show
Here's the latest showdown on new and upcoming products straight from California! Amazing new consoles, powered monitors, surround sound microphones, 24-bit recorders and more!

Summer NAMM '98 Report
We hit the streets in Nashville with our Kurzweil K2500 SWx, Oram products, as well as over 60 eager Sweetwater Employees! Discover everything that happened there from the loudest DJ equipment to Digital Mixers to the newest Keyboards, Synths and Guitars.

Winter NAMM '98 Report
Another interesting L.A. trip for Sweetwater - almost for the record books! From Roland's new 16-track Hard Disk recorder to the new Alesis ADAT-XT20's - there's something for everyone!

The 103rd AES Show
Live from New York! Join with us in our celebration! Sweetwater is the first retailer to ever exhibit at AES!

Summer NAMM '97 Report
All of the newest and coolest products shown at Nashville this year!

NAMM '97 Report
Check out the latest products here first!

The 101st AES Show
Tons of new gear was displayed at the biggest AES ever, see it here first!

Sweetwater Summer NAMM Report
Hot off the cyberpress, check out the latest equipment released at Summer NAMM '96

Winter NAMM '96 Report
The show was the biggest ever, the new equipment was great and our report is online!

The 99th Annual AES Show
The show is history and our report is online!

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Jim Miller is a 30-year studio veteran and a Sweetwater staff writer for more than a decade. He has written feature articles and reviews for most of the major industry publications and is co-owner of Stratus Sounds. Tech Notes Online is a column covering all aspects of today's music, from stage to studio.

Spring'95 - Guitar Preamp/Processors
Summer '95 - Godin Multiac
Late Summer '95 - Roland VG-8
Holiday '95 - the buying experience
Winter '96 - KRK, Iomega, Crown
Spring '96 - Roland preview
Summer '96 - Peak 1.0, MOTU MIDI TimePiece AV
Holiday '96 - Earthworks OM1 and TC30K Microphones
Winter '97 - Guitars, Amps, and the Roland VG-8
Spring '97 - Sweetwater Certified Pre-Owned Equipment Plan
Early Summer '97 - Earthworks and Oram Pro Audio
Late Summer '97 - Big record companies and Oram consoles
Fall '97 - Copy Protection, Digital Performer
Winter '98 - PRS Guitars and Software Plug-ins
Spring '98 - PRS Guitars and Plug-in Noise Reduction
Early Summer '98 - Guitars, Guitars, Guitars - and the VS-1680
Late Summer '98 - Broken Arms, Earthworks, and MOTU's 2408
Early Fall '98 - Real Difference Between 16-bit and 20- and 24-bit
Late Fall '98 - Antares ATR-1
Early Winter '98 - Peak 2.0, ButHeadz Retro AS-1
Late Winter '99 - Comparison of microphones
Early Spring '99 - Paul Reed Smith Dragon 2000
Early Summer '99 - Tech 21 SansAmp Acoustic DI, 24bit / 96kHz
Late Summer '99 - SansAmp Acoustic DI
Fall '99 - PRS, Gibson, Oram MWS, Alesis Masterlink
Late Winter 2000 - A Look Back
Early Spring 2000 - Line 6 stomp boxes, Peak 2.1
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As a popular section of SweetNotes, Q&A offers a helping hand by way of interesting how-to's and tricks of the trade.

Spring '95 - What are IRQs and Port Addresses?
Summer '95 - computer internal drive and hard disk recording
Late Summer '95 - CD ROM drive termination
Holiday '95 - inputs and outputs
Winter '96 - multi-effects units
Spring '96 - Jaz drives with K2000 and which UPS
Summer '96 - SMPTE, MTC, DAE
Holiday '96 - Packing a tape, K2000 memory
Winter '97 - Pro Tools memory, K2500 options
Spring '97 - DAT/DAW Sync, K2000 fan filter
Early Summer '97 - Multi effects patching, Pro Tools and SMPTE sync
Late Summer '97 - K2500/Logic Audio sync, SMPTE Pull up/Pull down
Fall '97 - VIP in Samplitude and Point CDaudio
Winter '98 - Lost sampler sounds, Digital Performer and Audiomedia III
Spring '98 - E-mu Emulator IV and CD-ROM drive, Bias Peak 1.63 and Audiomedia III
Early Summer '98 - Year 2000 compliance in samplers, synths, etc
Late Summer '98 - 20-bit to 16-bit conversion in ADATs
Early Fall '98 - What is a direct box, CD-ROM drives for K2000
Late Fall '98 - Backing up a DAW, Communications problems with SCSI-2/-3 devices
Early Winter '98 - Transpoing MIDI files for K2500, audio on rewritable CDs
Late Winter '99 - Front panel control on slave ADATs, upgrading Roland VS-880/1680s
Early Spring '99 - K2000R MIDI questions, creating hotter audio CDs
Early Summer '99 - SCSI and Blue G3s, Syncing MIDI in Windows, samplers and Zip drives
Late Summer '99 - BPM, Lead-in / lead-out, CD-R on ultrawide SCSI
Late Winter 2000 - VS880 and VSCDR2, Logic Audio and MOTU MIDI
Early Spring 2000 - Logic Audio and MOTU MIDI, JL Cooper DataSync and Digi001
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