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Local Music Shops
- Meadowood Music, Blandon, PA - They only deal with stringed instruments. If you are looking for G&L Guitars (Leo Fender's guitars...) or Reverend Guitars, this is your place. Guitar repair turn-around is pretty fast and resonably priced.
- West Chester Music, West Chester, PA - Lots of good stuff, in particular you can get Orange amps and Mesa Boogies here.
- George's Music, Spring City, PA - is within 15minutes from here.
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Local / Related Musical Services
- Mastering House - CD Mastering and Media Production Services. Tom and his crew do a fabulous job at mastering recordings. Boy does he ever have some sweet gear over there. :)
- Swift Creations - On-site live recording, Media Duplication/Transfers, Spot Production, and Web Page Design. I grew up with the one owners, Mike. Yes, he's my friend too. ;)
Artists and Photographers we really like
- David Schrott - fantastic photographer and graphic artist

VST Instrument, FX, Other Sweet Electronic Music Things
- KVR Audio - Audio Plugin News, Reviews and Community. This is the resource for all things from VSTs (commercial and non), DAWs, and well, so much...
- e-phonic - VST Instruments and FX, and well...much more. Lots of quality stuff. I love the tape-delay.
- TWEAKBENCH - Free VST Instuments and effects. Unique stuff. Neat interfaces. Things like VSTs that are NES sounds generators... yeah, make some Zelda tunes!
- Jeroen Breebaart has lots of handy VSTs for analysis and processing. Also the ones you have to pay for are not expensive.
- KT Drum Trigger - there are things like drumagog and then there are more affordable tools that may do just what you need. of course each tool has its pluses in different situations.
- Casio VL-1 Emulator
- VST Host and SAVIHost...use VST's outside of a DAW. handy... a free way!

Guitar Pedals & FX - The real good stuff..
- Barber Electronics - They have some glorious overdrives among other things...hand-made in the USA!
- Zvex Effects - These guys are crazy and awesome. Really unique pedal concepts and sweet paint jobs.
- Fulltone

Handy Softwares, Some Music-Related in Nature...
- foobar 2000 - Fantastic media player. I switched to this from winamp and just love it. It's very no-nonsense with tons of handy stuff built-in. There are also plug-ins so you can play Apple lossless files (AAC) and such..
- Beyond Compare - It's a "diff" tool. Figure out what's different between directories/folders and files. For a studio, this is one of the best ways to do back-ups that you need to eyeball what files and why are getting updated, before overwriting things that shouldn't!

The Demoscene and tracker-based music - stuff most people never will know about...
- renoise - a modern tracker that's just phenominal. it can integrate with DAWs via ReWire and can use VSTs! we dreamt of this in the 90s...
- "XRNS-PHP is a collection of command-line scripts for Renoise. http://renoise.com is a contemporary music composition tool with XML-based file formats; making it possible to develop PHP scripts for various areas of interest." ... in particular, you can use this to export to midi!!!
- scene.org - a hub for something called the Demoscene, which so much neat stuff has come out of.
- Five Musicians - "cream of the crop" in demoscene music.
- MOD Archive - well, not just .MODs, .XMs, .S3Ms, etc...
- wikipeida article on module files - things have evolved from this, but it's such sweet stuff.
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- chiptune.com - if you are/were a scener, you get it. :)
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