[joelpatterson]

Walk, run and stumble over anything in your path to get a seat when it comes to your town! This might be the most inspiring and eye-opening hour you'll spend this year.

Mr. Kramer walks you through a Logic file of a rocking band that he tracked this spring at Abbey Road. And then-- a live guitar player adds three tracks, standing there before your eyes: when he finished the screamo distorty track complete with bottle slide and twisting tuning pegs the room went nuts!

So he starts with a pop quiz of which mic should a body use for which application, and then plays the tracks "raw," and then enables the series of brand new JJP Waves plug-ins to demonstrate how sizzlingly they work. The results were astonishing. The capabilities of Logic 8 are just, well, sick-- the footpedal options alone-- chaining any variety in any configuration-- your dreams, meet come true.

He took questions about technique and gear and answered all thoughtfully and candidly. Finally someone asked him what was the biggest difference between "then" and "now"?

"The haze in the control room."