Steve Vai

“When the app revolution hit, I remembered that great CD-ROM and knew it would make an extraordinary app... I acquired the rights for the Ocean Way Microphone Locker CD-ROM contents and worked with Allen Sides, who is a very good friend, and Metal Sidecar, LLC to build an app from the material. Metal Sidecar did a fabulous job and the app is phenomenal. You can actually access Allen’s mic collection and match them with a complete range of musical instruments. You get tips on the best miking techniques and can listen to samples played by top session cats like Hal Blaine on drums,” says Steve Vai about the Ocean Way Microphone Locker app he helped develop.

Steve Vai of Alcatrazz, Stuart Hamm & Steve Vai, The G3 Jam, Vai, David Lee Roth & Steve Vai, Snakebite, Whitesnake, and Western Vacation, talks about his use of Spectrasonics Omnisphere Virtual Synth, stating, “There’s so much to choose from. The variety can keep you searching for hours! But if you know what you’re looking for, it’s easy. You can search by techniques, including some weird ones like Babbling, Doo-wops, and they’re even broken down into sforzandos. The way things are categorized is really nice. You can click a category, and then refine your search by type – with the vocals you search by Gender, you can refine that by searching Classical choir by Females or various Boys choirs...I’m really excited to see how Spectrasonics evolves and hoping that the designers are imagining things that are off the radar, because they’ll bring them into the radar.”