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Choosing a Twin Loop Wire Binding Machine

Twin loop wire (also known as Wire-O) binding provides an exceptionally elegant and professional looking solution for report and proposal binding. Perhaps you have seen proposals that have been bound with wire binding and would like to try this type of binding in your office. This article is intended to give you a few tips to help in deciding what wire binding machine is best for your needs. Here are a few things to consider:

1. Find a wire binding machine with a good wire binding closer on it. Many of the twin loop binding machines on the market are fine for binding a few books a month. However, if you are looking to do any volume of twin-loop binding you definitely want a good wire binding closer.

Less sturdy wire closers will slip over time and you will find that the spines of your books will be closed more on one side than the other. Both the GBC w400 and w200 wire binding machines are known to have this problem over time. Look at the Akiles WireMac binding machines, the Renz Manual Wire binding Combos or the stand alone wire closers from Rhino, GBC or Tamerica for excellent wire binding closing performance.

2. Choose the wire binding machine that will best fit the size of books that you need to bind. Wire binding machines are available with two different hole patterns. Some wire-o machines punch a 3:1 pitch or 32 hole pattern (for 11″ documents). These wire-o binding machines will accept wires as small as 3/16″ and as large as 9/16″. For documents larger than 9/16″ binding machines are available that punch a 2:1 pitch or 21 hole pattern (for 11″ documents). These pieces of binding equipment will accept wires between 5/8″ and 1-1/4″.

Most twin loop machines punch either a 3:1 pattern or a 2:1 hole pattern. However, if you are looking to bind both large and small books you might want to consider the Akiles WireMac Duo. The WireMac Duo will punch both a 3:1 pitch pattern and a 2:1 pitch pattern and will close all sizes of wire up to 1-1/4″. It is currently the only wire binding combo machine of its kind on the market and is reasonably priced at under $700.

3. Look for a twin loop binding machine that is built for the volume of wire binding that you need to do. If you are only looking to bind a few books then by all means purchase the Akiles Offiwire, it will handle the job. However, if you are looking to bind hundreds or thousands of books don’t buy a machine made of plastic.

Look at the Akiles WireMac line of binding machines. Akiles makes the WireMac, WireMac Duo and WireMac E wire binding machines, ranging from under $500 to over $1500. Or, if you are really going to do a lot of wire binding consider a modular wire-binding system from GBC or Rhin-O-Tuff wire binding machine. Either way, ask yourself how many books you plan on binding and buy accordingly.

4. Decide if you are going to need to bind books that are longer or shorter than 11″. If you need to bind books shorter than 11″ then you are looking for a wire binding machine with disengageable dies. This simply means that you can stop one of the pins from punching so that you don’t have half a hole hanging off the end of your paper.

If you are looking to bind documents longer than 11″ you need to find a machine with a punching throat that is either longer or is open. The Akiles WireMac series of punches comes equipped with a 14″ punching throat for legal sized wire binding and has a small pin on the right side of the open throat for punching longer documents. If you are looking for something a lot bigger for large volume calendar jobs you might look at the Rhino HD7500 (a 24″ modular punch) and the Rhino HD8024 wire closer (a 24″ wire closer).

Overall, your best bang for your buck right now in double-o binding machines is the Akiles WireMac line of punch and bind combos or the Renz manual wire combos. However, look at the options, compare the features and decide for yourself.

About the Author

Jeff McRitchie is the designer and Director of Marketing for MyBinding.com. He has written over 100 articles on binding machines, laminators, binding supplies and more.

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Learn And Master Guitar DvDs

There are many online guitar courses available on the Internet and unfortunately, most of them are crappy programs. On this webpage, we had reviewed the top Guitar Course:Learn And Master Guitar. Read up more about this awesome course and how you can get a MASSIVE $100 discount if you take action now.

Learn And Master Guitar

The Learn And Mster Guitar Course has won the 2008 Acoustic Guitar Magazine Players’ Choice Awards, 2 Telly Awards and an AEGIS Award for Excellence in Education. This is by no means an easy feat and goes to show that Learn And Master Guitar Dvd Lessons has been widely recognized as the best Guitar Instruction course for learning the guitar at home.

Learn And Master Guitar features Steve Krenz as your guitar instructor. Steve Krenz’s impressive resume includes performing with Grammy award winning artists such as Donna Summer, 5th Dimension and Tommy Simis. Apart from his active guitar playing experience, Steve Krenz is a commited and passionate guitar teacher who aims to help other guitarists excel in the instrument.

He frequently travels around the United States to conduct guitar and music workshops, helping thousands of guitar players improve on their guitar skills. With such a comprehensive teaching experience and knowledge, Steve Kreznz is the ideal guitar teacher to guide you through your guitar playing journey.

An overview of the lessons expected:

Learn and Master Guitar is perfect for anyone who wants to learn the guitar. This course covers everything from the very basics of guitar playing through the most advanced techniques.

 

 

Popular styles such as classical, rock, country, jazz and etc.. are taught with great depth in a series of step-by step detailed video guitar tutorials.

 

Our Review:

We found the lessons to be very professional and well structured. It’s simply amazing how Steve Krenz arranges each lesson with a logical, step-by-step format such that the student will never feel lost.

What we really liked about this course is that the different aspects of guitar playing are taught while playing to familiar melodies and recognizable guitar songs of all time. This injected a lot of fun and excitement while enabling the complete beginner guitarist to play the guitar almost instantly!

Intermediate Guitar Lessons such as scales, Chord Voicings, chord progressions, Ear Training, improvisation and different styles of guitar playing are also concisely covered in this course. The lessons are laid out in a manner which is challenging to stimulate us and yet simple enough such that we were never left frustrated. This made us feel like we had accomplished a great deal after each lesson and kept us motivated through the entire course.

In short, the quality of the guitar lessons is a clear *Winner*

L&MG provides terrific a 24/7 online support platform where students can interact, raise questions and receive advice from fellow students and the course instructors including Steve Krenz himself.

At  a price of USD$149.00, this course is slightly more expensive than most of the other courses we had reviewed. However, if you are really serious in learning the guitar,this quality course is worth every single cent paid.

The Learn & Master Guitar Dvd Course is covered with a 60-day full fledged no questions asked refund policy. There is absolutely  NO RISK at all for you to try this course. Once you try this course and see REAL results, I guarantee you won’t be sending it back.

 

“Learn & Master Guitar is a phenomenal program. It’s clear and concise and watching the DVDs is like having your very own guitar instructor in the room with you. The course is extremely thorough and well planned out. It’s like having at least a year’s worth of guitar lessons in one complete package! I wish a program like this existed when I was learning to play-it would have saved me a lot of time and frustration!!!”

Learning Guitar for Dummies; Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

This unintimidating video presents the basics of playing guitar in an easy-to-follow format. By simply watching the instructor on screen and following along, you can learn to form chords, fingerpick and strum in different patterns, and Play Songs in a variety of styles—all without reading music! Guitar for Dummies provides step-by-step instruction of all the skills needed to become an accomplished guitar player. You start by learning to play in tune and in rhythm and then move on to left-hand chords and right-hand strumming patterns. From there, you apply these techniques to several different musical styles, picking up tips and tricks on playing authentically in each style. Along the way, you learn how to develop your own practice routine and focus in on the areas you want to improve.
About the Instructor: Jon Chappell is an author, writer, and award-winning guitarist. He has served as editor-in-chief of Guitar Magazine and has performed with Graham Nash, Judy Collins, and Pat Benatar. He has published over 20 method books in seven different languages and is the author of The Recording Guitarist—A Guide for Home and Studio and two For Dummies books, Guitar for Dummies and Rock Guitar For Dummies.

Learning Guitar for Dummies (DVD)

This was the first DVD I ever bought on the subject. I ordered I even before I bought my first guitar, so I was a real beginner.

The pace is very slow, but as a beginner, I liked it that way. It helped me to feel like I had the potential to keep up. This was very important to me so that I wouldn’t give up.

Some may feel the pace of this DVD is too slow, but if you are interested in starting slowly… this may be just the right pace for you.

Eventually, I started collecting Guitar DVDs and I now have over 20, but this was the one that held my interest long enough to make it past the training wheel stages.

This DVD is great for people who have little or no experience with playing guitar and want to begin without investing in private lessons (private lessons are a good idea if you can afford them). The DVD contains basics such as posture, hand position, a few basic chords, and strumming. It even has a very basic introduction to fingerstyle (playing with your fingers instead of a pick).

I had taken a very basic class a few years ago, then taught myself barre chords and a few scales. I recently invested in a good mid-range guitar (Martin DC-16 GTE), so I picked up this dvd as a refresher. I found myself skipping to chapter 8 before I came to anything I hadn’t learned yet. So the title “Learning Guitar for Dummies” is apt. It is great for beginners as a SUPPLEMENT to private lessons. For intermediate players who are looking to build such skills as fingerstyle, barre chords, scales and improvisation, etc, you’ll need something a bit more advanced than this. I found myself more bored and drooling over the Taylor 814 CE he was playing than focusing on the really basic concepts he was presenting.

Other drawbacks of the video: 1) his singing is terrible 2) he doesn’t go over such basics as selecting and changing strings or some accessories that are helpful even for the novice (i.e. string winders, supplies for cleaning and maintaining the instrument- like a lint free cloth, a humidifier, etc). 3) in the video he does not always follow the suggested fingering shown in the chart on the screen (i.e. on a few of the songs he plays a G chord with the 1,2, and 4 fingers instead of the 1,2,3 as shown in the chart- I also prefer the 1,2,4 fingering, but this may be confusing to some beginners). Other than that it is a good introductory video for the beginner.

I used to take guitar lessons when I was about 15 years old. Learned some basic cords and could play a few songs. I had not picked up the guitar in many years. My 12 year old Daughter decided to learn to play the guitar so I got my old guitars out and started playing again. I ordered this DVD Learning Guitar for Dummies, by Jon Chappell and found it to be an excellent First Lesson for the beginner guitar player. Not only did I learn some thing’s I did not know but my daughter sat through the whole DVD with her guitar. Jon has a great way of explaining things slowly and easily. I would recommend this DVD for any beginner guitar player. Even if you know nothing about the guitar, you will by the end of this DVD. I had also ordered another Guitar learning DVD and found it to be not nearly as good as this one. Two Thumbs up to this DVD! The only thing I was disappointed about was I could not find any other DVD’s put out by Jon Chappell.

My daughter aged 8yrs decided that she wanted to learn to play the guitar a couple of mnths ago. The middle of October (last month) we bought her one. Suprised to see how she could manage the frets she now has lessons at school, sadly it appears for this yr. only.
I puchased this DVD for her not really knowing what to expect only to find this Brilliant step by step guide, simplistic to follow in every way.
The DVD zooms in on the guitar itself and positioning on fingers on frets etc. at the right hand side of the screen is the cord Mr. Chappell is playing once again denoting where positioning of fingers should be.
Having had no previous experience at all our daughter found this DVD informative and extremely easy to follow as did her father, only unable to follow correctly at the 9th out of 10 chapters when “Fingerpicking” was introduced.
This dvd is aimed at no particular age group only Beginners of whatever age. Mr. Chappell’s experience and honesty shines through as he repeatedly states you will not beable to play overnight that practice is a must all the things beginners need to hear.
I cannot praise this DVD enough it hss to be one of the best if not the best DVD’s and an invaluable aid to guitar playing irrespective of which type of guitar you choose to play.
If you are looking for a Beginners guide to learning to play the guitar i cannot recommend this one too highly. You will not regret this purchase!.

 

I bought the Guitar For Dummies book when I got my guitar. I’m working my way through the book so thought this DVD would help – I haven’t gone to an instructor (yet). It’s not as in-depth as the book (there simply isn’t enough DVD space), but it is very useful to actually see the strumming and finger techniques Chapell uses.

I’d recommend you buy the book along with this DVD, that way you can continue to progress once you’ve gone the DVD lessons.

I bought a number of different “teach yourself” tools on a variety to media to get myself started on the guitar and this is definitely top of the bunch. Unlike many of the others, this DVD schools the learner in exactly the same way a (very expensive) private tutor would. It spends time on teaching not just the basic notes, but also different ways of strumming and finger picking (I’ve found that may of the other books, CDs, and PC CDROMs tend to ignore the right hand).
The DVD progresses at a steady speed and allows the learner to stop and achieve competence in one area before moving on and, unlike some of the private music tutors that you run the risk of hiring from your local paper, this guy actually knows what he is doing. He Can Play AND teach!
I can’t say enough positive things about this DVD – it does exactly what it says on the cover!

Learn & Master Guitar is serious guitar training.

Winner of the 2008 Acoustic Guitar Magazine Players’ Choice Award, two Telly Awards and an AEGIS Award for Excellence in Education, Learn & Master Guitar is widely recognized as the best home instruction course for learning guitar available anywhere. It consists of 20 professionally produced DVDs, 5 Jam-Along CDs, a 100+ page lesson book, and a free online student support site. It is the only instructional package you’ll ever need on your journey toward mastery of the guitar. All you provide is the practice!

Let’s face it, really learning guitar can seem like a daunting task. There are so many different things to learn and practice. What you’re really looking for is high-quality, step-by-step Video Instruction that takes you from beginner (or intermediate) all the way through advanced instruction. A thirty-minute “Learn Guitar Overnight” video isn’t going to do it, and advanced instructional videos are usually too specialized and they often assume that you know more than you do. That’s never a problem with Learn & Master Guitar, because it is a complete step-by-step video instruction course that takes you from any skill level, even if you’re a total novice, through the advanced skills training used by the pros. Not a beginner? Just skip through the basics and jump into the more advanced training.

Printed materials alone, when not accompanied by detailed video instruction, can leave you frustrated and confused. Software-based instruction is cumbersome and difficult to use. Private instruction is costly and inconvenient. And perhaps worst of all, none of these methods are really any fun!

Which costs less – Guitar lessons on DVD or Guitar lessons from a personal teacher?

Guitar lessons on DVD are far less expensive than in-studio guitar lessons with a teacher. Most teachers charge $25-$50 for one private lesson. When I taught private guitar lessons, my rates were 30 dollars for a one hour lesson! For $29.95 you can have over 9 hours of guitar lessons on four DVDs plus additional DVD that has over 165,000 tabs on it! These DVDs are a great way to learn how to play the guitar. You could take over 18 guitar lessons on DVD for the price of one Guitar Lesson with a teacher. Plus, with lessons on DVD, you spend no gas money commuting to your guitar teacher. Also, you can play the lessons over and over again instead of remembering everything the teacher taught that week.

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Baden-Baden $15.99 Consisting of six originals and a concluding cover of Roxy Music’s majestic “A Song for Europe,” Baden-Baden, Michaela Meli? n’s debut solo effort, shows that techno is far from dead, it merely takes on different shapes. In this case, while less glitch-happy than most IDM (the abbreviated percussion loop on “Ignza Guenther House” being a notable exception) and more inclined to Kompakt’s microhouse focus, Baden-Baden is very much the kind of techno that can be danced to as well as reflectively enjoyed. Constructed by Meli? n using everything from cello and melodica to Spanish guitar, with collaborator Carl Oesterhelt providing the beats (and quite well at that — check out the simple but effective grooves on “Stra? e”), Meli? n’s suggests a comfortable eclecticism that integrates a variety of sonics and approaches into a warm whole. Often her songs build layer upon layer in the most subtle of fashions, until you find yourself hearing majestic combinations of strings and guitar and odd textures all intertwined. The slow-building opener, “Brautlied,” besides demonstrating Meli? n’s ear for album sequencing, suggests everything from Kraftwerk’s reflective motorik to minimalist compositions from P? rt and Glass, with Meli? n adding a beautiful, twinkling edge to the proceedings, like a music box running down a freeway. Similar uses of loops and detailed construction can be heard on songs like “Verkehr,” where what sounds like accordion provided both a steady background drone and an abbreviated melody, and the title track, where an almost metallic, siren-like sound provides a nervous tension to the proceedings, matched by the crisp layering of beats. As for “A Song for Europe,” Meli? n uses her very Nico-like singing to create a cover that actually wouldn’t have been too out of place on that singer’s album The End, beautifully dark and reflective thanks to the string parts and rhythmless, piano-led arrangement. ~ Ned Raggett, Rovi

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Blood Money $13.98 Tom Waits has said: “I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth.” When it comes to the material on Blood Money, I don’t know if I can call Waits’ mouth pretty, but he certainly offers plenty of bad news in a very attractive, compelling way. Released simultaneously with Alice, a recording of songs written in 1990, Blood Money is a set of 13 songs written by Waits and Kathleen Brennan in collaboration with dramatist Robert Wilson. The project was a loose adaptation of the play Woyzeck, originally written by German poet Georg Buchner in 1837. The play was inspired by the true story of a German soldier who was driven mad by bizarre army medical experiments and infidelity, which led him to murder his lover — cheery stuff, to be sure. Thematically, this work — with its references to German cabarets and nostalgia — echoes Waits’ other Wilson collaborative project, Black Rider. Musically, however, Blood Money is a far more elegant, stylish, and nuanced work than the earlier recording. With bluesman Charlie Musselwhite, reedman Colin Stetson, bassist and guitarist Larry Taylor, marimbist Andrew Borger, and others — Waits plays piano, organ, marimba, calliope, and guitar — this is a theater piece that feels like a collection of songs that reflect a perverse sense of black humor and authentic wickedness in places. The protagonists of these songs are so warped and wasted by life that they are caricatures; it’s impossible not to like them and to not be repulsed by yourself for doing so. For starters, the set opens with “Misery Is the River of the World,” a circus-like tango wrapped around a series of dialectical aphorisms: “If there’s one thing you can say about mankind/There’s nothing kind about man.” When a piano cascades up a minor scale in dramatic showmanship, Waits chants the refrain, “Misery is the river of the world,” with seeming delight. On “God’s Away on Business” (with guests Stewart Copeland o…

Bronx in Blue $18.98 Since his doo wop beginnings in the 1950s, Dion has tried a number of different musical styles, including the rock & roll of his early-’60s solo work and his late-’60s folk-pop phase. He also played the blues, if less prominently (see for example the belatedly released Bronx Blues album), and he again tries the style here in what he bills as a return to his roots, to music he listened to on long-distance radio stations in his youth. Accompanying himself on one or more guitar tracks, and joined by a percussionist, he runs through a selection of blues standards that leans heavily on Robert Johnson, but also includes songs by Chicago blues stalwarts like Howlin’ Wolf and even that country bluesman Hank Williams. Dion is an excellent guitarist, and his voice is in good shape. His approach is not exactly traditional; he throws in his own words to several songs, going on about the benefits of green tea in Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “You Better Watch Yourself,” for example, and includes two originals, “I Let My Baby Do That” and “If You Wanna Rock & Roll.” At the same time, the spare instrumentation gives the performances an authentic feel, and Bob Schnieders has been hired to write extensive liner notes detailing the sources of the songs, as if the album were an academic exercise. Dion isn’t going to make anybody forget Blind Willie McTell or Jimmy Reed on this album, but his renditions are effectively and sincerely performed. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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DigiTech RP1000  Integrated-Effects Switching System $699.95 Your sound is king. The control of your sound is imperative. The RP1000 gives you added control to express yourself the way you want – No longer will the lack of control stand in the way of your expression your rig. The RP1000 integrates into your amp and with your stompboxes, not the other way around. Featuring exclusive Stompbox and Amp loops, the RP1000 doesn’t get in the way of your tone and switches external stompboxes in and out of the signal path like large pro rigs. No longer will you have to do the pedal tap dance, just select your preset and your tone is engaged, just the way you like it. In conjunction with the external Amp Loop, the RP1000 also features an Amp/Cabinet bypass switch that allows you to turn off the RP1000’s internal amplifiers and cabinets so your amp’s tone stands alone. Popular on the RP500, the RP1000 also features the Pedalboard option that turns footswitches 6 through 10 into stompbox style effect on/off controls. When the Amp/Cabinet Bypass is used in conjunction with the Pedalboard mode, the RP1000 turns into 100 different pedalboards. You get instant access to both preset changes and stompbox on/off control, truly the best of both worlds. The RP1000’s built-in Phrase Looper lets you create on the fly performance loops for practicing, composing, and performing. With 20 seconds of record time and controls for Stop, Play, and Overdub, you can layer different guitar parts and tones seamlessly into cool song ideas or one-man jams. The RP1000 is built like a tank from a cast metal chassis to the 14 heavy-duty switches. A large 10 character LED display makes for easy stage use topped by an built-in expression pedal to control wahs, volume, Whammy™ and other parameters. No matter how you get your tone, the RP1000 works with your gear and gives you the control you need when playing live.

Flex-Able Leftovers $11.98 Before his high-profile gigs with David Lee Roth and Whitesnake, Steve Vai served time as Frank Zappa’s guitarist in the early ’80s. And judging by Vai’s first two solo albums released around this time, 1984’s Flex-Able and Flex-Able Leftovers, he was heavily influenced by Zappa’s songwriting and compositional skills. Although there is definitely a noticeable Zappa stamp on the tunes, Vai’s own personality and awe-inspiring guitar chops are what really make these two solo albums so impressive. Also, Vai was one of the few guitar heroes of the ’80s to stress the importance of songwriting over mindless soloing. While Flex-Able was a full album, Flex-Able Leftovers was originally just an EP of material that didn’t make it onto the debut. When Flex-Able was released on CD in 1988, a few tracks from Leftovers were included as a bonus, yet fans have wondered all along if the full EP would ever be released on CD. Ten years later, their wish came true. Not only has the EP been re-released, but unreleased tracks from that era are included, making up a full-length album. Vai’s over-the-top humor can be sampled on the profanity-fest “#?@! Yourself” and the goofy “So Happy,” while “Massacre” and “Natural Born Boy” feature his immense guitar skill. And Vai’s unique songwriting talent is evident on such tracks as “Burnin’ Down the Mountain,” “The Beast of Love,” and “Bledsoe Blvd.” The 1998 version of Flex-Able Leftovers is highly recommended to guitar freaks everywhere, as well as lovers of completely original and cutting-edge rock music. ~ Greg Prato, Rovi

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