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...your own musical stylings by plugging in a keyboard, microphone or guitar. Apple is selling a $99 keyboard that plugs directly into the computer via a USB connection, and a $149 amp for guitar, bass, microphone and keyboards with MIDI connections. There are 50 software instruments in GarageBand and an additional 100 in Jam Pack. You can make your guitar seem as if it's coming through a vintage '60s amp, or your keyboard sound like a surprisingly realistic steel guitar. Select a sound and you're ready to hit the Record button. And if you flub the recording, even...
...months from now, it seems likely that Franz Ferdinand, the Glasgow-based rock band that's hotter this second than a Paris Hilton download, will travel from gig to gig via a record company's limousine. But for now, the quartet seems content to carry their own guitars on the London Underground. On a January afternoon, they boarded in north London, stumbling through the barriers with kit and overnight bags like well-equipped buskers. A few stops down the line and Franz Ferdinand - no relation to the assassinated Archduke - emerges on a rainy Charing Cross Road in the city center...
...than twice that sum just for a tour of the premises. Aspiring rock gods pay thousands of dollars to make a record. (Weird hairstyles are extra.) If you've got that kind of money lying around and are hankering to lay down that song you wrote on your battered guitar at college, here's the tab at some of the world's top facilities. London: Technology at Abbey Road's studio 2 is continuously updated, but the recording area hasn't changed since the Beatles made it a rock shrine. Make your own Sgt. Pepper for about...
...Chez Joey, tel: (82-2) 555 8926, is one of the smartest. Set up by long-haired owner and sommelier Ahn Joon-buem on his return from Paris, it's an oasis for live music, especially cool jazz. Even the barmen will treat you to impromptu licks on the guitar: the waiting staff are professional musicians earning an extra buck...
...console. But why should pros have all the fun? For a price, anyone can be made to sound good?and even make the Top 40 (not that we're naming names). So if you've ever wanted to properly lay down that song you wrote on a battered guitar at college, here's the tab at some of the world's top facilities...