Hello Stephen. Maybe you can use this on your blog. When I record any guitars I always mic them. I just don’t like the sound of direct miking for electric and especially acoustic guitar. I mic my electric guitar cab…
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Microphone positioning on Guitar Amps
Hello again Stephen. You’ve been very helpful to me and I am hoping you will help me through one more dilemma. I am putting a mic in my all tube Marshall combo to record distortion guitar. I am using a…
Tagged with: Guitar Amp Recording, Guitars, Home Recording, Microphones, Recording, Technique
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Posted in Ask MusicTECH!
Analog Summing
Hello sir. I am hoping you’ll answer this question for me no matter what. I am wanting to do summing with my mixes. I can’t afford to buy an analog summing mixer and was wondering how to do it digitally.…
Tagged with: Analog, DAW, Digital, Distortion, Mixing, Mixing Techniques, Summing
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Posted in Ask MusicTECH!
The Mixing of Quiet Scream – Part 1 – Track Layout and Groups
The Mixing of Quiet Scream – Part 1 – Track Layout and Groups This is the not so glamorous, but very important part of mixing. Getting your tracks organized, and setting up your groups/busses, and folders. Part 1 in a…
How to use Delays instead of Reverb when mixing Vocals
This video shows just one way that you can use a couple of delays, instead of reverb, for the main vocal effects when mixing. For this song, I used a short diffuse delay to create a subtle ambient effect throughout…
How To Record Acoustic Guitar – 4 popular techniques compared
How To Record Acoustic Guitar A quick comparison of 4 popular acoustic guitar recording techniques The purpose of this video is to let you compare the sound of different recording techniques for the acoustic guitar. All of the techniques were…
Tagged with: Acoustic Guitar, Recording, Recording Techniques
Posted in How To Videos, Music And Technology Blog, Music Production, Recording
Posted in How To Videos, Music And Technology Blog, Music Production, Recording
The Best of Everything!
Maybe I’m just getting old and cranky, but I joined a few FB groups a while back, thinking that maybe I can share some of my knowledge with young aspiring producers/engineers. Unfortunately, it seems that a large number of questions…
Tagged with: best compressor, best DAW, best microphone, best monitors, best reverb, best synth, best VST plugin
Posted in Mastering, Mixing, Music And Technology Blog, Music Production, Recording, Reviews
Posted in Mastering, Mixing, Music And Technology Blog, Music Production, Recording, Reviews
Copyright and Recording Equipment
How should I go about getting my music copyrighted as a musician and producer? And also whats the best equipment to use for recording? Out of these two questions, copyright info is the easiest to answer, so I’ll address that…
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Older computer and microphone
Hi! I have two questions. Firstly, do you think that an older iMac (mid-2011) with RAM upgraded to 20GB would have sufficient capability to run music recording and processing software? Sorry, I have the software, but not the time to…
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Why your home studio mixes suck
So, you’ve got the latest and greatest DAW, a high end notebook or desktop computer, every plugin you could lay your hands on, some cool looking “studio” monitors and headphones, and you watched every episode of Pensado’s Place, but your…
