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How to record and Mix Acoustic Guitars

By MusicTECH Posted on August 6, 2019 Posted in Ask MusicTECH!, How To Videos, Recording

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

By MusicTECH Posted on June 12, 2019 Posted in Ask MusicTECH!

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 …

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Tagged with: Guitar Amp Recording, Guitars, Home Recording, Microphones, Recording, Technique

Analog Summing

By MusicTECH Posted on June 12, 2019 Posted in Ask MusicTECH!

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. …

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Tagged with: Analog, DAW, Digital, Distortion, Mixing, Mixing Techniques, Summing

Copyright and Recording Equipment

By MusicTECH Posted on September 11, 2017 Posted in Ask MusicTECH!

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

By MusicTECH Posted on September 4, 2017 Posted in Ask MusicTECH!

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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Mixer effects not being recorded

By MusicTECH Posted on December 13, 2016 Posted in Ask MusicTECH!

Hi Stephen, I came across your article; “Inserts vs Effects Sends – Which to use for what” and seeing the amount of knowledge you have on the subject I thought I’ll try my luck asking you a question. I’ve recently …

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Does burning MP3 files to CD sound better?

By MusicTECH Posted on December 2, 2016 Posted in Ask MusicTECH!

Puneet asks: guys i am a big party freak.. was just wondering if i burn mp3 songs (320 kbps) onto an audio format cd, will it sound even better??? The short answer is NO. Once audio has been encoded to …

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Voice Doubling

By MusicTECH Posted on February 6, 2016 Posted in Ask MusicTECH!, Mixing, Music Production, Recording

Hi, please see link I have placed and let me know that how can I edit my voice as dual voice. What we call this function. Just help and rest I will practice thru different software. I removed the links …

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Mastering Work Flow

By MusicTECH Posted on March 4, 2015 Posted in Ask MusicTECH!
Mastering Work Flow

Hi ! My compliments for you clear summarizing answers (sorry for my English), I have seen different mastering suites plugin considering normalize option good about the album building starting from the several songs. Which is the correct workflow ? Master …

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Advice for aspiring lyrics and song writers

By MusicTECH Posted on December 10, 2014 Posted in Ask MusicTECH!, Songwriting
Advice for aspiring lyrics and song writers

Hi there – I was wondering if you would have any advice for an aspiring young person who wants to write lyrics   Not really my specialty, since I don’t write lyrics or sing very well myself. However, I can …

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