Recent content by WEBCYAN

ok, i'm sure you all get this question all the time, but even so, i need help. :) i'm currently recording vocals using an sm57 straight into my computer. it's good for what it is, but i'm not crazy about how it sounds. if you click below you can hear some songs i've recorded using that mic for...

For the past 4 years or so I've been singing a certain way that I seem to be stuck in. :) It seems like everything I sing has a very indian(dot not feather) vibe to it. For instance...to make things simple...imagine that a guitar was playing just a drone note on the A string. Just A through...

Ok...ive wondered for the longest time how this is done and figured I would ask. :) For instance on the chorus of Junkhead where he sings "What's my drug of choice? Well, what have you got?". There is a certain doubling type effect. I can't imaging that its just him singing twice. What kind of...

Well...I have a friend who i had picked out to play live bass for my band. He was a good technical bass player, so I figured everything would work out....well, turns out he's very very tone-deaf. He simply can't play along to music on bass...or anything else. Its as though he hears somthing...

what the hell was i thinking???? that might be the dumbest comment i ever made. that and the squire strat sounding like a gibson les paul.. lol...i was an idiot.:D

In the dragon cave i mentioned how i was recording guitar and bass to a click track and then would have my drummer play over that. Well...a poster in that forum said that's impossible. He said that no drummer can do that. That cant be true. Right? I mean, Im 99% its possible and Im sure Ive...

I have a tendancy to stay up rather late. One night I was up at about 3 am...i had been up about 35 hours and was slipping in and out of reality. I looked at my mic and thought "why dont i make an entire song using just my voice and processing it in as many strange ways as i could think to make...

This isn't a full song yet. Its just an idea to get started. This is just a little riff i wrote and played and am now showing to all you fine people. Youll notice its not in time, because i just did it freehand without a click track. its not meant to be mixed in a song. So i was just wondering...

not really a song, more like a noise. and not really all that "low fi" anyway. All recorded in one take and on the fly. I didn't have anything writen when i hit record, i just played whatever came to my head, hence the extreme disonance. all recording/mixing/etc was done in 15 minutes. anyway...

here's my situation... 70% of my songs are written on bass. I then build guitar in layers over that providing lots of good counter melody. I write the bass to a click track and then put the guitar over that. My drummer then takes the guitar track and plays drums over it to the click track. THEN...

ive heard some people say to put tin foil over the pick-ups. others say roll a mouse tracking ball down two strings. what are your tips to recording wierd sounds from a guitar? anything goes.

hehe... usually i think posting lyrics on a bbs is a little odd, but I guess Im crossing over. anyway, here they are. comments appreciated. Verse 1 ------------ You're rounding to your genesis, Leaving past behind. Cultivate your second coming. Contrive at present latent eyes. Pre Chorus...

I was just listening to the mp3 of Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton. How in the hell did they get that acoustic guitar sound during the begining. I think that just might be the best recording of acoustic guitar...ever!

Heres the rundown. Im using the J-Station to DI guitar and bass, recording drums in a pro studio, and doing vox with the Rode NT1. so... whats a good preamp for me? I'll ONLY be using it on vocals, so I dont need anything that works for guitar or bass or anything else. Also...Im recording...

I need a mic for vocals. Obviously the mic selection should be based more on the individual singing than anything else. So... given that... My voice is rather similar to Maynard J Keenan's. (dont look at me avatar...hehe). Anyway, I dont copy his style or anything its just that my voice has a...