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Just wondering if you guys have any high quality eqs where you can actually do some pretty extreme stuff without it sounding bad, and which eqs exactly are you using? I guess if you have a really good plugin that works well, let us know too. What kind of stuff do you use it for, any great...

I just picked up a danelectro "cool cat" heavy metal distortion pedal. This sounds way more awesome than I thought it would. (Btw we're talking def leppard/winger heavy metal, not modern heavy metal). What latest pedals have you guys been getting, or just wasting money on if thats the case? :D

Hello, I want to know what compressor plugins you guys are using and liking. I have only one that I really like, the Waves PYE. They have one other compressor I think that Black/Blue that is really good, but too expensive for me. Anyone find any diamonds in the rough?

I'm always on the lookout for audio product demos. These days there are so many interesting and cool new mics and other things coming out but the question is always how do they sound? They hype everything up as being the revolutionary next big thing, but they almost never give any demo of it ...

I've been trying to start a rock band for years now, but I've come to the conclusion that its next to impossible. Its like spending months building a house of cards that can fall apart at any time. One day the lead guitarist decides he'd rather go to law school and and leaves everybody hanging...

Hey what's up. First of all is it a problem that everything on this track is in mono? I'm still kind of a newbie and working on basic stuff, so I just put everything as mono to keep it as simple as possible. I plan to do some stuff like spruce up the drum programming, and was thinking about...

Just wondering, is anyone still using wax cylinders for their recording medium? At home or otherwise? What kind of properties do you get, are there any good wax saturations? And is there a plugin to emulate that? Thanks!

Do you ever find yourself searching for a certain topic on a forum like (maybe to research info on a product or how to do something) and you find a thread, start reading it and then realize that the posts were made in 2005 or something like that? I always get this really weird feeling reading a...

If you could add 1 item to your studio free of charge what would it be. 2 rules though. 1. You can never resell it, must keep it for life. 2. No consoles, has to be a specific use piece of gear. For me it would be a high end LDC probably. What brand? I have no f'in idea because I've never...

I'm new to the world of using outboard effects, and just picked up my first one, a behringer v-verb. After doing a lot of research on how to actually apply this piece of equipment, I'm back to square one, and still have no clue how to approach this. I have a couple of questions. 1. Do I need to...

I'm going to start #1 with what I think to be the worst (although I could be wrong) #1 "Nu-Metal" Ohhhh, man whiny ass bands, going on about how sad and how much of loser they are. The worst guitar sounds, no solos whatsoever, such a negative downer with horrible musicianship. Everything about...

My uncle has logic pro, and he offered to let me install it on my computer. Would that be considered stealing the program? I don't want any bad karma on my mixes. Thanks.

What are your favorite recorded guitar sounds of all time. here are a few. Under the bridge by the Chilis Black Dog, and Led Zeppelin's entire first album. I also like the sound on that song "bang bang, you shot me down"

How much money per song should one budget for the mastering of an album? My friend's band had their album produced a year ago or so, and he told me they paid something like $400 per song for the mastering. That just seems excessive to me, but with some things you get what you pay for, and maybe...

These are all in comparison to the "track reverb" that comes with garageband. First I tried the Valhalla Reverb. Even after an hour of messing with this I couldn't get it to beat garageband reverb. I'm not saying its bad, I just didn't think it was that great, although the demo only has the...

I have a question about built in Daw compressors, free plugin ones, and anything else that's considered very low end. Is it possible to get good or great results with these? I remember trying repeatedly to use the built in one with garageband, and it seemed every setting I put it on made the...

TC Electronic Reverb 6000 MKII Mainframe with TC ICON Remote | VintageKing.com I see you can pick up this reverb unit for the low low price of 14k. I this what pro studios use? Has anyone heard one of these and how could it possibly be worth it? This makes the lexicon reverb look like a bottom...

Hello! I'm looking to buy a good quality sounding reverb plugin. The sound I'm going for is 70s/80s rock. I like the sound of plate and spring. Does anyone have any suggestions of a good plugin that's not super expensive. I'm talking hopefully under $100. A cheap but great sounding reverb. Does...

If you're getting the right tone from the start when you record, for example using the tone control on the guitar and its amplifier, why is EQ needed in mixing? I've read a bunch of articles singing the praises of EQ, but in the mixes I made I didn't touch it and they worked fine. I think I only...

I was recently remixing some music I recorded. The first thing I ran into was that when I saved the file as an MP3 it sounded differently from how it did in the DAW. So I went through this process of listening to the Mp3, and going back and forth between it and the DAW, adjusting things until I...