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To avoid Guitarist on Bass Syndrome: a) play with your fingers exclusively, no pick, and b) concentrate on the kick and snare, strive to bring chord tones to the rhythm.

Does it need to be live? Do the instruments in one take, vocals in a second.

If you can't plug in the H4n at the club, two sets of rechargeable batteries and Stamina mode will keep you going all day.

You'd just need a cable, you can buy, or have somebody make at low cost, an XLR-1/8" cable, and probably a 1/4" unbalanced-1/8" balanced cable for insurance. The H4n does have a lot of features you don't really need, but it's ability to blend your track from the soundboard with room sound from...

Which buzzing is this? Having the action too low playing slide can result in the slide rattling on the frets, that's from where the recommendation for raising it up hails. Not really. In a pinch, you can omit the ruler. It's not rocket surgery. It's not important. I find the bass strings are...

That's the way it's done. You select the neck pickup (in your case, with the coil split), set up your amp as distorted and bright as you will ever need, then start turning stuff down from there. Your instantaneous change would be affected by playing clean on one pickup, and making the...

Probably stolen by the drummer, in self-defense.

Just occurred to me: rather than offering to do a given job for free, offer a set amount of time. Two days, a week, twenty hours, whatever. That way, even if you aren't comfortable demanding payment for whatever reason, you will still be able to impose a sense of economics on the session. I'll...

Set the amp up with the humbuckers engaged, volume knobs on the guitar at about 7. Turn up for extra gain and/or when splitting. I started doing that with the Traditional Pro for pretty much the reason you described, now it's standard practice. If the volume knob gets things muddy as you turn...

I'd advise against. Do some recording as a favor for friends, with the understanding that you can distribute the recordings, or at least samples, to prospective clients. Even among friends, the tendency is to assign no value to the time of someone who is donating it. The guy who refuses to...

IMO, you'll do better spending the money on re-heading the Tamas, strategically replacing a key cymbal or two or three (craiglist up some hats/ride/crash, any of the professional level offerings from the major players will be a great improvement), and some lessons than a new kit. The difference...

Phil O'Keefe recommended one of the Grado sets if you absolutely can't use monitors. I forget the model, they were about $300 or so. I can see if I can figure out which if you're interested.

Independent volume wiring affects the taper of the controls, I think the tones. If you don't fiddle/don't care, no problem, but the guys that really work their guitar controls get picky about how they interact.

Practice miserably slowly. Like 30bpm. Force yourself through some uncomfortable combinations, start simple, snare on 2 and 4, quarters on hat, kick on 1 and 3+. Gradually increase the speed to a musically valid tempo, repeat. Getting an instructor could help a lot.

30w is just about enough for anything short of a maniac drummer. Large venues will mic you, you could gig with a pod if you wanted. I've seen guys run into a laptop running sims before. So, for $300, get something used with a quality clean, add a dirt box of choice, and you're done. Peavey...

I disagree. Two accounts that registered to post on this thread are having a meaningless discussion, pushing it repeatedly to the top while adding no value to the board. The same thing is happening on HC, and presumably any other board that will allow it.

Look for a used SWR Basic Black. Not a lot of power, you'll probably blow it up competing with a heavy handed drummer, but it boasts a 15" speaker, and an extremely flexible preamp. They go $300 used all the time, with a nice fuzzy coating your cat will love.

13 posts, all in this shill thread.

Can somebody close this thread so the guy with the sock puppets can't bump it to the top three times a day?

"Get it as loud as possible without clipping" = BS. Everything else is small potatoes.