Recent content by DrewPeterson7

Per week, though, right? So someone with 100,000 followers who gets 10% of their fans to download a single might hit the 98th or 97th spot, maybe (I'm trusting your stats here, and guessing), but then would presumably drop off the next week, unless they get another 10,000 people to buy? I...

i guess I'm not really sure how RWRP impact tone? I mean in theory in the neck/middle and middle/bridge positions with the pickups out of polarity, yes, there is some noise cancellation going on, but not much more than that as they're pretty far apart so your pickups are "seeing" very different...

I'll catch up soon enough! 🤣 Toontrack does decent sales now and then, it might be worth checking out if you happen to catch it on a good sale... and if not, EzDrummer is less flexible, but the same basic audio engine and a LOT easier to use. It'll save you a lot of time step-editing drum...

I think saturation tools are awesome for what they are, but you're right - use it for a specific purpose, either a sort of dirty subtle compressor or an intentional "grit" effect, but don't slap it on EVERYTHING unless you have a specific reason. Just like any other plugin, really. 😆

You'd have to knock them down to instrument level first - if your interface allowed you to swap, great, otherwise some reamping gear, maybe? But yeah, if you had like an old Neve board or something I could see maybe wanting to put some work into figuring out how to do this, but for most part...

How much gain do you use? Gain definitely helps, and I guess (I'm writing this without a guitar in hand) I feel like I angle the pick a little more when I'm trying to draw out some of those overtones. Not sure when I next think I'll get a few minutes with a guitar but I'll try to remember to...

Man, thanks everyone! I'm at the deep-into-the-weeds part of this project where I'm just getting worried nothing about this is good enough and why am I even bothering in a world where "newcomers" like Nick Johnson, Andy Wood, and Angel Vivaldi exist, and while I'm still binging my favorite Joe...

Are you looking to add a little saturation from the preamp to your mix? I suppose in theory you could take your stereo mix, split it to mono, and then run each channel through independently then recombine to stereo... but I'd want to print any VST instruments to audio first before doing this...

Thanks @RFR! Dude, thank you! 🤣 The drums - definitely not AI. But, also, not a real drummer. This was Superior 3 and (for now, once I finish recording the guitar parts I'll mix them from scratch from the raw samples) their Ninety-One preset (presumably "Nevermind," and Cobain was the reason I...

Yeah, it's one of those shitty truisms that has the even worse misfortunate of actually being right - in order to get good at something, you have to be pretty comfortable being very BAD at it for a while. Grab that SM57 and a mic stand, and get to work! And, if I can offer one final...

I think it's pronounced like "sir" but with a little bit of a drawl to it - maybe "sir" with more of a vowel sound from "sure"? Or, "Sure" without the "h" that for some reason we pronounce it with? Forgot if I've posted these around here, but I think they're spectacular sounding pickups - the...

Another vote for Reaper - it has a very active user community and active support, it's pretty cheap, and it's extremely customizable. As far as mics... I mostly record guitars with a SM57 and a MD421, but honestly, my advice here is always two-fold: 1) If you can't get at least a "pretty...

None of this is wrong... but it's all a little besides the point for someone trying to get his first guitar recordings to sound better, and trying to approximate Kurt Cobain's sound, no? I'll never sound like Stevie Ray Vaughan even if I play his main guitar through his exact rig (and I'd give...

🤣 I fully believe a 6-point can be set up to work very WELL... but 2-points are easier to live with, I prefer the look, have fewer points of potential friction, and a lot of the 2-points also have other features I like (the Gotoh 510 on both of my Strats has a built in tension-adjustable...

Reamper? Doesn't fix performance issues, alas! I've historically always printed amp tones to disc while recording but did switch to reamping for demoing a few years back, and after having a daughter last year decided to reamp all the guitars on the album I'm tracking now simply because that...