Recent content by EvanHilz

those things you listed are not necessarily bad noises. as was said.. the mics are just doing their jobs. the noise of your thumb hitting the guitar or the squeak of the strings against your fingers are just part of that particular performance. and sometimes they are vital to a really amazing...

not only can you turn the gain down so the clarity of the notes is better, but you can also pull the mic back a few inches or feet even. this helps when the amp is really loud because the mic's diaphram can be distorting even though the signal is not clipping. you don't want this, you want a...

i dont know why no one has said this yet. as you are standing (or sitting), slowly twist to the left or right and you will notice the hum gets better and worse. try to find the one position where there is the least amount of noise. if there is still a problem, try to adjust the settings on the...

I'm doing guitars on a 10 song album and want to get seperate guitar sounds for each song. We found a good setup and recorded all the parts changing the amp sounds and doubled and tripled up certain parts to thinken it up. but now i'm thinking of bringing the amp in a more dead room and doing...

well as for the styles, its all over the place. i was in a rock band and a metal band with this kid (the singer) and now we're basically doing a solo album for him. its got almost no screaming on it and some are very bluesy and just every song is a new style. i like that though because every...

I have just completed drums and bass guitar on all the tracks of a new album i'm recording. both of which i read about on here and got a lot of cool tricks from you guys. now i'm up to guitars so i was hoping all of you could contribute and help me try new stuff. anything from mic selection to...

it's important to be in a good room for drums not just absorbing sound. the higher the ceilings the better and open space is good. the way the room sounds will have a lot to do with the sound of your snare and everything else because the overheads are pulled back from the source. also don't...

here is my situation: i'm using logic which i don't know too well, i'm pretty sure they only have a few busses available to sum tracks but i can't figure out how to send multiple tracks to just another audio track like you can in pro tools. if you can't, would soloing the selected tracks (for...