Recent content by guitarded2

Just curious what everyone here thinks. I record mostly my own stuff and I'm never 100% satisfied with the end product but when I record others I seem to be slightly more happy with the end result. Do you guys have the same perception on things or do I just suck that bad? :facepalm:

Just want to see if anyone concur. After hours of playing with my new E906 and apogee one I've noticed that on my big toys (4x12 cabs) the e906 likes to be really close to the amp while the sm57 likes to be backed off a little bit further while the beta57 sounds best backed up even further than...

I really need some help on this one. I'm playing a gig this weekend and we are the opening act so we aren't getting but half the pay as everyone else and they asked me to do sound for them which involves setting up for each band and letting them use my equipment. I've got a pretty decent set...

I could use some help on this one. Sorry if this is a bad place to post this I know this is a recording forum but the people here have more of my respects than other forums :p I'm in a small metal band right now (two guitars, drums, bass and vocals) And for our last gig we played in a large...

Hello, was wondering if anyone had tried this before. I searched but couldn't find anything. I've had my amp a few weeks and I finally got a tone I like but I've always been a bigger fan of the el34 tubes sound. How they would change the sound of this amp. I know its not going to turn my...

I bought a Marshall 3203 head and a 1960AC cab to go with it yesterday and I am really happy with my sound. I have heard a lot of trash about it mainly because its lack of features but I realized right off the bat it didn't need anything else. I checked out a bunch of other amps including a...

I was reading some reviews today in my new tape op issue and I noticed that in a lot of them-- like any other magazine-- they sugar coat everything. Is it just me or is this how you guys translate most reviews as well? I guess I'm just jealous they get free gear to play with all of the time...

I heard this band that wasn't exactly my slice of pie but I loved their bass sound it was a death/grind sort of band and I was just wondering who if anyone has experimented with adding really heavy distortion to a bass and came up with a good sound with enough low end to cut through? I was...

OK I'll admit considering how long I have been fooling around with recording and stuff I should be ashamed of myself for this but I have don't have monitors I have some stereo speakers and its FAR past time I upgraded to something that can get frequencies below 200hz.:p I want to know how long...

Hi I hope this Isn't to stupid of a question but Sonar 6 was expensive for my 6.50 an hour so I'd like to get my moneys worth. I need a bit of help. I'm trying to run a "softsynth" (vsti) and everytime I import the midi track I assign the channel to the "softsynth" and put the settings the way...

for my bass drum. I need some suggestions. My budget is probably going to be about 60 bucks I can spend more if I have to but I also need a new crash and guitar stuff so what would you suggest for something 60 bucks or less? I really would like the best bang for the buck and I'm really not to...

I know this topic has been discussed alot but I haven't seen any posts recently. I had a conversation yesterday with a few engineers/drummers and It was quiet clear that I was the only one opposed to the idea of drum triggers in recording-- particularly Drumagog. It wasn't a long debate but...

Ok here is the scoop. I have been procrastinating painting/fixing up my guitar for a while. It is an Ibanez DTX120 (yeah yeah ugly destroyer/iceman wanna be) Finally the guitar broke down to a point where the only way to fix it was to replace the volume 500k pot. I decided to put a 250k pot...