Recent content by twangbuck

Very curious about using a ribbon mic on an electric guitar amp. Looking for something warm and vintage like without the mid range honk of something like an SM57 dynamic mic. Anybody using a ribbon mic on an electric guitar amp? Any recommendations for around $400? I've heard an active ribbon...

Never mind, I figured it out. Cubase LE won't recognize 64 bit VSTs, but it will with 32bit. So I downloaded the 32 bit versions and now it works fine.

Hi all, cubase le isn't recognizing a couple of IR loader plugins I downloaded. I downloaded both the NadIR and Pulse IR loaders in Windows 64 bit. I copied each into the program files/steinberg/vstplugins folder. I went into my plugin manager in Cubase LE to get the plugin manager to load them...

Ok, so I when I play my OD pedals through a certain amp, I get a sound I really like. Then I record that amp with an SM57 into my recording setup and they sound really different. Not necessarily bad but it's not the sound I hear with my ear in the same room. Why is that? And what can I do to get...

Here's what I'm looking for: USB interface Max budget: $600. Running Cubase LE on a Windows 7 PC Need 4 mic/line inputs Preferably at least one, if not two, will be high impedance instrument inputs for direct recording guitars (would like to try that in stereo, hence the preference for 2). Two...

What's a good source of ambient room sound for recording guitars direct for less than $100? I'm recording on a Windows 7 PC with Cubase LE. I'm considering either a plug in or even a pedal like a TC electronics Hall of Fame to cut down on CPU usage. Again, this is just for ambient 'room sound'...

So in terms of just looking at the computer side of things, forget the interface, the mics, the preamps, the sound quality of the room you're recording in and the sound treatment of that room. Just in terms of the computer (PC in my case), what role does it play in the actual sound quality of...

Tell me if this makes sense from the point of view of upgrading my system. Right now I record with Cubase LE on a Windows 7 machine (dedicated pretty much exclusively to recording, so there's not much else on it). I have a Zoom R8 that I use as an interface and a pair of decent JBL studio...

Actually I was referring to a demo with three different songs, two sung by a female and one by a male. Keep in mind, I don't even know if people make demo cd's any more, so it may be a moot point.

So if I'm putting together a songwriting demo to market to the country industry, does it help or hurt to have some songs sung by a female and some by a male on the same demo?

Cool tone man! Kind of a Steve Cropper/Stax Volt meets the blues kind of thing. What kind of tele were you using? I'm assuming it was a tele.

Yes, quite! Sorry wasn't clear in my first post. Meant modeling floor units (helix, hd500, etc). Something without a speaker. So if it's a floor unit and it's being run through something with a speaker and a tweeter or horn, are there guys who mic that by mic'ing both the speaker and...

Anybody out there recording guitars with your modelers WITHOUT going direct? How you doing it?

Now THOSE sound pretty darn good. Good meaning more life like then what I was getting with my free Amplitube samples. But what I want to know is what else was contributing to that sound? Were they running great IR's with them? Did the guitarist go direct by plugging into a really good preamp...

Yeah, I do that already. But I can't do that at midnight when my 11 year old is asleep. And let's just say my weekends and evenings are already a tad bit full.