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When putting together a song with only a few instruments, I've been able to get somewhat satisfactory results. An EQ notch here and there, panning, fader automation seem to be enough of a bag of tools to give everything enough room to be heard. But what does a home recordist do when a project...

You all were so helpful on my last mix (which I'm still tweaking based on your feedback, and hope to have a revision within the week) that I wanted to post this work-in-progress and see where you all think it needs to go from here. My listening environment isn't treated, so bass frequencies...

Long time, first time, and all that... I realized that I'm really behind the curve compared to some of the fantastic music I've heard recently here in the clinic. But I figured that I'd be brave and post this work-in-progress. Hell, maybe the most complicated thing about this was to figure...

I've had my LP Classic for close to 15 years and over its lifetime it's received a fair amount of play time. Several years ago I noticed some visible wear on a few of the frets, and by now pretty much every fret is visibly worn. Honestly, it doesn't bother me much and doesn't seem to hurt the...

Has anybody else played this game yet? It's a Guitar-Hero style of game but you use a real electric guitar and play along with actual tablature (well, Ubisoft's version of tablature anyways). I've only put in a few hours on it so far but I'm really enjoying it. It seems to be geared towards...

I ordered it from Sweetwater last week after months and months of waffling over buying a new amp. It's a 1x12 2-channel combo with channel-assignable power of 30/15/5 watts. It uses a tube rectifier on the 5/15 watt settings and a solid-state rectifier on the 30 watt setting. I've only spent...

I picked up my LP yesterday to change strings and realized that there is a crack through the neck from the nut to about the 3rd fret, underneath and parallel to the fretboard. I'd noticed the crack on the top side, nearest the 6th string, a while ago but thought it was just a strange wear...

I've been lusting over one of these for a long time now but I have yet to actually sit with one and give it a workout. With an investment of this size, I'd definitely want to hear it in person before plunking down the cash for it. But even here in the KC metro, they're a little hard to come...

Anybody seen this show on the Smithsonian channel? It's kind of an electric guitar 101 survey. They got some good people with Paul Reed Smith demonstrating pickup technology, G.E. Smith showing off his ridiculous vintage guitar stock, and Henry Rollins narrating. It's an entry-level show but...

Check your PMs. Wondering if you were serious about an offer you made in a thread recently. Thanks!

I'm starting to accumulate a collection of guitar stomp boxes. I've started to consider buying a pedalboard, but the price seems to shoot up quickly as the quality goes up marginally. I don't really want to spend $100+ on a pedalboard so I was thinking of building my own. But I'm open to...

What make and model do you guys suggest for a tuner that's in the price range of an everyday Joe, can be used for a stay-at-home player of electric guitar, steel and nylon string acoustic guitar, and bass guitar, yet has enough precision to set intonation well enough to satisfy said everyday...

I started to reply to a post from Victory Pete in my Martin acoustic thread, but instead of veering off topic there, I wanted to start a new thread about the LP Classic. You know Pete, you and I seem to be in the minority about the 500T and 496R pickups in the LP Classic. I played the Classic...

I'm in a unique position to purchase a high-quality acoustic guitar. I'm not a stage performer but I do record in my amatuer-quality home project studio. Mainly I just strum and sing to my wife and dog. But I want a guitar that I'm going to keep until I die, and hand it down to my children...

My nephew was doing one of those elementary school fund raisers where they sell magazine subscriptions. I was in a rare mood so I went ahead and ordered a couple of subscriptions. One of the magazines I chose was Guitar World (the other was Scientific American, since I'm getting bored with...

I've read posts here about people putting just a patch cord between the effects send and return of their amps. It sounds like a pretty popular option for some Marshalls and Mesas. I have a Traynor YCV80 that has an effects loop with both input and output trim. I noticed when I put a pedal in...

Oh you guys will love this one... The damn end-cap of the truss rod just unscrewed right off the truss rod! Now what? I don't know what to expect from their customer service dept, although I've heard good things from other people. But come on, why would you possibly include a piece that...

A friend of mine just showed me this: http://unmaintained.blogspot.com/2006/09/phils-kaoss-pad-guitar-mod.html Now that takes a lot of balls to cut that big of a chunk out of a guitar, but what a cool result.

I saw Hard2Hear's comment about how guitars are like women, and I thought that there had to be at least 100 great ways to end that sentence. Any suggestions? - ...sometimes you want their feedback, sometimes you don't - ...if you don't want any feedback, put something over the soundhole -...