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I'd really better experiment with stretch markers, then! Semi-apropos, I'm just getting over a nasty head cold, and tried doing some bass tracking for this project I've been working through over the weekend, and being that fuzzy-headed was REALLY messing with my sense of groove. I had no idea...

I think something else I've had some success with on "softer" vocal performances is parallel compression - in a DAW, duplicate your lead vocal track to a fresh track, and then absolutely smash it with a compressor. Then, set the track level all the way down, and then slowly roll it up until you...

All of my guitars had one. I forget if my first guitar, a Strat, did, but this is the standard configuration on an Ibanez and I went on an Ibanez kick for a decade or so after that, and every guitar I've bought that doesn't have one, I've added one since then. If you like to ride your volume a...

I've always done this stuff (mostly on bass guitar) manually snipping and sliding, slip-editing... I should give this a shot.

Ah, so I bet in practice your and my approaches actually yield VERY similar results. We just come at it from - forgive me! - approaches that are 180 degrees from each other. :) I've tried a few other options - a pair of SM57s actually works very well as well, and I've heard amazing recordings...

I honestly have no idea what's under it... but at some point we're probably going to want to take the carpet off the rest of the finished basement (low risk, as we're on the top of a very steep hill, but it IS a water damage risk) and I guess I can kick this down the road until I do. It's not...

Honestly I'd be curious for your approach, and how you think mine compares. I started doing this because this was the "safest" way to use both mics, and not worry about how varying the relative blend of one to the other could impact the tone of your guitar, or if instead you panned them apart...

Been wondering about this myself lately, so I figured I'd ask here as well. I'm in the process of taking a room that the former owners of my new house used as a workout room, and converting it into a studio. I've taken down a mirrored wall and put up what treatment I've already owned, for now...

One of my biggest "ah-HA!" moments with recording electric guitars was that the "room sound" is actually kind of... not that important. Instead, what you want to concern yourself with is what the guitar sounds like from right in front of the speaker, only a couple inches away. Why? Because this...

Just bumping this to update that the mirrors are down and while it'll be a while before I can spackle and repaint, I'm at least moving in the right direction and have a lot of my acoustic trapping temporatily mounted, pending repainting. Honestly, though, I think the biggest improvement here is...

For rock music, I've always thought Days of the New had a great acoustic sound. I've used this as a reference mix a bunch:

Awesome to hear, man! I've been listening to some of the demos for this project (probably going to be an EP just for the sake of getting something out) I've been working on, and the playing and writing (I've tried writing solos for the first time ever) is SO close to where I want it to be, that...

Yep, that was me! One of my main players is still a seven string, though the only two guitars to make it out of their cases so far since the move are my acoustic and my strat. I'll try to be a little more active around here, but life has kinda gotten in the way lately... I've been fired up to...

Yeah, kinda my fear, SR. I'll tke a look at how hard it'll be to take them down the next time I have a free 20 minutes, I guess. Thanks!

I think so - I haven't done more than eyeball it (I can't stress how bad an idea it is to buy a house and move one month after having a baby, in your 40s, while trying to simultaneously ready your old condo for sale), but it looks like the panels are held on by two little mounting tabs a side...

Hey all - haven't posted over here in a couple years, but I just moved to a new place, and I'm in the process of setting up a new studio. The room wa formerly used as a fitness room by the house's old owners, and they'd installed large mirrored panels along one of the short walls. We're not even...

So, I've been doing home recording in some form or other for damned near... 20 years now, I guess. It's a hobby, one of a couple, and one I don't have as much time to dedicate to as I'd like, but it's one I do take pretty seriously and over the years I've gotten to the point where I'm fairly...

Ok, I haven't posted here in ages, so first off, hi everyone! I've been working on a project for a while now with my dad and my uncle, which in many ways has been a lot of fun - both were critical in getting me into music as a kid, so it's been a lot of fun to, as an adult, work on an album...

This one was a LONG time coming. :lol: I've been tracking since 2010, talking about releasing it since 2005, and the oldest song was written in 2001. A bunch of my guitarist buddies used to joke for years that it was going to be a dead heat between my debut and Axl Rose's "Chinese Democracy." I...

I live in the top floor of a 3 story condo building, and since it's Boston I don't have central air, and instead use window units in the summer. In my living room and bedroom, I've installed ceiling fans, which actually make a really big difference in the summer. I'm tempted to do the same for...