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I wanted some opinions on the guitar tone I have dialed in for a band I am recording. This is a clip of a rough mix of the drums, bass and guitar that I put together just to make some judgements on the guitar tone. Any opinions? www.themetallab.com/files/DECEMBER-clip.mp3

I have a 5150 and I made a startling discovery last night while playing around with some effects pedals, searching for different tones. We've all heard about doing the clean boost thing, using an overdrive pedal with the gain all the way down and the output turned up to boost the signal to a...

I just got the green light here at work to use our CNC machines for any sort of wood projects that I come up with. I work at a plastic injection mold shop, so we've got some nice machines :D . This means anything I can model up in my Pro-Engineer 3D design software, I can cut on the CNC...

Well? I'm tired of his analysis....anybody else? Poll to follow.

Okay, I had these drum tracks that were never used, so me and my buddy decided to use them to write an ode to the "Chili Dog" in the form of brutal death metal. You can draw your own conclusions about what a chili dog is. It is clearly described in the vocals.....lol I know it sounds horrible...

I think a guitar lick thread would be good for everybody around here. I know I am obsessed with picking up new licks and new phrases to build upon, isn't everybody else? Considering the ease with which you can pick up software for creating tabs, or even just creating tabs in text format, how...

Here is a track from a band I recorded last weekend. This is a first draft so to speak, still needs plenty of tweaking. Any opinions on the mix so far? Thanks in advance! http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=3625

In recent years I've become rather tired of lugging around a half stack whenever I want to throw down at a little jam session with some friends. Plus I'm going on vacation soon to see my family in Chicago and they insist that I bring the guitar so we can jam (it seems that everybody up there is...

Okay, so after my I5 - 57 comparison thread on distorted guitar, I have been itching to try my I5 on snare drum. I said I would post a sample, and I recorded this band over the weekend and here is a track that came of that. I'm really digging the snare sound from this mic. Sorry I don't have a...

How can I get the best drum kit recording with no mics? I have no mics. My budget is about 10 dollars, what can I do? I really want my drums to sound like John Bonham. Please help!!!!! Also, I heard that I need a mixer. Can I use my mom's cordless mixer and will it plug straight into my...

So I picked up an Audix i5 after hearing the hype about it's prowess on distorted guitar. I though this was a good scenario for a head to head comparison. Both mics were placed on axis about 1 1/2 inches out of center. I recorded two passes and panned them right and left about 80%. The pre-amp...

I recently discovered this plug-in, and while it is very simple I absolutely love it. Inserted on a stereo track, it gives you independant panning and gain controls for each side. (Some DAW software may do this anyway, but Sonar doesn't ;) ) A good example of my usage is when recording two...

Hello all. I thought I would fish for some opinions on this latest project I am working on. There are some........um........performance issues....with this band. So I know that aspect of the recording is not that great. ;) Right now there are just two guitar tracks and I am considering adding...

I am in no way attempting to call what I do mastering. However, most of the bands I record are small timers and therefore the CD that they get from me will be the finished product. I always recommend professional mastering to them but it's just not something they consider important. Therefore I...

Okay folks. After much poop slinging in another thread, everybody wanted to hear a simple comparison of a solid state amp, a tube amp, and a modeler in action. Here are three short clips. I recorded these as DI tracks first and each of these clips was created with re-amping so they are all the...

I got into a discussion about this with someone earlier. I know that the "Mid" mic would generally be a cardoid pattern, but it has been suggested to me that a figure 8 pattern for the Mid mic sounds better. I don't have 2 figure 8 mics to experiment with. I was just wondering if anybody else...

Drumagog samples Okay, so I didn't feel like digging up the thread where everybody was asking me for these. But I finally brought in my gog files. These are gog files I made using the Sonor toms (1-5) and the Thomas Haake 13" snare. The toms are 16 samples each, with left and right hand hits...

For anyone interested, SSL released a free plug-in version of their "Listen Mic Compressor" that was originally MAC only but has recently been made available for PC as well in VST format. I've heard some good stuff about it. And hell, it's gotta be worth checking out for free, right? ;) SSL...

Hey guys! For anyone interested, here's the second track spawned from my wild hair to do some insane black metal. This was actually just scratch guitars, etc. but I decided that it was pretty much good enough for this stuff and just left it. This track is called "Throne of Iniquity"...

Okay, so this came about as a joke with some "extreme" metal buddies of mine. I was instructed to create the most extreme, evil song possible and then pimp it on Myspace.com as if it is the newest "ultra-satanic" black metal band out of Norway. This was written, recorded and basically completely...