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Humidity is much less of an issue with most fender style guitars.

I’ve worked in guitar shops in Dallas, Denver, Athens Ga, Nashville, Kansas City and Santa Fe NM. These cities cover the gamut of humidity conditions that guitars are exposed too. The best relative humidity for guitars to live in should be between 35%-45%. The humidity in Athens Ga probably...

Sure, from a listener perspective. My OP was about what makes a great guitar from the players perspective. This point also has very little to do with a guitar’s price point. Many of the guitars I remanufacture into world class sounding guitars sold originally for under $30.

That’s not the topic.

I use automation in Protools for some of the volume and panning on mixdown, but I also use the faders as well. When I am mixing I generally have stems automated for volume/pan but not as much on individual tracks where I tend to use the faders manually.

I stay mostly in the edit mode.

Yeah, that’s why I like it, because it’s great with amps and pedals.

I’ve never tried the Helix but I have tried the Kemper. The Kemper did not impress me that much. I think that because it works with amps is one of the reasons I like it.

No, it was Warren Huart. I really think the results I’m getting are worth the extra half hour of editing.

They have come out with this unit, but I have not tried it. I’m not sure if this is the box the Edge used with U2 for the Sphere concerts but I read that he played the entire show through a UA device like this...

It’s not really a performance thing in the way I’ve used it. It’s also a technique I learned from a fairly famous producer who has produced some hits.

I built a sidecar mixer for my Box which gives me 16i/o

I spy an API. Great minds think alike!

It is so boring for me to spend hours with a mouse and a screen. I get exhausted after three hours. On a console I can go for hours and lose track of time. I’ve tried it. I do some recording lately with my iPad and a small interface, but I am only using it for 2 minute guitar demo videos. If...

I find mixing on a screen with a mouse and the constant going through screens, expanding and contracting while editing, etc exhausting, whereas I find mixing through a mixing console with hardware exhilarating. I’m curious if anyone else has this experience when mixing?

It keeps the sound of your head and pedals and lets you switch out mics and cabinets, plus you get a 1176, delay, EQ and reverb plugins built in. You get two phase aligned signals. Most of the time once I track with it I don’t use any plugins on mixdown because it’s all there going in. When I...

The original 4tracks that are now on the DAW would have the slate I would have the speakers on so that this sound is recorded to the new track, then just prior to the track actually starting mute the speakers. This would require a little gap between the slate and when the song starts. There is...

I like the gold top deluxe with mini humbuckers from the late 60’s early 70’s. My luthier career started in the mid-70’s, and was already fixing broken headstocks on these. I never liked the big headstock with Grover Rotomatics which I think is always a broken neck waiting to happen. I owned a...

30 years ago was when they were making their worst guitars ever…lol. Their QC started going south in 1958 and hit full stride crap by the mid-late 60’s. Different eras have different sets of QC problems but their QC has been terrible since the beginning of the guitar boom. They were great in...