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Marshall also has a number of recent amps that may be useful. Last year they introduced the Origin series. You can get a nice crunch sound from it when you overdrive it. It has a master volume control so it's very easy to set it up for a clean sound as well, and the character of the amp is very...

To expand on that a little, as Dave says, headroom is a buffer zone of signal level above nominal operating levels to allow for normal variations in level (like transient peaks) before the onset of clipping or aliasing. Pushing signal levels beyond the available headroom results in distortion...

The influence of any tube depends on the circuit. Some of the more recent designs are less sensitive to what tubes you have. Something more like an old Fender or Marshall will let you hear what's going on. A Deluxe Reverb or Champ seems to be a good test bed for tube rolling. In a Deluxe...

It's also helpful and not uncommon in a complicated mix to be able to ride the volume of a given track both pre and post FX chain. Before, as Ash mentioned, to give compression something more consistant to squish. Once the sound is what you want (post effects) a second volume envelope to balance...

Music | Refraction Some good suggestions given already. Honestly from listening to the November tracks, the guitars seem well represented. I'm wondering where the low end is. I'm thinking you could probably pull the bass up 6 to 9 dB in those tracks.

Other suggestions might include pedal or lap steel, 3 string shovel and Chapman Stick. Plus I don't think anything could really stop you from taking an instrument typically tuned to fifths or whatever, and tuning it to fourths. Cello, mandolin... that sort of thing.

Sometimes more dynamics could be a good thing. Compression gives you less dynamics. It squashes the dynamics. That's why if the sound and dynamics are okay but the volume fluctuates, that's when I'd do volume automation. Volume automation doesn't do anything about dynamics, just volume...

Airwindows DeEss is free, very powerful and somewhat unorthodox. Actually a lot of the Airwindows plugins (there are tons) are unorthodox. For one thing, there is no GUI. This keeps the size of the plugin and its CPU/resource footprint very low. It's not going to crash your computer from trying...

As a starting point for learning compression I would hit the thing pretty hard and play with it. There are no magic settings for compression. It depends on what you have to start with and what you want it to sound like. You have to set it by ear. The amount of work a compressor is doing is...

Most of the recording stuff you're talking about will eliminate the room by the way you're doing the capture. Acoustic treatment will still help a lot for monitoring in that small a space, or anything you capture with a microphone in that space. If you can get a hold of some Roxul rockboard or...

I love the Vic Firth cans for drum tracking. Fairly shitty sounding headphones, but they're part headphones and part hearing protection. You don't need the monitor mix to be screaming loud and the bleed is pretty much nil. I've never used in-ear monitors. Might be interesting to see what...

It's pretty common. Some people just have an easier time that way, myself included. If you have a vocalist using both sides of the cans, it's important to get the monitor level of the vocal to sit well with the rest of the tracks. By bringing the vocal level slightly forward or backward in the...

What's the "Padding"? What size room? Acoustic treatment is usually a combination of absorption (bass traps) and diffusion. You can also modify an acoustic space for tracking with portable treatment (gobos and/or moving blankets). For example, having gobos or something set up behind the...

What monitors do you have?

If you make a sealed room it will need an HVAC system to get fresh air in there so the talent can breathe. Acoustic treatment depends a lot on what problems you have in the room. "Small" usually means more problems (modes), and "cube shaped" means the room modes generated from each surface...

Could be anything, but I'd start by plugging the unit in and getting all the tracks to pass audio of some sort. Then adjust the knobs and faders, listening for crud or static sounds. If you can hear anything like that it's possibly dirty pots or faders. It's also possible that if the level...

I don't think MIDI should be counted. MIDI signals don't have any audio information, just control signals.

Depends on the interface. With 18 as an example, this means there are 18 total input channels available for use on that interface. Those channels could be all the same type of input, or a mix of different types. So for an imaginary interface, let's say it has 18 input channels with 6 analog...

Very cool! I got the 50 watt version of this head a while ago. I'm really thinking of getting a 20 watt head as well. A greenback or creamback would probably pair up nice with it. I've tried the head through a 1x12 Traynor cab loaded with a greenback, as well as a Marshall 2x12 vertical slant...

A lot of it has to do with the working distance to the mic (proximity), polar pattern and transient response. In the case of transient response, if you have a very low mass pickup element (the diaphragm of a condenser, or the cartridge or ribbon of a dynamic) it takes less force to make the...