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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...

Yeah, for fairly sparse singer-and-acoustic-guitar stuff, I wouldn't worry too much about the room. 18x18 is probably large enough and while a square room isn't ideal, it should still work fine. I'd start by setting up in one of the corners facing into the room, maybe 5 feet or so from the...

I'd hardly call myself an exceptional engineer, certainly compared to some of the regulars around here... ...but over the years I've gradually gone from just by default starting with some sort of stereo spaced pair (X-Y is a great starting point) to, for anything I'm recording in a mix, just...

It makes a huge difference in a DAW too. Try to think of your FX bus as like a physical patch bay - what each effect "sees" is what comes into it from the effexct before it. So, to use a really obvious example, if you have a limiter and a reverb on a track, if you run the limiter first and the...

Like anything, this really depends. I'll start with a disclaimer, I mostly record my own instrumental rock music, so for me getting the hugest possible rhythm sound ever isn't really ideal, since I want a full-sounding rhythm track, but I also want to make sure there's space in the mix for my...

If you can easily track in different rooms, then yeah, definitely do some experimentation here. But, barring that, really getting into the nuts and bolts of a good reverb plugin can help add space. I REALLY wanted to find something other than the Valhalla verbs to use, because they're so...

This is a good suggestion to keep in mind for a LOT of different instruments, to be honest - use the first, more aggressive, compressor to handle wild transients and bring the waveform into a more manageable dynamic range, and then use the second compressor for your actual dynamic shaping and...

Honestly, Keith Rogers's suggestion might be the best bet here. If it was a decent studio you were tracking in, and if you were working with a really good engineer, and if you DON'T have reasonably good home recording gear, enough channels to track a drum kit in the same manner as the studio did...

Couple quick thoughts... *Part of this will simply be having the same musicians, using the same guitars, amps, drums, etc, so right off the bat you've got a better shot of pulling this off than, say, I would at replicating the same general vibe. *Part of this will be HOW the insturments and...

You know, good a place as any to ask this question... Say you were tracking a trio, bass, drums, and guitar, in a scenario where you did NOT, for whatever reason, want to double track the guitar, and wanted a single guitar performance for the song. Power trio sort of thing. There's a lot of...

Honestly, it depends on the hardware EQ you have, the software EQs you have, and which sounds best for the particular application. I'm starting to move in a more hardware/analog direction myself, at least for the instruments I have a pretty good idea how I'm going to want them to sit in the...

Honestly, if your plan is to record demos and somehow get stars to listen to them and record your songs, going about it by getting out there with a band and gigging your own songs yourself is probably a much better way to go about it. If nothing else because you'll get a lot of good feedback on...

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Bingo - here's where we differ, then. I'm just on the cusp, at 37, where I started in digital, as a hobbyist, not working on tape, and I think that's one of the most fundamental differences between guys who cut their teeth on a DAW vs guys who cut their teeth tracking to tape and mixing on a...

Since you guys asked - this isn't quite final, but it's fairly close - this is one of my uncle's song from this project. He sings and played the acoustic guitar, my dad played the keyboard part, I did the drum programming, played bass, and electric guitar. I wouldn't claim the performances, mix...

Bolded two points for emphasis. First, I think the first bit I bolded, that it's nice to have some idea of what a knob does and why it might help or hurt before you start twisting it, is exactly what I'm getting at. In a modern DAW, there are a LOT of different knobs to turn, and you could try...

Is there any way you can post a clip of 1) a mix with your guitars, and 2) a solo'd single guitar track from that mix? Couple quick thoughts... 1) are you auditioning a guitar tone listening to the amp in the room, in normal playing position? If you are, try listening to your amp from right...