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Vai, that reminds me of Zappa. How about Hot Rats?

I don't know how might it would be ranked, but the two Vital Tech Tones releases are pretty technical. It's a collaboration with Steve Smith, Scott Henderson, and Victor Wooten. Speaking of Wooten, Flecktones releases tend to be pretty technical, though they don't have a guitar player usually...

I would hire someone who REALLY knew what they were doing!!!!!!

Weird to see all those keyboards with no computer. Do you use a laptop that's just not there in the pic?

I am a multi-instrumentalist, primarily keys I guess, but I play a lot of different things. Playing an actual bass provides its own unique thrills, and my life is enriched because I have access to one. Besides that, listen to your favorite recordings. Some of that metal has bassists that...

Do you think they miced a cab for that recording? How different is that sound from the one you'd get direct?

I'm really curious about what kind of gear makes the bass sound in this one song, "You're So Beautiful" by Flight of the Conchords. Here's a picture of the bassist, I can't ID his instrument but who knows if it's the one he uses on the recording anyhow...

I don't know, but I bet somewhere, in one of those mags like EQ or something, there's some ancient producer who made records with T-Bone Walker or someone like that, saying something like "Yeah, if you're preamp tubes ain't blacksable'd you're wasting your time!"

I understand, but I'm using it strictly as a warehouse. Anything I need to actively used will be moved to the internal drive. So, for my purposes, speed is not an issue.

Like most of you, I'm guessing, I occasionally need to buy a new HD for those bulky recording sessions. Found this one today and got one, seems about as cheap as you can get per gigabyte, $110 and free shipping for 1 TB. ANyone know of a better deal, please, share!

I have grown to loathe my Ibanez cheapo bass. I want to upgrade, and I started checking out the instruments on recordings I like. And it turns out just about every bass sound I love in recordings is made by either a fender P or J (except for guys like Wooten and Claypool who have...

Do you like the tone you hear with your ears, and just can't get it to mix well? If you don't like it at the source, I'd start there. After that, I'd get a decent mic (57 is great). I'd also check to see if you're using the eq section of your usb mixer, it might suck and you probably want to...

ocd I bought a fulltone OCD, fully expecting it to be just my first step on the od journey. I figured, it sounds good and has excellent resale value in case I didn't like it. I liked it. I love it very much, from the Classic Rawk thing to more aggressive, abrasive sounds. Very good for...

Where will you set your beers!?

Try the preamps on your mixer, see if you like them or not. If not, a decent di is pretty affordable.

It doesn't have to be for guitar, though :)

I have an ME-30, and grew to loathe it for guitar, left it alone. Now I have a fulltone ocd, crybaby, and a korg tuner (and a tube amp) and I'm very very happy. Recently, though, I've been using the ME-30 on keys, and I LOVE it. I like to torture a good rhodes sound mercilessly with it...

In my experience what most often needs punching is the vocalist. You can achieve some good resonance, but, I'm afraid, they break very easily.

Wow, incredibly helpful, thanks. I'm glad to hear it's not ENTIRELY my fault they don't sound great. And I have been hard at work with the effects for awhile now, and FL has a nice assortment. Any recommendations on a good module with fat-ass synths and maybe some punchier drums?

I've been recording for a few years, playing all instruments myself but drums, using fruity loops as a crutch. Now that I've got babies, though, I'm getting into more electro stuff, since I usually can't turn the amps up and record the way I'm used to. So, I'm getting deeper into fruity loops...