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We play out four times a week and record every month or so. It's gotta be something he's doing : (

If I play them, they sound great, and I'm no drummer, but my drum-god friend in another band from FL has played his kit too, it sounds good. It's not a case of the drums being crap or him resting the stick on the head or playing terribly inconsistently, I know he needs to lighten up on his...

We've already gone through five different snares, different tunings and heads from different manufacturers, it's a stylistic thing for the most part. The drums all sound fine, although like I said, a bit choked. If you can find me a professional drummer playing punk or metal that doesn't...

My band's drummer is weird. He's got good hands and he hits hard, but he never rimshots unless it's during a roll. His snare sounds choked and lifeless, no matter what, and I'm sure it's a combination of him tightening the stand too much and not rimshotting. He says that if he does rimshots...

So is this why I've seen some guitarists (John Frusciante is fresh in my mind) with fenders that look like they've worn down to the wood? It's actually worn down to this Fullerplast stuff? That's pretty cool. If Fender does it, I may do it too!

Of course he'll give me advice! I just want more advice from more different people.

My band's going into the studio vs. my garage to track drums, and we'll go back when we can afford to to track guitars/bass and then vocals another day. The place we're recording at is very nice, lots of great gear, built from the ground up for recording, no modifications, and it's gonna be...

Thanks for the discussion you guys, it's giving me more to think about as to what I want to actually say when the time comes. We've had problems with this guy the entire time we've been a band. We've talked stuff out but as such, nothing seems to be fixed, it only crops up in different forms...

It's not that I want a backing band...Contrary to that, all of our songs are collaborative efforts. I don't want to have to write guitar parts for him. I don't write our drummer or bassist's parts! Everybody's good at something. I'm good at offering emotional, visual, logical and oftentimes...

My overall, generalized question is "How do you work within a band when other people have opinions on the direction of a song/arrangement and tone of instruments/etc?" The other guitarist in my band hardly writes anything, lyrically or musically, but constantly forces his opinion on things and...

Who knows? I meant that more in the way that aside from developed common sense regarding doing things(which in the end are just understanding how to exploit and in some form control acoustic phenomena), you can't be afraid to mic an acoustic guitar with an SM58 or record a snare drum with a...

It just goes to show you that there's really no prescribed method when it comes to recording. Ears are more valuable than words.

If you like how the guitar sounds through the amplifier in the room, it's all micing, don't worry about using less or more anything. Stand somewhere in the room where you like the sound the best and put a mic there at ear level, and move the bitch closer to the speaker until it sounds how you...

I've been fucking around with guitar tones alot and I've realized a lot. Perhaps this will help someone: Less gain, more mids, yadda yadda, all that stuff, does not mean that you record with John Fogerty tones for your Nu-metal project. It means to back it off ENOUGH, and add enough! Listen...

I'm pretty sure the drums are too 'verby in comparison to the main vocal, so I'll figure out which way to go with that when I've gotten some sleep. The kick might have too much high end too...This is my bassist's other band, they're pretty good, their drummer especially. Pleeease, opinions and...

I like Harbal. It's like a Drumdial, or any electronic tuner: you get close, have a tool to point you in the right direction if you're way off, and if you're almost dead on, you get machine-like precision. I see nothing wrong with it and I've used the demo on stuff a few times to make sure I...

Why not just stop and punch in at the tempo changes? If you can play on time, it will be no problem at all that way.

Let me say this: Don't screw around. My band's not even signed to a record label and we have no backing at all, but we're going to record our album, when we're happy with how we play and the songs we have together, in the best place we can get into, mix it ourselves, send it to a few guys and...

You can record and present music, no matter what the genre, in so many different ways...Unless Amy Winehouse recorded her music herself and had her vagina mix it, I'm sure it's intentional. Sometimes what sounds 'best' doesn't sound good at all. Overproduction is just as dangerous as...

My band has a show with this Horror-punk band from Virginia called Blitzkid. It's gonna be badass. We probably won't get paid because of the shitty way everyone treats eachother in Florida, but I'll pretend.