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If the thicker strings start to buzz, then you'll need to loosen the trussrod to compensate for the lesser tension of the low tuning. Something else you might want to try is only lowering the bottom 3 strings. I teach guitar, and get my students who want to play Korn etc on a six string to...

I do both. I use compression when tracking just about everything, to prevent unruly volume spikes, and make things easier to mix. After I mixdown, I take it to a local studio, and spend $30 to have him run it through his $3000 tube compressor. You wouldn't believe the difference it makes. Jeff

Phil Do it yourself, but first ask your self a couple questions. 1-Is it too high on higher frets but not lower frets? Then you tighten the trussrod. 2-Do you want to lower the bridge? If you'd like to get a more even string height throughout the neck you tighten the trussrod and raise the...

1-If your writing songs based on a chord progression, modes will not change anything. The chords formed on any given mode will be the same as the chords in the related major scale. 2-Where modes are useful is in writing single note lines to coincide with a chord progression (eg. bass lines...

Copyrights have a fixed life. I believe in the US for songs, it's 50 years. So 50 years after the first copyright is filed, the songs become public domain.

OK here comes a flurry of suggestions based on my experience. 1-Try recording at a louder volume, but with less gain. 2-If you have a mic with a larger diaphragm, try it, the 57 isn't the be all and end all. 3-What gauge strings? The lighter the strings, the less mid you'll get, I always use...

Maybe we're all just too old!! Once we got kids, mortgages, and car payments, the record companies know it's harder to get our money. It's much easier to pry $15 worth of babysitting money from a teen. All it takes is one song, and a nice smile/ass/rack. And Creek, I didn't imply a record...

Hey Wally, I've got the Trace 2x10, but it was close to $1000. Great amp in it, but I needed to add a separate 1x15 cab to fill it out a bit. I may take a beating over this, but for bang/$, you can't beat the Peavey's w/ Scorpion 15's. You should be able to get a used TKO for about $300, and...

When I write something that's seems too high to sing at first, I work up to it. I'll usually lower the key either a tone and a half or two tones. As I get comfortable I raise it either a semitone or tone, and keep doing this until I get back to the pitch I want. Also if your going into your...

Sorry Creek but IMHO your way off. You've obviously never had a record deal. 1) You said stick around and your flavor will come around. Unfortunately this is no longer true. Radio used to respond to the tastes of it's listeners and try to evolve as the tastes did. Now radio dictates...

Yes, but I always feel like I need a shower afterwards. It did help my craft though because I learned alot about different chord types, and voice leading. Jeff

Check the next fret. Frequently you will find a fret starting to bulge off the fretboard, causing the note one fret below it to hit the bulging fret when played.

Written in My Soul!!! Can't remember the author's name, but he was the editor of Musician magazine in the late 80's. It's a collection of well informed and in depth interviews about the songwriting process with about 30 artists like Neil Young, Springsteen, Elvis Costello, P McCartney, Tom...

Absolutely THE SOUND!!! LP Specials, Jrs, Studio Gems!!! Just listen to the crunchy rhythm of any Replacements or Neil Young. As I said in a post back a few months, P100's are the guitar equivalent of New Coke. Jeff

Sing EVERY DAY!! If you do it every day, you will definitely get better. To start, practice singing triads. Pick each note, and sing the same pitch. Once you get a little better try hitting the note before you pick and see how close you are. Key of C would look like this Cmaj Dmin Emin...

Getting your guitar to feedback on harmonic of a fretted note is pretty easy if you have your gain full, bridge pickup selected, and playing at a fair volume. All you do is play the fretted note, then with your middle finger on your picking hand lightly touch the string. The key is WHERE you...

My $.02 AVOID FENDER W/ ACTIVE!!! I've had 4 PBasses, 3 passive, sounded great. The active sounded great in the store on the little Peavey TKO's or whatever they were. Got it home to my Trace Elliot, and it sounded like crap. They overboosted the bottom end, and it sounded like a kazoo if you...

Hey Mojovoodoo I went through the same thing you talked about, (wanting a LP Special, and all the new ones are P100). I've had a studio for about 6 years, and about 6 mos ago got a historic collection Jr Dbl Cutaway, for the P90 sound. Love the tone and hate the neck. Now I've picked up a 97...

We can IGNORE them!!! We can listen non-profit radio, either campus or community. We can buy music from independant artists. Go to more live performances, and buy fewer/no corporate CD's. The sooner we all start ignoring this barrage of CRAP, the sooner they'll stop making money on it and...

Best way to avoid sounding borrowed is to listen to more varied stuff. Everyone is influenced by what they've already heard, but the people who sound original are just combining more varied influences. Bands like Soundgarden, Elvis Costello, Radiohead, Rheostatics, Faith No More, Voivod, and...