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So, I've been doing home recording in some form or other for damned near... 20 years now, I guess. It's a hobby, one of a couple, and one I don't have as much time to dedicate to as I'd like, but it's one I do take pretty seriously and over the years I've gotten to the point where I'm fairly...

Ok, I haven't posted here in ages, so first off, hi everyone! I've been working on a project for a while now with my dad and my uncle, which in many ways has been a lot of fun - both were critical in getting me into music as a kid, so it's been a lot of fun to, as an adult, work on an album...

This one was a LONG time coming. :lol: I've been tracking since 2010, talking about releasing it since 2005, and the oldest song was written in 2001. A bunch of my guitarist buddies used to joke for years that it was going to be a dead heat between my debut and Axl Rose's "Chinese Democracy." I...

I live in the top floor of a 3 story condo building, and since it's Boston I don't have central air, and instead use window units in the summer. In my living room and bedroom, I've installed ceiling fans, which actually make a really big difference in the summer. I'm tempted to do the same for...

I switched to a Mac a couple months back, still work in Reaper, but the Antress compressors that had gradually become my go-to for damned near anything aren't Mac-compatable (I know they're not universally loved, but I really liked the Seventh Sign 1176LN clone and the Lost Angel LA-2A clone...

Ok, over at another waaaaay less recording focused board I read, I keep seeing people post things like "in a small room of the size you're in, you shouldn't use monitors with a driver larger than 6"" or things like that. I admittedly haven't been looking, but I never see comments like that here...

:laughings: It's all sorted out, but I spent the last couple hours systematically trouble-shooting every single part of my signal chain to figure out where the interference was occurring between my computer's CPU and wireless accessories, and my Yamaha HS80s, such that there was constant hum...

Hope this is the right forum... So, I've just finished an album I've worked on forever - it's off with a mastering engineer as we speak. I'm quickly realizing that while I know a lot about writing, playing, arranging, recording, and mixing music, I know next to nothing about releasing it, and...

Ok, I'm condo shopping right now, and I found a place that I kind of like and has a "study" room that I would turn into a proper studio room (right now, I have a bedroom studio). However, I know smaller rooms can cause problems with bass response and comb filtering and whatnot, so is there a...

Ok, this is a project I've been working on FOREVER (literally - I've been tracking on and off since mid-2010, and the oldest songs were written and demo'd back in 2001 or so) that I wrapped up recording and sequencing drums a couple months ago and have finally gotten the mixes to the point where...

Ok, so after years of contemplating it, and after getting very nervous about the starting-to-fail 9 1/2 year old hard drive inside my 6-year-old PC that a project I've now spent more than 3 years recording and is just in the final mix stage now, I made the switch from a PC to a shiny new i7. So...

Ok, I'd appreciate your input on this one, guys... I'm mixing in Reaper 64-bit, a 24/88.2 project, mixing down to 44.1 and dithering on mixdown, using Extreme 512 HQ sync. I've got Bricasti M7 impulses (free, pretty awesome) loaded as a file in ReaVerb, in a separate 'verb bus. When I play...

Ok, I've had this one for about a month now, but I finally got around to recording some decent video of her in action today, so I'm just getting around to posting something now. :) Essentially, this is a HH superstrat with the guts of a JS1000 (minus that push/pull on the volume tap, which...

Another thread that no one will comment on, most likely, but what the hell. :D This one is interesting, because both pickups theoretically should sound quite similar. The Texas Special is of course Fender's take on a bright, slightly overwound singlecoil as popularized by Stevie Ray Vaughan...

I could have sworn I remember Light, I think, being really impressed with either these or the '57s, but a search turned up nothing. I've got a Heavy Blues 2 in the neck and middle positions of my Strat right now (and an Andy Timmons 'bucker in the bridge), and while they sound great they're...

Backstory - a couple friends of mine and I run Metalguitarist.org, and one of them just bought a place way up near the New Hampshire border. To break it in a bit after he got situated, he threw a "gear fest" sort of get together where a bunch of us more or less in driving distance all came up...

A buddy of mine got the local GC to price match a set of KRK Rokit 8s for a pretty god deal and since I needed a new set anyway and there's a great mexican place not far from the GC, I tossed an old amp that's been gathering dust in my hallway into the back of my car and drove up with a stack of...

Ok, I've never entirely gotten this... I've seen a ton of people discuss this around here, how using too much EQ can cause phase issues in a mix. However, I don't think I've heard anyone actually explain what it is they mean by that. Are we talking about something as simple as EQing the hell...

Ok, I'm an awful singer. I'm a proficient guitarist, and have a fairly good ear - good enough to tell how awful I am when I open my mouth. :D At the same time, I'd kind of like to learn how to sing, if nothing else because chicks are WAY more likely to sleep with you if you play them a John...

Ok, I have this Strat... It was my first "good" guitar, bought new back in '98, and while I play mostly seven strings these days I'm still head over heels in love with the guitar and it's been slowly creeping back into my playing rotation - the album I'm working on now probably will have the...