Recording Tip: Using Soft Clipping For Added Punch and Body WiredGuitarist May 28, 2019 Articles, Recording Tips, Uncategorized One of the first things you’ll learn as someone wanting to record music is that clipping is 100% undeniably and entirely awful. Clipping is the nasty, harsh distortion sound you hear when you crank...
Record An Entire Album Without Touching An Instrument WiredGuitarist March 22, 2019 Articles, Recording Tips, Tutorials, Uncategorized This article is just for fun, and to show how incredible technology has gotten. Don’t take it too seriously. ;) Not sure how to play guitar, but want to write your technical death metal magnum opus? Want...
Recording an Amp vs. Recording a DI WiredGuitarist August 8, 2018 Articles, Recording Tips, Tutorials, Uncategorized In today’s world, recording your guitar final guitar tone is no longer a given, but simply an option. Now we can explore options by recording just the direct track from your guitar (using a DI box) so you...
Better Mixing Headphones with Calibration Software WiredGuitarist June 12, 2018 Articles, Recording Tips, Tutorials, Uncategorized Any professional will tell you that mixing an album on headphones is… less than ideal. They’ve got plenty of reasons to be right about that, but sometimes we just don’t have any other option. Maybe...
Recording Tips: Overdrives: Pedals vs Plugins WiredGuitarist April 18, 2017 Articles, Recording Tips, Tutorials, Uncategorized It’s no secret that a key component of getting a tight, aggressive guitar tone is to use an overdrive pedal in front of your amp. For those of us on a budget, this is something we typically do in the...
3 Words That Are Destroying Your Music Career WiredGuitarist April 8, 2017 Articles, Recording Tips, Tutorials Nod your head in agreement if you’ve ever wondered... … why X band is making millions and touring the world and your band is stuck playing a local pub for pocket change? … why your awesome new record...
Why Recording Yourself Leads to Success WiredGuitarist March 22, 2017 Articles, Recording Tips, Uncategorized There is one essential way to better yourself as a musician thatevery successful musician does but most of us ignore it completely. No, it’s not ear training. It’s not music theory. It’s definitely...
Analog Tones with Digital Plugins WiredGuitarist February 23, 2017 Articles, Recording Tips, Tutorials, Uncategorized The cost of analog is no longer an obstacle. Technology has achieved an incredible feat where we have dozens of fantastic emulations of analog hardware models packed into cost-effective digital packages,...
Top 6 Headphones for Mixing WiredGuitarist February 19, 2017 Articles, Recording Tips, Uncategorized Mixing music is an art that requires skill and precision. As we outlined in our 6 Monitoring Mistakes to Avoid, one of the most important tips for being precise with your mixes is to listen on multiple...
Analog vs Digital Recording WiredGuitarist February 8, 2017 Articles, Recording Tips, Uncategorized Since the late 1800s, musicians all around the globe have found ways to immortalize their music by recording it. From wax cylinders and magnetic tape all the way to laptops with a single channel interface,...