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...
Mixing Secret Weapon: Dynamic EQ WiredGuitarist October 18, 2018 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized EQ’s come in many different variations: they can be plugins, pedals, racks, parametric, graphic, you name it. But there’s one tool that far fewer people are aware of that can be a secret weapon when used...
EQ 101: Graphic vs Parametric WiredGuitarist October 2, 2018 Articles, Tutorials If you didn’t know this already, an EQ pedal can take your entire guitar tone to the next level. With the added flexibility you can take an incredible sounding setup and add some extra polish to it. Take out...
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...
3 Creative Guitar Processing Tricks WiredGuitarist February 13, 2018 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized Recording guitars can be an endeavor, especially because of how much gear is out there, feeding our creativity and experimental spirit as guitarists. However, while we may have found the perfect guitar,...
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...
6 Monitoring Mistakes To Avoid WiredGuitarist January 24, 2017 Articles, Recording Tips, Uncategorized The digital age has brought us the unbelievable ability to craft chart-topping albums from the comfort of our bedrooms, but bedrooms are hardly ideal acoustic environments... We know that sound is heavily...
5 Tips Before Finalizing Your Mixes WiredGuitarist January 17, 2017 Articles, Recording Tips, Uncategorized How many times have you mixed a song, thought it was finished, then despised it 2 days later? I used to do this all the time, but now I do rigorous testing with my mixes before I consider them...