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...
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,...
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...
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Recording WiredGuitarist January 12, 2017 Articles, Recording Tips, Uncategorized Music production is something you will never master. It's an ever-growing art that requires constant learning and innovation. Every recording engineer had to start somewhere, though. There are a lot of common...
Recording Tips: How to Re-amp Your Guitars WiredGuitarist December 29, 2016 Articles, Recording Tips, Uncategorized In the world of digital production, it has become easy for musicians to record in their bedrooms without the hassle and expense of an analog-based music studio. A massive benefit of digital guitar recording is...
Recording Tips: Sidechaining and How to Use It WiredGuitarist December 24, 2016 Recording Tips, Uncategorized If you've read our Compressor Basics For Guitar article, then you probably at least have a basic idea of what compressors are and how they work. If you haven't read that, I'd strongly suggest it before reading...