Tagged recording

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...

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...

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...

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 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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Incredible. Guitar. Tone. Now let me guess, the first thing that came to mind was probably a $5,000 guitar, and $3,000 amp, about $7,000 in microphones and another $20,000 in preamps and analog gear, right?...