Guitar Interactive is “the world’s first fully interactive digital magazine for guitarists the world over – and it’s completely free!”. The magazine layout mimics a printed magazine with pages and navigation through grabbing the corners with your mouse pointer. Normally I’m quite allergic against publishing magazines in a digital-trying-to-look-like-print way, it just brings the worst of both […]
Read moreRefreshingly honest – Reality Check on the Create Music Productions blog, on why mucking around in your home studio won’t make 100% broadcast quality and why you should be happy with 85%: http://createmusicproductions.blogspot.com/2011/03/reality-check-series-intro.html
Read moreA horde of new exciting releases the past week/weeks, all on Spotify: Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events Opeth – Heritage Evile – Five Serpent’s Teeth Mastodon – The Hunter Machine Head – Unto the Locust
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1. Filter out the low end When recording guitars some inaudible discord is always included in the low end. The only thing it does is collide with the bass, so filter it out. One way of doing it is adding a filter and raising the cutoff frequency until you hear a change in sound, and […]
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There’s a site devoted to AmpKit setups – MyShareKit.com. Setups are really easy to share, you can export them right out of the app and send them by email or just copy the file. Besides the setup file you can also attach sound samples uploaded to SoundCloud and register you profile. A lot of talented […]
Read moreJimmy (of Swedish power metalers Falconer) does one of the most impressive solo covers I’ve seen:
Read moreSince I started rehearsing with another guitarist, my own solo practice sessions are so much more fun. Unfortunately too much fever and crap today forced me to cancel. Hoping I’m better next week.
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In a perfect world you’re in a band, and you are playing your own songs. In a not perfect world sometimes you’re in a band that plays covers. In the real world, sometimes you’re not even in a band… I’ve just started rehearsing with another guitarist. It’s a lot of fun, and we’re looking for a […]
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Have you ever noticed that songs played on the radio sound more powerful than when you play them from a CD (on the same sound system)? Are your own songs sound less powerful than professionally mixed songs? Why are ads on TV much louder than the actual programs? (at least on Swedish TV). The answer […]
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