New Pickup Bought
Just scored a used Duncan Custom at a good price. So now I have three pickups lying around waiting for me to get some free time for soldering… One SD Custom, one SD Jazz and one SD 59.
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The Mini Band Plays Enter Sandman
These kids from 8 to 10 rock! The girl plays the solo better than Kirk BTW.
Read moreRIP Steve
For a guitar blog this one sure revolves a lot around iPhone apps. Without the vision of Steve Jobs I wouldn’t have had my main home practice rig – iPhone, AmpKit, Apogee Jam. And without that, in the last year I would have never developed at the the rate I have. So thank you.
Read moreFix Your Broken Reaper Project with Recovery Mode
If you have a Reaper project that won’t load or that makes the application crash, chances are that the cause is a brokenVST plugin. An example of a plugin that often causes problems is LePou’s otherwise excellent impulse loader LeCab2. If LeCab2 can’t find its selected impulses it crashes Reaper on load. This is particularly […]
Read moreIf I ever decide to play the blues…
…I’m playing it like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7GysTulFaA
Read moreSunday Practice
“Auditioned” a drummer today. He was great, so now we’re three – we can call ourselves a band!
Read moreCool Interactive On-Line Guitar Magazine
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 moreWhy Your Mixes Aren’t Radio Quality (and Will Never Be)
Refreshingly 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 moreListening Backlog
A 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
Read more10 Tips for Great Guitar Mixing
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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