Do your rhythm guitar recordings sound thin and dull compared to what you hear in songs? Chances are that you’re not using the oldest trick in the book when it comes to recording guitars – double tracking!
Double-tracking will not only instantly make your guitar recordings at least twice as good, it will also automatically create space in your mix so your rhythms don’t collide with bass, vocals and lead guitars.
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Have you always dreamed of writing your own metal songs, but don’t know where to start? In this video I share my workflow, let you in on some tricks to get your creative juices flowing and overall tips on song arrangement. We’ll also cover how to come up with riffs for verses, choruses and other parts, and how to match your drum patterns to those riffs.
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Growing up, I was mesmerized by Once Upon a Time… Space. This year it celebrates its 40th anniversary and still comes across as futuristic and visionary. So I made a metal cover of one of Michel Legrand’s songs from it: Hyper-espace.
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I’ve wanted to publish a song on Spotify since forever. And now I’ve finally made a song I think is good enough to do that.
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Learn what equipment and software you need to get started recording guitars, how to battle latency, how to stay in tempo and how to double track.
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Guitar Jack 2 USB is a very portable guitar and microphone audio interface from Sonoma Wireworks. It’s a sibling to their Guitar Jack 2 iOS interface, which I reviewed previously, but the USB version supports Mac and Windows computers. Since my review of the Guitar Jack 2 iOS I’ve used it extensively and I really […]
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The iRig PRO iPhone, iPad and Mac audio interface with guitar input, 48V phantom powered XLR input and MIDI in/out has been announced
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Having two guitars that play the same melody but at different intervals in a scale, you can create the same beautiful effect for your lead guitars that choirs use for vocal harmonies.
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The most important piece of hardware in any home studio is the audio interface. The audio interface is the connection between the analog world and digital, and contains the preamp that brings the low signal of an electric guitar up to line level. The excellent Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 has to instrument/microphone inputs with preamps, balanced and unbalanced stereo outputs for monitors and MIDI connectors.
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The LePou plugins are probably the most popular amp sim plug-ins around. The sound quality is awesome and they behave exactly like their physical counterparts, and furthermore they are free. They were just released in 64-bit versions for all platforms, and the impulse loader LeCab2 is now available for Mac.
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