The market is full of brilliant guitar pedal manufacturers and guitarists (and bassists) that use these pedal to create incredible art. With so much going on and so many options to choose from when it comes to pedals, it is important to understand the basics of each base effect and what the various pedal effects…
So you’ve picked up some awesome effects pedals for your rig and want to get the most out of them. Understanding signal flow and placing pedals in the proper order will lead to optimal performance. So how should we order our guitar (or bass) pedals for optimal signal flow? Though there are no hard rules…
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of different guitar effect pedals on that market. Boost, overdrive, distortion and fuzz are some of the most common for getting that aggressive sound for your 6 string (or 7… or 8… or 9 and so forth). Knowing the differences between these pedal types will help tremendously in narrowing…
Love it or hate it, the “auto-tune” effect is a pretty cool technological advancement in the field of audio, allowing vocalists to sing into a microphone and have their voices transformed into pitch-perfect notes. How do auto-tune microphones work? Well, there is really no such thing as an “auto-tune microphone.” Rather, the microphone outputs a…
As a follow-up to my blog post titled Making Music With What You’ve Got, I figure I should discuss the gear that makes up the foundation of a studio. Everyone’s workflow is a bit different, but these 5 essential hardware pieces for the bedroom studio are what I believe to be the fundamentals of a good home music studio….
As with most jobs, we need tools in order to do them correctly. Mixing requires mixing tools. This can be outboard hardware or ‘in the box’ software. This article focuses on software Digital Audio Workstations and their mixing tools, most of which are called plugins. There are plenty of plugins out there, both free and paid….
