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You have an electric guitar, you have learned how to play it, you have written a wonderful song, and now you just have to record it. But how?
So, you have made a first selection of several speaker models, you have found a shop (or a friend) who has them and now you only have to listen to them... But what should you listen to?
You have probably often dreamed about having the possibility to cancel or isolate vocals or instruments from a record to get a single vocal line or sample an instrumental loop. Is it possible?
So, your studio monitors are in place, now you just have to connect and adjust them. Here are some tips to help you out.
Without pretending to publish the definitive guide to guitar recording, here are a few tips on how to record an acoustic guitar with an electrostatic microphone.
The basic function of an amplifier is to increase a low intensity signal capture. It can be a direct source such as a microphone, a musical instrument, or a signal corrected by an intermediary preamplifier (which processes the signal source through equalizers, filters, etc.)...
Here is a selection of 8 dynamic mics for recording drums, guitars, voice and any other instrument.
Here are a few recommendations for optimizing the placement (and therefore, the sound) of your home studio monitors.
I was driving along one of those Floridian roads that goes between the coasts, and is flatter than the Spice Girls without auto-tuning . . . in other words, a perfect place to crank up my car's CD player. As it segued from a recent CD into Simple Minds' "Real Life," which I hadn't heard in quite a while, I noticed it was somewhat quieter, so I t...
When amplifying an acoustic guitar, the use of a microphone can lead to concerns about feedback as well as being able to adequately amplify the instrument. With electric guitars, there are also concerns about the microphone adequately and accurately picking up the sound from the guitar amp, and in many cases, there’s also a desire for a quieter...
