Tips For Building Your Home Studio
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial aims to give beginners some tips on the best way to approach building a home studio. We'll talk about the most important items in the home studio and how to be conscious of…
Tips For Beginning Guitarists
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial will give you some ideas about the best ways to practice playing guitar for beginners.. A big part of this is practicing the right way and getting in 'good' practice where …
Tips For Using Equalization
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial is a follow up to the other tutorial I wrote called "How To Use a Parametric Equalizer." While that was the basics of the make up of a traditional EQ, this will go into a b…
How To Use A Parametric Equalizer
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial will give you a starting point and some ideas about how to go about using a parametric EQ and what everything does and what it all means. The best way to learn how to use i…
Tips For Making Your Mixes Louder
TutorialIntroductionIn this tutorial, we'll talk a little bit about some techniques on how to make your mixes reach their loudest possible potential. While the 'loudness war' is one that cannot be one, it i…
Microphone Types & Suggested Uses
TutorialIntroductionIn this tutorial I aim to give some pointers and tips about what microphones will work best in certain situations. Of course these are just guidelines and experimentation is the name of …
Mixing Tips For Drums
TutorialIntroductionIn this tutorial we'll talk a bit about some ideas on how to mix drums once you've recorded them. While it definitely matters what type of music it is and what type of sound that you are…
Tips for Using Reverb
TutorialIntroductionIn this tutorial, I will outline the basic types of reverbs and explain a little bit about where they came from and what they sound like. While this should get you on the right path, the…
Tips & Ideas for Working With Dynamic Processors
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial will give you some helpful tips and hints about what compressors and other dynamic processors will do and what all of the parameters will do for you. This is aimed at begin…
Tips & Techniques For Recording Piano & other Keyboards
TutorialIntroductionIn this tutorial I'll give you a run down of the techniques I tend to use when recording a variety of keyboards including Piano, Organ, Electric Pianos, and Synthesizers. While these are…
Techniques For Recording Bass
TutorialIntroductionIn this tutorial we'll talk a little bit about some techniques for recording bass instruments like bass guitar and upright bass. While it is one of the more simple things to record, ther…
Tips For Recording a Band Live in the Studio
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial will give you some tips about how to record a band live in a recording studio. While it largely depends on your space and equipment, I will try to account for all situation…
Tips For Recording Multi-Track Drums
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial will give you some guidelines and tips for recording multi-track drums in your home or professional studio. While these tips are the way that I like to do things, everyone …
Tips For Recording Electric Guitar
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial will give you some tips and ideas about how to record electric guitar. While it may seem like an easy thing to record, and it is when compared to recording drums, there are…
Using Elastic Audio in Pro Tools
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial will give you a brief run down of how to use elastic audio in Pro Tools 7.4. This is the first version of Pro Tools that elastic audio is available in and it really sounds …
A Guideline To Setting Up Your Guitar Pedals
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial will outline the traditional way to set up your guitar pedals. All the time I see players who have their pedals set up in any which way without any thought put into it and …
Adding Drum Samples in Pro Tools to an Acoustic Drum Performance
TutorialIntroductionThis tutorial will show you how to add prerecorded drum samples to your acoustic drum performance in Pro Tools LE and HD. This is useful in the event that lets say you record a drum kit,…
Vibesware Guitar Resonator GR-1 User Manual
TutorialIntroduction The Guitar Resonator is a harmonic feedback generator. It will bring any string vibration feedback on stage, in recording studio …
DigiTech GNX4 and Garageband under Mac OS X
TipHi all, For those who switched to Apple and recognized, that the DigiTech GNX4 Guitar Workstation doesn't offer a lot under Mac OSX, don't give up on this multi effect monster. Now this is what i…
Fix for display defect Roland Groovebox MC505
TipThe MC-505 LCD problem occurs beacause the white flatcable is glued inproper against its connection points on the back of the LCD. You can fix this by heating the cable at its point where it connect…
Using Line6 Edit with your Flextone III XL
TutorialIntroductionNot only does the Line6 Flextone III XL sound great out of the box, it is also infinitely tweakable via an application called Line6 Edit - a tool that is freely downloadable from Line6's …
Personalizing your Drum Kit in Addictive Drums
TutorialIntroductionWith Addictive Drums you can personalize many details of your Drum Kit, from drum elements to effects etc... In this tutorial we'll be dealing with modifying the individual pieces of th…
Getting the Most out of Your PODxt Presets
TutorialIntroductionMost people just use their POD presets without ever wondering if they can get a different or better sound out of them. But with a little tweaking you can customize your presets and come u…
Using the Dual-Tone Capabilities of the TonePort (UX1/UX2/UX8)
TutorialIntroductionOne of the coolest features of the POD X3 family of processors is its "Dual-Tone" capabilies. In a nutshell, Dual-Tone mode provides you with the ability to run your guitar thr…
No more searching through Drum Loops thanks to Addictive Drums!
TutorialIntroductionHey Songwriters!...are you sick and tired of spending a lot of time sorting through worthless drum loops that aren't tailor made to fit your songs? With Addictive Drums, you can sync it t…
