[Feature Article] How to Listen to and Care for Your Am… - Diagnosing and Fixing a Tube Amp
Guitar amps are, no matter how you cut it, black boxes. You may think you have control over them, but when it gets down to it, you can’t really see inside the black box, and even if you could, there …
[Feature Article] Use digital delay to produce many mor… - The Many Uses for Digital Delay
The two most important effects in a guitarist’s signal chain are distortion and delay. And if you derive your tone strictly from the amp—whether it’s squeaky clean or buzzsaw nasty—then the digital d…
[Feature Article] When it’s time to mix a recording, yo… - Mixing - The 12 Step Program
Mixing is not only an art, it’s the crucial step that turns a collection of tracks into a finished piece of music. A good mix can bring out the best in your music—it spotlights a composition’s most i…
[Feature Article] How to Filter Out Vuvuzela Noise from… - Vuvuzela Killers
Let's face it, unless you are actually in South Africa attending the World Cup and blowing your very own Vuvuzela, you can't stand the cacophony that's blaring out of your flat screen TV in the form …