Category: Signal Processing
Get Better, More Expressive Guitar Sounds with Dynamic EQ
EQs and compressors don’t react intelligently to your playing—but dynamic EQ can. Find out how dynamic EQ combines the best of EQ and dynamics control.... Read More
DIY Blues Club Room for Convolution Reverb
Re-create the sound of a blues club in your convolution reverb by creating your own impulse. It just takes white noise, EQ, chorusing, and some editing.... Read More
Create Vocoder-Like Effects with Multiband Sidechaining
Sidechaining is great—but you can create a multiband sidechaining setup to have one instrument modulate another, and produce vocoder-like effects... Read More
Multiband Signal Processing
Multiband signal processing splits a signal into multiple frequency bands, and then processes each band individually. Can you say “major creative options”?... Read More
Advanced Tremolo Techniques
Tremolos have come a long way since surf music. Synching them to tempo, and using serial or parallel routings, can add a new kind of rhythmic spice.... Read More
Make Better Guitar Mixes with These 7 EQ Tips
When mixing guitar, equalization is key to making sure the guitar fits well with the other tracks—and these 7 tips are all about helping toward that goal.... Read More
How to Use Rack-Mount Compressors with Guitar and Bass
A recording studio’s rack-mount compressors can offer better specs, and more versatility, than stompboxes—but you need to interface guitar with them correctly.... Read More
How to Make Reverb “Bloom”
Reverb pre-delay can conflict with note attacks by adding an echo that sounds percussive. Making the reverb decay “bloom” over time can solve this problem.... Read More