Tag: guitar
Maschine: A Powerful Tabletop Multieffects
Can Maschine really be a flexible guitar and bass processor? Yes – if you know this secret trick for how to interface it with standard passive pickups. ... Read More
Transient Tamer DIY Project
Improve your guitar sound when feeding digital effects—this project costs under $2 in parts, and is small enough to fit inside a guitar or 1/4” plug. ... 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
EQ Techniques for Clean Guitar Sounds
Emulating clean, out-of-phase guitar sounds with EQ is difficult, but this novel technique captures much of that “mojo”—and doesn’t require much effort.... Read More
10 Common Guitar Recording Mistakes
Avoid these common recording mistakes with guitar, and you tone will be much happier—and following this advice could even save a recording session.... Read More
Sound Design with Guitar: Pads
Keyboard synthesizers and samplers are the go-to choice for sound design, but with today's technology, you can do some amazing sound design with guitar. ... Read More
Go Beyond Rhythm Guitar with Synchronized Gating
Guitars can do more than follow the drums—you can lock them together so they’re tighter than a movie star in spandex. The secret: Gating and sidechaining.... Read More