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Power and Protection for your Studio

Power and Protection for your Studio

It’s time to think about taking steps to not only clean up your power, but to protect your valuable gear.

Session Dos and Don'ts

Session Dos and Don'ts

These simple ideas can help you achieve better tracks and a more rewarding end result.

Keeping it Simple in the Studio
DIY

Keeping it Simple in the Studio

On “When the Levee Breaks” from Led Zeppelin IV, Jimmy Page’s guitar parts are panned left and right, and mixed quite dry with some deep flange. Conversely, the drums

Play to Your Strengths

Play to Your Strengths

It’s worth taking a moment to think about what it means to play to our individual strengths and the strengths of our selected instruments.

Grooving To A Virtual Drummer
Gear

Grooving To A Virtual Drummer

Aside from using the loops in my TV productions, I like jamming to them. It’s a great way to practice locking into a real drummer’s beats.

Sonic Secrets from the Clubhouse

Sonic Secrets from the Clubhouse

At Clubhouse recording studio in Rhinebeck, New York, owner and engineer Paul Antonell has a collection of more than 50 new and vintage amps, and guitarists from around the world seek out his studio and personal expertise to deliver memorable tones.

Dealing With Delay
DIY

Dealing With Delay

To give yourself—and your mix engineer—the greatest flexibility in the final stages of production, consider splitting your signal before it hits the delay and capturing two guitar tracks, one clean and one effected.

Exploring Impulse Response Reverb

Exploring Impulse Response Reverb

While the sound of amp simulators gets better each year, to my ears the Achilles heel has always been reverb.

Al Di Meola on Total Focus

Al Di Meola on Total Focus

So why is it that so many of us are still drawn to stuff from the past—things like classic songs and albums?

Secrets of Compression, Pt. 2

Secrets of Compression, Pt. 2

This month, we’ll explore compression for guitar as it relates to guitar pedals