Recent content by peoriashows

I always recomend having your rhythm guitarist record a crystal clear clean track after he's done with the dirty ones. Mix it in the center underneath to bring clarity to the chords. Many platinum selling records from the 80s & 90s were done this way. Not sure why producers don't do it much...

It's an unfair question. I like neither for metal. My preference is real, recorded drums WITH some samples. I almost always add a snare and bass (and sometimes toms) sample to each hit to enhance them, but do not ever replace them. The overheads keep the live groove of a real drummer, the...

I always mic two seperate cabs from a stereo amp for each tracking session. I use an SM57 up close, centered on a speaker of one cab that is isolated in a sound booth. I use a little Beyerdynamic condensor (that I got in a bundle of mics I purchased a while back) on the other cab in a bigger...

Yes, there's a Gearslutz thread where Bill Levity (the guitar player) talks about the sessions. He said his hands were so worn out that he insisted on single tracking the solos on the follow up album, but they still had 6 rhythm tracks on that one too and it sound just as killer. If you remove...

One technique I've not heard mentioned yet is something I like to do: Record two dirty tracks from two different amps (or amp settings if you don't have 2 amps.) Each amp is stereo running to two different mic'd cabs. Both sets panned hard left & hard right. Then record a crystal clear clean...

Yes. David Prater did this on the first two Fireshouse albums back in the early 90s and they sound incredible. 6 rhythm guitars tracks and tripled solo tracks. He also orchestrated thickly layered drum samples for the first time (as far as I can tell) in rock & metal music. That guy has never...