Recent content by Zerochance

Hey Everyone: I'm a huge fan of guitar backing tracks. I think they're a fun, effective way to learn your scales, develop new licks and learn how to improvise. There's a million of them out there, but sometimes it's hard to find one that catches your ear and suits your needs, so I started...

OK, I'll be happy to post this elsewhere. I'm more of a casual poster. I definitely spent a lot of time on it; several hours in between tracking and mixing, but obviously I was not expecting it would have any sort of commercial use. It was just a personal project.

Hey Everyone: So, I have a quick question regarding charging for your work. I have a recently created YouTube channel where I post my original material. I'm not an aspiring producer or engineer or anything; I'm just a songwriter and guitarist dude who no longer plays in bands but still really...

My music is also very lead-heavy so let me share some things I have found work for me. My rhythm and lead tones are actually very similar. I generally do add more gain to the lead tone, and set my low and high passes a little wider in the EQ spectrum just to differentiate them a bit. Then, I...

Legend is, for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Billy Corgan did 40 separate guitar tracks. So, octo-tracking is for pussies!

For me, it'd have to be the guitar tones in "This Is Love, This Is Murderous" by Bleeding Through. Was never a huge BT fan, but after listening for a while, it struck me how awful those guitar tones are. Thin, brittle, with absolutely no clarity and the gain cranked as high as humanly...

Colony is the quintessential "fredman" recording for me. That tone is pure magic. Punchy, heavy as fuck, and still tons of clarity. I didn't know about the ATG documentary. I'll check that out for sure.

I have a Peavey Ultra Plus, which as I understand is the same as the XXX. It has reverb built into it, probably in need of a re-tubing and I definitely need to invest in a better cab. I run it through a 5150 cab, and it just has a certain muddiness I can't quite seem to shake. I like what you...

Should have cleared that up, yes, it's meant to be an instrumental. Honestly, the goal is to get my home demos to sound as good as possible. I'm not sure what I want to do with my material; whether build a band around it or use it as a portfolio of sorts and maybe join a band in need of a...

First of all, I'm by no means an recording engineer. I'm mainly a guitarist and songwriter. I haven't played in a band for a couple of years now, but I still write a lot of original material, so over the last few months I've invested a bit of time and money into getting the best possible sound...

Hey Guys: Just wanted to share my first recording project I've completed, an original track of mine called An Uncertain March. First of all, I don't consider myself a "recording engineer" by any means. I'm mainly a guitarist and songwriter. The last couple of years I've found myself...

It depends on what I'm tracking. I like very layered solos, with lots of harmonies going in and out, and doubling parts and stuff, so I often do takes just for the harmonized bits. Occasionally I do over-extend myself and I run into a part I have to break down into smaller chunks, but for the...

Over time, I've really begun to dislike drop tunings and super-low tunings. All my guitars are in D standard, which suits me just fine. It's got some natural heaviness from the slightly lower tuning, but enough string tension to retain note clarity. It's the same reason my action is on the...

I echo what everyone said about panning: I always record dead center, just to make sure the take is as tight as I can make it. I don't do any kind of panning until afterwards. I personally don't like quad-tracking; I don't have the knowledge to make it sound good, so I mostly stick to two...

I absolutely did. I had the same impulse loaded in two cabs, one left and one right, both panned correctly, meaning hard L and R. I switched to NadIR and the panning is working correctly. Same impulse and everything. Odd.