Studio Notes – A Rhythm Guitar Pulse

Sometimes you want to feel a pulse of the track, but maybe the drums and bass are just not enough. If you have a strumming Rhythm guitar you can use your automation to make it pump to emphasize the beat. The pumping Rhythm guitar trick first of all select the Rhythm guitar track that you Read More …

Studio Notes – Equalizers – EQ

EQ types Going to focus on parametric shelving low pass and high pass filters EQ allows us to have control over specific frequencies in a sound by changing their amplitudes This means we can change the character or timbre of a sound by altering the partials and harmonics or even fundamental.  We can also use Read More …

Studio Notes – Limiters

With acoustic guitars you will hear some strums that are really loud and some strums that aren’t quite as loud.  It could be very well played but you will still have some variation between strums.  Sometimes the dynamic is quite loud and a compressor sometimes just can’t get a hold of that because the difference Read More …

More Bass Guitar Recording Tricks

Tune the bass.  Tune the bass.  Tune the bass.  Everything harmonically else in the song is going on top of the bass.  If it is a little bit our of tune, then the rest of your tracks are not going to sound right. I like to tune the bass just a little bit flat, so Read More …