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EQ and Compression: Bass Guitar

Bass guitar: tricks, tips and advice on getting the most out of equalization and compression. Home recording and DIY production is a tricky old business for the newly initiated. With each new software program, vst plugin, hardware and technique their comes a new challenge. As with the other instruments I’ve talked about on this site, […]

PC Problems – Vista SP1 update failure part 2 (fixed)

Previous Article If you subjected yourself to my previous article about service pack 1 failing to install then I have news for you. I fixed it, but I’m not saying it’s a definite fix. Here’s what I did. I got drastic. It took all weekend. Step 1 Backup up everything and did a factory reset […]

Tips for Recording Guitar – Commit That Sound

Recording electric guitar is probably the easiest thing to do. Just plug it into an £80 device and bob’s young uncle… Or is it? Much like anything on this site there is no right or wrong answer. My background and taste in music veers from well produced to dank muddy lo-fi. Guitar sound is down […]

Home Studio – Work Faster part 1

More speed cap’n! You could get yourself a galley slave drummer to bang out a beat to inspire you to create quicker or mebbe you should change the way you work… 1 =>o>>> Create a template – In Sonar I have a few templates that I work from. For example: “32 track Template” 8 Audio […]

Compression – Jargon Busting

Threshold -o-> Level at which the compressor starts to work. Example -16db is peak level = <= set level at -18db => everything above -18db will be compressed Ratio -o-> Amount of gain reduction to be applied to signal that exceeds threshold level – see above… Attack -o-> Measured usually in milliseconds or ms => […]