Similar to your back, your wrist may also hurt a lot if you are using your guitar trap in a wrong way. You do not need to curve your wrist much or carry your instrument on your lap with a high guitar strap. Selecting A Guitar Strap How To Use A Guitar Strap Precisely: Beginner Ins...
The electric guitar developed alongside the technology to amplify it and sculpt its sound. In fact, you can think of the guitar, amp and effects as a musical “system” that produces the sound of the instrument as we know it today. Effects and toneare another one of the ways that guitar...
Guitar pluginsare significantly cheaper than traditional analog hardware. Take for exampleArchetype: Petrucci, which features four distinct amps, 11 stompbox effects, and three cabinets with six virtual mics. This entire rig costs under 160 dollars. Buying the equivalent hardware versions of all this ...
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Ribbon mics are prized for their warm, vintage tone. They’re perfect for when you need to tame excessive or harsh high-end: sources like guitar amps, drum overheads or brass. Ribbon microphones naturally produce a perfect figure-eight polar pattern and respond to EQ extremely well. Unlimited...
You once had to pay (albeit not very much) for this subtractive, virtual analogue synth. And while it might be a typical VA – with two oscillators (plus sub) and filters, a couple of LFOs and effects, plus three envelopes – One has a lot of things going for it, including a great...
There are even a few options in the market that are specially designed for use with guitars and other instruments, such as theAAwipes Guitar Cloths Microfiber 6-Packand theErnie Ball Microfiber Polish Cloth. These don’t cost much, but if you have any soft cloth lying around in your hous...
A fairly recent development is the maturation of modeling synth. Like digital modeling of guitar amps, these synths use digital signal processing (DSP) chips to emulate the actions of traditional analog components. They can also model the behavior of traditional acoustic instruments, as with Roland...
Sometimes EQ knobs labelled "low", "mid" and "high" have very strange personalities on guitar amps, especially tube ones. If you can, record yourself and listen to the playback. You may be blown away by the differences you hear as you make small changes to the mic position and tone ...
In the following months, she turned to her guitar to process the pain. "I don’t think I’ve played guitar that much since my teens or early twenties," she said in a press release. "Literally moving my fingers across the fretboard for hours on end to remind myself I was sti...