Make It Squeal While Billy Gibbons uses pinch (sometimes called artificial) harmonics (often called “squeals”) in solos like La Grange… These things are a *staple* of hard rock and heavy guitar playing. You really can’t afford to not be able to do these on command. So today, I’...
You'll also want to listen for specific problems. You probably have a muddy or boomy sound, which means you can use a wide Q and reduce the volume by around 5 dB in the 200 Hz to 500 Hz range to fix it. Find problematic frequencies to reduce in volume except those high pitched squ...
It's important that the impedance rating of your amp matches up to that of your speakers. If it doesn't, there are ways you can work with your gear to make them match. That is, you can change the impedance of your speakers by wiring them in series or parallel. (We will discuss ...
They can handle everything from a solo acoustic singer-guitarist using one or two mics, an acoustic-electric guitar, and modestly sized speakers, to a full-blown band with a full array of mics, electric instruments, and hefty main and monitor speakers. Powered mixers offer most of the bells...
You won’t be able tocompletely eliminateharmonic feedback when using high distortion, but you should be able to minimalize it without effecting your tone too much – unless you’re trying to play like Zakk Wylde and make lots of pinch-harmonic squeals. ...
In a perfect, blue field, crooked points. How am I going to helicopter? To take it, friend’s chosen dream. The guy alphabetic? I’m not worried. Can you smoke pot? We’re always changin’. Pecker, it’s all; enough. Lay down. It’s love salad, or the doctor. Chuck, what end...
A simple trick to spot check this is to cup your hand around the mic. If it starts squealing, you’re too close to that feedback threshold. Now, bring the other mics up anduse the channel controlsto make each mic sound good.
The guitar and other instruments will be playing the full G chord, but the bass sticks right to the B, thus making the G chord not so strong. Transposed chords make it tough to figure out what’s going on sometimes, but it really pays off when you do. The next step is to work ...
The laidback, keyboard-based song gently layers guitar and a female chorus while Turner sings up the virtues of "an artist, and he don’t look back." But it’s hard to contain her vocal enthusiasm, and three quarters of the way through she’s literally squealing. Surprisingly,Tina Turns...
Brown’s apparently genuine ire at David Bowie and John Lennon’s “Fame,” which he believed borrowed the lowdown groove from “The Payback,” caused him to create “Hot (I Need To Be Loved Loved Loved),” a tune that cloned “Fame” down to the fuzzbox guitar riff. In 1980, ...