This can range from additional EQ settings, presence controls, or even switches to select between different overdrive voicings. Overdrive pedals should be placed early in the signal chain The placement of your overdrive pedal within your signal chain (the order of your effects) has a significant...
There are many options on the market, but you want to make sure your power supply has enough outputs to power the pedals on your board, and with the correct voltage required for that pedal. It may not always be the most ideal solution, but it’s sometimes necessary to use a Daisy ...
Learning how to use a compressor is one of the most important mixing skills you can acquire. Compression is quite literally all over mixes, even becoming the sound we associate with loud, modern pop mixing. If there’s anything you want to really understand, it’s compression and how to ...
• Level: Governs the level of the overall effect, balanced against the sound when the pedal is disengaged. • Time/Decay: Controls the amount of time, usually in seconds, for which the reverb reflections continue until completely decayed away. • EQ, HPF, Tone, Damp: As with many ot...
We use it to describe a “natural” tone, meaning a relatively flat frequency response. Speakers can have different frequency response depending on materials and construction design, like cone shape, magnet weight and coil size. Also, the aging process of these materials will change a speaker’s...
I prefer to use compression on any channel in which the volume could potentially spike quickly and noticeable unbalance the mix. For example, if an electric guitarist changes pedal effects during a song then there’s the potential for the new pedal effect to have a higher gain and thus become...
MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is technically a protocol that was originally used to allow multiple synthesizers to communicate with each other, but in the decades since the MIDI 1.0 standard was unveiled in 1983, we have developed ways to use it for so much more than ...
Of course, there was a time when theonlyway to get a good guitar sound on stage was to use a high-powered tube amplifier and a stack of speaker cabs to get the sound directly out into the audience. Then it became fashionable to use smaller tube amps miked up into the PA, but these...
If you're just getting started with Surge, check out our guide on how to use this powerful free synth plugin. 6. VCV Rack 2 (Image credit: VCV Rack) Platforms: Mac/PC/Linux | Formats: Standalone | Download It’s debatable whether VCV Rack should be classed as a soft synth or a ...
Normally, Jerry will run his Dobro direct thru a Fishman® pedal with his Dobro samples on it. When we use a mic, we use the KSM32 or KSM44A. Banjo We use a KSM313 –a ribbon mic – on Ron's banjo. It smoothes out the sound of the banjo and has the percussive sound of the...