Hot tip:It’s sometimes difficult to set a compressor’s threshold for sounds with lots of low end. If excessive bass triggers your compressors too early, use an EQ in front to reduce it or filter it out. If you’re looking to combine the distinct qualities of two compressions, use ser...
This is my first Instructables, i will explain you how toturn a little Tube guitar amp into a preamp unit/pedal, with load box; Im french and my English is limited, so if i made some mistakes please forgive me !! :) I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS INSTRUCTABLES IF YOU WANT TO MAKE IT WIT...
If you want to use the 4 cable method with individual pedals, you will basically be setting up two separate pedal chains. You should already have enough cables but just keep in mind that it can get a bit messy when using the 4 cable method on a non-multi-effects pedalboard. 4 Cable M...
If you always use the same amplifier with your preamp, you can fine-tune the patches in your preamp to get the sound just the way you like it. One point that I must stress, though, is that you should always use your guitar amplifer on a clean setting, as the preamp will add any d...
If you want to use a vocal input, you need to connect your mic up to the Axe-Fx. I ran mine into a preamp and then into Input 2 (the effects loop return). The preamp part is important since the Axe-Fx will be looking for a line level signal....
Preamps or booster pedals raise the overall level of a signal; electric players often use these to egg their tube amps info overdrive. Compression pedals, on the other hand, narrow a tone's dynamic range by limiting the attack on a note and amplifying its decay. Put your compressor or ...
but many moments just happened. On the song "The Fool," we used iPhone files. You can hear the drummersay"play it again," just like a demo. It had magic to it. We tracked it again, but the voice memo had a looseness to it, and I gave myself permission to use something that wa...
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...
Some comps don't have an input level control, so you'd have to use the output volume controls on your instrument, preamp, or another pedal to regulate the level going into the compressor. Finding and setting the correct input level is probably the number one problem that frustrates ...
“The guitar that ended up making the record was a G&L Legacy Strat through ’78 Fender Vibrochamp with a Strymon El Capistan delay pedal. On the engineering side, I used an AEA N22 ribbon mic running into a Shadow Hills Mono Gama microphone preamp. I feel the tone of the Strat mixed...