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Just to help clarify, there certainly isn?t anything wrong with making money with music, or earning a living from it. That wasn?t my point and if you can earn a living wage then that?s great if you can get it. But the original poster sounded as if he was wanting to jump into the game and was wonderi...

Everybody has to go about things their own way, so this is just one person?s perspective, but it always seemed to me that things that people are passionate about, such as making/recording music is something you would not only do for free but would even pay for the opportunity to do. Everything else ...

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Yeah, I hear you. I love my jazzmaster but it is a noisy beast. I find that live the noise doesn't make too much difference but with recording, for the quiet parts where it really becomes apparent, I find that if I roll the volume back just a touch, like from 10 to 9 or 8.5 it will eliminate just en...

I immediately thought to myself, "I wonder if he's playing a Jazzmaster?" and sure enough..... I play one myself and to a large degree, it's part of the design and charm of the guitar, those are single coil pickups that are about three times as wide as a strat pickup, it's like a satellite dish grab...

Hey there, thanks a bunch for the tips. These are great ideas. I used an Apogee Duet for tracking this which limited it to just two mics going in. But now that I'm mixing I can re-amp and I'll try a stereo room sound as you all have suggested and pan those out wide and keep the two main close mics i...

Hey there everyone, I?m recording a record that consists of only solo electric guitar pieces with no overdubs. I?m only using two mics (a ribbon and a SM57) and am thrilled with the sound. My question is how to pan this during mixdown? As you can imagine the ribbon is somewhat dark and beefier in th...