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I'm an unashamed U2 fan. My mother's from Dublin, and I flipped out when I was a kid in the 80's to find an Irish band to obsess over. Unforgettable Fire does it for me. Amazing texture, songs and sounds. Written and played by a bunch of 23 year olds. The last record was over compressed, but I liked...

I had a cheap idea for making the sound of a software drum machine more interesting. I have an eight output interface, and I thought it might be cool to get four stereo amplifier/tuners from Salvation Army, and four pair of speakers. One pair would be selected for their low end, one pair for mids, a...

1. do the strings matter? if so, which ones record best. I like to clean and dress my strings with Wahl clipper oil. It's cheap and available at any beauty supply. It's a super lightweight oil designed to go between metal and skin. It freshens up the tone of old strings, and reduces the quack of ne...

I think the enormous cockroaches crawling over everything is a bigger hinderance to impressing people than big goofy monitors. See, what you gotta do, is train those roaches to do your mic placing and cofee fetching for you. You might even train the smarter ones to run the session for you while you...

I've really been enjoying "Up in Flames", by Manitoba, who was interviewed a few issues ago. Does anyone know what software he uses? It sounds great whatever his process, and I'm very curious to know what he's using.

I've actually been running a scream 4 before the audio interface. I read somewhere recently that using the tape setting on drums makes it sound more like Rock'n Roll, which it does. I've been putting a tape scream on everything, probably overkill. When you're talking about layering, do you mean spli...

So, I've been using Reason for about four months, and have been enjoying it very much. I'm mainly a guitar player in a rock band, and this is my first real exposure to synthesis (software or otherwise). I've heard many people express the opinion that Reason's audio quality is inferior to other softs...