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The Guitarists' Guide to DAW Recording by SoundCravers Lab
The Guitarist's Guide to Recording on your Computer Recording Guitars: With Mics, Direct, Amped, Vamped, Re-Amped By Tweak I t might seem strange for some of you to think I might know anything about guitars, with my small claim to notoriety being sampling and programming, but the truth is, I was ori…
READ GUIDE →Getting a Great Guitar Tone in your Sequencer
Getting a Great Guitar Tone in your Sequencer Using software to Tweak Your Tone By the Tweak Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 offers a huge variety of tones for your guitar tracks I spent my early days as a home recordist recording electric and acoustic guitars, using beaten up guitars, tripped up re…
READ GUIDE →Choosing a Classical Guitar
Choosing a Classical Guitar One of the roles I play in this life is to teach high school students to play guitar. This page is for the person who wants to learn to play nylon stringed guitar, otherwise known as "classical" or "classic" guitar. Classical guitars are different from other acoustic guit…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers · Guitar Gallery
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts Guitar Gallery Jan 1 — By The Tweak Welcome to Tweak's Guitar Gallery Featuring Articles and Reviews of New Electric, Steel-stringed and Classical Guitars Gibson Johnny Winter Firebird…
READ GUIDE →Tweak's Review: Roland VG-99, GK3, FC300 Virtual Guitar System
Review of the Roland VG-99 The Most Powerful Virtual Guitar System on Earth? by Tweak The Roland VG-99 can be as simple as any other guitar/amp modeler on the market. You plug in your guitar, find a preset and wail. There are plenty of presets--200 factory and 200 user. If you are a traditional guit…
READ GUIDE →Guitar Gallery-Acoustic
Guitar Gallery Acoustic Guitars Steel Strings +++ This search engine links you to hundreds of reviews on electric and acoustic guitars available today. It really helps get a sense of the subjective differences among the various models. Guitar Gallery INDEX Electric Guitars Amplifiers Acoustic Steel…
READ GUIDE →Guitar Gallery-Electrics
Guitar Gallery-Electrics Gibson Custom Shop Johnny A Signature Electric Guitar (with Case) Parker Four Seasons Fly Mojo Limited Edition Electric Guitar (With Case) Gibson ES335 Memphis Series Dot Reissue Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitar (with Case) +++ This search engine links you to hundreds of revi…
READ GUIDE →Which Microphones and Preamps are Best for my Studio?
Microphones And Preamps Get the perfect Mics for the Home Studio Get up to speed on Mic Preamps Price List of Home Studio Microphones Home Studio Mic Preamp Price List High end preamps Review of the Shure SM81 Review of the Shure SM57 Review of the Electro-Voice RE20 Review of the Sennheiser MD421 R…
READ GUIDE →Guitar Gallery-Amplifiers
Guitar Gallery-Amplifiers This search engine links you to hundreds of reviews on electric and acoustic guitar amplifiers available today. Marshall LTD Super 100JH Jimi Hendrix Handwired Guitar Amplifier Full Stack with Super 100JH Head, 1982AJH and 1982BJH Cabinets
READ GUIDE →What's New and Cool by SoundCravers Lab
What's New (and Cool) page 1 Here's some of the latest studio gear, available from zZounds page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 A Really SCHWEET DEAL KRK VXT8 Active Studio Monitor With a visually striking enclosure design that is equally functional -- providing low resonance, improved structur…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers · How to Buy A Microphone For Your Home Studio, Microphones For Recording Drums, Microphones For Recording Instruments, And The Best Microphones For Recording Vocals
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts Microphones For The Home Studio Mar 27 — By The Tweak Contents ↓ Basics of a Home Studio Mic Cabinet Setting up Microphones Ambient and Close Mics Matching the Microphone to the job. Wh…
READ GUIDE →How to Get Audio into your Computer by SoundCravers Lab
How to Set Up Digital Audio in your Home Studio Ways to get audio into your computer for your creative projects by Tweak Audio 101 1. Learn the different ways to get audio into a computer 2. Understand digital audio 3. Learn Basics of the recording process and the Mix So, then how do we get our soun…
READ GUIDE →How to make sense out of the Microphone Preamp jungle
How to Make Sense out of the Mic Preamp Jungle Cross the Threshold to Greater Sound Quality by Tweak Focusrite ISA One Microphone Preamp As you learn about the recording arts you will find that the topic of the microphone preamp (mic pre) comes up over and over again. A mic pre is a preamplifier for…
READ GUIDE →The Concise History of the Home Studio
The Concise History of the Home Studio How we used to do it, how we do it today By Rich the TweakMeister Hey, this is not the definitive history of home recording but a quick timeline to give you the gist of what happened before you got here. This is the timeline you have to know to make sense of de…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Shure SM81 Microphone by SoundCravers Lab
Review of the Shure SM81LC Great Mic for Acoustic Guitar by Tweak It has taken years for the SM81 to rise to the top of my GAL (Gear Acquisition List) but it finally did a few weeks ago. The package has arrived and the acoustic guitars are dusted and polished. Expectations high. Plug it in to the Fo…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Behringer V-AMP
Review of the Behringer V-Amp 2 by Tweak Today was the day. I brought them out of exile, the dusty relics of my past, the skeletons in the Tweak's many closets. No, not the faded photographs of past significant others, but something almost as dear: I brought out my guitars. Shaking my head, in some…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers Lab Electronic Musician's Hangout
The #1 Site for Learning about Home and Project Studios Follow @SoundCravers More Really SCHWEET DEALz Tweak: New Lower price. Great Buy. Roland JUNO-G 61-Key Synthesizer Keyboard Look familiar? True to its heritage, the new JUNO-G is affordable and user-friendly. But that's where the comparisons to…
READ GUIDE →A Good Sounding, reasonably priced rig
Tweak's Guide to Recording Success Introduction For Noobs MIDI Basics Audio Basics Studio Rigs Studio Pics Past Studios Signal Flow System Guide Mac vs. PC Audio Interfaces Latency Install Issues Buy Gear Writing Music Inspiration Recorders Keyboards Controllers CC Events MIDI Routing Mixers Underst…
READ GUIDE →Soundcards for the Home Studio
The "Best" Audio Interface for your Home Studio page 2 Audio Interfaces and Soundcards 1 2 3 4 5 6 How to buy a soundcard or audio interface intelligently by the Tweak Preamps on Audio Interfaces Many audio interfaces have "combo" jacks which can accept both XLR mic and 1/4" instrument plugs from gu…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers Guide Index
Guide Index Browse the restored SoundCravers archive by topic. Getting Started Assembling 6 different types of Home Studios Essential Concepts for putting together a Home Studio Guide Index How to make money in your home studio How to Set Up Digital Audio in your Home Studio Pic of Basic Setup Podca…
READ GUIDE →You passed the 1st course
You passed the 1st course Tweak's Guide to Recording Success Introduction For Noobs MIDI Basics Audio Basics Studio Rigs Studio Pics Past Studios Signal Flow System Guide Mac vs. PC Audio Interfaces Latency Install Issues Buy Gear Writing Music Inspiration Recorders Keyboards Controllers CC Events M…
READ GUIDE →Choosing a Multi Track Recorder for your Home Studio
Choosing a Multi Track Recorder for your home studio What you need to watch out for when buying an MTR by Rich the TweakMeister The Alesis ADAT HD24 is a 24 track digital recorder. This kind of multi track requires that you buy a separate mixer. They are good for home studios that are called on to r…
READ GUIDE →How to Configure a Recording Studio Rig
21 ways to Assemble a Home Recording RIG A Tour through the Diverse Home Studio options available Today by Tweak page 1 Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 L et me take you on a walk through our favorite music store. I'll point out what works with what, nudge you in a few directions when I know something is o, so-cool…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Great River ME-1NV by SoundCravers Lab
Review of the Great River ME-1NV Nice Pre-Amp for the serious Home Studio Getting a good preamp is something that is not easy to do. Along the way there are many stumbling blocks, things that get in your way before you finally get down to business and pay. There must be a hundred reasons to not spen…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Shure SM57 Dynamic Microphone by SoundCravers Lab
Review of the Shure SM57 Dynamic Microphone The legendary, yet inexpensive Studio Mic of all time. If you ask nearly anyone who runs a professional recording studio, "Do you have a Shure SM57?" they might look at you and ask, "are you are serious?" Of course they do. Every studio needs at least one,…
READ GUIDE →Choosing a Mixer for Your Home Studio
Page 1 2 3 4 Choosing a Mixer for your Home or Project Studio Which Mixer? Everything you need to know by Tweak Tweak: This is the back of a Mackie 1604VLZ3 a known favorite in many home studios. Understanding the back of your potential mixer is more important than the front. By the end of this arti…
READ GUIDE →Defining Custom Bank Select Methods
Defining Custom Bank Select Methods Using Logic 8 I am going to show you how you get patchnames into Logic from your hardware synth. I am going to use the V-Synth GT as an example. Those of you who own the V-synth GT will find everything you need here to get your V-synth patchnames into Logic. If yo…
READ GUIDE →Review of Komplete 4 by Native Instruments
Review of Komplete 4 and 5 by Native Instruments Native Instruments improves their big bundle of Synths, Samplers, Drum instruments and FX By Tweak So far so good. The products, and there are twelve of them, all install nicely on my system (Mac OSX 10.4.8 PPC). Some are Universal Binary for the Inte…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Epiphone Casino
Review of the Epiphone Casino By the Tweak Modern day copy of a Beatles-Era Guitar I am no stranger to Epiphone Casinos. I used to play an original Casino, borrowed from a friend, every time I gigged. My own guitar at the time, a Les Paul of some unknown make, was simply not gig-worthy. Decades late…
READ GUIDE →Review of the M-Audio Solaris by SoundCravers Lab
Review of the M-Audio Solaris Condenser Microphone A Versatile multi-pattern condenser Mic for amps, rooms, instruments, vocal groups by the Tweak Sitting in its durable coffin like case, the Solaris lies safely in state The word Solaris means different things to different people. To an astronomer,…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Yamaha AW1600 Recorder by SoundCravers Lab
Review of the Yamaha AW1600 Multi Track Recorder Can it meet Tweak's Challenge? By Tweak Just when you thought you had me pegged as a computer guy I have to burst your bubble a little bit. Today's multi track recorders are cool, and like their DAW counterparts, they have become increasingly powerful…
READ GUIDE →Building a Big Rig with the MOTU 896 Mk3
Building a Big Rig with the MOTU 896 Mk3 by SoundCravers lab Under construction There are a lot of audio interfaces to choose from these days. Many excellent values. This makes the choices difficult, even for the well researched studio creator. I hope this review gives you the information you need t…
READ GUIDE →GM Sound Map
GM Sound Map PIANO CHROMATIC PERCUSSION 1 Acoustic Grand 9 Celesta 2 Bright Acoustic 10 Glockenspiel 3 Electric Grand 11 Music Box 4 Honky-Tonk 12 Vibraphone 5 Electric Piano 1 13 Marimba 6 Electric Piano 2 14 Xylophone 7 Harpsichord 15 Tubular Bells 8 Clavinet 16 Dulcimer ORGAN GUITAR 17 Drawbar Or…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Sennheiser MD421 by SoundCravers Lab
Review of the Sennheiser MD421-II A Rather Strange Day in TweakLand by Tweak Appearances are deceiving sometimes. Tweak presses a button on Tweakland's Magic Console and a glass display case of microphones rises out of the floor. Tweak says, "think of the microphone as a marriage". Yes. As something…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers Lab's Index of Resources for the Modern Home and Project Studio
Your Webmaster Rich the TweakMeister Web Traffic on SoundCravers Audio Interfaces and Soundcards Article Index New products from Namm 2010 Getting into Pro Tools 8.1 New: Subscribe to Tweak's Blogspot New Should we Upgrade to Win 7? NEW Polls Best Mid price Firewire Interface Best $1000 synth New Gu…
READ GUIDE →The Mackie 1402 VLZ Pro Page
Review of the Mackie 1402 VLZ Pro by Rich the TweakMeister SoundCravers Lab has it, likes it. Mackie 1402VLZ3 14-Channel Mixer Building on the legacy of the best-selling 1402-VLZ Pro, the Mackie 1402-VLZ3 Premium 14-Channel Compact Mixer provides the same popular feature set, and offers greatly enha…
READ GUIDE →What's New and Cool Page 3
What's New and Cool Page 3 The Beatles, according to legend, had several Epiphone Casios . At the time the P-90 pickups were a huge part of rock N roll. Today I have mine no more than 3 feet away at all times. I hot rodded my Casino with a Roland GK3 pickup, which, through my VG99 , can create just…
READ GUIDE →How to Configure a Recording Studio Rig, Page 6
21 ways to assemble a home recording RIG Page 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 A Tour through the Diverse Home Studio options available Today Rig #19 Acoustic/Electric Songwriter's Studio Discuss This Rig This rig can be discussed here: http://studio-central.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=73330 Who it is for: Multi t…
READ GUIDE →New Gear Page 6
New and Cool Gear Page 6 page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 Akai MPC500 MIDI Production System/Sampler Akai Professional's MPC500 is the first truly portable all-in-one Music Production Center. Affording artists the ability to sample and create music on-the-go, the MPC500 offers many of the s…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Focusrite Platinum Voicemaster Pro
Review of the Focusrite Platinum Voicemaster Pro by Tweak Pros Extremely Tweakable Onboard compressor and optical expander (gate) EQ, Vintage Harmonics, and tube sound for extra coloration when desired De-esser, FX send returns and monitoring section Looks and sounds great Cons Digital outputs are o…
READ GUIDE →How to Record Vocals in your Home or Project Studio
The Art of Recording Vocals How to get great sounding vocal tracks in your mixs by Rich the TweakMeister part 1 part 2 part 3 The Bell rings again. The Tweak briskly enters the classroom armed with coffee and his box of manuals. Some don't wait a second before shouting out newbie questions Tweak sig…
READ GUIDE →Older How-To Articles at SoundCravers Lab
Older How-to Articles on Using MIDI, Sequencers, Samplers, Synths and Music Computers by Tweak how to articles Setting up an Analog Surround Mix How to Make a Cakewalk .ins File Doing it with Digital . This is a primer that tells you how to make a fully digital recording with as few passes through c…
READ GUIDE →The Making of a Sample CD Rom Page 1
Sound Development Journal of Rich the TweakMeister while Making the Post-Industrial CybrSound Depot by Tweak October 10,2000 to March 18, 20001 ( more info on this cd rom) 10-10-00 I've decided to do it and make an EOS only version of my Emu format sample CD Rom " Ice Kold Tekno ". I am already a we…
READ GUIDE →Basic recording
Basic recording So, you want to record vocals and guitar? This brings us to Mics and Mixers and the possibility of going Mixerless First the mixer approach Most consumer soundcards either have no microphone preamps on the card or really bad ones designed for speech. If you want to get sound from a m…
READ GUIDE →Effects! Using Effects in the Home, Project or Pro Studio
Using Effects in the Recording Studio How to Tweak Up Special Effects that will Transform your Audio by Rich the TweakMeister E ffects are everywhere in our gear. We have effects plugins of almost limitless possibility, rack mount effects units at nearly every price range, synthesizers with "built i…
READ GUIDE →How to Program a Synthesizer by SoundCravers Lab
How to Program a Synthesizer by SoundCravers Lab Rich was part of the programming team for the Alesis QS series synths and Q-cards Lets say you want to go beyond tweaking factory patches and doing simple stuff like changing the instruments, octave etc., and want to develop voices all your own. This…
READ GUIDE →PCI Audio Interface Comparison Chart
The Delta 1010 LT PCI Audio Interfaces Comparison Chart 23 PCI interfaces compared also see the Firewire Chart and the USB 2.0 Chart on a budget? See the "best of the cheap" Soundcards and Interfaces 1 2 3 4 5 6 How to Use this Chart This handy chart can help you narrow down your choice of a PCI aud…
READ GUIDE →Recording Studio Systems for Making Music at Home
Time Out! Q) What are the absolute critical pieces for attaining professional sound? A) The most critical piece is always your own creativity. No piece of gear can supplant that. But the items that give that "professional sound" are: 1. Excellent Preamps for the Mics 2. Excellent digital audio conve…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Electrovoice RE20 by SoundCravers Lab
Review of the Electro-Voice RE20 Classic Mic for Radio and Broadcast Alternative Broadcast Mics Shure SM7B Dynamic Cardioid Studio Vocal Microphone The SM7B dynamic microphone has a smooth, flat, wide-range frequency response appropriate for music and speech in all professional audio applications. I…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers · Review Of The Rode NT1
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts Review Of The Rode NT1 Mar 22 — By The Tweak We all want good sound coming from our studios. We all know that the microphone is an important part of translating acoustical energy into a…
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