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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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Tips on Using Pan, Volume and Effects in your Mix
Tips on Clarifying your Sonic Imagery Using Pan, Volume and effects by Rich the Tweak Full resolution Philharmonic Orchestra of Jalisco (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico) Author: Pedro Sanchez, GNU Free Documentation License , You have probably noticed on your mixer there is a "pan" control on nearly ev…
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 →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 →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 →Using Harmonizers in your Home Studio
Using Harmonizers Define your signature vocal sound and more by the Tweak Eventide Eclipse Harmonizer Studio Effects Processor The harmonizer is one of the less understood studio processors. They are less likely to show up in a typical home studio rack. I think that is an oversight, though it's easy…
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 →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 →Setting up a Patchbay in your Home Studio by SoundCravers lab
Setting up a Patchbay in your Home Studio Increase your creative options with flexible signal paths by SoundCravers Lab Y our significant other barges in your studio and screams the usual blood curdling scream at that always annoying pitch. There you lay on the floor, under the desk, and you aren't…
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 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Mixing in the Virtual Realm of the Sequencer
mixing "in the box" and "out of the box" in the Virtual Realm of the Software Mixer How to Set up your Software Mixer for Optimal Music Production by Tweak It was a cold night in my alley shack TweakLab in 1988. I had my brand new KM802 8 channel mixer and I could finally connect my 4 little synths…
READ GUIDE →Post Processing for Vocal Tracks by SoundCravers Lab
How to Process Great Sounding Vocal Tracks Part II Post Processing Vocal Tracks by Rich the TweakMeister part 3 part 2 part 1 Now that we are past the recording process, the real fun begins, the tweaking! Here's where you apply the magic to make the vocal sound full, lush, and ring with great clarit…
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 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 →SoundCravers · The Perfect Mix, Notes on Mastering, Post-Production Audio, and The Final Touches
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts The Perfect Mix Mar 26 — By The Tweak Contents ↓ The Mix Process The Mix itself The Role of Compression at Mixdown The Role of the Software/Hardware Mastering processor Software Masteri…
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 →Review of Cubase SX by SoundCravers Lab
A Logical Look at Cubase SX Making the decision: SX, Sonar, Mac-Logic By Tweak Pros Great Audio Sequencing Features and excellent sound Offline Audio Processing Rocks! Solid Rewire implementation with the Ableton Live and Reason Cons Time consuming and tedious MIDI patch management system Bugs due t…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Ableton Live
Review of the Ableton Live Adds Acid and Sonar like Loop facilities to Cubase and Logic page 1 2 by Rich the Tweakmeister Pros: Works in ReWire Hosts Excellent Effects with real time control Works "On the Fly" and would be great for Live Shows Works great in Mac OS X and Win XP. As of version 5 MIDI…
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 →Types of Synthesis in Modern Softsynths
What are Software Synthesizers And the Types of Synthesis within Today's Software Instruments By Rich the Tweakmeister Spectrasonics Omnisphere Software Synth (Mac and Windows) Tweak's Pick Selecting a software synth for your studio is like going to a candy store. They all look soooo good. And with…
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 →Review of the Triton Rack by SoundCravers Lab
Review of the Korg Triton Rack Tweak's Pick for the Power User by Rich the Tweak zZounds Keyboard Dept. Korg Triton Rack Module The Triton Rack provides all of the sound and sampling functionality of the most highly respected synthesizer/workstation in today's music scene – the Triton. In addition,…
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 Boss RE-20 Space Echo by SoundCravers Lab
Review of the Boss RE-20 Space Echo by SoundCravers lab Boss RE-20 Space Echo Delay Pedal One of the most beloved echo effects ever made, the Roland RE-201 Space Echo, has been reborn as the BOSS RE-20 Twin Pedal! Roland and BOSS have recreated every sonic detail and nuance of the original. Experien…
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 →The Mystik Garage Emu Sample CD Rom
The Mystik Garage This Emu format CD Rom disk was made on an ESi Sampler. Loads perfectly into the Esi 32, Esi4000/2000, E4, E-Synth , E64, E6400 (and all the Ultras) and even the EIII add $5.00 Shipping Version 2.2 Now Available! $39.99 Not in stock-special order only. Send a private message to Twe…
READ GUIDE →EQ and the Limits of Audio by SoundCravers Lab
Understanding EQ EveryPerson's Guide to The Limits of Audio Newbie Class by Tweak The Cambridge EQ for the UAD collection. This is a full featured multi-band parametric EQ In these wonderful days of audio plugins and supercharged processors, it is tempting to ignore something as simple as EQ, short…
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 →Rachid's Top 50 Wishs
50 Most Wanted Wishs for the Emulator Operating System Compiled by Rachid posted 5/5/99 Nr 1: Standard DOS disk format - 58 Votes For hard drives as well as CD-Roms, this coupled with .WAV and .AIFF should be a giant leap.. Author(s): Loads.. Nr 2: Save / export INTO an existing bank - 53 Votes How…
READ GUIDE →Review of Sound Forge
Review of Sound Forge 7 through 9 A Great Audio editor for the PC by Tweak Sony SoundForge Stereo Editing Software (Windows) Sound Forge® software is an award-winning digital audio editor that includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for recording and manipulating audio. Sony S…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers · 61 Key Piano / Keyboard Gallery with Pictures, Descriptions, and Prices
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts 61-Key Gallery Mar 18 — By The Tweak Access Virus TI2 Keyboard Integrated Modeling Synthesizer The Access VIRUS TI2 synthesizer keyboard is designed to lead the world in a completely ne…
READ GUIDE →What are Software Samplers?
What are Software Samplers? How to Choose the Right one for your Studio by Tweak The process of "sampling" audio is everywhere in the modern studio. Sampling is just another word for recording sound on digital media. We find this process of sampling audio in our sequencers, multi track recorders, CD…
READ GUIDE →A Look at Cubase 5 by SoundCravers Lab
A Look at Cubase 5 New Features push Cubase towards the top of its game By SoundCravers Lab Tweak peeks behind the Steinberg curtain. Cubase Five-Oh. Wait a minute, Cubase 5 came out in 2001! So did a control surface called Houston (erm..Houston, come in, we may have a problem). And they did have a…
READ GUIDE →All about Studio Compressors
What they are, and when, where and why we use them By Tweak Close up of the DBX 1066 , a full featured dual compressor/limiter/gate. Note the sections "expander/gate", "compressor" "output gain" and "limiter" for each channel. Not all compressors have gates or limiters You have no doubt heard people…
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…
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