Category: Instruments

Recording most instruments these days is relatively easy in a home studio. One common exception is recording drums; this is still fairly difficult to do at home, for reasons of space, noise and the...

When amp sims (guitar amplifier simulator software) first came on the market, the sounds they produced did not really sound anything like a real guitar amp. These days that is no longer true; amp...

We've all heard that killer rock guitar riff that just sounds huge. Electric guitars can give such a powerful sound in a mix, adding waves of emotion and really bringing a track to life. However,...

Connecting an acoustic guitar to a computer is usually done to record the sound of the guitar on the computer. In this sense "connecting" means getting a signal from the sound that your guitar makes,...

If you record music, at some point you're probably going to want to record an acoustic guitar, most likely by placing a microphone in front of it. Can good results be obtained by using a standard...

When I first started getting interested in playing electric guitar in the late 1980s, I didn't even realize that you needed an amplifier to be able to hear the sound. Eventually, I learned there...