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  1. Hey guys, Just curious on what's your favorite pickup type and position to use. (eg. neck tele, etc.) and any particular reason why? When I was younger I had a thing for strat single coils, but nowadays the only thing I really use is a bridge humbucker in my strats, which I use for both rhythm and lead/riff styles. Probably due to a change in taste, from clean sounds to a more overdriven sound.
  2. Sounds cool. What kind of music are you into singing?
  3. Hey guys, I just listening to the new RHCP album and I noticed a very cool and distinct tone coming out of Flea's bass in this song. Was wondering if you guys had any idea of how he achieved this type of tone. Such as bass guitar model/pickup, effects, playing technique, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIABpVRDb-I
  4. Hi and welcome to the forum, That's a very deep voice. Mostly likely a bass on the lower end. Do you have any clips of you singing?
  5. Yeah.. that's a pretty high saddle.. looks high enough to need a tune-o-matic bridge.. How's the action of the string around the middle of the neck?
  6. You're welcome, Rene. The music was beautifully played. Well done!
  7. @Rene AsologuitarYour post has been moved to the 'Acoustic Guitars' section
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  9. Any popular song examples of that have this, in which the bridge is used again as the outro? any genre, era, etc.
  10. The regular built-in soundcards aren't recommended for serious recording and audio. You will experience latency issues. You should look into getting an audio interface, it is basically an external sound card or device that you connect using USB connection. They are specifically designed to handle instrument and microphone inputs and they have low latency. Focusrite, Presonus and Roland are some popular brands that make audio interfaces.
  11. I'm not a drummer myself, but I've been engineering drum recordings for a number of years. If you're dragging consistently throughout the entire recording then most likely its a latency issue. Latency can be a combination of delay in both the output (monitoring) and the input (recording). This can easily fixed using time shift in editing and is a legitimate reason to do so. If the song has a slow tempo, its actually more difficult to have precise timing, because the gap between beats is wider so any timing issues with be more noticeable. Are you recording along with a click track? It should help with timing. If you are, then make sure the click track is loud enough so its not drowned out by the track or masked by your own drum hits.
  12. There's a difference between sound treatment and soundproofing. In order to do legit soundproofing (isolating sound) on an existing room is very difficult. You would need to tear down the walls and insulate the insides. You can do some makeshift soundproofing like sealing windows and doors, thick curtains for windows, replacing doors with more solid ones, which might help somewhat. Sound treatment, aka sound absorption, which is placing acoustic materials inside the room, isn't exactly soundproofing, but it might help reduce the loudness of a room, which in turn may make things somewhat quieter. A room with a lot of hard surfaces will reflect sound more and may be perceived as louder. Reduce these hard surfaces and the room will naturally get quieter. Just a simple thing like a floor rug might reduce the reverbation/echo by a lot. Making do-it-yourself acoustic panels using Roxul (safe and sound) is a pretty cheap solution. I've made 8 acoustic panels (4' x 2' size) myself and they helped a lot. Will probably cost around $100-150 in materials/supplies to make a set of 8. This is very affordable considering that acoustic panels retail for like $80-100 each. Moving blankets are sometimes commonly used too (I occasionally use them), but too many blankets will absorb mostly high frequencies and make the room sound dull. Acoustic panels made from materials like Roxul will absorb frequencies more evenly throughout the spectrum, resulting in a more balanced room sound. This is what people call broadband absorption. What are the dimensions of your room?
  13. I'm not sure if I remember how the tele sounded exactly. It was probably 10 years ago. lol But one thing I noticed in my jazz bass is that the brass saddles give more of a humming quality in the higher overtones, which imo made the attack sound more defined. Have you ever considered using Graphtech Tusq? Its a very interesting material. It's probably the one material that maximizes overall tone. I use both Tusq saddles and nut in my Yamaha 'strat', which is my main tracking electric guitar. It's originally a budget guitar, but I made it more usable with some custom mods.
  14. I used to own a tele. I think I had both steel and brass saddles on it at different points. I think brass saddle might give the guitar a slightly brighter attack. I had the 3 saddle version, which looks nice aesthetically especially with brass, but the intonation wasn't as accurate as guitar with 6 saddles. I also switched the saddles on my jazz bass from steel to brass. It definitely changed the attack, it is brighter sounding to me.
  15. This is an interesting topic. Although I started playing guitar since I was a teenager, I hardly prioritize being "technical". I play more based on vibe and feeling rather than complexity or virtuosity. My philosophy when it comes to performing music, is to serve the song or music first, and not necessarily for making the musician look good. To me its about using fewer notes but also the most appropriate notes to taste, not playing as many notes as possible. I don't really consider electric guitar as my primary instrument these days, but I do occasionally have electric guitar parts and I try to apply this philosophy in my own songs.
  16. What is up with this ranking system? wasn't the reputation score enough? feels a bit convoluted at this point.. Are we going for a D&D RPG Alignment system or something? lol Can you have high rank but negative reputation?
  17. I haven't logged in for about a week and suddenly I'm a 1/14 newbie.. 😒
  18. As Felipe said, the Reaper built-in pitch correction plug-in 'ReaTune' should be good enough for you to get by. Another better but fairly affordable plug-in would be Waves Tune or Tune LT, they usually have them on sale for around $30.
  19. Interesting issue. How old are the strings? Are they new? It's possible for a older strings to lose volume and sound less crisp over time.
  20. Phil doesn't seem to be active on the forums anymore. But I'll try to give you my feedback on it. I think it sounds pretty good. Not much I would change. Maybe the boost the high-mids on the vocals to make it a bit more in front of the rhythm guitar. Something more of a recording/production decision, I'm hearing the rhythm guitar moderately panned to the right? I feel like you could get some more openness in the mix if you try hard panning the rhythm guitar and balance the left side using either a double or miked in stereo. Again, another production suggestion, maybe the second half could use the introduction of hand percussion (eg. shaker) or something, the song doesn't seem to progress enough sonically during the second half, especially for a song over 4 minutes. I think the singing works well in this track and within the context. A minor detail I noticed in the vocals at 1:19, which sounds like it could be a mic plosive or rough edit on the Be of Could Be. Maybe double check that part, re-record that phrase, or automate some EQ to attenuate it. I hope this helps.
  21. I don't think it requires a very powerful computer to record with acceptable latency. I think any computer with an Intel i5 processor equivalent or greater will be good enough. Both my desktop and laptop use i5 and the latency was never an issue. I get around 8ms of latency. Just make sure you use a decent audio interface with good and up-to-date drivers.
  22. Interesting vocal, pleasant tone. The glissando into the notes can be an interesting style, but can become overdone and get tiring to listen to. I would recommend working to hit the notes more without sliding onto pitch. Aim directly at the intended pitch. See how that works out.
  23. Yeah I can understand the issue you're dealing with. When the kick drum mic isn't deep enough it may pick up more of the overall kit. But if you put it way close to the beater then the kick drum becomes much louder relative to the rest of the kit, which will give you an easier threshold to work the gate. If you want a potential bandaid fix then you could always try doing sidechain compression, use the snare track signal to duck the kick drum track. But since you have plenty of time to record it again, I would go back to the recording process and adjust the microphone instead. It's always best to get the sound source right first rather than trying to "fix it in the mix".
  24. I never used a AKG D12 before, but like Phil said it gives a more old school type sound. I think if you want more beater or attack then you should place the mic deeper inside the drum. I use an Audix D6 and I place it inside the drum with a couple of inches away from where the beater meets the inside head. This method almost gives me too much attack given the sound profile of the D6. But its probably the most "modern" sounding kick drum mic on the market. Also if you're dealing with snare bleed into the kick mic, then you take it out easily using gate processing. You're probably joking.. (I hope 😆) but a kick drum would probably destroy your shiny new M5. Please don't.. lol If you really wanna get intricate with kick drum recording, you can always supplement the sound using a 2nd kick mic. Steve Albini's recording method involves hanging a small microphone (can't remember the mic, but you can find it on youtube) outside the drum but next to the beater. He primarily uses it just to get the beater sound. Here's a photo of how I set up my D6 kick drum mic. Ignore the SM7B.. I don't even use that anymore on drums. https://www.instagram.com/p/B9kgarwJDLV/
  25. I haven't shopped at Guitar Fetish in about 8 years, but my shopping experiences with them have always been good from what I can remember. Everything was very affordable, especially their hardware and pickguards. I do own a set of GFS humbuckers, which I do like and currently use in one of my guitars. But yeah, I gotta agree that their item descriptions are a bit misleading. And I also think their old website layout was better, the current layout and design looks really tacky.
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