Now it's the time :)
Happy New Year, dear subscribers!
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Vocal recording tips and tricks
Hi again!
Today we gonna discuss vox recording.
There are lot of ways and techniques to record vocals. But here I'm gonna give you some advices for recording at all.
1) Think about genre. Do you prefer aggressive singing or yells? If you do then you should use dynamic microphone (firstly for home recording, there are lot of possibilities in studio). It's very hard to overloud this type of microphone. If you want to sing calm and intimate songs then it's better to use condenser microphone because it catches all nuances of your voice. But this...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
The DAW of my choice. Discussing Reaper.
Hi again.
Today we're gonna talk about best (IMO) digital audio workstation called Reaper.
I used to use FL Studio as my main DAW. It has a lot of advantages but there are couple of dissapointments:
1) Appearance. Beautiful but hard and sumetimes unuseful interface (for instanse I want to open several plugins at the moment but they take a lot of workspace)
2) Pattern system. I don't usually do club or electro music so I don't need a lot of...
Saturday, December 1, 2012
"Metal Factory". Track presentation.
Hi there and it's me again.
Today I want to show you my track called "Metal Factory".
You can check it out here:
Now something about the structure of song:
Guitar:
Chain: DI->Revalver MKIII. Then I added some EQ. I know that sound isn't excellent but something is done. Also, guitars are double-tracked. Each speaker plays different guitar track.
You could check the links to full version of track in video's description.
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Artu...
Friday, November 23, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Guitar Reincarnation
My friend gave me his guitar and I repaired it.
List of changes:
1) Singles=>Humbuckers
2) 0.09 => 0.11 inch strings
3) Measure tweak
4) Anchor tweak
5) Fingerboard cleaning
6) Strings height adjust.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
My First EP Release.
Hey, what's up, musiclovers?
It's pleasant to announce that I just have released my first EP called "unLatem".
http://vk.com/wall35505418_9805
Check this out!
For more write me an e-mail here: audiostocks@gmail.com
Arthu...
Friday, October 26, 2012
What is impulse response?
Hello, this is me again :)
Let's talk about impulse responses (IR). But I'll give little interlude.
Guitar stack is created with two parts: an amplifier and cabinet speaker. Amplifier creates sound (and creates distortion). But it's not this distortion what we hear. Raw sound contains a lot of hiss above 5-6 khz. Then goes speaker cabinet. It is special guitar speaker, which pulls off bad high frequences.
Let's create virtual stack. Here's an...
Thursday, October 11, 2012
VST Vinyl Emulation
Hello everyone, this is me again. Today ve gonna talk about free VST vinyl emulation plugins. There are lot of vinyl VST plugins and now I want to show you few of them.
1) iZotope Vinyl
I think that it is one of the greatest vinyl plugins. A lot of tweaks, perfect analog sound modulation. iZotope Vinyl has very simple interface. It has two unique knobs. Year simulates different period of vinyl music. RPM means Rotations Per Minute - you...
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Guitar to Skype
Hello! I often notice that people want to transfer their guitar sound from Guitar Rig, Amplitube e.t.c to Skype. So, here's solution!
1) Make sure you using ASIO driver.
2) Download trial version of Virtual Audio Cable or find freeware alternative.
3) Install it properly.
4) Open your guitar amp and go to ASIO preferences (Green logo in right bottom corner). You will see new WDM Device:
5) I will use Guitar Rig interface: go to...
Friday, October 5, 2012
How to remove hiss (bad HF) after software amp simulator?
Hello everyone, this is me again.
In my last post I promised to make hiss removing tutorial. So check this out :)
Few words about amp. For this topic I used Revalver Peavey MK III amp software, Flathill amp (Mesa Boggie Emulation).
Let,s listen to our sound:
Here is a bit of hiss in high frequences range. Now wo gonna remove it.
Select band with small Q (0,15-0.30 oct) in high frequences.
Gain it a lot (5-7 dB)
Move band from about 5k...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Free VST guitar ampsims review #1
Hello, music lover! Today we gonna discover free Poulin's VST Ampsim plugins. All sounds are not EQ'ed, uncompressed and don't have any post-processing.
Plugins Author's Page
After ALL ampsims I used LePou2 impulse response plugin with "Catharsis-awesometime-fredman" impulse 1on-preshigh.
#1: LePou HyBrit.
Settings I used
I like this amp. Something between red and green sound. A bit crunchy but not too much. Design is also good....
Monday, October 1, 2012
How to make Windows 7 applications work with ASIO? ("ASIO BLOCKS ALL SOUNDS" ISSUE)
Hey, what's up!
Today's tutorial explains how to make your Windows 7 work with ASIO properly. Unlike WinXP, Windows Vista/7 have different audio structure and ASIO can not use it like XP's audio. But there's a compromise. Often integrated Realtek's Soundcards have two outputs - rear and front panel. In this short tutorial I'm gonna show you how to make Windows 7 use, for example, rear panel and leave front panel output only for ASIO. So, check this out.
P.S: rates and comments on Youtube are welcome :)
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How to connect guitar/bass to computer?
Hello, dear subscriber.
This article is about very popular problem of guitars and computer "friendship". It is easy, just read the following instructions:
1) It's good if u have dedicated audiointerface or professional soundcard. If you don't then you just plug your guitar to Line Input (often blue channel) of your integrated soundcard.
2) Make sure that guitar knobs are 100% turned on (max volume).
3) It's time to kill the latency. http://asio4all.com/...
