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  1. Firsty Lasty

    The meaty guitar project

    A few quick tips to help you out: #1 plan to high-pass like a mfer, #2 you want the rhythm and timing of every detail to be perfect, and #3 no noise please. The lower frequencies contained within a guitar’s signal don’t sound important in isolation, but when you have a lot of tracks then...
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    The meaty guitar project

    Why not quad track? There is no reason, bands do it all the time. Multiple tracks with different guitars (sometimes even with an acoustic guitar hiding in the mix) is common. Sometimes fat guitar is what you want, sometimes it’s not. Another detail which is important is that in pro recordings...
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    Something feedback on my singing please

    For my entertainment, maybe try playing and singing with earplugs in? Fair warning, I don’t know what result this will have. Maybe it’ll be a disaster lol. Hey, I just had an idea. Maybe I should help contribute to this school by making a video about how to wear earplugs properly, ‘cuz it seems...
  4. Firsty Lasty

    The Ultimate Reward

    Ah, what a bad time for the “like” feature to be broke. I could be clicking like on so many posts here. Jak, thank you for being here. Your new guitar looks like it was made for you.
  5. Firsty Lasty

    Need new suggestions DAWs

    In my limited experience as a non-professional, Reaper and Ableton are legit.
  6. Firsty Lasty

    Papa Gates – Blues Lessons

    My preferences lean towards British blues artists, so anything that direction is going to be what I study first. Of course I’ll be grateful for all of it.
  7. Firsty Lasty

    Still Having "Dead Tone" Issues

    Only active pickups use batteries, traditional pickup construction uses no batteries. It’s always good to have 9v batteries at home because they’re also what’s used by a lot of smoke detectors.
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    "Paradigm Strings" Problem With Sustain?

    I’ve never had any weirdness with paradigm strings, but I haven’t used them very often. I switched to only using d’addario ‘cuz they make more different sizes of strings than anyone else and I like to be a mad scientist with string gauges. My current standard tuning strings, which nobody asked...
  9. Firsty Lasty

    Does This Sound Good To You Guys

    Five hours without a break isn’t going to work. I personally take three kinds of breaks. First, the quick break: always be willing to put the guitar down for a moment when it feels right. There are times I put the guitar down for probably not even fifteen seconds just to relax, check my posture...
  10. Firsty Lasty

    Guitar problems

    How well can you do it now, and is there something specific about it that is tripping you up? Sweep picking is notorious for requiring a lot of practice. Having a strong foundation with alternate picking and smaller economy picking exercises makes everything easier.
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    Something feedback on my singing please

    I should learn more about singing so that I can talk about singing without everything I say being worthless lol. Because I’ve worked in a deafening environment with earplugs for almost a decade it’s easy for me to be loud, but I have no idea how to explain what my body does to be loud. I bet...
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    Theory

    Here are a couple thoughts on the “why the notes are what they are” of the pentatonic scale. First, the major pentatonic scale is the intervals which are valid over all three of the major chords contained within the structure of the major scale. For example, in the key of G the major chords are...
  13. Firsty Lasty

    Verifying account and uploading RIffs

    I see you have a video, so it looks like it worked.
  14. Firsty Lasty

    More questions about making a home studio

    I’ve never been able to get a sound I liked from the ignite emissary, and I’ve never heard anyone on youtube get a great sound from it either. LePou is the king of free amp sims, but even those require a lot of experimentation and experience to get great results. Here’s a super lazy way to get...
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    More questions about making a home studio

    Regarding how to hear yourself play, I’ve never used Tracktion but in most daws this function will be called something like “input monitoring”. Hopefully knowing that phrase will speed up your search.
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    RIFF RAGE CONTEST!

    Tech help, this is what I see if I go to “community riffs”: Good luck to all in their riffing endeavors! I oughta stop being lazy and clean up my practice space so that it’s presentable on camera.
  17. Firsty Lasty

    Really bummed out =/

    I guess it’s my night to feel old lol. At your age life hasn’t even really begun yet. You’re already good enough that I’m sure you’ll be able to find the right musicians to play with in the future. Tbh it’s a huge risk to invest effort and emotion into working with people with don’t have the...
  18. Firsty Lasty

    Happy teacher appreciation week to our favorite teachers and to you!

    I’m still blown away by how good this site is and how good the video lessons are. All you young people who grew up with high speed internet, y’all probably can’t understand how amazing this is. When I was young if you wanted to learn guitar you could maybe find a crappy book at the library or...
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    Building Our Own Studio (HELP!)

    Tbh any home studio setup that I would be satisfied with would blow way past $400 total, and I don’t have expensive tastes. On top of that producing and mixing something that sounds professional is, if you haven’t tried it before, a hundred times harder than one might expect. The good thing is...
  20. Firsty Lasty

    2 Year of playing for what?

    My personal bible for creativity is Devin Townsend’s little book on the subject. Here are a few things that have helped me. -Taking at least the first step of learning to “produce” music. Get a daw, start collecting drum samples, play with a soft synth or two. Maybe even get a cheap bass for...
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