If you do most of your playing at home and don’t have a band (my band is currently just two guitarists jamming on Sundays for instance, on break for the summer at that) but still want to make songs, you are going to be using virtual drums. You should consider yourself lucky, because nowadays there […]
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This is the third and final part of a series. You’ll find the previous parts here: Writing Your First Song Part I: Creating Riffs Writing Your First Song Part II: Recording and Arranging The Other Instruments Having recorded your guitar tracks and decided the order of the different parts you are ready to put them […]
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The newest version of Reaper (4.10) has an amazing new feature, found in some other DAWs – track freeze. Freezing a track means rendering it to a static sound file, the point of which is to save a lot of precious CPU cycles. I’ve done this manually before, mostly to be able to work on […]
Read more I’ve already dubbed Reaper the best DAW – functionality, ease of use and value for money. Another cool thing is that you can do a portable install to a USB stick or a cloud file service, like DropBox. This can be very handy if you, like me, use Reaper on more than one computer and […]
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On vacation without your DAW computer you can’t really work on your mixes or recorded songs. You can, however, work on songwriting. I have an acoustic guitar where I am, so I can noodle around creating new riffs. I don’t have a drumkit though. And honestly, not being a drummer I’m not sure it would […]
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I got Superior Drummer 2.0 for my birthday! It is ordered from the US, at a really good price ($229 including overseas shipping – crossing my fingers about customs fees). As soon as you press the order button the waiting starts, three to five business days… And here’s were Toontrack really made a good choice. […]
Read moreTo make a song as a bedroom guitarist you need someone to play the other instruments, you know the ones us guitarists don’t care so much about: bass and drums. For drums there are excellent VST plugs, foremost the Swedish Drumkit from Hell (which I use myself) and it’s big brother Superior Drummer. There are […]
Read moreOla Englund is, apart from an awesome guitarist, renowned over all the internet as someone who can squeeze a fantastic tone out of almost any amp. He’s made a few tutorial videos on Youtube that describes how you make amazing guitar and bass recordings, and how to make plugin drumkits like Superior Drummer sound great. Here’s […]
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