I wanted to post this just to have a quick guide up for a reference when needing a different scale pattern to use on the fly. This info came from a variety of sources that I found while browsing around the other day. So, Let’s start with the basic patterns for the main scales everyone needs to know.
A Minor PentatonicRead More »Guitar Scales Cheat Sheet
So I was browsing around and found this site, 72hours.org which is a pretty good resource for getting ready for any type of emergency situation where you will be out of your normal element for a few days. After browsing around, I came up with a basic necessity list for what would be needed in a quick to grab Go-Bag that will let you survive a situation for up to a week if need be without losing many of the amenities that we’ve become so accustomed to.
Example of a Go-BagA Go-Bag is just as it soundsRead More »Survival Go-Bag
So there’s 4 more maps coming out soon for MW3 for the Elite dropping on March 20th from what I see. Here’s a quick synopsis and pic from the new ones. You can find the video walk throughs on MW3’s main site.Read More »MW3 New Maps: Overwatch and Black Box
DOD released the FX86 Death Metal by early 1994, probably at the same time as the FX33 Buzz Box. Designed for use with guitar or bass, the FX86 was painted solid black with a blood-red splatter finish befitting its name. The FX86 was unique among DOD’s distortion pedals in that it featured three bands of eq but no distortion gain control, resulting in a somewhat limited pallette of distorted sounds (but perfect for extreme metal).
DOD’s self-imposed limit of four control knobs became readily apparent with the FX86, and made it clear that no DOD pedal would ever feature concentric pots (which Boss began using in three different pedals released in 1991, including their MT-2 Metal Zone). The FX86 Death Metal sold well but was ultimately replaced by the final-series FX86B Death Metal Distortion in 1998.
The DOD Death Metal Distortion PedalThe Bass V-Amp Pro is a rack mounted effects and amp modeler that gives out some great clean tones that can be used for Bass,… Read More »Bass V-Amp Pro Setup Tips
Here’s a quick tip I found for adjusting the pickups on your electric guitar to help maximize output. The distance between pickup and string is… Read More »Adjusting Pickup Height for your Guitar or Bass
If you need a good base of web fonts to use for your website, Google now offers a great selection of free webfonts that you… Read More »Free Web Fonts from Google
Antares Autotune is a program developed to help smooth out vocal recording to fix small tonal errors of warping or varying off key. It can also be used as an effect when done properly such as by Cher or T-Pain. To get that robotic, tinny, computerized sound, you just have to play with the settings to the max of it’s abilities. These are the settings to get that popular T-Pain sound from your recorded vocals. Read More »Autotune T-Pain Effect
So when recording Rap / Hip Hop / RnB vocals, there’s a different technique then rock vocals. Rap is usually more of a spoken word type of singing, which gives a different set of qualities that you have to plan for. As it’s not as pronounced as opera singing, where the vocalist is belting out a range of notes with a full voice.Read More »Recording and EQ’ing Rap Vocals
Equalizing is the most important part of mastering the audio tracks that you have recorded. Without it, everything would sound muddy, garbled and lifeless. Each instrument has a range from roughly 20Hz to 20kHz, with the majority of the sound in the 400Hz-16kHz frequencies. When you are recording one instrument, it sounds fine because it used the full spectrum and has clarity, but when you add 4+ instruments, now they all are muddying up the spectrum which gives you a uneven sound with some instruments overpowering others.Read More »Mixing Your Sound; Working with EQ