Author Archives: Andy

Recording: Go With The Flow

November 6, 2011 – 7:36 am

Two of my favorite subjects in recording: signal flow and levels. Simple and often taken for granted, yet grasping them well is your safe haven in times of trouble. Let’s start with signal flow. It’s basically a sound wave or an electric voltage (in this case music) that starts somewhere and ends up hitting our [...]

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Guitar Gear: Pedalboard Pornography

October 7, 2011 – 11:56 am

This is my pedalboard. Go ahead, look at it. Don’t touch it, though. If you are at a band’s show, you may have noticed that either before or after they play, you will see a bunch of nerdy dudes hovering around the front of the stage where the guitar player’s pedalboard is, trying to sneak [...]

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Production Notes: The Autumns – The Angel Pool

September 23, 2011 – 6:13 pm

One day in the mid-1990′s, Jason and I went by The Coconut Teaszer for something, I think to see a friend’s band play. We had been playing there somewhat regularly with the band we were in. There was a band opening, to a mostly empty room, and we stopped to give a listen. The singer [...]

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Recording: Not Producing

September 19, 2011 – 3:23 pm

Sometimes people ask me to teach the how to record, and/or produce. They are two different things, which beg distinction. Recording is engineering. In an extreme representation, it is a person in a lab coat with a clipboard that looks like a scientist. That’s how it used to be, actually. Recordists were engineers, and no [...]

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Guitar Gear: Use What Works

September 1, 2011 – 11:27 am

Last bit of general philosophy. A friend of mine recently sold a guitar for large sum of money, that was quite nice, in favor of keeping one that he purchased for $5. Because the cheap one sounds better. A friend of mine recently decided to abandon the use of his mega-rack in favor of an [...]

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