I've been asked by a friend to record him for a college audition. He plays the upright bass, but also needs me to record piano and acoustic guitar.

My question is what microphone would be best for these instruments?

I have a Shure SM57...would that be sufficient? If yes, for which instrument or all of the instruments? If not, what mic would be best?

Hey guys i gotta question about the guitar tone in the intro of this song
(and yes i know no one likes miley cyrus but hey that tone is ridiculous haha)

ok so i am Micing my crate amp (with 1 12" speaker) with 1 or 2 sm57s (whichever is needed) and i dont know whether i should use a preamp,compressor, or whatever for the sound (thats what i am asking you guys for)

I was thinking of adding guitar modeling software to my bag o' tricks mostly for scratch track reording when drum tracking as I don't really have good room for isolating a guitar amp. Musicians Frnd has a special this month on this software, buy it and they include an upgrade to the full Amplitude version.

I don't have a bass to use and I'm far too lazy to program all those MIDI notes when the results don't sound nearly close to a bass. I would much rather plugin my guitar DI and process the signal somehow. I am using Logic so any plugs would have to be Mac compatible and in AU format. I have tried Pitch Shifter, Vocal Transformer and Time and Pitch Machine.

Being that there are so many submission on metal guitar wars that utilize impulses, can someone explain what they do and what they are?

What techniques can I use to keep the volume swells at controlled when a bass player pops and slaps his strings? The popping tends to be the worst but the input meter isn't peaking. The bass player is not using any external effects, but does have a built in limiter.

Just wondering what this abbreviation stands for? Bought a Epiphone Les that I want to play with as a project guitar, pickups, pots, etc. and when researching various pickups this term came up.

Hi there, forum newbie here! :oops:

I was just wondering if anyone knew of any good virtual guitar software that could be run using midi tracks from Guitar Pro (like DFK for drums) or if that is even possible!

Btw the tones I'm looking for would be fairly distorted/high gain, so if you could take that into account!

Thanks for your help in advance! :D

how could i make my acoustic guitar recording sound fuller. it sounds lifless and dull.

Hey Everyone

I'm sure some of you have heard about this...but my tech just turned me onto it last week (better late than never) and it stopped my ever constant quest for perfect intonation in its tracks

As you know I'm a recording songwriter, not a salesman for a tuner company but I just gotta point this out in case someone out there could use it