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VST Amp">Best Free VST Amp

By oneoverphi

I’ve been doing a lot of record­ing lately and have had need of a good vir­tual gui­tar amp. I wanted some­thing that sounded good and most impor­tantly, free. It seems that these two require­ments rarely go hand in hand. After plow­ing through many weak amp sim­u­la­tors I finally hit pay­dirt. Acme­BarGig has the best vir­tual amp I’ve ever... »

Roll Your Own Software Guitar Effects

By oneoverphi

Here are great tuto­ri­als on build­ing your own soft­ware gui­tar effects with MaxMSP (Tuto­r­ial #1, Tuto­r­ial #2). For those who don’t know MaxMSP is an incar­na­tion of Max, the mul­ti­me­dia devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment. Max was rolled out by Cycling ’74. MSP is a set of mod­ules designed for real-time audio pro­cess­ing, check out the overview here.... »

Sawing at My Guitar

By oneoverphi

I’ve done some­thing that I’ve wanted to try for a long time. Tak­ing my Christ­mas gift cer­tifi­cate to Long and McQuade, I bought a vio­lin bow to use on my gui­tar. Let me tell you, it is not easy to just pick up a bow and start play­ing. First thing I noticed was that the notes I was hear­ing were... »

How to Start Your Own Boutique Pedal Business

By oneoverphi

Me wanty. dano at beavis audio research has released the Beavis Board. This makes pro­to­typ­ing gui­tar effects so much eas­ier. I’ve played around with a cou­ple of bread­boards, build­ing fuzz cir­cuits here and there, but was always dis­ap­pointed by hav­ing jacks, 9 volts, and switches hang­ing off umbil­i­cals. It became too much of a bother to get... »

Improve Your Music Through Restraint

By oneoverphi

Some time ago I went plu­gin happy. Actu­ally it was more plu­gin mad. I trolled through sites like VST Planet and Audio Mas­ter­mind search­ing for the elu­sive plu­gin that would make my record­ings sparkle. Just the faint promise of breath­ing life into the gui­tars, or pol­ish­ing the vocals was enough to sell me. Soon my plu­gin... »

A Distortion Pedal Recommendation

By oneoverphi

I was recently shop­ping around for an over­drive pedal at my local music shop. I tried out a T.C. Elec­tronic Clas­sic Booster + Dis­tor­tion this pedal is nice. Really nice. I have an Epi­phone SG run­ning through a Traynor amp, so that’s the setup I had going on in the store just to make sure every­thing sounds good together. While this... »

Did Somebody Say Moog?

By oneoverphi

So the Moog gui­tar is out. Just as I would expect from Moog there are more than enough jacks, dials, and switches. I’m curi­ous to see who picks this up and what they do with it. The mute func­tion on the strings is inter­est­ing and can cer­tainly clean up your sound. But I find that some­times... »

Wire me up! A Short History of Guitar Effects

By oneoverphi

I went to Seat­tle recently and while there I took in the Expe­ri­ence Music Project. One of the most inter­est­ing exhibits was the his­tory of the gui­tar. But of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to me was the dis­play of early elec­tric guitars. Mod­ern music has much to owe the elec­tric gui­tar. Elec­tric gui­tars brought with them the oppor­tu­nity to... »

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