Posts from July 2014

Trying to become a rock star in this day and age is a total waste of time because nobody wants you to be.

Is music gear insurance expensive or cheap? Let's find out.

I just recently bought a microphone because the one I have is old (probably at least 15 years old) and never really sounded that good. So I decided to buy a SM58 clone of sorts, the .

Some really good things happened with guitars. This isn't one of them.

You may have seen my Twitter profile and wonder how I get visual effects like that for a banner image. I use nothing but free tools on the web. Yeah, I have image editors, but I find the online way of doing it is faster and easier. Here's how it's done.

I've been a Weird Al listener for a long time, and something a lot of people don't take into consideration is just how damned good of a musician he is.

The way that I master audio files today for my songs is by using what I call a "smash compression" technique. Audio pros would probably consider this a really bad way to master an audio file, but I like the way it sounds and it works for me. This is how I smash-compress a master […]

There was a time in the 80s when neon-colored guitars sold fairly well. Has that time come again?

Above is an individual most would consider a rock god of sorts, Randy Rhoads. Was Randy a good player? Yes. But his studio tone was total crap.

Hint: It's not studio monitors.