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Home Recording and Tone

With Al Joseph, Lucas Fowler and Mike Salow
BeginnerRockRecording 7 tutorials38 lessons3h 27m

Dial in great tone and record it well. Gain staging, mixing basics, re-amping, EQ and keeping your guitar in top shape.

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  1. 1 Tutorial · 10 lessons · 46m Tone Philosophy Al Joseph Hey Folks, So I've been getting a lot of questions about my tone over the last couple years or so and thought I'd take you through my mindset when creating my tone. As a disclaimer, this is not a tutorial on...
  2. 2 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 36m Gain Staging with Pedals Lucas Fowler Hi guys! After having conversations with several of my guitarist friends, I thought it might be prudent to talk a little about gain staging with pedals. I made three videos to demonstrate the differences in...
  3. 3 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 40m Essential Steps To A Better Mix Al Joseph Welcome! In this tutorial, we're going to cover: 1. Gain Staging - Making sure your recordings are going in at the proper levels 2. Balancing your mix - NO EQ. Just faders. This process should usually take...
  4. 4 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 26m Basic Mixing Tips Lucas Fowler Hi all! This month we're looking a some tips for getting a good, clean mix doing your own recordings. In this first example we'll deal with some ways to treat heavy electric guitar tracks. First we'll use our...
  5. 5 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 13m Re-amping Lucas Fowler Hi all, This month I'm going over how I use reamping to dial in a guitar tone I like in a very measured and controllable way. Tips: 1. Remember to use the guitar you are going to use for the application, or...
  6. 6 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 16m Graphic Equalizers Lucas Fowler Hey guys! This month we're going to go over how to use a Graphic Equalizer to shape the tone of your amp in a very powerful way. Grapic EQ's are a must have pedal in every guitar player's collection, they...
  7. 7 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 30m Guitar Setup and Cleaning Mike Salow Hello!  This time around we will discuss a very important peice of guitar knowledge: Setting up and cleaning our guitar. Some of you may already know how to do this but I stongly advise all of you to check...

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