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Studio Update: Clean Rhythm Guitars are (mostly) Done

On April 13, 2025April 15, 2025 By Drew PetersonIn Blog, Studio UpdatesLeave a comment

I suppose this is a slight misnomer, as I need to set up my PRS and when I do I'll probably add one or two humbucker clean tracks using that. So, really, what I'm saying is all the clean and gritty rhythm guitar parts that I planned on playing on a Strat are done. I …

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Tracking Acoustic Guitars

On March 30, 2025April 15, 2025 By Drew PetersonIn Blog, Studio UpdatesLeave a comment

When I was starting to think about how I wanted this album to sound, when I was writing it, I'd kind of expected that there would be a lot more acoustuc rhythm guitar than there actually was. As it happens, two of the nine songs have acoustic guitar parts - the one I'm adding at …

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Reamping: Does Gain Staging Matter?

On March 24, 2025April 15, 2025 By Drew PetersonIn Blog, Studio Updates1 Comment

...sort of a trick question, gain staging ALWAYS matters, but specifically does how hot you record your DI tracks matter? First, just a quick general studio update - life's been busy lately, but I think the bass tracks are done. I might go back and re-record parts of one, and I've got a 9th song …

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Bass editing workflow

On March 9, 2025 By Drew PetersonIn Blog, Studio UpdatesLeave a comment

I've talked abut this a little in prior posts, but while I'm taking a day off to let my finger heal a little (there's evidently a rough fret edge somewhere on my bass, so my pointer finger looks like it's been sandpapered - I've taken a file to the treble side of the fret ends …

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