// Featured Tips and Tricks

Tips For Recording Electric Bass
By John Bohn
[18 Oct 2008|No Comment]

The electric bass is often an overlooked part of recordings. Although most probably don’t do it intentionally, the bass becomes unimportant because people tend to focus strongly on “more important” tracks such as the snare drum or the all-important lead vocal. The reality is that the bass sound is essential to making a really great [...]

// Featured Gear Review

Heil PR 20
By John Bohn
[18 Oct 2008|No Comment]

I’ve heard a lot of good things about all the Heil mics for a while now and have had some experience with the PR 30 and PR 40, but hadn’t had any experience with the PR 20 aside from some tunes a friend of mine cut with the PR 20 on the snare.  I liked [...]

// The Old Disgruntled Engineer

A Problem with Myspace
By Old Disgruntled Engineer
[19 Oct 2008|2 Comments]

My newest complaint is the quality of material that people are posting on their websites.  I get on the internet from time to time and search through band’s myspaces to see if there’s any new and interesting I should be aware of but I end up finding horribly recorded, very bad songs.  I remember a [...]