This week we’re obsessed with guitar, which might be one of the most popular, most versatile, and most important instruments in contemporary music. Over the decades, guitars have shaped a multitude of hits, transcended genres, and become distinctive sounds within popular music.
Matt Honkonen of Pitchwire shares some of his creative guitar production secrets using Effect Rack for modern hip-hop production.
Watch the Soundtoys team record electric guitar dripping with juicy effects – using nothing but Effect Rack.
Did you know that you can build your own Effect Rack preset from existing plug-in presets?
We spent a day in the studio with fellow musician and steel guitar aficionado Trevor Sohnen, aka @cosmicthecowboy, jamming to the smooth, cool sound of pedal steel and lap steel guitars.
In collaboration with SonicScoop, we asked seasoned producer and YouTuber Matthew Wang to take us through how he transforms four tracks of guitar ideas.
We teamed up with Sonic Scoop and Ryan Earnhardt from Creative Sound Lab to demo how to process guitar sounds using a parallel aux return track in Ableton Live.
This week we’re exploring the use of effects in sound design for creating and altering sounds for film and TV, games, radio or podcasts, character voice creation, synth patches, sample processing, or even live performances and music production.
We gathered Dan Deacon, Jason LaRocca, and Ryan Miller – three sonic producers who started as solo artists or members of bands, but now also work with studios to score and mix for film and games – to discuss the business of creating sound for the picture, differences in approach and creative process, the journey from music production to film scoring and sound design.
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