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    Compression in Metal?

    I agree with this, I find I need a compressor in front, especially if it's not a maximum gain amp setting.
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    Been playing guitar around 20 years, STILL can't choose a guitar pick.

    Try the Tortex Flow pick in that color. Same material, slightly smaller size and sharper tip.
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    EZDrummer 3 - custom kits

    Since it's possible to mix and match kit pieces to build a custom kit in EZDrummer 3, I'd love to hear if some of you have experimented with that and if you've got any tips on doing so. Like many of you, I have several EZX expansions, and I'm looking to build a custom kit and template for using...
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    Need help with gain staging when recording guitars helix -> interface -> REAPER

    Excellent information @Drew, thank you so much. This clears up a lot of things that I didn't fully understand.
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    Need help with gain staging when recording guitars helix -> interface -> REAPER

    https://excalidraw.com/ I guess this is a misunderstanding on my part. I understand I can bring the volume up on my monitors/headphones, but I thought some suggest tracking/mixing into somewhat of a mastering chain. I know this is controversial, but I don't know any better so I'm trying out...
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    Need help with gain staging when recording guitars helix -> interface -> REAPER

    I know that EZDrummer 3 has an overall volume slider, I guess that would probably do the trick. Curious to hear what others say though.
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    Need help with gain staging when recording guitars helix -> interface -> REAPER

    Out of curiosity, do you use an always-on master bus chain (EQ/limiter/etc...) to bring the levels up while tracking and mixing?
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    Need help with gain staging when recording guitars helix -> interface -> REAPER

    Ok, interesting. You're right, I'm often dropping the faders everywhere. EZDrummer comes in pretty hot and I guess I tended to want to normalize my guitar wav files to bring them up to a suitable level for the drums. It's this site: https://excalidraw.com/ I use it a lot at work for making...
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    Need help with gain staging when recording guitars helix -> interface -> REAPER

    I know this topic is discussed often, but I was curious if I could get some specific advice on my current setup. See the attached image for my setup. My issue is, when tracking guitars, the tracks is fairly quiet, peaking at about -15db. I know that ideally, my guitars would peak at about 6db (I...
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    NGD: Ibanez Premium S1070PBZ

    Quite honestly, I want this exact model.
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    NGD: Ibanez Premium S1070PBZ

    You're right, I misremembered the neck. What I should of clarified was the thickness of it, the Premium is slightly thicker which I like.
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    NGD: Ibanez Premium S1070PBZ

    Congratulations! I really want an S, and if I do it will be this one because I prefer the Wizard III on this one a lot more than the Prestige necks.
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    Pickup Recommendations from Black Winter

    Great comparison clip, I definitely prefer the Custom.
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    Looking at strats - project or go all in?

    We need pics!
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    Is something wrong with my guitar or is it something else

    RG752 with Evo in the bridge, RGA42 with Evo in the bridge, and an LP with 498T in the bridge.
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    Is something wrong with my guitar or is it something else

    [UPDATE] So I tried a few things: - connect the bridge pickup directly to the output jack - downloaded a trial of a Neural DSP plugin - tried 3 different guitar cables It all sounded pretty much the same unfortunately. I think it's likely that I just don't jive with this particular guitar...
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    Any developers/programmers in here?

    I totally get it. HTML and CSS are just the (boring) foundation needed to do the cool stuff. Definitely don’t judge front end just from that. Ideally, if you knew someone who could give you a tour of a complex front end project to show you what’s possible, or what it’s like to do front end...
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    Any developers/programmers in here?

    Only thing I would say is that if you’re looking to get employed in a relatively short timeframe and are unsure of roadmaps, I would suggest learning React and some level of html/css/JS. I think there are more jobs for React devs than pretty much anything else (last I checked). You can forget...
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    Is something wrong with my guitar or is it something else

    TL;DR: I own a Charvel DK24 HH that has the cocked wah sound, replaced the pickups and it's now worse. Ok, so I have this Charvel DK24 HH that came with the Seymour Duncan Full Shred in the bridge and Alnico II Pro in the neck. It had the cocked wah sound which I found annoying so I bough a...
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    The Les Paul thread

    Damn, into a JP-2C too, that must sound monstrous!
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