Guitars • Re: The guitar apocalypse is real

I can’t learn a DAW by myself or YT vids or forums.

Maybe you're not using the DAW that's right for you? IME, there's no one DAW that fits all personality types.

Just Recording guitar tracks in tune and in time is waaaay harder than I thought. Even with my many years of experience practicing and in bands.
I’m always rushing or dragging.

Yes, agreed. I improved by playing along with backing tracks. Playing along with my own tracks, I get too critical and end up stopping to edit the timing with a mouse.

And too much listening to Amp Sims can give a someone a serious dose of analysis paralysis.
And possibly tinnitus.

Yes, agreed again. What helps me here is using a fuzz pedal, that way the sound is a bit darker, smoother, and less edgy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clJ8TRq4juI

Thanks for the reply. I have reaper and studioOne.
I have learned the basics in Reaper so use that now. But yea I can imagine there are different ones more intuitive for certain ways of learning/ personalities. What’s ur preference for a DAW?

Re timing and backing tracks - yeah been playing to BT’s for years.But when just jamming the mistakes don’t stand out/ don’t notice them cos no pressure. But when recording.. wow every. Little. Mistake. And the tuning also. I see now how parts are punched in and guitars tuned to certain neck positions in sessions etc. I’ve seen a video where the producer (? Valentine) tunes each chord(!!) individually. That was crazy. But I could imagine myself going there with my OCD. (I won’t admit how long I spent trying to “perfectly tune”/ intonate my guitars before I learned about Equal Temperament! That was a real bad period of my life )

I record to a drum track but even then I slip out. I don’t know how to edit/cut recorded tracks properly yet to fix this ,is the big issue.

Re the tinnitus I will try that one. Unfortunately now it’s too late . Lockdown amp sim testing made my tinnitus way worst. Thanks Overloud. An aptly named amp sim. SQUAAAWWWKKKKKKK! (Feedback)

Statistics: Posted by Naillerz78 — Mon Jul 22, 2024 2:35 pm

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