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What’s The Best Way To Record Great Tone? with Jamie Dickson

This month,Jamie embarks on an epic multi-report comparison of three contrasting ways to get great guitar tone down on a recording: mic, modelling and reactive load boxes. May the best tone-machines win…

The pandemic focused everyone’s attention on playing and recording at home – and while it’s very good news that gigging is starting to happen again, many guitarists found a real passion for their home studios. And there’s one big question for any player who wants to get good electric sounds down at home: which method do I use?

For the past few years modelling devices

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