That's why engineers compress music, compression boosts the softer sounds, and flattens the really loud bits, so it all comes out sounding the same. From a whisper to a scream, it's all equally loud.

They’re a stubborn old lot, guitarists. Though we live in a world where a salvo of superb software can grant access to some of the greatest amplifiers in history, virtual effects rigs that could ...

The Sounds’ album Something to Die For is available now, but you can download “Better Off Dead” for free here. The Sounds’ tour dates are as follows: 10/26 Toronto, ON – The Opera House ...

To a generation of listeners brought up on YouTube, MP3s and cheap ear buds, the extra edge of today's hyper-compressed music sounds natural. It's the way music, recorded in 2014 is supposed to ...

Mayer also described how the new sound and new guitar go hand-in-hand. “Every new record I start, a new aesthetic comes in,” he says. “I can’t help it.” ...

The idea that these virtual guitar suites can’t sound truly realistic may have held water some ten years ago, but the last decade has seen rapid innovations in performability and sample animation.

The combination of all this can be a real watershed moment for guitar players – it gives you more control of your sound without touching anything but your guitar. "I would start to roll down my ...

A guitar that can sound like 16 different instruments? Day to Day contributor, jazz critic, golfer and musician David Was reviews the new high-tech Variax guitar, which features electronics that ...

The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, wah." The effect was a staple of 1960s psychedelic rock: Jimi Hendrix bent reality with it in classics like "Voodoo Child ...

Most of us DAW users will have a decent sample-based guitar to hand, and one way to make it sound more authentic and huge is to layer it up. You could either double-track it or use two ...