What R U Practicing – Shake Your Groove Thing – Peaches & Herb

What are you practicing this lately…? “Shake Your Groove Thing” is a song by disco duo Peaches & Herb. The single reached No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Billboard R&B Chart. It also reached No. 2 for four weeks on the Billboard Disco chart in 1978. The song Read More …

Time To Rebuild My Pedal Board

After a couple of years of neglect, I decided to sit down and finally rebuild my pedal board.  Most rehearsals I had just been bringing my tuner pedal, and not much else.  Only the Octave and Chorus pedal have been used in any show setting recently, but I have many more sound gizmos that I Read More …

More Bass Guitar Recording Tricks

Tune the bass.  Tune the bass.  Tune the bass.  Everything harmonically else in the song is going on top of the bass.  If it is a little bit our of tune, then the rest of your tracks are not going to sound right. I like to tune the bass just a little bit flat, so Read More …

EQ Tips :: Bass Guitar

These are Tips per se, more just my collection of notes for recording or mixing the bass guitar. Hope some of these help you! 2022-11-04 Yes of course you want the low end from the bass.  It is the instrument that most often glues the harmony together in the song. Around a 100Hz that will Read More …