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About Glenn Fricker

Greetings, I'm Glenn Fricker, engineer here at Spectre Sound Studios. I love making records, and after doing it for sixteen years, I want to pass on what I've learned. Featuring tutorials on how to record guitar, bass, real drums and vocals. There's reviews and demos of tube amps, amp sims, drums, mics, preamps, outboard gear, and plugin effects. Everything you've wanted to learn about recording Hard Rock & Heavy Metal can be found right here on my channel! I also respond to your comments & questions: The best make it into the SMG Viewer's Comments series of videos. Loads of fun, lots of laughs. Thanks for reading!

AUDIO BASICS: Sidechain Compression HOW & WHY

Welcome back to Audio Basics! I’m very happy that everyone enjoyed the last episode “How to Use a Compressor.” I was going to go into the different types of compressors today, but I thought this one might be a little more helpful! What does sidechaining do? This is a question I got

HOW TO PRACTICE your instrument

GET MY NEW COURSE "PRODUCING PROG METAL" HERE I’m hanging out with my very good friend Trey Xavier from the show “Gear Gods!” Today we’re talking about 7 ways to practice your instrument. Subscribe to Gear Gods here! Trey is very close to hitting 100,000 subscribers! 

Audio Basics: How to Use a Compressor

Tutorial Wednesdays are basic recording & mixing lessons (at this point) that I give you guys on concepts like EQ and Compression and whatnot! A good amount of you guys are beginners and might not understand some of the concepts I talk about on the show. This is

Stupid Musician Texts MARCH 2018

Episode sponsored by Distrokid Welcome to another episode of stupid musicians texts. The show where we pull back the shroud that conceals the inner workings of the music industry and take a look at the festering idiocy that lies within. This is a good comment… How many times have I mentioned cupping