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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!

10 Minute String Change Challenge and Unboxing ERNIE BALL strings!

Recently, Henning Pauly challenged me to do the 10 minute guitar string change challenge and I FINALLY have time to do it! This is going to be interesting! Before we get to the challenge, we're going to do an unboxing of a care package I got from Ernie Ball! I've been playing Ernie ball

Ward Beck – Classic Consoles & Bleeding Edge Digital Audio

Hanging out with Anthony Kuzub from Ward Beck Systems in Toronto, Ontario. I've known Anthony since 2001 - 2002! Ward Beck is a legendary builder of broadcast consoles, and I've had one of their smaller ones since 2001. Nobody's actually seen my Ward Beck stuff on the show because it's actually been

Virtual Amp Designer: Bias Amp 2

This episode of Spectre Sound Studios is brought to you by Positive Grid. Today is the first day of NAMM 2018 and we're gonna take a look at the new Bias Amp 2 - from Positive Grid. Now if you've watched the show for any length of time you know I've done

Glenn Fricker IS AN IDIOT!!!- Viewer’s Comments #132

I do three shows a week every Friday I try and answer your comments and questions to the best of my ability and ask a cool question I will try and answer it and if you ask a super cool question I will try and do an entire episode based on that

SONIMUS PLUGINS – Awesome & affordable!

Today we are checking out the plugin suite from Sonimus. What they are are a collection of console emulations eq's and a compressor all priced to be very affordable. I've been playing with these over the last month or so and a few of these are really becoming favorites. I also like the fact

Yes, you can HAVE my API PREAMPS!- Viewer’s Comments #131

Hey everybody! Welcome to SMG Viewers Comments episode 131! We're coming up on NAMM! I'm looking forward to meeting a lot of you guys there! Make sure you stop by the Chicken Picks booth to say hello! shockt9610 asks Glenn what's your opinion about recording guitar and bass DIs then taking them

The Purple Monstrosity: Revv Generator 100P

If you're a fan of the show, you've definitely seen and heard a Revv amp. I love these things! They sound great! Today we have something very special. The Revv Generator 100 Purple Edition. It's the 100 watt version of the Generator 120 except this is 2 channels, instead of 4. On the original

Stam Audio SA2A : Unbox & Test

So I got a new box today in the mail the other day. Been waiting for this one for a while. This is the Sa2a Levelling Compressor from Stam Audio! It is a faithful recreation of the classic Teletronix La2a- the main difference being price! A brand new Teletronix La2a will run you $3499

Don’t be a CRYBABY!- Viewer’s Comments #130

For those of you who are new to the channel, I do 3 shows a week and every Friday is my Viewer's Comments show where I try to answer your questions to the best of my ability. If you want your question to be featured on the show, check out the "How

How to GROW your Youtube Channel

This episode is brought to you by Promolta!  One of the questions that I'm regularly asked that isn't related to recording is "How do I get people to watch my YouTube Videos?" I've put together a list of 8 points that will help you create videos that people will enjoy watching. (For all you