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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!

Should METAL be MAINSTREAM or UNDERGROUND?

Hey guys! Hope you had a fantastic week. As you know, Friday's videos are Viewer's Comments. You may have noticed that I'm not calling them "Viewer's Comments" in the titles anymore, but don't worry - it's the same format we know and love! The reason for this change is so that new viewers don't

Greatest Guitar Cab for recording metal? Coffee Custom Cabs LUNGO

This has to be one of the coolest guitar cabinets that I have ever come across. The Coffee Custom Cabs LUNGO. These are hand made in the Czech Republic and I first saw the at last spring's Music Mesa. Their cabs all have coffee related names like Cappuccino 212, Latte 212, Americano 210, Doppio

Stupid Musician Texts OCTOBER 2017

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. Oh man. Do we have a great show today. Autotuned Screaming texts? Check. Drum

Galactic Gypsy Playthrough video

You guys want mixes, here you go! Here's a piece I did with Christian Vegh called "Galactic Gypsy" a jazzy-math rock piece with real drums and fretless bass. For all of you who were wondering if I do anything besides metal, this is REALLY out of the box compared to my normal stuff. Enjoy!

Revenge of the Bellyaching Bass Players!

About a week and a half ago I did the "15 year old bass strings vs. brand new strings" video. It got a ton of feedback, comments, and questions. And, not surprisingly it got a lot of hate comments from those cheap bastards, the bass players. Seriously, normal people people can't think this shit

Joyo Dual Klonz Test Drive with Robert Baker and the Amp Designers!

Another video from Guitcon - I'm hanging out with my good friend, Robert Baker and the developers of the Dual Klonz amp (Andrea Fiorini and Fabrizio Brenchio.) In case you missed it, I did an unboxing of the Dual Klonz amp a few months back. The DualKlonz is an all-analog signal path tube amp

Checking out Schecter SUSTAINIAC guitars with Pete Thorn!

I've been a Schecter fan for about 10 years. I have a HELLRAISER that I use in the studio all the time. Generally when a client brings in a crap guitar that won't stay in tune, or bad electronics, or bad set up. or bad strings or whatever. I'll be like "hey, here's my

SMG Viewer’s Comments #118 – Best mic for under $200?

Happy Friday!Let's jump right in! I got a question about adding acoustic treatment to a room dorm room (or place you don't own). I touched on this last week- use your closet as a bass trap! It works great! For those of you who missed it, I've included those instructions below the video on this

Greatest Recording interface ever? RME Fireface UFX+

I have been a longtime RME user. I got my first Fireface 800 way back in 2005. And I've worked with it every single day in the studio until last summer until I switched over to the UFX+. The UFX simply put, is a freaking monster. It tops out at 188 channels. That's 94

Hearing the truth: Adam A7x Studio Monitors

Powering these up for the first time was one of those very rare moments where everything suddenly became clear... but let's take a step back for a second. ADAM approached me about doing something back at MusicMesse, and I've had their A7x Studio Monitors sitting around for quite a while. This week I decided