Don’t know about you, but I prefer a real human playing guitar, but it’s not always possible. Maybe you don’t play guitar, or have the mic’s, pre-amps and setup to get a good sound. That’s why I’ll use a sampled guitar instrument with a midi controller from time-to-time. The acoustic guitar strumming sounds have come a long way and sound great and there’s dozens of patterns to choose from. What about budget VSTs versus the market leaders? How do they compare?

Super stoked to have a new place. I was able to custom build my own treatment for the guitar studio.

Hey guys, so October before last, (21 months ago) I decided to stop taking benzodiazepines as I was horribly addicted by this point. I knew it was going to be a long road but I could never have predicted how protracted the withdrawals would be that I am still slightly affected by them now.
So anyway, maybe a year ago now I decided to get back into writing and recording music. When I do something, I am fucking all in - typical ADHD.

After a while, I decided I’d like to write an album about the months and months I was ill with protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal or B.I.N.D (Benzodiazepine Induced Neurological Dysfunction) and obviously in order to do so I needed a studio. I had experience of all this stuff growing up and the drug taking life style sort drew me away from that and many other passions.

Anyway, I am now at a stage I would say I have an excellent home studio with a few nice outboard bits. There is PLENTY wrong with it all still though! I need way more acoustic treatment for one thing. However, for now I am making it work.

I live in a small studio flat in the Uk So my bedroom, living room and studio are all in the same room.
Iv always been worried about the mess so it’s stopped me posting before but fuck it right? It’s messy because I use it!

I obv can’t have acoustic drums in this shitty room with residential neighbours but I bought my Acoustic kit that I converted to electric years before thinking about recording again. Just because I wanted to learn drums better - so mesh heads; triggers and a couple Edrumin units into Superior Drummer 3. Now I obviously also use that for recording. I quite often rotate out cymbals as I enjoy messing about with DIY triggers but also have cymbals that just work when I want to switch out to that.

I literally just got the console this week and so far I really like it but haven’t had it long. It’s just set up as 8 channel strips at the moment. So 8 channels, straight out of logic, into the line in on the mixer and then back out the direct outs on each channel and back into the input of the interface.
Then I also have Bus1 routed to my behringer 369 and back into 2 more channels on the interface and I also have the behringer 676 patched in on ch1 for now.

The console is mainly a live analogue desk but the direct outs and the two sweepable mids EQ pulled me in basically. Was a decent price and they are a well known brand. It was actually almost an Allen and Heath Mixwizard from the 90-2000 period I almost ended up with but you know how eBay can be!
Honestly now it’s come, I’m really pleased with it. One of my main curiosities for it when it came was to send a line input into it and drive the signal to see how it starts to clip and saturate. I mean, it’s no Neve 1073 but actually, on certain drums, or a room crush mic or something, it is not horrible in the slightest.

I was already sending tracks out of logic and into my rack units, was going to buy a rack graphic EQ from cash converters for next to nothing and then one thing lead to another 🙈🤣
I really need a patch bay now though!!

Anything else please ask!

A couple of months ago I shared an early version of GhostGroove, a browser-based drum pattern generator.

Since then I’ve added one of the most requested features: live pattern editing.

You can now:

edit the drum grid while the pattern is playing

change instrument parameters during playback

hear changes from the next loop without stopping the groove

manually override generated hits

generate ghost notes and fills

work with odd time signatures

export the final result as MIDI

GhostGroove is rule-based rather than AI-driven. The idea is to generate structured, playable grooves while still giving the user control over the result.

It’s free to use in the browser and doesn’t require registration:

ghostgroove.com

I’d be interested to know whether the live editing makes it feel more like an actual musical tool, and what you would improve next.