We’re always looking forward to the next Mike Zito session for all of the reason mentioned in the article featured elsewhere in this issue of Riff. But there’s ...
Johnny was recently here in TrueFire’s studios filming Ten Gallon Guitar: Intros, Outros and Turnarounds. We noticed he was playing a new guitar; a Kiesel. We’r...
John Lennon once quoted the words of his wife, Yoko Ono, "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." As we fold up the leg...
The first framing infrastructure went up in the studio about 5 months ago assembling the large wall that splits the tracking room from the rest of the facility....
e all know G.A.S can be uncomfortable. Not in the way that it makes your stomach hurt, but more in the judgment you feel from family and friends when they walk ...
The music industry thrives on guitar and bass players’ life-long hunt for the ideal rig. If we all had a dollar for every piece of new gear we’ve purchased over...
After a few long days of manual labor climbing through the rafters above the new studio, I’ve just completed pulling thousands of feet of audio/visual cabling a...
The Fractal Audio Systems Axe-Fx preamp/FX processor has been a mainstay in my recording arsenal since 2010. It’s also served me well in traveling for gigs in...
We live in a pretty cool time as guitar players. The amount of gear, boutique or otherwise, is at an all-time high. The downside to that is that there are so ma...
I started learning about tube amps as a college student in the late 90’s. Back then, there was no debate about digital modeling vs tubes. If you were serious ab...
Doing an acoustic gig should be as much fun as a band gig and could potentially be better money. It also comes with its own set of challenges that can severely ...
In this second installment of StudioWire, I’ll share a few updates about the new studio construction and some of the surprises we’ve encountered since we’ve bee...
It’s late in the evening, the sun has just sunk below the horizon and TrueFire is hosting one of our traditional house concerts for local student members, frien...
The first year of my journey with TrueFire was filled with exciting challenges; I was asked to completely revamp the production workflow, make the best of the s...
I first set eyes on a Nik Huber guitar in a crowded booth on NAMM’s main floor. Nik had about 15 guitars on display - all of them already sold by noon of the fi...
We’ve produced over five hundred courses with pro artists and educators here at TrueFire. Our artists come from varying musical backgrounds and walks of life, e...
In The Jam features world-class artists including Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Keith Carlock, Steve Smith, Carl Verheyen, Stu Hamm, Frank Vignola, Julian Lage a...
Carl Verheyen is one of the cats that I’ve worked with over the years that made a lasting impression on me. I equate his personality, in a lot of ways, with wha...
There’s a colorful tale—likely true—about the late, great Chet Atkins, which begins with him playing his guitar. As the story goes, a woman walked up to complim...
I’m going to tell you about how my session with one of my favorite artists went last week, but first, I have to start out by painting you all a picture of the d...
A Three-Part Story on Home-Studio Recording
After learning the basics, there are those of us that eventually will want to raise the bar, even in our home...
Throughout my music career, I have always been in a quest for better tone. Even in the earliest stages of my musical development on guitar, I was drawn to music...
In the early days, like most novice (bedroom) producers, having little understanding or experience with the principles of gain staging, isolation or quality...
