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Notes on guitar tones, plugin development, and making music.
April 2, 2026
Lo-Fi Tape Saturation: A Producer's Guide to Cassette Warmth
Most people use tape plugins wrong. Real techniques for adding cassette character without turning your mix into mud.
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March 28, 2026
What Is a 4-Track Cassette Recorder? The Tascam Portastudio Explained
How the Tascam 424 works, why it sounds the way it does, and why artists like mk.gee are still using them in 2026.
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March 25, 2026
Why Your DAW Audio Drifts Out of Sync in OBS (And How to Fix It)
The technical reason your audio interface causes sync drift in OBS recordings, and a free plugin that solves it.
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March 22, 2026
How to Make Ambient Pads That Actually Sound Good
Stop layering 15 synths for one pad. Learn the three elements that make ambient pads work: shimmer, warmth, and movement.
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March 18, 2026
The Chorus Effect: What It Does and How to Actually Use It
Beyond "make it wider." What's actually happening in a chorus effect, and why it sometimes makes things worse.
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March 28, 2026
Roomtone March 2026 Update: DSP Overhaul, Lo-Fi Cabs, Vintage EQ
Major update: realistic tube saturation, 5 lo-fi cabinet types, 5 vintage EQ emulations, 26 effects, bug fixes. Everything new in this release.
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March 14, 2026
Why Most Amp Sims Sound Fake (And How to Fix It)
The tube physics most plugins ignore: asymmetric clipping, coupling caps, and Miller capacitance. Why your amp sim sounds digital.
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March 10, 2026
Lo-Fi Guitar Tones: From AM Radio to VHS Tape
The real specs behind cassette warmth, VHS degradation, and telephone EQ. How to get authentic lo-fi guitar sounds.
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March 6, 2026
The Pultec Low-End Trick for Guitar
Boost and cut the same frequency? The classic studio technique that adds punch without mud—and how to use it on guitar.
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March 2, 2026
Guitar Presets by Genre: 322 Tones from Bedroom Pop to Shoegaze
Find the right guitar tone for your genre. Mac DeMarco, The 1975, Arctic Monkeys, My Bloody Valentine—322 presets organized by style.
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March 23, 2026
The Worship Guitarist's Guide: Why We Built NVA Worship Guitar
From silent stages to digital pedalboards. Learn how the "Holy Trinity" of worship effects (Drive, Delay, Reverb) work, and how NVA Worship Guitar changes the game for church musicians going digital.
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March 19, 2026
Every Indie Guitar Tone in 5 Minutes: Roomtone Amp Sim Demo
Watch how Roomtone Amp Sim achieves every indie, shoegaze, and bedroom pop guitar tone. From clean tones to gain breakup, chorus, and modulation—everything in one plugin.
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January 2, 2026
Roomtone Amp Sim: Finally, an Amp Plugin That Doesn't Suck
Why I built an amp sim for bedroom pop, indie, and shoegaze. Zero latency, 288 genre-organized presets, and tones researched from Mac DeMarco, Tame Impala, and Arctic Monkeys.
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