Truefire has a post featuring some helpful tips for recording your guitar with a digital audio workstation. The article is written by Rich Tozzoli who has apparently done a fair amount of work creating the audio for commercials. Here is an excerpt:

"7. Split 'em up
One great way to get maximum flexibility on your recorded tracks is to split the guitar’s signal on the way into the DAW. Using a splitter, or even a pedal with two outputs, you can run one clean signal directly into the computer and one to an amp for miking. Send the signals to separate tracks. Once the two tracks are in the can, you can add a processor/plug-in on the clean channel and blend it with your amp sound for a thicker, nastier tone. And what could be better than that?"

Last week we linked to an overview of recording on your computer. Well now Guitar Noize has a post about possibly turning those recordings in to cash. Pump Audio is a firm that licenses independent and mainly lyric free music for use in advertising, tv, radio, and web use. You retain rights to the song and make some bank. Sure, not many people aspire to be the creator of the background music for a car dealership ad or a podcast, but it's not a bad way to make money for stuff you were already doing.

T-Bone Burnett recently served as guest DJ on the All Songs Considered Podcast which you can listen to here. Here is NPR's brief synopsis:

"T-Bone Burnett is a remarkable producer. He's been the creative force behind some of the most memorable recordings by artists like Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello and Sam Phillips. Many know Burnett for his work on the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack in 2000. Most recently he produced Raising Sand, a stunning collaboration between Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. On this edition of All Songs Considered T-Bone Burnett shares some of his favorite songs and talks about his new solo release, Tooth of Crime."


Which is all interesting and good. But what really stood out to me was T-Bones thoughts on recording. Around the 17 minute mark he begins discussing the transition in recording practices from analog to digital. The main goal used to be capturing as much "attack" as possible and now with digital he's making a move to focus on "tone". So there is a lot more experimentation on the types of bass sounds you can record. Of course T-Bone explains this more indepth and eloquently than I can, so give the podcast a listen. I also highly recommend the All Songs Considered Podcast in general. It's a great way for any music lover to keep tabs on new music coming out and also catch some great interviews.