Dan McAvinchey

Reader tips for twangin' up your sound.

Dan McAvinchey helps you to eliminate those pesty sonic gremlins from your home or project studio.

Why setting levels properly will help you achieve optimal sound and clarity.

Ideas for improving your recorded guitar sound.

McAvinchey dips into his magic bag to bring you 16 tips you can use today to improve your tracks.

13 additional tips you can use today to improve your tracks.

The use of delay in the studio.

If you're a typical musician, you lack one or both of these critical qualities. Let's see how important they are to your success.

I`d really like to develop into a good composer. I`m not a Greg Howe or an Allan Holdsworth when it comes to soloing, so I have no choice but to work on developing my compositional skills so that people will have a reason to listen! To me, the ideal is someone like Scott Henderson, or Shawn Lane, who are not only amazing players, but equally strong, if not better, composers. That`s the pinnacle, to me.

Is it really true? Will you get 30,000,000 music fans checking out your music just by creating a web page? Let's separate the hype from the reality.

I can`t ever remember deciding to release a CD, it`s just something I always dreamed of. I think every musician would like to, deep down. I did it for myself, and I suggest others do the same. Don`t put out your first CD and expect to get rich, because it just doesn`t happen that way.

Be prepared do a lot of work promoting and marketing. I strongly suggest people make a plan detailing how they will be selling and marketing their record. Rather than trying to sell one CD at a time, shop it for licensing and other types of deals, since ultimately, that is where a large number of sales will come from.