Recent content by topolino

hey all, I have a hip hop radio show on a cooperatively-owned and -run, independant radio station. www.kootenaycoopradio.com <--- that's the link to the radio station. www.raffertyrecords.blogspot.com <--- that's where you can find episodes of my show if you're interested. I'm always looking...

only once, I played a friend's electric and it had screws that held down the strings at the nut. It sorta locked the tuning in place, so you could really reef on the whammy bar. What're those screws called? Does anyone here have them/like them/not like them?

okay, who can tell me why the string-winders (proper name?) are oriented parallel to the frets on a classical guitar, but perpendicular on a steel-string guitar?

is Logic Pro 7 the newest in the Logic line-up? does anyone use it? I've never seen it, but I have used GarageBand. how is Logic different from GarageBand? I've only really used Fruity Loops and GarageBand. They're both very click-and-drag, visually-oriented programs. Is logic (or other...

what's the verdict, kids? Macintosh or IBM-compatible? Or something else? there's quite a few factors, a main one for me being price. if this has already been addressed, someone do me the kindness of directing me to such info thanks

well I was reading the liner notes for a Tangerine Dream box set I got from the library, and it was saying they sometimes composed using a prismic structure. Does anyone have any idea what that might mean? is it like A-A-B-A-B-C-A-B-C-D-A-B-C-D-E... arranged in a triangle? Also, does anyone...

okay, let's say I was going to purchase a turntable from a secondhand store or pawn shop for under $100 Canadian. obviously I won't be getting one with the versatility and radness of a bonafide dj table. Real dj tables are much more like musical instruments than just an old clunker that plays...

(I'm new at this.) Let's say my studio environment is a guitar, amp, microphone, and 4-track. my first instinct is to plug my guitar into the amp, and send a cable from the OUT on the amp into the IN on the 4-track, so the signal passes through the proccessing of the amp. (rather than simply...

okay, anyone know a fancy trick or something to help me? y'see, it's the motor I guess... it's a ye olde Tascam 244 Portastudio. Fast forward works, but not play, but play does work when there's no tape in there, so I'm led to believe that the motor is pooped out, and doesn't have the torque to...

well I looked all through this homerecording bbs, and to be sure lots of people asked how to bounce tracks and received answers of varying levels of helpfulness, but nothing aimed specifically at me. yes, I have some of the manual (a photocopied version missing lots of pages and in an...