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I’ve been wanting to get used to using a thumb pick for playing acoustic but I’ve been have a bit of trouble. The only pick I have I bought at Guitar Center. They had only one type which was very thick, although it is marked as medium (National). I guess that’s fine for some things. But I have...

I’m having some cases of audio CDs I’ve burned becoming unplayable after a while. Has this happened to anyone else? I’m wondering what the problem is. My CD burner is a Yamaha CRW4416. A while back, burned a CD and mail it to a friend. After some time (not sure how long, but probably several...

I recently bought a Roland PC-300 midi keyboard controller. It has one of those levers to control pitch and modulation. The modulation messages it sends out are not right. Does anyone have one of these keyboards and can confirm this? The lever is spring loaded. You would expect that the further...

A portion of the acoustic noise coming from my computer is coming from my internal Yamaha 4416 CD-ROM burner (which has its own little fan). Since I don't need this CD-ROM burner when recording, have been thinking that I could insert a power switch in the power cable so that I could power off...

Where do you pan harmonies/backup vocals and why?. For example, say that a chorus has three harmonies doing just "aahhhhh" behind the lead vocal. There are high, middle and low harmonies. Do you pan them to one side so they sound like a block? Do you spread them out across the stereo field? Do...

Arrggg! I can't install the driver for my 1010. When I point to the driver directory during installation, Windows 98 tells me "Windows was unable to locate a driver for this device." Actually, this looks more like a Windows problem, not a Delta problem. I actually did install the driver OK...

Obviously it's difficult to teach about mixing by writing about it. I've always had the idea that some experienced person could post a project using a sequencer like Cakewalk or Cubase that would show a series of steps in getting from "raw" recorded tracks to a good mix. For each step, it would...

I just got my Delta 1010 but it won't power up. :( What exactly is it that causes this thing to power up? I think my power adapter must be bad. The driver seemed to install OK. The other bad-looking thing is that when I go into the monitor mixer, all the H/W input meters are pegged. Is this a...

I needed a patchname script for my Kurzweil PC88mx and there wasn't one so I made one myself. I've attached it. Might save someone some typing.

I didn't know where to post this. Let me know if there is a more appropriate forum. I've just rearranged my room (so I could put my PC in the closet to cut down on acoustic noise). I started hooking things up and I'm getting a strange ground hum I can't get rid of. I don't know that it's a...

This might turn out to be a dumb question, but here goes. Is there any such thing as a patch bay that works like a MIDI patch bay does? That is, where you can just switch between different configuations by hitting a button instead of plugging and unplugging. I've never seen one. If there is no...

I'm a keyboard player looking to buy an acoustic guitar (no pickup). I used to play one about 18 years ago when I had in my possession a Guild for a year or two. But I've not owned one since. I know very little about guitars. I could use some advice on what to look and listen for when...