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A few years ago I decided to use my cheapest guitar for experiments. I had always wanted to change pickups, tuning heads, etc. I also went a step further and put in all new pots, knobs and toggle switch. I did something wrong. I was getting some really awful noise out of it. I didn't know how to...

So I just did a run-of-the-mill string change. Now for some reason only my D string's intonation is out. I have a tune-o-matic bridge with a stop bar. Chiefly I've been adjusting the saddle screw, but even at the extreme it won't come into tune. It loses pitch as I go up the fretboard. The way...

So of course the creative juices aren't flowing constantly. But I still try to make time for my music anyway. Something that's been really helpful for me has been to tap into the technical when I'm not feeling creative. Whenever I get something new, whether it's hardware or software, I still...

So I'm doing my first ever pot change on a guitar, and I want to put in new caps for the tone knobs. I'm not great with electronics, but I was able to figure out that my original pots used the .047uF caps. I didn't know how much the caps affected tone so I did some searching. One site says that...

So this is a mostly finished cover of Bad Religion's "Skyscraper" from 1993's Recipe for Hate. The only thing I'd like to add to it would be to have my brother fill out the background harmonies. (He's interested in doing it, just incredibly busy lately.) I did my best to counteract the nasality...

So I've been spending a lot of time re-recording my old songs, but I finally wanted to finish up something new I had sitting around. I was feeling nostalgic for some nineties industrial: Stabbing Westward, God Lives Underwater, Gravity Kills, etc. I ended up with this: I'm pretty happy with...

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So I recorded a vocal track last night and it sounds lousy. The drum, bass, and guitar tracks all sound really good. I couldn't figure out why there was such a discrepancy between what I was hearing in headphones and what I was hearing in my DAW. The vocals were much thinner and badly EQed. The...

I've been having some troubles with my drum machine lately and am considering moving to a VST plugin. With Sony Acid Pro, you also get the basic KitCore plugin - the one with 8 different drum kits. They all sound good, but they also seem to all have reverb on them. I tried using the Matt Sorum...

I mainly play guitar and work on riffs and songs for hard rock or metal, but I also love working on electronic music as well now and then. My favorite styles are hard trance and dark drum n' bass. I'm working on a song now, and I decided that it needs some quotes to fill in a few blank areas...

So, I'm pretty new to MIDI in general. I've been playing guitar for years, but only recently got a keyboard controller - the Akai Max25. I've been trying my best to research and get the hang of the lingo, but I can't seem to find anything that sorts it out well. All the sites that I look at...

Hello, I'm new to MIDI. Right now the only MIDI device I have is my Alesis SR-16 drum machine. It's the original one I bought back in 95! I have it hooked up to my PreSonus FireStudio Mobile and I track in Acid. I've been re-recording my old beats and saving them as MIDI files. When I piece them...

Hey everyone, so I’ve had a Zoom G2.1u for a number of years now, but only recently started re-discovering it. I like that it has a ton of functions in a modestly small housing, but I can never remember what any of the settings are. Plus, I find it a pain to go through the presets and twiddle...

Hello, I definitely liked the two stickies I read "Mixers and Home Recording" and "Introduction to Multitrack Computer Interface Recording. I decided from them that I'm better off with an interface seeing as I typically record one track at a time. The thing is, it seems like all of the...

Hello, I'm having fun playing with the parametric EQ plugin with my Sound Forge software, but I'm trying to figure out something. I get the basic idea of parametric EQ - it lets you hone in on a specific frequency. But after looking up units online, I notice they often have a symbol that looks...

Hello all, I recently got back into recording my own music after years of dormancy. I just bought an ART EQ351 (single channel, 31 band) to replace my old Alesis M-EQ 230. I also bought a Peavey PV6 USB mixer. I have a Zoom G2.1u for my guitar. My Zoom unit is stereo output only, so I figured I...