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When I release my keyboard's sustain pedal it moans like a walrus because the felt wrapping that cushions it from the guide pad has become compressed. About a year ago I took what I now think was bad advice and blew a little talcum powder in there. That worked for a few months, but now the...

A friend of mine recently upgraded to PT11, and after several weeks of error-free use, it suddenly stopped working. Avid told him to reinstall the Mbox drivers, and that solves the problem, but only until he shuts down his computer. The next time he boots back up, the Mbox won't talk to his...

Sorry for the newb question, but I am, in fact, a newb when it comes to midi strings. I've been experimenting lately with the Expression control lane in Pro Tools (with NI Session Strings) and, as far as I can tell, the Expression feature is just another volume control. I'm curious to know if...

I recorded an acoustic guitar track with no clipping. After adding EQ and compression to the track, it's clipping at a few peaks. When I lower the volume fader to give the track more headroom, the audio volume decreases, but the readout on the meter stays the same. It continues to clip, too...

I left a big space at the beginning of my very first Pro Tools session in case I wanted to add an instrumental intro later. Now that I've dismissed the idea of an intro, I'd like to lock all the tracks together and slide them to the beginning of the session. I tried highlighting the whole...

I'm thinking about buying Native Instrument's Session Strings: NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Their site says to use it with their free Kontact 5 Player, but isn't that only if I don't already have a sequencer? In other words, if I download Session Strings, would I be able to play it as a plug-in on Pro...

I'm trying to use my Technics PR-702 keyboard to drive a really sweet-sounding Pro Tools plug-in called DB-33. I've got the keyboard plugged into my computer via the M-Audio interface linked below, and everything's working except that the synth keyboard isn't consistent about taking commands...

(Somebody please redirect me if this is the wrong place to post this.) Anybody know of a good source for drum/percussion loops in 3/4 time? I realize that the foundation of pop/rock music is 4/4 time. Nevertheless, there are MANY good songs written in 3/4 or 6/8. So why is it so hard to find...

The tech gurus at Steven Slate drums have told me twice now that I'll get better results if I add an external hard drive to my system and store all my samples on it. That doesn't make sense to me, but I'm new to DAW so I thought I'd run this idea by those of you who are more experienced. It...

Because I'm new to DAW recording, I recently bought a DAW bundle from Guitar Center on the assumption that somebody put some thought into assembling components that would actually work well together. Not so sure about that anymore. I may be misinterpreting the problem, but it appears that the...

My Yamaha AW2816 is starting to give me trouble. I’m trying to record an acoustic guitar through a Shure KSM27 -- something I’ve done successfully many times in the past – but now when I hold a sustained chord on the guitar, the signal decays to gravel instead of fading naturally. The guitar...

I've started making videos of my songs just so that I can promote my music on YouTube. Unfortunately, something goes terribly wrong with the audio portions of my videos shortly after uploading them to YouTube. They become garbled and inaudible, and that kind of defeats the whole purpose of...

Since I'm not currently trying to market my songs, maybe this is the wrong forum for this question. If so, I apologize, but I don't see a better location. I'd like to get some recommendations for an online storage site where I could store 5 or 10 mp3 files of original songs just so I can share...

My father-in-law bequeathed me his Seagull S6. It's in need of a little TLC, and I'm wondering the best way to proceed. The spruce top looks pretty dry, but there are no cracks. The fingerboard looks pretty dry, too, and has become two-toned from uneven wear. I assume I should apply a...

I'd like to purchase a TC Helicon VoiceTone pedal to add effects to my vocals after recording them on a Yamaha AW2816. The VoiceTone has one balanced XLR input (for a mic) and 2 balanced XLR outputs. The Yamaha has both XLR and 1/4" inputs, but it has only four unbalanced omni outputs. Does...

I'm wondering how common it is to change the EQ on an instrument during a song. Right now I'm working on a ballad which starts off with just vocal and piano (an electronic keyboard set to imitate a grand). Drums and bass join in after a couple verses, and some synth strings come in a little...

Downloaded Reaper. Downloaded Addictive Drums. THEN found out that Reaper is not a supported host of Addictive Drums. Yet I hear rumors that they work together. Can anyone tell me how to access the Addictive Drums interface through Reaper. Please use layman's terms, if at all possible...

A few months before my father-in-law passed away he taught me a few bars of a very pretty song he had been writing on his guitar. After he died, I added a few more bars of music in order to complete it, and then I recorded the finished work as an instrumental. (I believe he had been working on...

So I'm listening to a lot of Steely Dan these days in an attempt to get accustomed to my mixing monitors and it's had a couple of effects on me. First, it's made me deeply depressed over the state of my own mixes; second, it has raised a question. When listening to the Dan, especially through...

I recently recorded and mixed a couple of original songs. I got them to the point where they sounded really good (to me) in the near field monitors, but they sounded really bad when I burned them to disc and played them on other CD players in the house. The sound was muddy. Not only did the...