Recent content by Ellen Hikuki

I feel your pain. I put my work on DeviantArt a lot and, while it's nice to have people to look at my work, and it's nice to get praise, actual critique is about as common as snow in Florida. And it's okay to be heartbroken. If one of my treasured online haunts was taken down, especially one...

All I know, theory-wise, is the universal key. That is, I know a few scales and I could tell you which notes sound harmonious together and which don't, which chord progressions pop up all the time and which are less common, and I know a few dyads. (I'm pretty poor at articulating this; can you...

Thanks for replying. Well, I've been running the Task Manager while recording, and CPU usage never goes beyond 60%. I've also just run a thorough virus scan and it didn't find anything that would be causing the skipping problem. My current computer is actually better than the Dell (I think the...

You, sir, rock the free world. We need more Syd fans around here, man. Awesome! Yeah, I love Mangum's writing. So unabashedly weird. I really dig Ian Anderson's writing. It's got this sophistication about it. And I also really love Bowie. It's amazing how many genres the guy can write in. And I...

For future reference, you can upload MP3s to MediaFire.com, FileFactory.com, and FileDen.com to name a few free services. And if all else fails, there's YouTube.

I'm recording with a MobilePre USB interface, Audacity, and two Audio-Technica M4000S microphones. I've had absolutely no trouble with this setup before, but when I started recording with another computer (I've switched from a Dell Latitude D400 to a Lenovo X60s), I noticed this...