Recent content by hautbois16

As a totally-blind musician who will do only audio, would I be better off to put a few songs on SoundCloud rather than YouTube? I'm sure that YouTube is more "popular" in terms of people using it than SoundCloud; but I had previously thought that you had to do videos or at least pictures to...

I have written perhaps half a dozen songs which I would like to see published one way or another. I do not have print copies of the songs, but I have recorded them with "Knobby Mountain Band," the name I call my one-man band. I have two or three of them registered with the US Copyright office...

I wonder whether a meter for electricians would have a sufficiently high impedance so as not to load the circuit which you are esting. Of course, if it is an "electronic voltmeter," which is a modern outgrowth of the old VTVM (vacuum-tube voltmeter), it would probably have a high enough...

I feel that I am a little better qualified to comment on the "benefits" of that switch to replicate 10- and 30-foot cable length because I now own that device and have used it for about an hour. So far, I am very happy with the performance of the unit in my small recording studio. When my wife...

I thought that the Scarlet box you have is in and of itself a DI box. Granted, I don't know a lot about these items, but if you are getting noise when you plug your strad into it, I would think you might want to look deeper for the reason you are getting the noise. Is it hum related to 60Hz...

One point I would consider in my decision is HOW was the trace broken? I wouldn't normally expect to find a broken trace on a circuitboard installed at a factory unless the equipment has been dropped or otherwise abused or mishandled. So if I found a broken trace, I would want to know whether...

Depending on how you go about it, one song can "gobble up" megabytes galore - and maybe even a gig or two. I understand that a wave file uses 10Mb per minute of record time; by contrast, an MP3 file might "burn" 1Mb per minute, depending on the resolution you set (64 byte versus 256 byte) per...

I had to deal with that "separation issue" between a sound recording and the lyrics and print-music for some of the songs I have written. Since I don't have a good way to do a file containing a printable copy of the work, I registered only the recording of my performance of the song. I...

When I saw last night the Line 6 Relay G10S device, I noted that one of its features is that it it is said to be able to emulate cable lengths of ten feet and thirty feet. I have been working with electronics and guitars for years, starting in the days when in Oklahoma we talked about "jack...

Yes, the "Y-adapter" would probably work; but I bought a commercial unit (I don't know the brand name), and it has one input which I take from the line output of my Tascam DP24. It provides four 1/4-inch stereo headphone jacks with a separate volume control for each, and it runs off an AC...

I think one important consideration is the kind of music you want mainly to record. To give an extreme "frame of reference," you would probably want a different setup for classical music recordings from the one you might pick for "heavy rock." The recorder itself might work for either kind of...

You may think I am nutty, or maybe I've gone "knobby" because of all the buttons and knobs around me; but why do I need a silent room for home recording? Oh, yes, I put forth reasonable effort to eliminate as much extraneous noise as I can; but we are considering HOME RECORDING here. Now if I...

I use an Alesis S16 Drum Machine because it has real buttons and a knob; I have used it to record a drum track as a "click track" by starting the machine the way I wanted it to happen on my song and singing the track with no mike active (I just wanted the drum track with all the fills and...

I would certainly prefer to buy a new mike; but knowing that the corona virus would be dead in a few days, I might buy one at a really bargain price, keep it isolated here for a whole week, disassemble and clean the windscreen, then put it to use. I think the higher concern would be the way in...

My electric guitars have the tremolo arms (some folk call them "whammy bars"); but I have never seen an acoustic guitar with one. Of course, I am sure that there could be one out there that has one; but I have never seen one.