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Is anyone here willing to record a couple minutes of feedback for me? - The type of feedback you get when playing loud with high gain and when you mute all strings without fretting anything. - Dry direct recording of humbucker in bridge position. - 44.1 kHz 24-bit - Please also hit some...

I have found out that I get a 12 ms latency when monitoring my guitar through my computer without any VST's or other effects running. Interface: Tascam US-1800 (latency set to lowest option; 49 samples) Computer: Windows 7 64-bit, Intel Core i5-750 2.67GHz, 8 GB RAM, Samsung 850 PRO SSD 1. Is...

I'm looking for a way to play guitar using headphones. I play blues (clean and overdrive) and also high gain stoner metal. I've tried with my guitar into my interface (Tascam US-1800) with buffer set to the lowest option and Amplitube 3 set to the lowest quality. The metal stuff goes pretty...

Occasionally I forget to turn my amplifiers to standby before turning them off, I just hit the power switch. The amps have survived this so far. Is there any danger in directly turning off a tube amplifier?

Recently I've bought an Engl Gigmaster 30 head (=116&iPhoneBypass=1"]Engl site). It was a showroom model and I've bought it online, without testing it. The reverb seems to be faulty. Please listen to the attached mp3; first reverb is switched off, than it's switched on and turned all the way up...

Pickup height on my Strat Plus has always been how the previous owner set it. I want to set it to the standard height and adjust from there if necessary. The pickups are Fender Lace Sensors Gold, the Lace site says: I don't understand what they mean with "string closest to pickup". Could...

I have my guitar tuned down to B and I like to play heavy riffs in a stoner doom style. I currently use a combination of overdrive from my Vox V810 and power amp saturation from my Ampeg GVT15H using an attenuator. I like how I maintain dynamics unlike when using for instance my Big Muff. I...

When I (try to) write a song, I tend to put different sections/riffs/schemes together, which sound just like that; different (sometimes unrelated) things put together, instead of sounding like a whole. Any tips for making compositions sound less thrown together? :)

I am looking for software to easily draw a plan of a room. I have a pretty complex room, with an odd shape and lots of columns. I would like to enter dimensions of walls instead of drawing lines by hand and guessing how long to make them. I hope my question is clear :) Freeware software is...

Just moved in with my girlfriend and acoustics here are horrible, it's like I'm in a bathroom all the time. I want to treat the walls with slabs of mineral wool, cover them with thin fabric and mount them in such a way that there is some space between the slabs and the wall. A local DIY store...

I received the Jettenuator this weekend. The big knob has a scratchy feel and sound, like metal scraping on metal. I guess this could be normal, because it seems like a very large high power pot. Is there someone here with a Jettenuator or another power soak to confirm whether it's normal? :)

I just installed my 1U audio interface into a 19" rack and it was a bit of a hassle. After sliding the unit into the rack, I couldn't reach the cage nuts. So I placed the rack on it's side in order to slide the cage nuts into the right position, without them constantly falling down. How do the...

Just to be sure, this is what I have to do, right?

I'm looking for an easy solution to sum two signals from guitar effects into one output. It would be great if this can be done passively. I don't need switches, send/returns or pots for blending or mixing, just two inputs and one output. I'll set levels with the effects' level control. I have...

I have been using ancient Hitachi speakers for quite a while and I would like to replace them with some more serious studio monitors. My dad gave me his old amplifier, an NAD 3225PE, which I believe is quite alright. That's why I thought of getting passive monitors. I was looking at Thomann.de...