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You can also retrofit an existing guitar or bass with a midi pickup. (e.g. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GK3--roland-gk-3-divided-pickup)

It occurs to me, maybe check out Emily Hopkins (https://www.youtube.com/@emilyharpist) she does a lot with interesting guitar pedals on harp. Probably some of her ideas could be a springboard for yours.

I tend to like pedals with heavy gating for getting weird tones out of an instrument. A favorite of my is the industrialectric generator 7446. The pigtronix mothership 2 is also pretty good for that. I've also got one that I had custom built that's pretty stellar for weird sounds. A lot of...

So ignoring the specific arrangement you're working with, you're trying to describe or name what it's called when you play an A on the bass under an Am on guitar? Am I reading that correctly? If so, that's just playing the root. If the guitar is playing an A chord of any variety (maj, min, sus...

It really depends on the context you're publishing the lyrics in. The liner notes of the physical release? Use or don't use them as you feel best fits the song. Transcribing for a platform like genius.com or your distro? Follow the guidelines they give.

Pedals aren't particularly standardized. A volume knob is probably going to be master volume of the output signal, but it doesn't have to be. It could also be volume of the input signal before the effect circuit, in which case it will have a huge effect on the tone of everything else. As Rob...

That does seem like a neat idea, but $3k street price to add breakable moving parts to a synthesizer seems perhaps unwise! :D I'm curious as to how it does the different wave shapes. Presumably each motor has magnets acting on a wire as it spins. But that would only produce sine waves.

I've seen multiple threads on Reddit today saying that they did walk that back, so a perpetual license is still available.

Tremolo? The obvious, low-tech way to do it is to physically warble the tape as it spools through

Ah yes! Acoustic guitars: famous for their dead zones directly in front. The quest for "realism" is pretty silly and quixotic. (How does this idea scale? If you're listening to a full band, do you need one of these arrays for every single member? What about the fact that recorded music is...

I watched about 5-10 minutes of the Gaga remake before I got bored. Reading the plot synopsis of the film (every version of it, honestly), it just seems utterly uninteresting to me. But it kinda vaguely resembled what dbsoccer was describing. So if we figure out what that film is, I know to...

It's a layered sample: at least 2 separate finger snaps (tho if they're anything like hand claps, it's probably at least half a dozen), plus it's layered with several other samples: a triangle, a hi-hat. That all plus a generous helping of reverb and maybe some other effects. Actually trying to...

I think there's two values to most music theory: descriptive and exploratory. The descriptive aspect allows you clearly communicate what is going on with other similarly-versed musicians. I think what Alexxx is describing here is more of an exploratory aspect of it. i.e. "Given XYZ constraints...

Was that one of the remakes of A Star Is Born?

Answer: Who's gonna stop you?

So I'm going to be contrarian and go full pro-IEM here. IEMs are great, but the key thing with them is you have to figure out how to be in total control of your monitor mix without over-complicating things. And for an open-mic setup, you have about 2 minutes to get your gear setup; and it's...

Functionally, reaper treats a mono track panned center and two copies of a mono track panned hard left and right identically. You could put the two copies of the track into a folder and then apply a single chorus effect to the folder, but you would need to make sure to apply a stereo chorus...

This. Sending along a sample master along with the unmastered track can give your ME some valuable insight as to what you want them to accomplish. Similar to how you might do a rough mix before sending it off to a mix engineer. edit: typo

A pretty common adage in recording is that if it sounds good on the best speakers you can get your hands on, it will usually sound OK on the worst.

In that case, Mothership goes first because it wholesale replaces my bass sound (thus gaining no benefit from being after anything else) Then gain pedals (i.e. distortions) Then timing effects (delay, sustain) Then the b-board is random effects in no particular (I only use that for the...