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Has anybody mentioned how "real" string instruments (violin, cello...) and even mandolins are basically tuned upside down from guitar? A fifth is just an inverted fourth. Yes the strings get higher in the direction we're used to, but the intervals string to string and chord shapes are the same...

Jeez why is anybody actually upset about this? My best friend in school was lefty and when he got a guitar, his mom wouldn’t let him restring it because she thought Hendrix played upside down. She was wrong, I think, but I had been playing a while, and to teach him, I had to sort of learn to...

Harmonics are always in tune with the open string kind of by definition. Intonation only really affects fretted notes. If the scale length is far enough off, the "12th fret" harmonic might not be actually directly over the fret, but if you get it to sound, it will be exactly in tune with the...

Most of my clients have neither budget nor patience for anything other than band-at-once. Maybe overdub vocals. For my own stuff, drums come toward the end, LP it are never acoustic. My preference is always to just put an x/y stereo mic (nowadays my 12 Gauge) somewhere that the whole kit...

Honestly what you’ve outlined isn’t necessarily bare minimum, but it’s frankly not a bad start to a mic locker. Get a pair of condensers, preferably LDCs. Spend the rest on dynamics. I think there are better cheaper kids than the SM57, but they are industry standards for a reason. If you...

You can’t hurt anything plugging headphones in and out. It’s a good idea to turn the headphone knob down before plugging them in, but only because you can’t be sure how loud it’s suddenly going to get. But why are you doing this at all?!? You’re already plugged into the interface. Monitor...

I have to admit that I’m a bit confused by your written description of what you’re doing. Probably my fault. BUT most of the time a HiZ instrument input on a preamp or interface also includes a kind of hidden “gain” over a line or mic input. In my interface, pushing the button to go from line...

At the very simplest (almost over simplified), it’s a voltage divider with the impedance of the source as the top R and that of the load as the bottom. Vout = Vin * Rbottom / (Rtop + Rbottom) As Rbottom (load impedance) gets big compared to Rtop (source), the ratio gets bigger, the output is...

Course most of the action of a passive guitar’s T pot comes from the inductance of the pickup. Lowering the resistance of the load on that inductor lowers the cutoff of the RL lowpass that is formed. In a lot of ways the capacitor actually limits how low that can go so it doesn’t end up going...

Yeah you can plug the dbx straight into the amp without issue. The idea to use a reamp box for that is asinine. You will have issues connecting a passive bass directly to the end input, though. Youll lose a bunch of treble unless you put a high impedance buffer or preamp between. The active...

The output impedance of most guitar pedals tends to be extremely low. Maybe not quite as low as a line out, but compared to the relatively huge input impedance, the difference is negligible. Nobody ever suggested putting reamp box between two pedals did they? But it’s the same kind of...

That’s frickin stupid. 1-1 = silence. Cut either of the wires going to the tip at the XLR end. Ideally it would be disconnected at the tip end, but it shouldn’t much matter. You can’t reconnect it to the shield from the XLR end, so you have to just leave it hanging in the wind and trust the...

Gonna say this one more time. If you have an audio recording of a snare drum pattern and you change it’s speed without changing the pitch, then you no longer have the same audio recording at all. The program did some form of analysis of the original signal and then synthesized a whole new...

“Just 'cause you don't understand what's going on Don't mean it don't make no sense”

True Peak has very little to do with actual sample values to begin with. It essentially makes up values of samples that would exist between the samples that are already there. Then also the sort of resynthesis done to stretch time without changing pitch has very little to do with the actual...

Either it’s resampling to maintain the original pitch which is literally resynthesis so that it’s not even the same audio to begin with, or it’s playing back at a different speed and you’d hear a pitch shift because every frequency gets shifted. Either way, we’d expect the weird math that...

Uhhh...preferably an electric stove. Paraffin plus open flame can equal explosive combustion. Plastic covers themselves would not contribute to microphonic, but waxing the pickup into them might help stop the coil itself from moving so much anyway.

You could add another highpass band exactly the same as the first to get the actual same effect as putting two instances in series. It will definitely make a difference compared to just the single hpf. edit - like, if band 2 really isn’t doing anything, convert it to a highpass set to the same...

Well a .zip is not a folder. It’s a single file that contains all of the information necessary to reconstruct some other set of files. Before XP, Windows couldn’t do anything with it and you had to install an application to extract them. A similar application is now built into windows...

I had a project a while ago unfucking some old recordings. It’s a half-assed off-the-board mix of uninspired performances of old tired songs recorded to tape forty years ago, transferred to CD 20 years ago, and now it sounds really bad. After fighting with it for a while, I ended up in a...