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I saw Radiohead on Saturday Night Live about a month ago and the keyboardist was playing some crazy contraption. It had the look of a small organ or old analog synth. I'm not sure if it had keys or not. It looked like the guy had his finger in some thing that had a wire coming out of each...

Here's a couple for Billy Joel fans Way back before Billy Joel's solo career he was in a couple of obscure bands. "Attila" was one of them, "The Hassles" was the other. This was back when he was just trying to make it into the business. One of them was him on keys, a guitarist, and a drummer...

I could use some help. I play a Fender Strat. I've noticed that when I'm on my neck pickup I sometimes hear little "pops" come through my amp. It's not my amp because it does it on my friends amp too and it doesn't happen on the other pickups. I've determined that it is static electricity...

Well, the 15 pin connecter plugs into the joystick port on the computer like you said. The two other ends of the cord should be labeled. One will say "IN" the other will say "OUT." Plug the end labeled "IN" into the "OUT" on your midi device. Plug the end labeled "OUT" into the "IN" on your...

Too much Don McLean talk for me. Great thread. I'm not quite sure how censorship got brought up but everyone raises some good points. Let's look at what censorship is. Someone deciding to take away another someone's rights. How could this be even fathomable in a free society? The answer is...

Here's a bad habit I still have to break: Don't clear your throat before you start to sing. If you have to get the plegm out, drink some water or LIGHTLY clear your through. Clearing it too roughly shocks the vocal chords. It's like if someone were to punch you in the stomach right before you...

Sorry to hear that, dragonworks Yeah, some great cryptic lyrics in that song. The words themselves aren't over your head, but together they have this grand feeling that you can't quite grasp. Does the song mean anything or is it the result of a lot of drugs? I always thought it was a cynical...

Awesome Thread Some GREAT bands here. Some others that probably shouldn't ever be spoken of. I can't believe someone mentioned Frigid Pink. They did this really cool version of "House of the Rising Son." Anybody heard it? Anybody mentioned Head East? Manfred Mann's Earth Band is another...

Hey, what's wrong with Europe? "Final Countdown" is a really cool song. The Detroit Pistons even used it as their theme song-- ya know, back when they were good. The biggest problem I've run across in mixing keyboards and guitars is frequency clutter. Most of the time guitar parts and...

I'm a cheepskate, so I'm really into Pro Tools. It's free, it offers 8 digital tracks and a lot of midi tracks (not sure how many, the most I've ever used is probably twelve.) It's great for recording and mixing. I also have Quartz Audio Master Freeware, a digital 4-track sequencer. I don't...

I'm trying to set up a working studio on my PC. I have a Hewlett Packard pavillion with a Pentium 3 and 128mb of Ram. I am running Windows ME for my operating system and Pro Tools Free for my Sequencer. I have a Yamaha PSR-530 keyboard plugged into the standard soundcard that came with the...