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If the noise changes as you move around, electromagnetic interference is the root problem. You have two choices, eliminate the interference or shield the guitar. Move the guitar around until you find where the interference is coming from and address that. When the noise get loud, that's...

Are thumbs fingers? :unsure: It's just semantics. Is this a song? How about this? Or this?

You can get noise through the air with a guitar. Fluorescent lights, digital equipment, transformers, light dimmers can all induce noise that is picked up by a guitar. I can move my guitar around the basement and get more or less noise. That's one reason humbuckers were invented! Single...

Colin, I'm sorry to hear about Bron's passing. Your love and dedication to her was obvious to anyone reading your posts.

An audio interface goes two ways. You will have mic/line inputs and line outputs that should be a much better match for your mixer. Using the headphone outputs will work in a pinch, but often come with various noises (low levels of hiss and digital hash are common). I have one computer...

What kind of noise are you talking about? If it's just background hiss, that's very easily reduced with any number of plugins. In Reaper, there is REAFir. You basically sample the noise, and the plugin will cut the noise out. Waves makes a plug in series called Clarity. Izotope had...

I was surprised by the number of schemes that people have come up with to screw people. I'm glad my income isn't dependent on getting Spotify for Apple streams.

I just ran across this video dealing with the whole broken streaming system. It's got some really good points. Now I just need to figure out how to collaborate with that Taylor gal that gets a hundred gazillion streams each week! I see a new Lambo coming to my garage really soon.

DOOMED..... we're all DOOMED. You just wait until you try to fire up your DAW and a big red dot pops on the screen and says "I can't do that!" As for the song, I enjoyed it. Nice chord changes, clever, funny lyrics and a good video. Greta as the Stay-Puff marshmallow was classic.

I've found that lithium batteries really don't seem to lose much for a long time. My old cell phone lasted 5 years and still held a charge for 2 days. They are worlds better than the old NiCad batteries or even NiMH batteries. My Ryobi tools don't seem to have lost much at all over the...

Frank, based on your comments, I had ordered the JW06 adapter. The post office sort of lost track of it for 8 days. It suddenly appeared on the tracker on Sunday. It showed up today and I had time to test it out. It worked without issue, as I expected. The question I had was how did it...

If you're looking for "future proof" equipment, then expandability is probably the first thing you should consider. Today you might want 3 drum mics and a synth, but is that as far as you will ever go? I have an 8 channel recorder that I use for remote recordings, and I wish I had 8 more...

Most of my straps are generic leather wide straps. I do have one from Native Sons that is the old Ace strap like the one that I had 50 years ago (still have it but it's not secure any more). It's much better than the Dunlop version that had crappy ends.

Playing the single note, I hear the ringing that is bugging you. It sounds to me more like what I hear when a string is fretting out. On the low E, it really stands out as a buzz, but as base frequency rises, it becomes harder to hear. Could it be the saddle... maybe. It doesn't sound...

I think I like the guitar solo off to the side more. To me, it conflicts with the voice and gets pretty congested around the 5 minute mark. You definitely fixed the wandering vocals.

My hobby is buying stuff that my kids will have to sell off when I'm laying in a nursing home watching Game Show Network! The Peluso stuff is interesting. It's a few people in central Virginia who build mics. I understand that he builds the capsules using machined parts he purchases from...

Back in the early days, Harvey Gerst was big on the V67G. I've had one for many years, and still pull it out on occasion. I think I paid $69. I remember when the SP C1 was the talk of the town. Everybody was singing it's praises, then suddenly it became yesterday's news. I think PMI/SP...

Yeah, capsules are impossible to clone. Only the fairy godmothers in Germany have the knowledge to assemble them perfectly. Just because you have a laser scanning machine that can map a part in 3D and a CNC machine that can mill metal parts to tenths of a micron doesn't mean you can...

I read the DIY microphone threads and the thing that always amazes me is that no matter what the manufacturer makes, someone always has a fix for whatever they think is wrong. It's the wrong value cap, a resistor needs to be changed, the capsule sucks and should be be replaced. It ALWAYS...

I see this a lot. You put "Best wireless mic for Android" or "Best podcast mic" into Google and you get lots of suggestions for $20 to $100 mics sold on Amazon and other online sites. There are a bunch of rave reviews from people who have never used professional gear telling how wonderful the...