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Not sure that would actually help. I’m pretty sure the noise is coming from (or at least focused by) you. You’re the one that needs to be grounded. In an electric guitar that happens when you touch the metal strings which contact the metal bridge which is wired to the jack sleeve. You have...

Sorry, I’m afraid I could have been a bit more clear there at the end. IF you’ve loosened the truss rod quite a bit and are afraid of going any further AND you tune it up AND it’s still back bowed THEN you should use some manual means to bend it so that it has a little too much relief. THAT...

There is such a thing as a two-way truss rod. I don’t have any experience with them, but I wouldn’t really expect to see one in a cheaper guitar either. There is sometimes a bit of a settling period after you make the adjustment, but you should see most of what it’s going to do pretty much...

Overall the BDI21 is pretty decent, even in distortion, except that it’s got some extended high frequency response that puts out just a bit too much sizzle and fix for my tastes. You could lowpass around 8K I think and make it a lot better, but that means it’s not exactly all-in-one which is...

4” panels across the corners is better than foam for sure, but I certainly wouldn’t say “best”. You’re better off actually filling those corners. Something like a “super chunk” setup is quite a bit better, and doesn’t take up any more space, but it does end up using a lot more material...

So does plugging into a lower impedance. Until you get that control down below 5 or so, pretty much all it does is reduce the total parallel impedance seen by the pickups, lowering the cutoff of the RL lowpass created with the inductance of the coils. The capacitor mostly just stops that...

I mean it’s usually marked Tone, but for most of its travel it is exactly the same as reducing the impedance of the input you’ve plugged into.

Most guitars have a built in impedance knob. It can’t make a too low impedance input look bigger, but it can make “too high” impedance look smaller.

Should say “...low enough level...” which frankly most passive guitars already are. A passive DI is always a voltage step-down. The real point of the DI is the way it reflects an impedance higher than that of the mic input, but if you do that via transformer, it always comes with attenuation.

This indicates there might be a bit of excessive cross-bleed in your system. IDK your room, but the most common culprit is suboptimal acoustic treatment. In my mix room I can hear fairly small changes and if one monitor is a little low or even just gets bumped and turned a little off axis or...

For most people the right answer to the “what power supply” is probably the Truetone OneSpot. It isn’t too expensive, and looks like any old wallwart, but it is very rigorously designed and tested and built to perform. It will protect itself from over-current (even dead short) situations...

Oh you can automate just about anything! The easy way is to wiggle the knob on the plugin interface and then go to the Param button and find Show Envelope. In most cases it is better to automate the wet/dry controls rather than bypass. When using Take/Item FX as you are, you should usually be...

He really should have made the sidechain - sub a lowpass. The way he’s got it set up, that sub band is actually reacting to the full spectrum. It is getting proportionately more of the sub frequencies, but very loud higher frequencies will still trigger it too. He set up the top end...

Naw, man. It's a (near) clone of the Tech21 SansAmp Bass Driver complete with the XLR output but missing a couple of the switches. I have never tried the original of that specific unit, but most of their clones are pretty much nuts on. I bought it hoping it would give me a decent SVT...

That shouldn’t be enough to keep the transport moving. It should play to the end of the last item in the project and the stop no matter how many busses there are.

But why does the headphone track have any items on it at all? Is it also a click/metronome track?

Yeah that’s just unacceptable. One of the biggest rules in customer service is to never say “can’t”. This person needs to figure something out to help you hear and feel what is actually happening. Honestly, this is such a fundamental thing that they should have had it figured out before you...

Like with anything else you really just turn the knobs til it sounds good, but here's a couple things to keep in mind: The sound of a decent amp (sim or otherwise) depends on the level that it's being fed. It's generally impossible to even guess what the "proper" level for any given sim might...

I once found a VST radio processor that included phase rotation. Don’t remember what it was called. Nowadays I just use ReaEQ because it has an allpass option. Some of the phase “correction” plugs (IBP, PhaseBug...) do about the same thing. I mean, don’t “worry“ about it like that there is...

It’s not a DC offset. That would make the resting point the center of the waveform rather than the center of the display. It’s pretty clearly returning to rest at actual zero. Voice - especially male voices - are asymmetrical. One of the big tricks that radio announcers use to get that...