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As a totally-blind musician who will do only audio, would I be better off to put a few songs on SoundCloud rather than YouTube? I'm sure that YouTube is more "popular" in terms of people using it than SoundCloud; but I had previously thought that you had to do videos or at least pictures to...

I have written perhaps half a dozen songs which I would like to see published one way or another. I do not have print copies of the songs, but I have recorded them with "Knobby Mountain Band," the name I call my one-man band. I have two or three of them registered with the US Copyright office...

I wonder whether a meter for electricians would have a sufficiently high impedance so as not to load the circuit which you are esting. Of course, if it is an "electronic voltmeter," which is a modern outgrowth of the old VTVM (vacuum-tube voltmeter), it would probably have a high enough...

I feel that I am a little better qualified to comment on the "benefits" of that switch to replicate 10- and 30-foot cable length because I now own that device and have used it for about an hour. So far, I am very happy with the performance of the unit in my small recording studio. When my wife...

I thought that the Scarlet box you have is in and of itself a DI box. Granted, I don't know a lot about these items, but if you are getting noise when you plug your strad into it, I would think you might want to look deeper for the reason you are getting the noise. Is it hum related to 60Hz...

One point I would consider in my decision is HOW was the trace broken? I wouldn't normally expect to find a broken trace on a circuitboard installed at a factory unless the equipment has been dropped or otherwise abused or mishandled. So if I found a broken trace, I would want to know whether...

Depending on how you go about it, one song can "gobble up" megabytes galore - and maybe even a gig or two. I understand that a wave file uses 10Mb per minute of record time; by contrast, an MP3 file might "burn" 1Mb per minute, depending on the resolution you set (64 byte versus 256 byte) per...

I had to deal with that "separation issue" between a sound recording and the lyrics and print-music for some of the songs I have written. Since I don't have a good way to do a file containing a printable copy of the work, I registered only the recording of my performance of the song. I...

When I saw last night the Line 6 Relay G10S device, I noted that one of its features is that it it is said to be able to emulate cable lengths of ten feet and thirty feet. I have been working with electronics and guitars for years, starting in the days when in Oklahoma we talked about "jack...

Yes, the "Y-adapter" would probably work; but I bought a commercial unit (I don't know the brand name), and it has one input which I take from the line output of my Tascam DP24. It provides four 1/4-inch stereo headphone jacks with a separate volume control for each, and it runs off an AC...

I think one important consideration is the kind of music you want mainly to record. To give an extreme "frame of reference," you would probably want a different setup for classical music recordings from the one you might pick for "heavy rock." The recorder itself might work for either kind of...

You may think I am nutty, or maybe I've gone "knobby" because of all the buttons and knobs around me; but why do I need a silent room for home recording? Oh, yes, I put forth reasonable effort to eliminate as much extraneous noise as I can; but we are considering HOME RECORDING here. Now if I...

I use an Alesis S16 Drum Machine because it has real buttons and a knob; I have used it to record a drum track as a "click track" by starting the machine the way I wanted it to happen on my song and singing the track with no mike active (I just wanted the drum track with all the fills and...

I would certainly prefer to buy a new mike; but knowing that the corona virus would be dead in a few days, I might buy one at a really bargain price, keep it isolated here for a whole week, disassemble and clean the windscreen, then put it to use. I think the higher concern would be the way in...

My electric guitars have the tremolo arms (some folk call them "whammy bars"); but I have never seen an acoustic guitar with one. Of course, I am sure that there could be one out there that has one; but I have never seen one.

I don't know whether the TC Helicon Electric is still available; but that is the vocal effects box which I use anytime I use one. It has reverb and delay, it also has pitch correction, which I have used sparingly when I have recorded. It also has some neat "harmonizer" capability so that you...

I agree. My computer is a desktop PC, and I have no idea how many fans it has. It has one solid-state drive for the operating system and some data, along with a standard hard-drive of about a TB for most of the stuff stored on it. My experience has been that the good old "inverse square law"...

The mention of "Behringer" brings to my mind a sad experience I had with that brand of mixer (I don't remember the model number now, since that episode with Behringer issues happened probably four years ago). My point here is that you should examine the output of that mixer to see if it is...

Berringer had some problems with cold-solder joints in some of its equipment several years ago. I bought a mixer which worked for a few months, then began to behave erratically. I had another unit of the same model that had big noise problems in its digital effects processor only a few days...

If the shop said they found nothing wrong with it, how about this test: Swap the left and right channel cables that drive that monitor system. Now if the problem stays on that left side now that you are feeding it with what is your right channel, then I'd say that you have a problem somewhere...