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OK, think I got what you're hearing. It's just a volume swell. You can do it either with a volume pedal or with the volume knob on your guitar. Turn down the volume, play a chord or note and slowly bring up the volume right afterwards. You get that swelling effect because you don't hear the...

One thing about the turn--always give it a small crank left to loosen first, then re-tighten if that's what you want to do. Less chance of stressing the truss rod this way. Otherwise you're up against both the friction of the truss rod in the neck as well as the strain of tightening the rod.

Almost anything by David Gilmour, slow and easy but very very tasty.

My apologies, teknomike--looks like I'd fallen in with a popular misconception. Thanks Bruce for the clarification.

Also, the fuller the hard drive, the slower the defrag. If your drive is say 70-80% "full," it will really be slow.

You've actually described it quite accurately. It's a digital pitch corrector. You can play with the threshhold until it gives you that effect--jumping from one note to another with no intermediate vocal "scooping." Gives you that robotic sound. Interesting when it first came out but now it...

I have a Fender Twin (the "Evil Twin" as it's known) which in spite of its crappy red knobs (which I've replaced with black), has incredible tone and I love the amp. I bought it used with Celestion G12-30 speakers in it. The tone is great in the mids and upper ranges but they crap out at the...

George Harrison.

I agree, a microphone is the ONLY way to go in this situation. And (don't laugh), those little mics that come with your sound card or CD rom are not that bad! (Before anyone insults my opinion here, remember, the guy DOESN"T HAVE ANY MONEY!). Please, think about that.

You're not too specific here, but what you're probably hearing is the plate reverb that was used on older recordings. The sound wave is used to vibrate a large metal plate and the resulting sound is picked up at the other end of the plate and mixed back into the sound. Some modern reverb...

Lola Falana--is that some variation of a Shirley Temple?

Dunlop makes a great trem.

What's a stomp-box? That's when you stomp on a juice container and blow juice all over the place. It makes a great noise and really entertains people. Especially if you can nail the moshers at the front, they'll love you forever.

Been there before. Critical to get some distance--ie a couple of feet--away from the instrument. Otherwise you're not picking up on the big sound waves coming off the top as well as the air moving out of the f holes.

Some good links, thanks. Have you tried the granddaddy of them all-- Harmony Central?www.harmony-central.com/

Mott the Hoople

Ovations are really made to be plugged in. They always sound like crap played acoustically, but plug them in and they sound pretty darned good. As for buying a guitar for its unplugged sound, you simply have to try and play them. I've played high end Martins that are complete duds, and I've...

I'd have to agree reverb is a studio effect, at least for guitars; I've never found the need to use one playing live.

Nicely said Jeffteel.

C'mon Hixmix, this is the guy's first post and he has a problem. Why the put-down? Back to the question, it's hard to tell offhand. Some pedals are just plain noisy. Could you get/borrow/rent a different distortion pedal and try again? If it still gives you the hissy sound. then it could be...