KeithS

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Apr 2	revised	Electronic drums in apartment edited body
Mar 7	awarded	Scholar
Mar 7	accepted	Was the pitch A given that letter because the minor key was originally the “basic” mode?
Feb 25	awarded	Nice Answer
Feb 12	revised	What instrument can an old guy learn if the main goal is to write music added 571 characters in body
Feb 7	answered	What instrument can an old guy learn if the main goal is to write music
Feb 1	revised	Is it possible for a left hander to learn guitar right handed? added 16 characters in body
Jan 31	comment	How can I easily manage different tunings? The drumming equivalent is if I rearranged your kit, maybe to raise or lower the floor tom, change the angles of toms, or even more drastically, mirror your normal setup. You could play on it, to a point, but it would throw you, especially if you were playing something that tested your technical ability.
Jan 31	comment	How can I easily manage different tunings? @percusse - Guitar playing is all based on patterns, and those patterns are typically drilled into a player's head. The problem, though, is that the patterns that produce the desired notes changes when the tuning does. That's the problem Dr Mayhem is experiencing; he gets used to one set of patterns, then moves to a different tuning and those same patterns produce different results.
Jan 31	comment	Electronic drums in apartment ... which I reject; a stick on a rubber pad, on a suspension connected to a frame that rests on the ground on rubber feet, will transfer approximately as much vibration to adjoining rooms as if I were slamming my fist into my other hand while standing in the same spot. That is to say, none. The greater concern, IMO, is an action like pedals (kick/hat), where stepping on them will generate a shock on something resting very directly on the floor, and may also result in incidental impact of his foot with the floor.
Jan 31	comment	Electronic drums in apartment I live in a two-story house that's 90% hard floors. Whether I hear her moving around upstairs in her office/sewing room depends on how heavy her footsteps are and the shoes she's wearing; hard heels, or coming down the stairs with a basket of clothes, yes. Sneakers or bare feet, not so much.
Jan 31	answered	Electronic drums in apartment
Jan 31	comment	Electronic drums in apartment ... which, like the actual noise of an electric guitar, is minimal.
Jan 24	revised	What should I look for in a recording microphone for personal use? added 454 characters in body
Jan 17	comment	What are the dos and don'ts of positioning your thumb on a guitar? Not to disagree, because what you describe is good technique, but many chords are most easily formed using the thumb to dampen or even fret the low E; for instance, the open D major chord and its D/F# variant. It's simply natural to bring the thumb around in the "baseball bat grip" to form these chords.
Jan 17	comment	How do you mic a guitar amp? ... but be careful with the mic capsule; most of the mic is very durable billeted aluminum/steel, but the free-floating capsule enclosure can't take as much as, say, a 58's grille. It's why I prefer the Audix i5 for snare, just because the grille-enclosed design can handle a few whacks from an overzealous drummer. Guitar cabs, you don't have that problem
Jan 17	revised	What should I look for in a recording microphone for personal use? added 134 characters in body
Jan 10	answered	What should I look for in a recording microphone for personal use?
Jan 10	comment	What should I look for in a recording microphone for personal use? As far as mikes that are well-respected in the industry, you really can't go wrong with a Shure SM58 for dynamic, or an AKG C1000S for condenser; these are well-known industry workhorses. For general instrumental work, you may also consider a small-diaphragm compact cardioid condenser, aka a "cigar mike" like the Rode NT5; they go places a lot of other mikes can't, and you can point them at almost anything and get a good sound.
Jan 10	comment	What should I look for in a recording microphone for personal use? Generally speaking, dynamics are going to be less expensive than condensers of a particular "tier" of build and sound quality. There's a spectrum to both, but a premium to be paid for a condenser. When you spend more on either type of mic, you get a flatter frequency response, better sensitivity for the given class of mic, more options such as multi-pattern designs or multiple options for external power on condensers, better durability/build quality, and/or a brand name (Neumann makes really good mikes, and everyone knows that, including Neumann).