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Jul 8	comment	Identifying meter on double bass drum You do have a better version of the track than the audio of this video? The sound quality appears to be degraded heavily by some lossy codec, that's obviously not good if you want to figure out fast figures correctly. But I honestly can't hear anything really complicated at all, certainly not at 1:34 where it's indeed just plain 16ths. The whole groove is just played a little laid-back, which is of course rather unusual for a double bass drum passage.
Jul 3	comment	Trying to get that tube sound from a gainclone amp Good question, but certainly better suited for electronics.SE.
Jun 21	comment	Recommendations for sheet music organising software under GNU/Linux The sort of canocical way to do this in a GNU environment is to store the sheets as well-annotated (and thus greppable) Lilypond code. Then you can search etc. using the standard Unix tools.
Jun 11	comment	Can I easily defret a normal guitar to play it as a fretless guitar, or do I need to alter it further? Roundwound bass strings may be thick, but they still chew up the wood after a while, especially if it's something softer than ebony. I believe the treble strings, much like flatwounds, are less of a problem in that account.
Jun 11	comment	Effects of keeping an amplifier in the car @luserdroog tube amps have to power up for the simple reason that the cathodes need to heat up to the temperatures where they can emit electrons easily; this has to do about nothing with the pressure or the glass. The glass is of course sensitive to strain caused by temperature gradients, but those only happen at rapid temperature changes. In a car, the temperature usually changes slowly enough so that every part of the tube will have the same temperature at each time, save for variations much smaller than they are in normal operation of the amp.
Jun 10	comment	Effects of keeping an amplifier in the car Why would valve amps have more problems with high and low temperatures than solid-state ones, the condensation issue aside?
Jun 10	comment	Finding chords that sound like a single note If such things could be determined by an algorithm, unambiguously once and for all, there wouldn't be any composers any more, right?
Jun 5	comment	How do you play C7 fast on a guitar? How does that strain your fingers less? In a good classical position (as you have with a proper barre) it's relatively easy to stretch the fingers so far; but distorting the hand to get the thumb around the neck makes it close to impossible at least for me.
Jun 2	revised	Why do these progressions sound good? added 1 characters in body
May 31	answered	Why do these progressions sound good?
May 23	comment	Recording hard rock guitar riffs with a mic This really doesn't have anything to do with DAWs, but everything with FX plugIns.
May 23	comment	What noise gate is better? Are you sure the hum comes from your distortion pedal, not from your guitar? Obviously, distortion pedals greatly raise the level of hum coming from the guitar. Does it disappear when you turn down the guitar's volume pot? – If it really comes from the pedal, you should perhaps consider replacing that!
May 23	comment	Learning to play bass guitar: Fretless vs Fretted Also, the neck-body joint doesn't help everywhere: in the beginner-relevant low positions it's not there, neither does it help much above sixth position. At least on the cello, the thumb positions alone cover a range as wide as the whole E-bass fretboard, with no orientation whatsoever save for your own thumb. And they're far more difficult to play, because up there everything is very narrow while on E-bass, even the highest positions leave enough space for each finger.
May 23	comment	Learning to play bass guitar: Fretless vs Fretted The neck/body joint is an important orientation for many position changes, but you only learn using it through lots of practise – like everything in string instruments. On fretless E-bass, you can do position change by eye, targeting the dots and/or lines on the fretboard, like one would on a fretted bass. That requires very little practise and, while it's not optimal (good players will obviously play blind just as all string player need to do, mainly because it's faster), works quite well, thanks to the nearly-perpendicular point of view and the large scale.
May 23	answered	Learning to play bass guitar: Fretless vs Fretted
May 22	comment	Learning to play bass guitar: Fretless vs Fretted Intonation on fretless E-bass is quite a lot easier than on any of the string instruments.
May 13	comment	Is it possible to create the illusion of a sub-harmonic? @luserdroog: string buzzing is indeed comparable to distortion in a way, but as it happens separately for each string it does not cause any intermodulation.
May 12	comment	Learning to trill without a trill key It's not "just cheating": exactly the same wouldn't necessarily be optimal; on string instruments trills are also often fingered at slightly different spots than the corresponding "normal" notes, not because it's easier to play but to get a more pronounced sound. Though, that again mainly applies to fast trills.
May 12	comment	Using an amp-simulation pedal with a real guitar amp Do you use the PA amp with a PA box or a guitar cab? Guitar cabinets colour the sound a lot as well. In fact, while staying clean, a PA amp with guitar cab may sound more similar to a guitar stack than a guitar amp over a PA box does.