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Sep 12 |
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What factors to consider when inventing a new (lab) instrument? "Wouldn't it be great?" Perhaps not. Such remote locations are great for music, in part because they prevent you from playing certain kinds of instruments. It makes you having to re-invent your music if you're otherwise used to always having power at hand, and such re-boots can be quite healthy to do. If now every instrument could play without power, the remote locations would perhaps lose some of their charm. |
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Sep 12 |
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What factors to consider when inventing a new (lab) instrument? That thing about power is a bit paranoid (what synth/organ/guitar amp/PA would fulfill this?), but the first three points are definitely good thoughts. |
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Sep 10 |
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Does shifting vary on a fretted instrument? added 9 characters in body |
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Sep 8 |
answered | Does shifting vary on a fretted instrument? |
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Sep 8 |
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How to stop distortion from making minor chords muddy? +1 Playing fewer notes at a time is the best solution, and leaving the root is particularly useful for minor chords, as the remaining notes don't contain the 5th-overtone-dissonance anymore, which is the main reason for minor chords sounding muddy. |
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Aug 31 |
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A guitar won't stay in tune, also dirty pickup selector This is a really good answer in principle, it just does not really apply to non-Floyd-Rose guitars. |
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Aug 31 |
answered | A guitar won't stay in tune, also dirty pickup selector |
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Aug 30 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Aug 30 |
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How do harmonics work? That first sentence doesn't really make sense to me. It's kind of like saying "all people have children, because everybody was born to someone". It applies to most instruments: many instruments are designed to behave this way, either by using a linear domain for some kind of wave (e.g. all stringed percussion instruments) or by creating a phase-coherent feedback loop (e.g. bowed strings). There are instruments not designed this way, where the overtones are not integer multiples of the base frequency: mainly drums and other percussion, as non-integer ratios tend to be harmonically difficult. |
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Aug 25 |
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What does it mean when one says that rock and jazz have strong beats on the even numbered beats? This has become a really great answer now! – As for syncopation, I don't think this word can be appied to rock backbeats. In classical music, syncopation really has a staggering character, but backbeat is anything but staggering. |
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Aug 25 |
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What does it mean when one says that rock and jazz have strong beats on the even numbered beats? added 475 characters in body |
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Aug 24 |
answered | What does it mean when one says that rock and jazz have strong beats on the even numbered beats? |
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Aug 18 |
answered | What should I do about composing 'soft' accents for piano? |
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Aug 15 |
answered | How can I make my keyboard sound like a Hammond organ? |
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Aug 15 |
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Valve and solid state guitar amp power comparisons? It's not really meaningful to do such a comparison, as it depends heavily on how you use the dynamic range. A 5 watt solid state amp is actually louder than a valve amp of the same power, you just usually don't play it that loud because, while solid-state power amps sound simply unpleasant when you drive them to the limit, this is exactly the point where valve amps produce the best of their sweet distortion. But a modern solid-state amp with sophisticated limiting can actually reach the full power without going into audible distortion at all. |
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Aug 8 |
awarded | Editor |
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Aug 8 |
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What are the pros and cons of Traditional Grip vs. Matched Grip for snare and drumset? edited body |
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Aug 8 |
answered | What are the pros and cons of Traditional Grip vs. Matched Grip for snare and drumset? |
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Jul 22 |
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Difference between “hi” and “low” on amps? "Half to a third the original volume" (amplitude, actually) is in fact the pretty much the usual factor, but it's the "lo in" that's attenuated, not the "hi in"! (It's possible that some manufacturers label it the other way around, but that would be sort of wrong.) 10-15 dB seem a rather unusually big span – it's again possible that some manufacturers actually use such a big factor, but I think this is rather the perceived attenuation due to the lower impedance, which is the real crucial difference between the hi and lo inputs. |
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Jul 22 |
answered | Difference between “hi” and “low” on amps? |
