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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.
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 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.
May 12	comment	Using an amp-simulation pedal with a real guitar amp Indeed, going straight into the FX return is typically much better than using the guitar input. Not only because it avoids the preamp's sound shaping, the impedance and sensitivity also match better to a multi-fx's output.
May 6	comment	I have a song in my head, I know how it sounds, but I can't get it to translate well to DAW Why do you need it to line up with the measures? Musically, the best thing is to forget about the DAWs rasters and just record the music.
Apr 23	comment	Why do the notes of a blues scale sound good with the I, IV, and V chords? When mentioning the ᴠ to ɪ transition it must of course be emphasised that this transition is avoided at the perhaps most crucial point in the 12-bar, the ᴠ to ɪᴠ.
Apr 14	comment	What are the advantages and disadvantages of various methods of supporting the classical guitar? Are you sure you use the footrest correctly? The position is not great for everyone, but it's not inherently awkward to the spine.
Apr 6	comment	Glissando that ends on a flat With keyboard glissandi you'd associate the white-key sounds. On most other instruments, a glissando restricted to the C-major scale would be ridiculous.
Mar 29	comment	What is distinctive about the Hammond B3 organ? The tonewheels of a Hammond don't really produce sine waves, though all but the lowest are similar to sines. And the Leslie cab, while very widely used with Hammonds, is not universal; some players (for instance, Brian Auger) don't use one.
Mar 28	comment	Is it possible to create the illusion of a sub-harmonic? @luserdroog: "subharmonic difference tones happen with any chord" well, in a sense yes; but for chords played on "clean" instruments such as piano, acoustic guitar or an ensemble of melody instruments, the difference tones are just amplitude envelopes, which can not directly be perceived. Only when you apply distortion, they become actual sound vibrations. — Interesting analogy with the lizards, that's the poet's way of looking at it. Of course you can as well explain chords quite boringly by the fact that various harmonics of different strings fall on the same frequencies.