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Mar 6	comment	How do you strum an upstroke without striking an unwanted string? @awe: 1. this is simply not true 2. even if you utilise "unclassical" right-hand-technique, it's still quite benefitial to play with a classically-oriented left hand, in particular if you also have your problems there as the OP seems to.
Mar 6	comment	How do you strum an upstroke without striking an unwanted string? Lots of guitarists to this, but from a classical point of view it's a rather horrible habit.
Mar 5	comment	Is there any way to find average of song's amplitude? There's plenty of free software levelling plugins about; many are capable of doing long-time average RMS measurements.
Mar 1	comment	What do I need to look for in a Y splitter for guitar? Signal wattage is not that relevant here, the problem with passive DIs is that they interact with the guitar pickups' high inductive impedance and can thereby alter the sound quite substantially. As for the "thru" jack – to be honest I haven't looked in many DIs, but I'm quite sure that it's also simply wired parallel on most models, so that would yield exactly the same result as a Y-cable.
Mar 1	comment	Turning off my monitors makes loud popping noise "not having some sort of impedance load connected to the amp's output can permanently damage the amp" good modern power amps normally have protection against all such issues. In particular, high load impedances (i.e. no speaker connected) are not an issue at all for FET amplifiers (in contrast to tube or bipolar-transistor class A amplifiers, both of which aren't to be found in any modern power amp except guitar amps and maybe designer HiFi nonsense). — But of course you're right to give a warning, I really don't think it would be a good idea to try this, though it is indeed possible.
Feb 21	comment	WHY do harmonics happen? Nitpicks: the wavelength is the spatial length of "a single vibration", i.e. the distance between e.g. two knots on a string. That may be proportional to the period, which is the length in time, but it's not the same thing; in fact the quantities are not proportional on anything more complicated than a free string or a free column of air (e.g. drums, bells...), leading to harmonics that aren't integer multiples. That's why most melody/harmony-instruments use strings or air columns. — Most synthesizers use primarily substractive synthesis, not additive.
Feb 19	comment	“slash” chords, e.g. B/F♯ - are these only for inversions, or can any note be the bass note? Though I'd say that C/A♭ is likely more accurate than /G♯.
Feb 17	comment	Does the C chord change based on what key it's in? @NReilingh right, however well-tempered is a term that, if you go by the definition "in such a way that it is possible to play music in most major or minor keys and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune" includes equal-tempered tuning. For the point I made it doesn't matter what kind of well-termpered tuning we're talking about, all of them have each one canonical c, e and g. So it applies even for a guitar that has fine-tuned frets so that the tuning is another kind of well-tempered one. — BTW, leaving aside keyboards and guitars, equal temperament isn't really the universal standard.
Feb 6	comment	Emulating the tone of a Rickenbacker A chorus FX does cause comb filtering, albeit this is essentially a side-effect. But speaking of comb filtering for a 12-string guitar is highly questionable, this would require the strings to vibrate in exactly the same modes which never happens. Again, the comb filtering isn't the crucial part of a chorus sound anyway, more important (and more obvious, FWIW) is the broadening of the frequency peaks.
Dec 27	comment	Visual representation of sound Any decent fourier spectrogramm offers pretty much everything you asked for, when set to large enough window size (and thus slow response).
Dec 17	comment	Is it good/bad to play guitar with low tension string? @slim: Well, classical guitar is just another suggestion I'm making here, as one general item of the list of lower-tension alternatives to a standard western guitar. The OP will decide himself whether to give it a try! — I shouldn't say lowering the tension on a steel-strung instrument gets its sound closer to that of a nylonstring guitar. That's a bit like saying "by lowering the chili content of a mexican dish you're getting closer to the kind of taste french cuisine has." — As for the Les Paul, yes, it was the shorter scale I had in mind.
Nov 21	comment	How to be expressive? Though surprises can at times also yield interesting results, but they rather more often don't.
Nov 17	comment	Practicing drums with metronome and not hearing it's tick Well, what happens when you just turn the metronome so loud that you can always hear it? (ie. with closed headphones)
Oct 13	comment	Why does my piano keyboard sound dull? And what do you mean by 'dull' – to little dynamic response, too muffled sound / too little treble frequencies, too short sustain, too little resonances... ?
Oct 10	comment	What are the disadvantages of buying a short-scale bass guitar @JarrodRoberson: in practice yes, indeed; however not in principle. That's also a matter of not just scale but as well string gauge and -height. A shortscale bass with fat flatwound strings one inch above the fretboard can easily compete with ordinary longscale basses in the low end – nowhere else, though...
Sep 24	comment	Violin strings breaking in fingerboard area @Lilitu88: it's useful to adress comments to users so they are notified, like this. – If you haven't tried any other string brand, that's the first thing to do. I personally was never happy with any strings by d'Addario when I tried them, but for reasons of sounds rather than longevity; and I'm not a violinist, so this is not really significant here. Still, try it! — I really doubt it has to do with too much playing-pressure, unless you have steel hands... it's more likely to have to do with your violin.
Sep 24	comment	Realistic Virtual Piano Are you sure you want to go on with Garageband at all? It's not really a professional program. I'd recommend Reaper – which supports VST, but even that won't let you install Windows files directly on a mac.
Sep 24	comment	Realistic Virtual Piano Personally, I quite like the free Tascam CVPiano. It has a slight tendency to over-pollute the bass range with damper sounds, but is very expressive when played in continuous mode. But it's VST only, I think you can't use these in Garageband?
Sep 21	comment	Does the protools hardware make a difference? You're right about Pro Tools, he doesn't necessarily need that — there are many other good DAWs about. But he does need good hardware, there's no way to get a really good sound when recording through a consumer sound card.
Sep 21	comment	Violin strings breaking in fingerboard area What kind of strings is it you're playing? Which one of them usually breaks first?