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Guitar strings feel electrified
STOP PLAYING
You should not feel any electricity when playing guitar. There could be many reasons, including electrical equipment malfunction or incorrect electric installation in your room. There ...
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What is an All-Pass Filter? What are its uses?
Are there any All-Pass filter plugins(AU, VST, AAX)?
The standard EQ plugin of Reaper (ReaEQ, you can also get this as a separate VST plugin) has different modes for the filters (a parametric EQ is ...
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Guitar strings feel electrified
This could be a lethal problem. It's just not safe to continue.
Firstly, check the socket you usually use. Socket testers are very cheap, and worth having. When I was gigging several times a week, the ...
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Are musical floppy drives tone wheel instruments?
They are not. Tonewheel instruments have metal disks in them that are cut in a pattern and then a pickup (a coil of wire around a magnet) that is near each wheel. When the wheel spins, the pickup has ...
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How do I find a guitar pedal that shuts off output below a set volume?
What you're looking for is called a noise gate. There are a ton of options.
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Can you play metal on single coil pickups?
The obvious answer is yes, you can! The question is if you really want it, because it will be easier to achieve an appropriate metal sound with humbucking pick-ups. Today's amps or (modeling) effects ...
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Are musical floppy drives tone wheel instruments?
I’m going to say that the best fit for this would be 515: Transducers.
The closest comparison I can think of is to a loudspeaker. You are sending an electrical signal to a device that converts it to ...
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Can I plug a 2.5A 250V~ cable to a synth that is 100 - 240v?
The 2.5A and 250V on the cable is just the highest current (Ampere) and voltage (Volts) that it's safe to use at. Provided that your mains supply is in the range 100V to 240V then that's no problem.
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Guitar strings feel electrified
Do not touch a microphone/stand or any grounded equipment or go anywhere wet - you may die.
Incidentally I had a similar sensation with my last mobile phone (a Huwawei). When it was plugged into the ...
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How to create silence in MP3
This question may not be on topic here, but in Audacity if you create a new (empty) project and then go to Generate > Silence... you can generate whatever length of silence you want in units of ...
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What is an All-Pass Filter? What are its uses?
I am going to answer only your first two questions (or at least, I will try).
An audio signal can be seen as a sum of sinusoids. These sinusoids each have an amplitude and a phase. The amplitude is ...
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Why aren't computer-generated instrumentals THE thing?
"Why" questions don't work very well on SE, because the answer is often 'no-one knows', however…
In this case, there is little commercial drive for it.
A musician wouldn't want it because ...
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Why aren't computer-generated instrumentals THE thing?
A few points:
The charm of music or any art lies in the artists expressing something from their inner cognitive universe through their instruments, in an aesthetically attractive way.
Playing a ...
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Reason for ground hum coming from jack port and plug
Most guitar jack sockets are made of 30 cents' worth of bent tin.
If you want to try diagnose/fix it then your simplest running order is
Spray it with contact cleaner.
Loosen the socket a bit & ...
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Can you play metal on single coil pickups?
The only real problem you may have with playing high-gain stuff on single coils is if the pickups are picking up hum, a high-gain signal chain that introduces a lot of clipping (distortion) is going ...
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What's XLR output impedance?
The confusion comes from the fact that “line level” is a sort of signal standard and “XLR” a type of connector or cable that uses such connectors. So there is no “XLR” type of signal.
XLR cables can ...
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Can I plug a 2.5A 250V~ cable to a synth that is 100 - 240v?
A simple cable with just wires and no electronics inside, as the one your photo shows, will simply forward any voltage. It won't change it.
The label on the cable specifies the maximum voltage it ...
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Troubleshooting Roland analog synthesizer's 'moving' dead notes
If it's anything like the archetypal polyphonic analog synthesizer (the Prophet 5), it has six analog voices (probably consisting of two oscillators, a low pass filter, and a couple envelopes each, ...
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What makes different tube amp heads different?
We can divide any complete all-tube guitar amp system into three major sections, each of which has important effects on the final sound: The preamp, the power amp, and the speaker cabinet.
All tube ...
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Why does my guitar pedal "pop" when I click it?
True bypass pedals often pop when switched at first because of a buildup of static electricity that is discharged when the pedal is engaged. Usually turning the pedal on and off a few times with the ...
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Electric guitar: why such heavy pots?
The main reason is that guitar technology is permanently stuck in the 1950s, when smaller potentiometers just weren't available. (I'm sure they did exist, but only in specialised military applications ...
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low impedance output to high impedance input
There’s a difference between matched impedances and bridged impedances. With matched impedance, they are matched. Meaning both output and input impedances would be about the same, like 8 Ohms for a ...
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Can I use a guitar amp with an electric bass?
As long as you're not expecting it to sound like a loud bass amp., yes, it'll be fine. Obviously you're not going to take it to gigs, but certainly for home or garage practice it'll be fine. Just make ...
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What makes different tube amp heads different?
Of course there are many categories of both solid state and circuits that can affect tone and response, not to mention the many variations in speakers and cabinets. But the main difference between ...
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How to create silence in MP3
Just to be sure others will be able to find solution to this question. Silent MP3 frame consists of the header, side info and data comprised of just one type of byte. Here're two headers - first to be ...
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Can you play metal on single coil pickups?
It is certainly broadly true that humbuckers tend to provide an fundamentally 'heavier' basic tone, especially when you aren't using much in the way of effects, indeed many modern guitars designs ...
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Can a guitar pickup be eq'd to imitate a different wiring from its own?
You can emulate various tonal characteristics, yes, but pickups have differences that aren't just tonal, so not able to be emulated with an EQ.
These include phase differences, sustain and decay, ...
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Are musical floppy drives tone wheel instruments?
Read the start of the "Electrophones" section.
Instruments that use materials generating acoustic
sounds, mechanically-driven signal sources, electronically stored data or
electronic circuitry ...
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Different capacitor values needed for baritone guitar tone controls?
As so often in music, it's up to your taste. A bigger cap for the bass-cut might make sense, but preferrably use a properly designed modern circuit instead of that ancient junkvintage one.
Guitar ...
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