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Kash posted:
I have a Japanese Fender 62 Strat, one of the slightly more expensive models with American made pickups, and to be honest it sounds and plays pretty much identical to an American made (in my completely amateur opinion). I've not played the Tele's or any Strats with Japanese pickups, but I've never heard anyone say a bad word about them. I'm assuming that the price is for a brand new guitar, cos that would be way more than I'd pay for a second hand one.
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A question for any drummers out there, I have a five year old boy and a set of kid drums. Is there a good way to introduce the two? Maybe some simple exercises or games I could teach him to get him started? Ideally I want him to burn off extra energy, while learning something fun. Any pointers are appreciated.
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Jun 13, 2011 15:42
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Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out a guitar issue.. I recently just inherited a guitar and its wonderful, except for one problem. After playing for periods for more than 10 or so minutes of normal play I notice my fingers start grinding on the dots on the fretboard, which are for some reason, not even with the fretboard. Check it ou in the picture here: Is there anything I can do to make these dots level with the fretboard? It's quite annoying for such a nice guitar. Thanks everybody!
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Jun 14, 2011 23:37
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Weird, it looks like there used to be inlays there but they fell out or were taken out for some reason.
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Jun 14, 2011 23:39
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Saw that on a guitar once after it had gone through some extreme and rapid temperature changes. Are they all gone though? That would be a bit odd. Cheap and easy fix, but for clean work and correct glue use it's best to have a tech do it for you.
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Jun 14, 2011 23:58
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The right way to fix it would require pulling the frets gluing in the new inlays and sanding them level to the board. I could be done with out pulling the frets and refretting, but it is a pain in the rear end especially at the higer frets. You have to sand with the grain in between the frets. You might be able to do it with some careful pre-sanding to thickness and then scraping level with a razor blade.
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Jun 15, 2011 02:01
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So since I am not familiar enough with guitar tech to do actual work myself, I called guitar center (where I purchased it) and they directed me to Ibanez to ask about the manufactuer warranty. They don't pay for shipping there (which could be like $30 I'm assuming).. and they said they would replace the guitar. Eh, guess I have to get it done for it to be comfortable!
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Jun 15, 2011 18:29
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I r Pat posted:So since I am not familiar enough with guitar tech to do actual work myself, I called guitar center (where I purchased it) and they directed me to Ibanez to ask about the manufactuer warranty. They don't pay for shipping there (which could be like $30 I'm assuming).. and they said they would replace the guitar. If you can get it on warranty repair, I say go for that. But if that fails, an alternative option is finding a local guitar shop. I guarantee there's a luthier in the area who will do it in a day or two.. and it shouldn't be too expensive.
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Jun 15, 2011 19:30
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I have a question about getting creative with music making. How do some of you more expert music makers get inspiration for songs? Right now I'm in a snag where I can't figure out what kind of music to make, and how do I make my songs more than 30-40 seconds long.
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Jun 15, 2011 19:56
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Who says songs can't be 40 seconds long? e: I realize that's a little unhelpful, I mean to say that if you're sitting there going, "Hm well usually songs are about 3mns or so, gotta write a song about that long" and you're streching/compounding what you've already got to fit that criteria, you're going about it wrong. If you feel you've expressed your idea effectively in 42.6 seconds, go for it. Songwriting is a tough thing to explain. About 99% of the time I feel as you do though, where it's like "I want to create a thing but I don't have any subjects to explore." Don't try to force stuff. It's that 1% of the time where you are watching TV/movies/people/whatever that you think, "That's neat, I'm going to take that idea and play with it." doug fuckey fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Jun 15, 2011 |
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Jun 15, 2011 20:02
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What's in that 40 seconds? Is it a 40 second loop? Or is a "complete" song, with verses and a chorus? Composition is a tough subject, and certainly isn't a "small question". The most common advice is going to involve analyzing songs that sound like the music you want to make, and use what you learn to build out your own song. The hard part is knowing what information to look for when studying a song, and I've never found a good explanation for how to do that other than "do it a thousand times and you'll figure it out". I've always found making songs much, much more difficult than playing instruments.
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Jun 15, 2011 22:31
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In the first solo of this song, he's playing what sounds like a whole note bend from the 24th fret of the high e-string. As he's playing a Gibson Les Paul which I believe only has 22 frets, how does he do this? Is there some kind of trick like fretting the pickup or something?
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Jun 16, 2011 00:31
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Maybe he has an octave pedal?
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Jun 16, 2011 04:38
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Boz0r posted:In the first solo of this song, he's playing what sounds like a whole note bend from the 24th fret of the high e-string. As he's playing a Gibson Les Paul which I believe only has 22 frets, how does he do this? Is there some kind of trick like fretting the pickup or something? He bends the neck. Or more likely, the LP is for ridiculous music vids and he used something else when recording.
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Jun 16, 2011 14:07
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the wizards beard posted:He bends the neck. Or more likely, the LP is for ridiculous music vids and he used something else when recording. Yeah this. He probably used another guitar for recording. Never assume the guitar they use in the video is the one they used on the recording.
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Jun 16, 2011 17:40
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Couple stupid amp compatibility questions. I've been playing acoustic lately with a mic'd setup going to a mixer, then into an Acoustic AG60, which is an awesome four input 2 channel amp. I've been messing around on electric and am finding it irritating going to another room to plug into the half stack. The AG60 has sounded great with everything I've mic'd into it, and even run audio line-out signals through it, but would running an electric or keyboard signal into it do any long term damage? Further along the same lines, would I do any damage if I grabbed my Marshall head and run the speaker 4/8ohms line into the AG60? My head has an emulated line out too for recording if the signal intended for a speaker cabinet would be too much. Basically will I hurt my acoustic amp using it like a PA? Thanks in advance folks.
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Jun 19, 2011 19:31
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If I want to take a sample of say, the vocals from a song, how would I go about getting it without the instruments and the rest of the music with it? Can I gently caress with the levels in the mixer to filter out the stuff I don't want? Completely new to this and want to try my hand at mashing some songs together. My relatively weak googling skills leads me to a way of removing the vocals using Audacity, but it doesn't go into how to remove the instrumentation instead. Other than that, a bunch of karaoke programs say they'll do it, but they cost money. I have Audacity so if that'll be my best bet if someone knows just what to do. 
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Jun 19, 2011 20:03
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What meter is it when you're counting a measure out as a pair of triplets and then a pair of eight notes? (1-2-3) (1-2-3) (1-2) (1-2)
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Jun 19, 2011 20:09
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...wouldn't it still be common time? I'm not awake yet.
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Jun 19, 2011 20:13
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Allen Wren posted:...wouldn't it still be common time? no I don't think so. 10 eight notes per measure. 6 of em in a triplet feel, the other 4, quick duples. The Bananana fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Jun 19, 2011 |
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Jun 19, 2011 20:15
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The Bananana posted:no If I'm understanding you correctly, 5/8? vv The way I read his notation was as 1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-1-2 as all 8th notes which would be a bar of 5/8. If he actually means triplets as opposed to 3 8th notes then it's standard time. A shrubbery! fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jun 19, 2011 |
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Jun 19, 2011 20:19
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Yeah, but a triplet is one beat divided into three notes. ^^ Yeah, after reading your post and then rereading his I see what the deal is. Now to find some goddamn caffeine and shut up before I say more stupid poo poo on the internet. hexwren fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Jun 19, 2011 |
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Jun 19, 2011 20:19
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revolther posted:Couple stupid amp compatibility questions. I've been playing acoustic lately with a mic'd setup going to a mixer, then into an Acoustic AG60, which is an awesome four input 2 channel amp. I've been messing around on electric and am finding it irritating going to another room to plug into the half stack. You can run a regular signal into it no problem, some things just won't sound so great (like, if the AG60 has a tweeter distortion on a guitar could get pretty harsh). If you can run the Marshall without a speaker cabinet attached (if its solid state you should be ok), then you could run the emulated line out into the AG60 and it should work fine.
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Jun 19, 2011 20:24
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DrChu posted:DO NOT run the speaker out of the Marshall into the line in of the AG60, that would be a disaster. Thanks, I definitely would have run it into the mixer as an intermediary to (theoretically) avoid blowing anything big as I figured the normal line out might do that, appreciate it.
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Jun 19, 2011 20:56
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:A question for any drummers out there, I have a five year old boy and a set of kid drums. Is there a good way to introduce the two? Maybe some simple exercises or games I could teach him to get him started? Here's what I'd do: Getting him to copy you would be a good introduction, with him on his drums and you on some similar sounding pots and pans. Better yet, just vocalise the sounds and rhythms for him to copy. Once he's comfortable with coordinating his hands, get him to practise keeping the beat with a song he likes and see how it goes from there. Good work starting your kid early, if he turns out to be a drummer he'll love you for it when he's got 10 years of practise down at 15. I wish I'd picked up a guitar while I still had the capacity and free time to get really good. vv- No, they're 8th notes so the | denotes each beat: code:A shrubbery! fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Jun 19, 2011 |
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Jun 19, 2011 20:57
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A shrubbery! posted:If I'm understanding you correctly, 5/8? So then, if this were the case, does that mean that my 10 eighth note phrase of 1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-1-2 would be split into two measures?
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Jun 19, 2011 21:24
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Wouldn't it be 10/8? Four beats, two compound and two simple
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Jun 19, 2011 21:54
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I don't have a music degree or anything so I might be proven wrong, but 10/8 would be 5/4 which isn't the same. I don't know enough about notation to describe the differences between 5/4 and 5/8 though, so here's a link.
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Jun 19, 2011 21:57
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I'm also kinda guessing here, but 10/8 and 5/4 shouldn't be the same (like how 3/4 and 6/8 are different, 3 simple beats versus 2 triplet beats). If the pattern was 1-2-3 1-2 1-2-3 1-2 you could call it two bars of 5/8, but with 1-2-3 1-2-3 1-2 1-2 the second compound beat would be split across the the two bars. This 10/8 example looks like the same pattern actually, down at the bottom http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/16 baka kaba fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Jun 19, 2011 |
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Jun 19, 2011 22:23
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baka kaba posted:I'm also kinda guessing here, but 10/8 and 5/4 shouldn't be the same (like how 3/4 and 6/8 are different, 3 simple beats versus 2 triplet beats). If the pattern was 1-2-3 1-2 1-2-3 1-2 you could call it two bars of 5/8, but with 1-2-3 1-2-3 1-2 1-2 the second compound beat would be split across the the two bars. So then it is 10/8 time?
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Jun 19, 2011 22:31
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I think so but I'm not a doctor!
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Jun 19, 2011 22:35
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Does anyone know how to make a MIDI track in Cubase control a pitch shifter in Amplitube? I've been trying to get it to work for hours but I haven't gotten into all the little things in both programs.
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Jun 20, 2011 00:30
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The Bananana posted:So then it is 10/8 time? That depends on whether those triplets are real triplets or if their just 3 eighth notes barred together. An actual triplet is the same length of time as a quarter note. So if it takes just as long to play the 1-2-3 1-2-3 part as it does to play the 1-2 1-2 part then no, its in common time.
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Jun 20, 2011 01:31
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Hi, I've got Garageband on my mac and i've just started loving around with it. It's good fun but the selection of drum, synth and bass samples is pretty limited. I'm looking for a recommendation about some good value sample packs that I could purchase/download with some high quality, professional sounding samples. Any recommendations?
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Jun 20, 2011 04:51
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The most frequent complaint I get when mixing is that my mixes tend to sound a little "flat". Exactly what is meant by the adjective "flat" when referring to a mix? The volume levels of the instruments are too close and nothing particularly spikes or stands out? The EQ is too much around the same frequency in general and the mix doesn't have much punch sonically? Something else altogether? Also what is the main cause of a flat mix? I'm thinking I'm probably mixing too loud and therefore I'm constantly bringing things down, trimming EQ too much, and getting rid of essential louder instruments/sounds/frequencies which apon a first listen may sound great... but instead I am just over-producing it to death (?)
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Jun 20, 2011 22:59
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The Cleaner posted:The most frequent complaint I get when mixing is that my mixes tend to sound a little "flat". Exactly what is meant by the adjective "flat" when referring to a mix? A combination of both, I'd say. Lack of transients due to overzealous compressing/limiting, undefined low end, no sparkle/air in the high registers. Basically an unexciting mix. The Cleaner posted:Also what is the main cause of a flat mix? I'm thinking I'm probably mixing too loud and therefore I'm constantly bringing things down, trimming EQ too much, and getting rid of essential louder instruments/sounds/frequencies which apon a first listen may sound great... but instead I am just over-producing it to death (?) Does reference material (like a well-produced record you like) sound good on the monitors? You can use that for mild global EQ settings to make up for any deficiencies in your control room's acoustics. Then be sure not to turn up the volume too high when you're still setting up your basic mix or you'll tire your ears too soon. Try mixing at a sound level where you can still hear yourself talk without raising your voice to a shout. Listen through different setups, like a regular home stereo, car system, computer speakers, headphones. When you've done that a few times you will know what to avoid in future mixes without having to run to your car all the time. Only then you can start playing at much louder levels, but I'd definitely not make any big changes at that time anymore. For some people stereo spreading is easier to hear with the volume up, so perhaps save that for last. When I hit a dead end now and then, I take a good break and start again with a clean board.
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Jun 21, 2011 00:15
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Re the 10/8 vs. 5/4 discussion: Which you would use would depend on which division of the whole note sounded like the "pulse." In something fairly quick, the pulse might be on the quarter note, whereas in a slower piece the pulse might be on the eighth note. Of course, outside of tempo, genre and style are considerations, and the composer's intentions would ultimately indicate which meter you selected. That being said, 10/8 is not a very common meter and would probably be represented instead by two measures of 5/8. Of course, if the whole rhythmic scenario above represents one phrase or idea, it might be best to use 5/4 and fit in all in a measure, depending on the material it is played against and also the earlier considerations regarding genre and style... So basically, as with many things in music, theory will give you a context about how things should work or how the rhythm fits into a meter, but once you understand the available contexts you can choose which to implement based on your intentions with your composition. (I guess I mean, you shouldn't think there is just one answer to "what meter is this rhythm in?" because the one you choose will depend on what you are going for. This is assuming that you are trying to write something, and not listening to something and trying to figure out the meter. In that case, post an audio sample so we can identify the pulse.)
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Jun 21, 2011 18:00
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r7jfKdBzy0&t=4m36s Originally it was two sets of triplets followed by 4 eighth notes, so the values for the beat are different. I would say that's 4/4. But it immediately brought to mind this song. Two measures of 5/8 with alternating emphasis in this video. | 123 12 | 12 123 | 123 12 | 12 123 For shits and giggles I made this real quick. It's the 123 123 12 12 in 4/4  You could also make it a measure of 6/8 followed by a measure of 2/4 if you wanted all the same value for each note.
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Jun 21, 2011 18:17
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Thanks again for the help with the laptop. I eventually went for a Sony Vaio VPCEB4E4E, threw a firewire expresscard into the slot and went from there. Just another slight problem though. There's a lot of background noise when I plug my keyboard (Roland E09) in. My setup is instrument - Focusrite Saffire LE - 6-pin to 6-pin firewire cable - firewire expresscard - laptop. Other instruments are fine. My Fender Esquire picks up some of the noise when I hold it close to the Saffire, and my mic will get the same buzz when I turn the phantom power off, but it's only the keyboard background noise that will cause practical problems. I've tried different power points and moving the Saffire and keyboard away from each other, using different cables and different sample rates. The only other change is that I've gone from using 4-pin firewire into the laptop to 6-pin, which means it has extra wires for power supply (I'm still using the Saffire's separate power supply). Is there any way these extra wires could cause the issue and if so is there a way to cut them out of the chain, or would going back to my original cable and using a 4-pin to 6-pin adaptor on the laptop side fix it?
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I noticed that when I tune my guitar, all the open strings sound perfect. But when I start to play up the neck, it sounds out of tune. In fact, just playing a string on say, the third fret, I can significantly bend the pitch just by pressing harder on the string. What could be causing this and how can I fix it?
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