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Is it worth the money to replace the tuners on a MIM strat with some grover locking tuners? Also, is it just me, or are the stock saddles on it loving lovely?
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I'll have a look at it then. Has anyone found that a nice set of saddles can reduce fretbuzz? That's something I'm curious about. Oh, another thing, what sort of material should the saddles be? My guy at my local store swears by graphite. Must be because it's a really smooth material or something. I'm gonna abuse the poo poo out of this thread.
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Nov 19, 2009 15:57
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scuz posted:I thought that fret buzz was the fault of action being too low or having too little relief in the neck or not fretting hard enough? Fret buzz is lots of stuff, mostly related to string tension but I'm curious if the strings basically sitting in a really 'comfortable' position would reduce things like that. I know saddles only really help with the feel and sustain of the guitar by a minor amount but every little bit helps.
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Nov 19, 2009 16:24
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Gorilla Salsa posted:Desperation. I don't think it looks too bad. The worst thing about BC Rich guitars has always been the headstock. Edit: This reminds me, where would be a good place to buy after market necks? I wanna grab a 22 fret american strat neck to replace my mexi strat neck. cat doter fucked around with this message at 04:55 on May 22, 2010 |
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May 22, 2010 04:50
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Anyone experienced with reaper? I have this weird problem where if I change a setting on a VST, it randomly revert back to the default setting, or in the case of my strings VST, it'll just switch to random settings whenever it feels like it. What the hell? Am I missing a settings that makes it revert back or what?
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Jun 27, 2010 06:15
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Any chance there's some nice sounding strings VSTis around that I can either get cheaply or free? There has to be some open source maniac out there that has made some cool sounding fake violins and cellos. I need to dress up a sad sounding pop song and we all know a string section does that nicely, right fellas?
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Jun 3, 2011 05:34
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I love gooooooooooons. Gonna make me some video game music for the hell of it too.
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Jun 3, 2011 13:50
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So uh, what the hell do you do if a hard drive with your work on it dies and you only have some of it backed up, but not all? Is there any way to recover this stuff without paying some rear end in a top hat $1000 to 'fix' a hard drive and possibly not get my work back anyway? Before you say 'back up your work', the external hard drive I used to back up stuff also died recently. I'm loving cursed. Over a year of stuff down the drain.
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Mar 29, 2012 11:12
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Well I was hoping someone might mention that some DAWs back up file automatically somewhere or something and my music is magically hiding somewhere (btw when I say the drive is dead, I mean it grinds horribly when it turns on and windows doesn't even know it's there) and I just have to track it down. I use REAPER and I hope it does something like that. I will probably check the hardware forum though because there might be some simple stuff I can do that might have a chance to recover some of my data.
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Mar 29, 2012 12:57
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Transistor Rhythm posted:Ouch. You may want to check out your power situation - it sounds like something's eating drives in your setup. Maybe massive swings from the wall source? Don't worry, the 2 aren't related. One was dropped (not by me) and the other was just a completely random death that I guess just happens sometimes. RandomCheese posted:Sometimes (read:rarely) it's possible to get a little bit more life out of a grinding drive by sealing it in a bag with some silica sachets (the moisture absorbing ones) and putting it in a freezer for an hour or so, then quickly plugging it in and attempt to recover the data while it's still ice cold. The idea here is it to make the internals of the drive shrink by a minute amount so if it's just the head assembly catching on something then it might briefly provide enough clearance for the read head to do it's thing. This has helped me a couple of times, but also made no difference on several other attempts, though worth a shot if you don't want to pay big money for the specialists and you won't hurt the drive if you keep any condensation in check with the silica. If I can't find the silica stuff, would trying to make sure the drive was completely airtight and sealed before going into the freezer work? I have heard of this method with certain electronics so I am inclined to give it a go.
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Mar 29, 2012 15:06
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Well the drive isn't being used, I'm not that silly. I'll test this method on another one of my dead drives without super important stuff on it and see how that goes, just to learn it and get comfortable not wetting the drive. I can probably double snap bag it and then put it in some sort of sealed plastic container, I have plenty of those lying around.
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Mar 29, 2012 18:21
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Well I put the dropped 1TB hard drive in the freezer and it's been in there for about an hour. Y'all wish me luck.
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Mar 29, 2012 22:15
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I'd really like to cover Pink Floyd's In The Flesh! but I'm not really sure how to approach it. My typcial style as a musician is kinda avant-garde-ishy metal type stuff but I don't know if that kind of style will just come off really dumb or forced. I mean, I've never really covered a song in a way that will radically change its style. How do you approach something like that? Or should I just shut up and have at it? That's not even mentioning vocals. I can't sing like Roger Waters at all, my voice is more similar to Gilmour's but in a higher register. I know I'll have to adapt my voice to the song but I'm having trouble coming up with ideas for how I'll do that.
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Jun 26, 2012 11:47
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Are there any good sites out there that have info on orchestra layouts ad symphony structure? I'm looking to incorporate some classical music structure in my music but I have a pretty big knowledge gap when it comes to the more theoretical approach.
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Jul 23, 2012 06:21
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Crudus posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra#Instrumentation Wikipedia is great for surface level descriptions of stuff, but I'm looking for more specifics. I'm not talking about just the number of instruments in certain periods of classical music (although looking at current orchestra sizes, is it necessary for them to be that bloody large?) but the specific placements of the instruments in auditoriums or what have you. Why they're placed in certain areas, what advantages that entails, stuff like that. I'm very fascinated by acoustics and replicating that in recordings, but also playing with that perception by placing instruments with similar tones in the same areas as more traditional instruments, such as having a synth with a very viola type tone placed in a very orchestra like mix where the violas would traditionally be placed. But apart from that, I find movement structure to be particularly interesting because you can write music very unlike typical classical music, but place it in a more symphonic structure, and create something interesting. I mean, I can do that kind of thing now, I just wanted to understand that structure on a more fundamental level.
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Jul 26, 2012 08:07
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This is probably a dumb question, but is it possible to control MIDI based VSTis with a regular rear end electric guitar? I know you can get a MIDI pickup, but I can't afford to be buying any gear at the moment. I've been getting into electronic stuff but I can't play keyboard with any sort of confidence, but I'm a decent guitar player. I like to improvise a lot too and guitar is my instrument of choice for that. I mean, I have a MIDI controller, but I just plain suck at keys.
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Aug 15, 2012 02:45
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HollisBrown posted:You can with this http://www.sonuus.com/products_g2m.html Probably better to just modify one of my cheap guitars with a midi pickup then.
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Aug 16, 2012 03:12
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Warcabbit posted:http://www.ebay.com/sch/Guitar-/3858/i.html?_nkw=rock+band+squier I have Rock Band 3 so I guess it'd be cool to use it with that as well! Anyone have one of these things? Do they feel cheap? What about the action? I hate lovely cheap guitars with high action. Not that I'm saying all squiers are like that though.
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Aug 17, 2012 06:38
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The first sound you're talking about is mixed kinda low so it'd difficult to tell, but it may even just be a saxophone. If you're after a sax/guitar hybrid sound, you can just have the 2 instruments mixed very similarly and they should blend together. Have them occupy similar frequencies, same spot in the stereo space, that sort of thing. Having the guitar with just a bit of overdrive with a more dry sound should help too.
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I'm dealing with a vocal track with quite a lot of bleed from the rest of the band, and I'm wondering what techniques you guys use to fix that kinda stuff. Right now I've got some reverb and delay on the vox but it's bleeding into the mix because I've EQed the vox at around 4.5khz. It's giving the vocals a nice crisp quality but I've got cymbals and guitars and drums coming through quite a bit. I've tried gating but that wasn't very fruitful, some of the parts are bleeding through so much they're almost as loud as the singer's quiet parts. Also, what kind of vocal distortion stuff do you guys use? I wanna give it a quality like it's just clipping slightly, but in a nice way rather than terrible digital clipping. That kinda sound that hard rock blues kinda dudes use.
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Jul 27, 2013 13:36
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Does anyone use that 'rock-tips' medical adhesive stuff for fake calluses? I just ordered 2 because I have pretty severe issues with my skin on my hands (I've literally never developed a callus in 6 years of play because the skin always falls off, it's some weird contact dermatitis) and I'm hoping this is the magic bullet I've been looking for. I've been severely restricted in my playing and practicing because of this issue and I've never been able to improve as a player for a long rear end time because I can't put in the practice time without ruining my fingers.
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So I got those 'rock tips', and I've applied 2 coats to my fingers. The glue feels a little brittle, it kinda cracks and flakes off under the pressure of the strings. I spent a little over $35 on 2 orders of this stuff, and I haven't put it through the ringer yet, but my initial impressions are not good. I'll play a couple hours of rocksmith and report back. edit: Yep, after about 5 songs the adhesive had completely come off my index finger and was pretty much gone on the others. There's skin missing on a couple of my fingers and my main bending finger (ring finger) is sore. This ain't the magic bullet for people with skin problems like me, but for a couple of songs it kinda helps. If you were practicing all day or playing a show you'd need to keep reapplying it. cat doter fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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Are there any good tools that help you write down/lay out music? I used to use guitar pro but found it really tedious to use, and I'm more looking for something composer facing, something for writing down parts quickly without having to record them. Guitar pro outputting to midi was super useful too.
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Oct 6, 2015 05:33
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Southern Heel posted:MuseScore (free windows)? Oh, awesome, this has literally everything I was after. Thanks!
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Speaking of guitars not set up properly, I've got a problem with my acoustic guitar where the second fret on the high e is causing some issues, and I'm not entirely sure how to fix it. It's the only place on the guitar where there's a problem and none of the other strings are affected. If it were my electric guitar I've just futz with bridge height or the truss rod, but here I'm at a loss. I got a recording of it in case anyone knows what the issue is. https://soundcloud.com/cat-doter/dumb-acoustic-guitar
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Pokey Araya posted:The third fret is probably a little high, you could sand it down with some steel wool, tape it off with painters tape, and go slow. Or the second fret could be low, I don't really know how to fix that minus a refret. That's been suspicion for a while now, but I wouldn't want to start fiddling with the fret wire in case I make it even worse. Any luthiers around? Will I ruin my guitar by filing down the third fret on the high e a bit?
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So I got this thing called a modmic that attaches to my headphones, I wanted it for more comfortable mic usage at my desk and stuff, and it uses a 3.5mm connector. I wanted to use my saffire 6 USB audio interface to run the mic, since the loving thing sounds bloody awful just running directly into my motherboard (hisses like a motherfucker) but it doesn't appear to work. I attached an adapter to make it 1/4" and plug it into the pre-amp, but I just get nothing. I'm not entirely sure why it doesn't work, but I figure it needs to be connected by XLR to get amped correctly? The ports on the interface are a little weird, the lead port and the XLR port are kinda combined. So at this point my thinking is that I'll have to get a converter, but the only ones I can find are XLR male to 3.5mm male. I'm thinking I can use a 3.5mm coupler to attach the mic to the cable, then run that into the interface. Anyone know if that'll work?
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Well now I feel stupid, of course it's something like that. I don't have any just tip-sleeve converters on hand either, gotta order one in. That's a pain.
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Welp, I ordered one in, just tip-sleeve and everything, still doesn't work. I'm beginning to think this is a quirk of my interface and I was right in the first place.
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