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    in Keys, Synths & Samplers

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    On 10/2/2023 at 7:26 AM, stickboymusic said:

    Promoting your music on social media is a smart move. From personal experience, engaging content and consistent posting have helped me get noticed. I'd recommend TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. Spam TikTok and Instagram Reels with your videos, 1 from 10 might go viral. 

    Very good ideas. Especially being consistent with posting. Something that I need to work on myself.

    Btw, Stickboy, haven't you seen you post on here in a long time. How have you been? Where are you posting your music nowadays?

    HSH, HSS, Or both SSS+HH?!? PC static. Tones I want? $100 Strat?

    in Electric Guitars

    Posted

    I've been using strat styled guitars for ages. I'm also not accustomed to block inlays. I DO like the aesthetics of block inlays. But I do see the issue about accidentally reading the fret wrong. Especially if there's a block inlay on the 1st fret, then it might get a bit "dyslexic" with the 5th and 7th frets. Also the 12th fret looks just like the rest.

    I never found coil-tap or split coils all that useful. I think the middle position in a HH is good enough to get that clean open tone.

    Any particular scale length you prefer? Body shape, cutaway style?

    Waves Audio switches to subscription-only..

    in Sound, Stage, and Studio

    Posted

    It seems like Waves Audio has made the decision to switch to a subscription-only business model and no allow customers to purchase plugins individually. The subscription costs $15 per month or $25 per month for the Ultimate version. I've read through many online posts on various forums and platforms and it seems like the large 99% majority of people hate this idea and many are looking to boycott or switch to using alternative plug-ins by other companies. Many of their core customer base who originally purchased individual plug-ins and bundles feel alienated by this decision since Waves has also decided to no longer support updates for those customers. Software updates may be critical to some customers because occasional changes to their audio software (DAW) or operating systems can potentially render the plugins useless overtime. So there's a chance that eventually the software will no longer work. If we do the math; $25/mo subscription is $300 per year. Typically people pay about $30-40 per plugin or around $100 for a plugin bundle. Most people including myself tend to look for a select number of plugins they like and just stick with them. I don't see most people spending close to $300 each year purchasing individual plugins, so the price point doesn't seem very justified. I don't see this change as a benefit to the customer really. Feel free to leave your thoughts and discuss.

    You can no longer buy Waves plugins individually, as company goes 100% subscription
    https://www.musicradar.com/news/waves-creative-access-subscription

     

    Possible to sanitize the community mic at Open-Mic?

    in Vocals and Voiceovers

    Posted

    Mics are actually pretty troublesome to sanitize thoroughly. You can use alcohol or sanitary wipes to clean the exterior parts like the body and grill, but inside the grill has a foam layer which is a porous and absorbent material. You can try putting on a foam windscreen to as protective layer, but still recommend wiping down the mic surface beforehand because you still use to handle the mic while putting it on, then when you're done you can just wash it the sink with some soap and water. Ever since covid times, I occasionally seen some TV/media broadcasters cover their mics with some sort of nylon cover or something like that, probably used for sanitary reasons. But if you wanna keep things simple as possible and have peace of mind, then getting your own personal microphone is the way to go. And be sure to label or mark the equipment with your name to prevent other people from taking it.

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    A song for my Dad

    in Songwriting Workshop

    Posted

    Sorry for your loss. It must be difficult to continue with a song written during troubled times. But that's what allows songwriters to create some of their best works. I think you have a good song on your hands here. If you put together a higher quality recording with more complete production then you could probably have a great song.

    Do you have any songs released on Spotify? Come join the community playlist!

    in Electric Guitars

    Posted

    12 hours ago, gardo said:

    Thanks but I’ve never even tried Spotify. 
    or I would support the community 

    I only started using Spotify in the past few years. I was fairly late in adopting the service myself. It's a decent service and its one of the few channels left that actually pay musicians anything for their recorded works.

    If you like to try it, you can use a free account on their desktop version with hardly any interruptions aside from a few occasional ads.

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    What's your favorite brand and gauge of strings?

    in Electric Guitars

    Posted

    I've been playing D'addario EXL110 for a long time, mainly on my humbucker guitar, but lately I've been playing single-coils on my Fender Strat a lot lately, which I believe have 9-42 gauge strings, I rarely replace strings so they're probably like 10 years old now. Be either way lately I started buying Fender Nickel-plated steel 09 as my new replacements. I like using thinner gauges now because they have a more "attack" quality which allows me to play with more feeling in a way.

    These days I mainly just play my own music, which is my own variety of pop-rock with old school singer-songwriter influences. I have a link to my music in my signature if you want to check it out.

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    What woods is your favorite guitar made from?

    in Electric Guitars

    Posted

    My way of thinking about it is that the vibration of the wood or material FEEDS BACK into the string's vibration which influences how the strings vibrate overall. If the body and construction of a body didn't have an influence then shouldn't all model of guitars have the same amount of sustain? The answer is no. Do you think a body guitar made out of styrofoam will sustain very well? Probably not.. And why is the sustain an important detail? Because it's an integral part of the tone.

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    What woods is your favorite guitar made from?

    in Electric Guitars

    Posted

    This is a somewhat controversial topic among guitar circles, but here's my take.

    The wood/material/finish of an electric guitar does have some impact on the sound it ultimately produces. In many cases its subtle, but the difference is there. Strings will vibrate differently because the material will attenuate/accentuate certain frequencies. The body does vibrate too which feedbacks back into the string's vibration. I used to occasionally put my ear up against my electric guitar's body and it could give off a different sound when compared to my friend's guitar, which was the same model but had a different body wood.

    What woods is your favorite guitar made from?

    in Electric Guitars

    Posted

    15 hours ago, garthman said:

    I only have one electric guitar: a Yamaha Pacifica 112. I have no idea what wood it is made from and don't care because I have much more faith in the properties of the electronics and amplifier.

    I played a Pacifica 112 for a few years, afaik most of them have bodies made from alder. They're solid guitars and probably one of the best for its value. They're also perfect guitars for modification because of its universal body routing. 

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