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    Stratocaster Wiring

    Move the wire from what’s labeled as middle tone one lug to the right, to where the jumper lands. Don’t actually add that jumper at all and the middle pickup has no independent tone control (also no tone load, so slightly brighter than it might otherwise be). In B and B+M position, the one T...
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    Stratocaster Wiring

    Do want the other two pickups to share the other tone or which other pickup gets it?
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    Stratocaster Wiring

    Assuming you’ve correctly identified the lugs on your switch compared to the diagram, it should work. The middle tone control will affect the bridge and middle pickups and the two combinations which include them. The other T pot will affect the neck pickup and the one combination that includes...
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    I'm absolutely in love with the way my P90 pickups sound, but I can't get rid of the buzzing. Any ideas?

    The other two pickups are also singles, no? Does the P90 buzz a lot worse than those? Shielding is always a good idea. I generally just use heavy duty aluminum foil and stick it in using a spray adhesive. Remember that the whole shield needs to connect - some of the material should lap up...
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    Question: Is a 30-watt amp head going into a 2x12 cab good enough for medium-sized gigs?

    I guess when I read “punk gigs” I do not immediately assume there is gonna be enough PA even for the vocals or anybody with a clue running it. Maybe y’all have a different definition? Anyhoo, it’s kind of tough to say how loud a thing will be just by wattage and speaker size. Watts mean...
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    If want to use the effects on my personal mixer at a venue where they already have a PA system, can I connect my mixer to the house mixer?

    Oh if your mixer has some way of providing a dry signal along with the effect, the house engineer has a lot more chance to make it work. They could send less of the effects to the monitors and even adjust the wet/dry balance in foh if it really seems necessary.
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    If want to use the effects on my personal mixer at a venue where they already have a PA system, can I connect my mixer to the house mixer?

    Yeah like others said it’ll “work”, but…. My main concern would be the gain-before-feedback thing. A dedicated “vocal processor” doesn’t fix any of the issues. In fact, it might make things worse because you’ll be tempted to use its onboard compression which just exacerbates the feedback issue.
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    questions about sending DAW effects to mixer for rehearsal

    Does the audio interface have a microphone input? Just plug the mic in there and then the interface into the mixer. There’s probably reverb in the DAW too, but I suppose you could still add it at the mixer if you prefer.
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    Phasing when recording DI & miked simultaneously

    Very often we’re relying on the DI and the mic for very different things and treating them very differently such that they end up just not overlapping enough for significant phase based interference to be a real issue. But yes, when it is an audible issue, we do what we need to do. Whether...
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    Can I stand on a piece of metal to ground myself instead of buying a hum eliminator?

    Do me a favor and take that wire off your ankle and clip to your guitar’s bridge instead. Thanks.
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    Can I stand on a piece of metal to ground myself instead of buying a hum eliminator?

    Touching the Zoom should have exactly the same effect as touching the strings or bridge of the guitar. If touching the guitar doesn’t also reduce the hum, then that ground connection isn’t carrying through somewhere. I personally would probably start by swapping out whichever cables are...
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    gain staging, meters, luffs

    LUFS is honestly just filtered and gated RMS. With most sources, unless the final balance is really weird or there’s a lot of gaps of silence, the two should measure pretty close the same. So if you’re used to RMS… Average levels (RMS, LUFS or even VU) have nothing really to do with gain...
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    Backwards Guitar

    The real trick is to first reverse the backing track, then play to that for the overdub, then flip the whole thing back around. An algorithmic reverse reverb usually isn’t actually anything other than a normal (gated?) reverb with an envelope follower with a fairly slow attack so that it seems...
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    Metering in Reaper

    If you don’t know what you’re doing then why are you doing it? If we don’t know what you’re trying to do how can we tell if you’ve done it right? I personally think you should set it back to default and ignore everybody who said you need to change it.
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    Venting on V7.X

    I mean that audio file exists. You could find it and jam it into a new project.
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