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1176 style FET compressors seems to work great on most things for me when recording. I bet it will make an awesome guitar pedal.

For walls, Zissner make a paint that will trap odours in walls that works reasonably well.

I don't think I've played any expensive pickups that were bad exactly . . . but definitely found a few that were bad for the guitar I put 'em in.

The darkest wood I've applied it to is walnut - there was a small darkening (it went from being light brown to medium brown maybe?), not huge by any means. Unfinished pine or maple you're going to see the most darkening simply because those are light coloured woods to begin with. I bet you...

Yeah, wetter is a good description.

I have a Godin Exit 22 from ages ago that came with cheap ceramic single coil pickups with a bar magnet on the bottom and a cheap/generic bridge humbucker. The humbucker and I never got along, and I ended up swapping it out with an alnico 5 tele bridge but the singles are lovely sounding...

The first coat will make the piece of wood you're working on a little more yellow and show grain a bit better. After that, each successive coat maybe adds a tiny bit more yellow. I think it's total thickness though that determines final colour. Multiple light coats won't be different than a...

I was always curious about EZ drummer. The chopped down version of BFD is free though, which wins for me!

I had one for a while and couldn't really make it work for the stuff I like to play. There are a few sounds in there that I'd call decent, but the controls were so finicky that it was near impossible to get exactly to what I liked at a later date. I could see how it might be great for a very...

Yep, there are plenty of options for people who can't drum. It's pretty easy to just tap in a drum track with BFD drums and reaper using pads on a midi controller too (there are a variety of preset patterns as well if the tapping is too hard). Or if you like planning out songs beforehand, free...

Don't kid yourself - if you're getting AI to write your drum parts, AI is writing your music. I don't like the intrusion of AI into music. It's entirely trained on information stolen from other musicians without permission. No musician should be supporting it's use.

Save time, just have AI write and play the music for you too.

That looks like a cool tele. And I usually hate teles.

Pull the whole guitar apart (everything, pickups, pickguard, pots, knobs, switches, etc.) and thoroughly scrub clean anything that can be cleaned. CIgarette smoke leaves a kind of sticky tar-like residue on everything that can be quite difficult to come off and stinks. Then put it back...

I'm a fan of compressors with a clean mix knob. This lets you effectively do parallel compression . . . it becomes very easy to get thick notes with control and sustain but still have some transient and the start of a note.