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I'm doing a music degree at the moment and a music studio is being built ready for later this acedemic year and beyond. We are being asked at the moment what we would like to have in the studio. The trouble is i know flip all about recording equipment (i just play the guitar) etc and at the...

Did anyone see Yes play at Birmingham NEC on June 18th? I did and they were awesome. Jon Andersons voice sounds better than ever and Rick Wakeman is one of the best keyboard players i have ever seen. Cool set design too. Alan White had such a kick ass drum kit, it had loads of extra toms with...

I've been playing electric guitar for about 4 years now and i'm not bad at all. I have a Washburn Dime333 which I think is really good but the higher i go up the neck the higher the action gets (have already tried getting the action altered by my uncle who has built guitars but its already as...

If you had to divide music into main instruments like: - Guitar - Bass - Percussion - Vocals ...of all genres of music which has the best from each category? For example i think: Guitar - Metal Bass - Metal/Jazz Percussion - Jazz Vocals - Metal/Opera I'm...

I'm looking to get an electric drumkit. Wondered if anyone has had any experiences with them or can recommend any kits. I have played a few in a music shop and liked them a lot and i am going to get one for many reasons, one being sound reduction so i can have it in my room and another being...

Has anyone ever heard the song "Down by the Sea" by the Strawbs. I heard it a few weeks ago from one of my dads CDs. The start of this song sounds almost identical to "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)". Does anyone know if it was based on that song or did metallica just steal it :) And yeah i know...

Do you have a favourite part of a song, not a favourite song but a part. Could be an intro, ending, build up, phrase, break. My personal fave part of any symhony x song is on 'Awakenings' just up to and including the line 'Would've beens and could've beens'. Not sure why, i just really like the...

Just wondering if anyone has seen Symphony X in the UK? I saw them in march of this year in London when they were with Stratovarius but i don't know if they've played any other times in the UK. I would love to see them again, please play here again! :D

Which one do you prefer? Its a tough choice, bourbons, rich tea with chocolate, chocolate fudge cake. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Which one do you prefer? Personally i much prefer cats... They don't smell (in the vast majority of cases), they clean up after they go to the toilet, cats always land on their feet, they are more intelligent than dogs, softer, quiet (apart from when fighting :)) Dogs smell, they are loud...

How easy/hard is it to install a pickup? I have ordered one that should arrive tomorrow. Its a Dimebucker to go in my Dime333. Its a floating bridge so i'll have to take the strings off, but i can setup my floating bridge, i've done it loads before but i've never even seen a pickup out of a...

Has anyone ever gone into a music shop and bought a random CD by an group/artist you've never even heard of? I did in a massive HMV in portsmouth and i bought Symphony X - The Odyssey. I just wandered along the rows of music and picked it up out of the thousands of CDs there and thought "hmm...

At the moment my guitar has the same pickups that came with it which aren't very good. when i play distortion it just sounds pretty bad. what pickup could i get (and amp etc) to get that crunchy distortion like on 'Symphony X - Wicked'? That would be cool.

Theses genres of music have always been meaningless dull forms of an excuse for music. Which is the worst?

I had me an idea for a festival. You could have the forces of Good .Vs Evil in a weekend long music fest. You could have some Symphonic Epic fantasy metal such as Rhapsody, Prog. Metal like Dream Theater, and Symphonic Cosmic e.g. Luca Turrili on the good side which play against some bands...

I've been playing the guitar for 3 years now and have never really known much about pickups. What makes a top of the range pickup different to a standard one you get with a cheap guitar and is it worth it (i have a Washburn Dime333)? Do they reduce fuzz when playing live and just give a better...