Yup. I agree with Moses here. If you are, as you say, picking up hum via the microphone it may be that it is not a ground hum but something else. It may be the fan noise of the laptop/computer that is being picked up. Heck, it could be noise from the lights in the room - especially if you have florescent lights. It could even be other electronics in the vicinity of the microphone.

Nobuo Uematsu - end of :L hes just talent lets be honest; just check out his tash!

IMHO it much more challenging to create a
song with loops, than recording your own parts.

Remember that your membership here is an agreement between two parties: iCompositions will provide you with all these services---services that I and many others have spent thousands of hours creating--if you agree to follow the rules we supply up front. You don't have to do anything else. You don't have to pay or turn over the rights to your songs or anything else. All you have to do is agree to and follow the rules. That is not asking a lot.

what does simon cowell has to with this? The very limitid amount of time i have seen him in shows he mostly gives out senseless BS comments like "you suck" - thats not constructive.

....wanna tell you my little story 'cause I yet consider very strongly belonging to this marvellous environment even if at the moment I'm only frequenting it at 5% of my usual rate.....well having spent the most part of my life on iCompositions during the last 3 years (posting music, forums, blogs, crazy chatting, iComp radio and so on) what happened was that I simply missed the REAL life connections, loosing interest and interaction with some of the dearest persons in my life.......when I got the "wake up call" (as Bernie named it, love ya man! ) I realized my balance between virtual and real stuff was wrong and from that moment on I fixed it turning energies towards those other very important things......now the time I'm dedicating to music, icomp, facebook, skype and so on is very very shorter than before but the general balance of my life is luckly very very richer ...... that's all folks!!!!!

Maybe you're doing the wrong thing by posting music on this site.
Maybe you should be playing 'Guitar Hero' with your friends instead if you're as competitive as you say you are. You might find it more satisfying hanging with competitive kids your own age.
The rest of us here are here for the music. Not some competition.