Happy Jack

As a complete amateur in these matters, I think of it as being surface area x excursion (i.e. the amount that the cone moves to & fro). If you think of the entire speaker cone moving forwards and backwards then the volume it occupies is a cylinder and that's something you can measure. While I typed that, Pete gave the same answer. Thing is, very few manufacturers publish excursion figures, and you've got this thing called "efficiency" which incorporates the idea of not losing too much power to heat (through friction) so I never feel that I either can work out displacement properly or estimate potential volume either. What I can do, though, is a quick mental calculation when comparing cabs. Since the only variable that I know for sure is the radius of the speakers, I can do a quick & dirty comparison of, say, a 1x15 -v- 2x10. Radius squared for a 15 is 56.25; radius squared for a 10 is 25, but there are two of them so that makes 50. So if someone tells me that a 1x15 is about as loud as a 2x10 that doesn't upset me. If someone tells me that their 1x10 (that's a 25) is as loud as someone else'e 1x12 (that's a 36) then I expect them to explain how they've achieved that ... more efficient speakers, greater excursion than usual, cab filled with magic smoke, whatever. And chees has nothing to do with it.

Baffling. An array of speakers arranged in a line is somehow not a linear array. Use of English is over-rated anyway.

Bloody relic job ...

Which gut-a-like strings are you talking about? And just how gutty are they? I've been very happy with Silver Slaps.

Each method seems to have a year or two in the sun before becoming useless. JoinMyBand was good for a while. BandMix was good for a while. Gumtree was good for a while. There have been plenty of others ...

It's definitely easier to sing high notes if your mouth is in 'letterbox' shape. Try singing a high note with a 'round' mouth (a big O) if you want to check.

Try a Sansamp into a Markbass 210.

On the passive one. The active one had more ...

Didn't the MOD develop these as wide-area anti-personnel devices?

What's the weight like on these less-expensive Precisions? I've got it in my head that they're all really heavy, but actually I have no real idea.

Vocal abuse is the misuse or overuse of the voice in an unhealthy fashion Well there's your problem straight away. Vocal abuse is swearing at someone. Vocal misuse is using your voice in an improper fashion. On-line stuff is all very well, and some of it is really very good ... if you can find the good stuff and recognise it. But if you're an absolute beginner, then there is no substitute for a couple of one-on-one sessions with an actual voice coach, who can identify what you're doing wrong and show you how to do it right. No on-line voice coach is going to see that your posture is all wrong, you're not breathing properly, and you're straining too hard for that note. Ultimately, you get what you pay for. And on-line coaches cost nothing. Just saying ...

I had the fiver. Loved it to bits but the weight (> 11lbs) led me to sell it. I missed it so much that I bought another one. Loved it to bits but the weight (> 11lbs) led me to sell it. GAME OVER INSERT NEW COIN

And that just about nails it for me. If I was in the weddings market then who knows what route I'd go down? But I ain't. I play pubs. I set up between the Gents toilet and the dartboard, without getting in the way of the TV showing the footy / rugger / tennis / Olympics / whatever, and with everything powered from a single 13A socket which previously had the cigarette machine plugged into it (landlord's going to notice that eventually). Simplicity & flexibility are massively important to me.

A funny thing happened to me on the way to ...