Stub Mandrel

Some of us sewed badges on (and embroidered!) our own jackets!

Basschat 203.2mm Cab Design just sounds soooo wrong! I'm bilingual, not only can I work in Metric and Imperial, but I can visualise both as well. Imperial is really convenient when you need things in different sizes with good proportions and need to allocate dimensions into convenient subdivisions. Metric has it's preferred sizes, which can be OK for proportion, but are a nightmare if you are adding different sizes and trying to get to a convenient overall dimension.

I hope it works. I saw a podiatricians and physiotherapists about my left ankle. It's much larger than normal due to extra bone around multiple breaks, and loss of cartilage, so I get bone on bone if my knee goes forward. But to get to the point, the best two things they told me were "we're used to stopping when things hurt so we don't make things worse. Fir this you need to do the opposite, the more it hurts, the more you're keeping mobility and building muscle around the joint" and in more carefully guarded words "A specialist will recommend fusing the joint, don't let them as you will lose so much mobilty which will be really bad long term". They did say that if a specialist offers to clean bone fragments out of the joint, that would be a good thing. TL;DR if offered fusion of the ankle, think very carefully as it could stop you doing a lot of things.

Exactly, he's a huge inspiration but for a fairly narrow audience. I met someone who claimed to know a guy with eight of Cozy's drum kits.

Carole Kaye will surely sue...

Check your manual... some will run on very few channels if you are happy to choose from pre-programmed settings. https://www.highlite.com/media/attachments/MANUAL/42199_MANUAL_GB_V2.pdf

That's one way of fogging the stage.

My Proel seems now to be the Eikon DM580LC. Now trying the Superlux Prad1 a hypercardiod.

Bad hair day...

Me... I enjoy having basses that (in general) feel and sound distinct from each other so not a Squier Mustang if a Fender Mustang is in the future. Plus, check out all the videos of young kids shredding on 34" scale basses. Small build is not a valid reason to choose short scale, there are other more compelling reasons.

None of those is a bad choice. Shïte basses are pretty much a thing of the past.

I think they will be very different once I've used a reference mic to get rid of the speaker/room effects. Should be anlevto sort it next week.

I'm probably going to set up a couple of banks with colour washes, then program a few banks as short chases.

Yes, but they are quite subtle and hard to see aside from a few obvious things... the condenser traces (three at top right) have MUCH higher frequency response and are much more sensitive. The drum mics and the (very old, cheap and nasty) Ross 338 have better low end, even though the T-Bone one has a cheap as chips insert chosen for a claimed good low-end response (it also has very low sensitivity). The SM58 is low sensitivity as well. Some have a distinctly lower response below around 32kHz and a few have apparent extra dips and peaks, but hard to be definitive.

The inadequacies of a fairly basic powered speaker are hiding the true responses of the various mics. Does show how much influence PA can have on your tone...

Originals tonight. We keep tweaking... Very pleased with where some of my basslines are going now.

I've spent modt of 6 days in the last two months in Leamington and still couldn't fit in a visit to Bass Direct...

Kellie's Heroes by Black Grape. No tab and not very clear. Found some lives that seem to confirm my suspicion it doesn't follow the chord changes and there are a couple of more interesting bits, at least live.

Last rehearsal of the year(?) with the originals lot tonight. But now I'm choosing the versions of the new songs for Bendricks Rock to share, so the guitarists can be 100% sure to learn the wrong ones. 😶

I'm seeing as little as 0.6 to 0.5m being recommended for 'living room' calibration. Our vocalist has said he's happy to lend me his reference mic and I've found better software.

Good call. I asked Chatgpt for advice and that was one recommendation. Another was to use software that allows me to calibrate using a reference mic... I know someone who may lend me one.

Got me googling as well! 😁

I've been experimenting with testing microphones. I used a Scarlett interface into my laptop and Friture to produce Mel & A-weighted spectrograms. I used a HH Vector 8" producing pink noise over bluetooth as a sound source. Speaker and mic 1.25m apart and 1.25m above the floor in large room with lots of soft furnishings, curtains. Most obvious thing was the speaker had limitations, as you could see the same notches across all the mics. The flatest response was... a £30 generic BM800 mid-sized condenser microphone. Often used with 5V from a PC, these run well on 48V phantom power and are very sensitive. Lots of hacks for their circuit or putting larger inserts in them. I haven't modded this yet, but it gave the biggest signal and flattest curve with widest frequency response of all the mics I tested... I think this gives the best idea of the HH Vector's output. Note the dips at 4500 and 5500Hz which I guess may be the crossover frequency. My other condenser mic - Behringer C2, used flat and with low cut, which drops around 3dB from around 1000Hz ish. Interestingly the 5500 dip is not very pronounced. I think I need a better white noise source before repeating the experiment... things are going on for different types of mic, but I don't have confidence the sound source is flat enough to draw meaningful conclusions on anything but the sensitivity and the extent of the high/low frequency response. If anyone can recommend the ideal spectrogram settings, better software (Friture has no manual and appears to lack a simple save screenshot function) or any advice at all, all welcome!

Deck the Halls with boughs of Holly fits War Pigs perfectly...

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