Count Bassy

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1407332673' post='2519517'] It's true, i need more practise, but it's easier for you to read my bad english than my good portuguese, hehehe [/quote] My apologies Ghost - I hadn't realised you weren't a native English speaker. And you're correct about my Portuguese !! I feel really bad now. [size=4] [/size]

[quote name='grenadilla' timestamp='1407327598' post='2519444'] With two cabinets (getting the same number of watts, say 300 watts to two 410s ) you have a "wider piston of air" to push the air in the room with your playing. With the same 300 watts and one 410 it is a more narrow piston of air. It is like knocking on a door with two knuckles and using four knuckles. [/quote] But surely, although the piston is smaller, for the same watts (and all other things being equal) then the cones in the single 4 x 10 would be moving that much further, so total displacement wouldn't be that much different?

Surely there are two different things here. Obviously if you put two drivers in parallel then, as bill says, they each seems the same voltage so so you'd shift twice the air. Providing that the amplifier can drive twice the current. And I suspect that this is where most of the "two drivers is better than one" thing comes from. However, as ghost says, if you have one 4 ohm driver, or two 8 ohm drivers being driven by the same amp at the same settings, then the total electrical power delivered would be the same. I guess, as someone else said, the cone gets harder to move as the excursion increases due to the spring effect of the surround, so the two 8 ohm drivers might actually be more efficient (less energy loss in the surround), but by how much? Ignoring this, if the one 4 ohm speaker cone taking 100 watts moves twice as far as each of the 50 Watt 8 ohm speakers then surely the total air shifted is the same? A solid state amp has two limiting factors: The max voltage swing (mostly determined by the DC rail voltages), which determines how much current it could drive into a specific load, and the current limit (determined by both the output devices/heat management, and the power supply) ....... Or not??

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1407324533' post='2519411'] I don't understand the phisics of this [/quote] or, it seems, the spelling. (With apologies)

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1407189519' post='2518295'] plus you can still use it as a watch, and take pictures, check calendar... [/quote] [size=4]I was sort of thinking of the [/size]psychological[size=4] step of turning it off, it being a bit like saying "for the next 3 hours the gig comes above everything else".[/size]

You've actually anticipated a question that I was going to ask re 'Mark to Space' ratios on speaker grills. I have an old Musicman HD212 cab (2 x 12" + 1 x 8"), (8 ohm 600 Watt RMS) which has a grill that is basically a sheet with smallish (3 - 4 mm??) round holes in it. I'm not at home at the moment so can't say exactly, but I'd say that the split between hole and metal is probably around 50-50. I have played around with taking the grill off in the past, and it makes a very noticeable difference to the sound. Without the grill it just sounds so much more 'open', which I far prefer, but of course leaves the speaker cones vulnerable. My Shermann PA speakers have a metal grill (underneath a foam front) which is more like the expanded metal type arrangement, where I guess the ratio is closer to 80% hole, 20% metal, and I have thought about fitting this type of grill to the Musicman cab (but not done anything about it). Also, I agree with Icastle - grill over cloth ever time for protection and longevity ... and personally I prefer the look as well! The stuff I've seen on e-bay isn't wide enough for my application, but something from these people perhaps? [url="http://www.metal-mesh.co.uk/"]http://www.metal-mesh.co.uk/[/url]

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1407104244' post='2517452'] My phone goes into flight mode or off when on stage. Nothing worse than amps picking up interference or your mum calling you to ask how your gig is going. [/quote] Why not just turn it off?

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1406719547' post='2514021'] Erm... Red Red Wine I console my shame with the fact I also got PAID for playing it [/quote] There's no shame in that! Cracking Song.

It makes me feel like giving up.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1406542604' post='2512199'] As far as I'm aware, most of the current crop of class-D's use the same ICEPower module. Marketing nonsense does the rest. EBS seem to be acting more sensibly with the Reidmar, rating it at an honest 250w. I'm happy to be educated otherwise, though. [/quote] I would have thought that that the same power section can handle different amounts of power according to how well its cooled? Certainly with many industrial "AC" drives (which are effectively class D) they have different ratings according to whether they are convection cooled or fan cooled.

You Really Got Me Going - in 2006, at which point I was 49 already!

With the Ceilidh band (I play Melodeon & Anglo conc in that) we've found that (in many cases) the organisers think "The bands free, so we're bound to make a profit, so we don't have to push the tickets". Consequently you get the call a week before "Oh, we haven't sold enough tickets, we're going to cancel it", or you end up playing for a very small number of people.

Bloke in our village used to be the guitarist in a band called "The Alliance", and was pro for 14 years. The Alliance toured extensively supporting Black Sabbath until Black Sabbath stole their singer - Tony Martin. Played a few gigs with him and he's brilliant, but also very modest - no ego issues at all. Earns his living selling canal boats these days.

Whitesnake's version of "Ain't no love" ? Radar Love?

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1405878085' post='2506074'] Groslch bottle washers make the [s]best[/s] cheapest straplocks. [/quote] Corrected.

Different tones: Do you want a "digging in" tone or a "playing softly" tone? Select the technique to give you the tone you want, then adjust the amp to give the volume you want.

I loved his version of, Johhny B. Goode! He's gone but the music remains. A sad loss, and 70 is way too young.

Just E-mail the MP3

and Jeff Healey (RIP)

Get one of the Neutrik double ended locking ones. No need for any sticky tape!.

Rigid AND Bendable!

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1403609016' post='2484354'] Incidentally, snare drums ain't all that cheap either. But consumables or 'gear' should be covered by the person using them. [/quote] I took him to mean the snare itself rather than the whole drum.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1403549473' post='2483829'] Agreed. Though he's not alone in that respect. I recall Dylan being pretty offhand when I saw him at Wembley Arena many years ago (late 80s). [/quote] Saw Dylan at the NEC many years ago - he completely ignored the audience, and had become a parody of himself. Worst concert I've been to I think.

[quote name='plunkrock' timestamp='1401913015' post='2468324'] I picked up a MBT-1 on here recently and have been pleased with it Handy little thing, the bass cut/boost and looping features are what I use most and they work well. [/quote] Yes, the bass cut/boost is one of the things that the MB-BT1 does better than the GTR-1. But then the GTR-1 has basic drum rhythms to play along to, and allows you to record, direct or via in built mics. They would both benefit from some way of trimming the loop points. The built in effects (IMO) are pretty crap in both of them, but then I never really use effects. You pays your money ....

Just make sure that it's coiled the right way - i should go the same way as a screw thread. - Obviously if you're playing in the southern hemisphere you'll need to use one which is coiled the other way.