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[quote name='SPHDS' timestamp='1340566836' post='1706378'] Fair point Steve! So.....what is a good cable? (bearing in mind I want something good value and reliable rather than something 'Gold Plated and Diamond Encrusted') but would also like to avoid something made old Coke cans and tin foil.....! [/quote] A good cable is one that's durable and well screened. It'd have to be seriously sh*tty to make any difference to the sound, unlike instrument cables where the high impedance of (passive) instruments make it necessary to keep capacitance low. Obbn, forum member, knows how to make a good cable and won't attempt to sell you snake oil, diamonds or coke cans.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1340379744' post='1703796'] when you crank up the gain of a mic you open up the pickup response pattern, making it more omnidirectional [/quote] Really? First I've heard of this. Please elaborate?

[quote name='SlapbassSteve' timestamp='1340366889' post='1703392'] From my experience it's a total mystery to me as to how the SM58 is -or ever was- the industry standard. Horrible muddy things with an rather 'vague' sounding midrange. [/quote] Here's why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vToepYWmOq4 see also Beyer DT100 headphones - horrible sound, but they cannot be killed by conventional means.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1340023376' post='1697718'] Thanks for that image. And on his birthday, too! [/quote] So Sir Paul wakes up on the morning of his birthday, feeling great. He goes into his corner shop for his Sun and ten Bennies. -Morning Sir Paul! It's your birthday today isn't it? -It is indeed, Raj! -Many happy returns, chief. 50 is it? -Haha, you silver-tongued devil. I'm seventy five today! And next door to the butchers for his free range Quorn pork pie. -Morning Sir Paul! Happy birthday! -Why thank you Hillary! Guess how old? -I'd say around, ooh, I dunno...forty seven? -I wish! Seventy five actually! He's feeling great, really youthful. So pops into Tesco Express for his Blue WKD. -One forty nine. -Here you are, one fifty. It's my birthday by the way. Can you guess my age? -um. Fifty two? -No cigar! I'm seventy five! -Happy birthday sir. Sitting down on a park bench, he sparks up a benny, opens the WKD and turns to Page 3. A wretched stinking bag lady, ancient ruined fur coat matted with monkey sp**k, sits beside him and gurns engagingly (if toothlessly). -Morning Sir Paul. Guess your age? -Ho ho, go right ahead my dear! She grabs a hold of him, stuffs her hands down his trousers and rummages around his family jewels. -Yer seventy five, mate. -Good lord! How on earth can you tell? -I was behind you in the queue for the butchers. Boom! Boom! It's the way I tell 'em.

like the tags, Steve :-) He wants £2.10 to stick a second-class stamp on them, too. For 75 quid I'd expect them hand-delivered by Paul McCartney. On a monkey sp**k moped.

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1340016254' post='1697546'] Fender P - it was like putting on an old shoe - comfort and confidence reurned in spades so I decide to go back to what I knew best..... 4 strings. [/quote] My experience exactly One of my bands suits a fretless Precision best, the other a fretted Precision. Maybe one day I'll find myself in a band where 5 string is best but for now I'm happy.

Anything Entwistle played post-Fenderbird.

[quote name='rOB' timestamp='1332088499' post='1583001'] He just looks so sad. [/quote] Anyone noticed how bassissts grow to resemble their instruments?

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1339868061' post='1695687'] A fantastic bass which sounded and played superbly BUT in times of stress and terror I couldn't find "home" which, to me, is bottom E. [/quote] Nice choice of words, and exactly why my go-to bass is still a 4 string, an old friend. Were I to stick the 4 string in the attic (John Entwistle's uncle's attic, that is) and practise the 5 string I'm sure I'd find the new home just as cosy as the old one, though.

Chaypup, that's the way I read it too!

[quote name='ikay' timestamp='1339768404' post='1694050'] The HPF on my Fishman Plat Pro EQ sweeps from 15Hz to 125Hz. with a 12dB/octave cut. For a fixed cutoff point I would think somewhere around 75-100Hz is probably in the ballpark so what you have will probably work pretty well for bass. [/quote] No way! Cut below 75-100Hz and there won't be any fundamentals left in the bottom octave. 40Hz maybe.

well it's certainly...[i]different[/i]. You'd get comments gigging with it. What's with the tailpiece? Does the neck dive at all? What is it? Prefer my Precision but I'm 100% Boring Old Fart. Welcome, and I quote someone else's sig: "If you want five opinions, ask three bass players" edit: actually, I'm becoming strangely drawn to it...really, what is it? Why the bridge/tailpiece arrangement? Why the big scroll on the headstock? How does it hang?

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1339757057' post='1693768'] So how many of you listen to your favourite bands on a really great hi-fi? And, how many of you want to try and get tones like they do, for the drums, guitar, bass, singer, glokenspiel? And just how often is that tone coming off a CD? Yeah, thought so...... [/quote] Some time ago Radio 3 FM live broadcasts were widely regarded by audiophiles (ie gentlemen who wouldn't allow a CD in the house) as being the 'best', 'purest', 'most analog' signal available this side of a concert hall. I've just learned from an engineer who was there that for a long time the signal was digitised into 12 bits (unsure of sample rate, sorry) to be piped from the OB van to the transmitter. And no-one knew, so they didn't hear it. My point being...erm, don't know Sir. Probably what 5im0n said.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1339684072' post='1692663'] Yup, certainly splitting hairs, that's for sure, but I do stand corrected with reference to the way that the input signal is used to 'modulate' a PWM carrier signal and to quote from another reference 'this signal is used to drive the output devices'. Sure there's digital aspects but as you say, not digital as we generally use the term. In a similar analogy, it looks like a 'kettle lead' but it's not. It's all in the details! [/quote] When I build my digital amplifier, it's going to have one of these for a power connector: http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/6343/cimg0088ug8.jpg

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1339669037' post='1692219'] It can't quite work like that in terms of dealing with an analogue signal. If it were that straight forward, then the signal at the speaker would only ever be two levels. 0v or (for example) 10v to truly denote an output of 0 or 1 in the digital domain. The speaker would be either at it's resting point, or being pushed out in one direction statically, nothing in between. A digital amplifier would be more common place in a control system, such as one driving a stepper motor for example. It's output only ever needing to be fully on or fully off, possibly using some sort of mark-space ratio to control movement. Coming back to the audio amplifier, unless it involves some sort of DSP circuit, such as the preamplifier in the TC RH450, there is no analogue to digital conversion and thus the signal stays in the analogue domain. Effects units, such as those by Line 6 are digital as they rely wholly on A/D, DSP and D/A conversion. It's pretty safe to call them digital. [/quote] Actually, the output as it appears on the output devices[b] is[/b] always either at 0 or rail voltage. It's the output filter choke, cable capacitance, the voice coil inductance and the cone inertia that integrates it and turns it back into an analogue signal. And yes it does use mark/space ratio, and so it does contain an analogue>digital converter of sorts, though not 'digital' as we generally use the term. But I'm splitting hares Here's how it's done: http://www.irf.com/technical-info/refdesigns/iraudamp7d.pdf

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1339595272' post='1691122'] Funnily it was a D-Class amplifier and one of my little pet-peeves is people calling them digital. Grr! [/quote] to be fair, they are 'digital' rather than analogue in that the output devices are always fully on or off, ie 1 or 0. Headphones branded as 'digital', though...

[quote name='rushbo' timestamp='1339619864' post='1691733'] ...look like they've dug up from the ruins of Pompeii, set fire to and then used to prop open the doors to Hell. [/quote] I shall use that elsewhere :-)

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1339629418' post='1691866'] That whole picture just reinforces my suspicion he's having a sh*t. [/quote] And straining so much he's f***ed his knee up. Needs more fibre.

Career Opportunities by The Clash (feat. St Winifred's School Choir)

I've never played an Alembic (or similar high end coffee table) and don't intend to. I think they are uglier than a bulldog licking piss off a stinging nettle and are way overpriced. I'm just terrified that I might like it, and enter a world of gas. I love my cheap and cheerful p basses and get no complaints about the noises they make. never tried heroin or fast cars either ;-)

This should be in 'daily awesomeness'

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1339510666' post='1689552'] : "Hey man, really loved what you were doing on the bass in the worship" "Thanks, but it wasn't really me, it was Jesus playing through me" to which the correct response is an incredulous "no mate, it wasn't that good!" [/quote] most excellent. Bit like "they're not crows' feet, they're laughter lines" "Nothing's THAT funny"

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1339504648' post='1689389'] I usually say "Thanks, glad you liked it. Thanks for coming. Are you a bass player?" Then get into a massive argument over why I don't play a fender and whether the second note of the fourth bar in the third song should have been an E or a G#. [/quote] Neither, should a been A flat. I have noticed a direct relationship between the size of the noise coming out of my rig and the number of compliments i get.

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1339500947' post='1689292'] IMO, when someone gets a compliment, replying by saying "this was not right/that was not great", somehow throws the compliment back in the face of the giver. It is actually saying, "your opinion is wrong". A lot easier and friendlier to simply say "thanks". [/quote] This.