synaesthesia

[quote name='2x18' post='579900' date='Aug 25 2009, 10:00 AM']I should think any Official Ibanez retailer should be able to order parts for you! Although I know from personal experience some are more helpful than others! Will.[/quote] [url="https://cs.hoshinogakki.co.jp/i-public/faces/Login00.jsp"]https://cs.hoshinogakki.co.jp/i-public/faces/Login00.jsp[/url] Your problem is that the parts change minor spec very often so what you are looking for specifically may not be available in the fashion you imagine.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='578111' date='Aug 23 2009, 11:16 AM']I've heard it claimed that the speakers are identical,[/quote] OEM Eminence, with specs 'very close' to Gamma Pros.

[quote name='Linus27' post='571960' date='Aug 17 2009, 07:25 PM'].... very Kenneth Williams sounding.[/quote] I have to say that made my day... I suppose you can play 'infamy, infamy they're all in fer me' on the stingray now.

[quote name='lateralus462' post='563319' date='Aug 8 2009, 09:20 AM']So, you have twice as many people sat in the sweet spot, but it still isn't going to encompass the whole audience is it? not win win - maybe a slightly better solution but not the ultimate - now a cab wither side of the stage would be, but then again that would be a PA wouldn't it (but then again when using PA support where will the sound engineer sit the bass in the stereo mix? not dead centre I'm sure) To be honest I PREFER the sound of a 4 x 10 coupled with a 15 - not based on looks, based on SOUND seriously I am one of the least gear snobby people out there - I could not give a f**k whether my rig is 6' tall and 3" wide or the size of a shoebox as long as it sounds good. - you assume that the bass sound from the amp is some way bad. Yes therre will be differences out front depending on where you stand, but I can't say I have been to a gig and thought, oh that bass sounds off - must be the dispersion of the cab, but I have been to plenty of gigs with bassists using 4 x 10's on there own and been impressed with the bass sound.[/quote] All you are saying is you prefer a 4 X10, if that's the case play your bass rig through an original FENDER open backed 4X10 if there is no difference in cab design and no difference in audio dispersion. Restating and repeating personal reference is not a good enough rationale to base your arguments over design or acoustical science, --- some people prefer to vomit on their own clothes, it doesn't help in the science of personal hygiene. You are not helping the discussion on cab design. For a band that does not rely on PA, dispersion from backline is important if you want to get your audio across; part of the problem is that many acts don't care for this - they prefer to have a roar of energy but acoustic dispersion or intelligibility is not important. For a band that relies on PA, dispersion across the stage from backline is important to a point if you aren't monitored otherwise. You will have had this experience at some stage, all you get in the wedges are vocals but you cannot hear the guitarist on stage clearly because guitar is not in the monitor mix, you cannot hear clearly despite the guitarist using a 4X12 as he/she is stage left of you....all you get is low end from the guitar. If your instruments are monitored in the wedges on stage, dispersion is less of a problem. If you and everyone else will use in ear monitoring and a good PA, dispersion is not crucial at all as you technically do not need a cab on stage.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='562004' date='Aug 6 2009, 02:40 PM']I don't give a damn what the speaker sizes are as long as they do what I want them to do! Thankfully I realised long ago that you can't say that "twelves sound like this, tens sound like that, and fifteens sound like t'other" because there are far more important parameters affecting the tone that the nominal diameter. Maybe if the Qts was printed in a huge bright font on the cone of every speaker we buy we'd then talk about preferring a 0.3 Qts sound to a 0.5 Qts sound... But then we'd be omitting to consider Vas. And so on... Alex[/quote] This common thinking or impression will not go away, moving the trump card game to a different set of more informed specifications does nothing either. Some of the so-called 'informed experts' are still playing trumps when it comes to certain specifications. At the end of the day, a musical instrument or a circuit is more dependent on the holistic performance more than the sum of its parts, than any isolated specification or component. 12AX7s are used in crap amps and are used in great amps. JRC4558s are used in great circuits and crap circuits. TL072s are great in some circuits but noisy in others. 10, 12, 15" speakers go into great and crap cabinets. Foster/Fostex tweeters are the devil to some but if you use them right they sing. But as much as we know this, in the next day someone will post something along those lines that 10" do this better, Tweeters are evil or mylar caps do this , that and the other better.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='561252' date='Aug 5 2009, 04:14 PM'] Am pretty sure Stanley Clarke has the woodscrew/washer combo on his Alembics - not quite as rock and roll but definitely not smooth jazz... Alex[/quote] That's famously true. Mica Wickersham has reported his specific instructions on the Alembic group.

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='560346' date='Aug 4 2009, 04:35 PM']Call me a weirdo, but I can't suck up to a guy just because he's an incredible musician. I'm great at making cups of tea, but that doesn't cut me any slack on the Twinnings forum.[/quote] Hooray for the straight talk. You tell 'em Chief.

[quote name='Musky' post='551147' date='Jul 25 2009, 02:53 PM']Synaesthesia reckoned lens cleaning tissue soaked in PVA works as well. Won't hurt to try...[/quote] Someone's reading my posts... Tape is very rock and roll but the ol' tissue trick is more permanent, and is not likely to peel off mid gig which might give you buzzaw distortion when you don't expect it.

[quote name='Stingray5' post='552764' date='Jul 27 2009, 03:53 PM']"...it's one of those [i]typical cheesy 80's tunes[/i]..." ??? er...I beg to differ! I know the 80's had it's fair share of cheesy stuff - as did the 60's/70's/90's and now the noughties - but 'Broken Wings', for me, ain't one of 'em. Come to that, I'd have to say neither is their other classic track, 'Kyrie'. But you're certainly right that it's a simple yet effective bass line. p.s. - IMHO [/quote] Britain being the home where novelty songs can top the charts, this song is well off the cheeseboard. Quasi religious, maybe, there were a few in the 80s, ... but fromage is Simon Cowell in a dog suit doing the bow wows.

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I do this all the time. My big rig is tri-amped and used to be a quad amp set up. In that rig I use a DBX speaker management system and it all fits in a 8U rolling rack, including power amps. I use the large rig for showbands, disco bands, motown party band work. My small 2U rig now feeds a 1x15, and 4 X 5 in a vertical array, in two separate boxes. The preamp is an Alembic with a crossover (12db Slope) and I use a 1U CARVER Power amp. I use this mostly and it will do most of what I do, which is jazz trio, quartet, quintet, or small pop/country outfits, which 90% of what I do. Sometimes I use a different 3U rig for EUB, which has a READ preamp or RANE AP13, a DBX crossover, and a Carver poweramp - same idea but diff. components, better crossover slopes, but 1U more. The latter works better for Piezo pickups as I can shelf off the subsonic low end with the DBX crossover. I use the 3U rig to feed the same 1X15 and 4 X 5.

Shame. Met him a few years ago. RIP, Nicola

[quote name='rslaing' post='495908' date='May 23 2009, 11:18 AM']Remember, the topic is all about "The most accurate tuner"[/quote] So flog me or send the police. There is no point in having the most accurate note tuner if the whole instrument, as a musical instrument cannot cope. You can Strobe tune all you want, ultimately all you are ever doing is identifying a start point to which the rest of the instrument needs to be referenced to.

Frankly, it is probably more possible to play more in tune with a washtub or tea chest bass with one stick and one string than on a Fodera fretted bass, i.e if you have a good ear. An electronic tuner only contributes a point of reference as far as common well tempered fretted stringed instruments are concerned - a tuning fork or pitch pipe will can also provide the same function of a reference point. Beyond that, it's set up and then touch and ear.

[quote name='rslaing' post='495839' date='May 23 2009, 10:08 AM'][i][/i] You are spot on with this. But if you read the answer as to why precise tuning is important to the ear, and I don't mean "exact" tuning in the sense of A5 having to be twice the hz of A4, (which is what a bog standard tuner will do) the Peterson explanation in my previous post explains why, and backs up what you are saying in a more detailed way.[/quote] Preset temperaments are averaged to common set ups. For an electric guitar or bass, or other stringed instrument, the action, the gauge of the strings and the player's attack are also important components to a musical consequence. SRV's strat was unplayable to most other players because of his set up, and the oft- quoted remark "it's in the fingers' is true as many players touch and ears work together towards musical consequence, as opposed to being mathematically tempered in tune. edit: I should add the height of the frets affects tuning as well in tandem with string type and fretting pressure.

The obsession with tuning accuracy is overvalued in this context. The answer is always moot if it is a fretted stringed instrument that is tuned to tempered scales. You can tune a single fretted note with average plucking intensity as accurately as you want, but the instrument will be out of perfect tuning to some degree elsewhere on a fretted instrument, and hard attack on the string will result in a momentary sharp note. The accuracy of tuning on a fretted instrument also depends on the action, and the bow of the neck. The ear can accept some 'give' in musical contexts, which is why chorusing is popular and can sound 'rich'...and which is why the most common electric guitar, the stratocaster, where perfect tuning is further compromised by spring loading the tailpiece, is never in perfect tuning anyway.

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There's a sale at Adam Hall on LD stuff. They make PAs, but they also make (or rebadge) various bits & pieces that may be of interest here. e.g. AKG style wireless , sale price @ 75 squid 1U power amp (IIRC 1000W at Ohms or so, work to 2 ohms in stereo) sub 200 squid. check it out.

[quote name='Clive Thorne' post='463327' date='Apr 15 2009, 07:22 PM']Perhaps the prototypes were made on different machines to the production parts, or perhaps it's a quality control problem, perhaps tahy made the prototypes and 'outsourced' the production. Who knows? At least they seem to be doing the right thing now.[/quote] Neutrik moved all their manufacturing to Ningbo years ago. Switchraft used to use negative advertising to make fun of Neutirk Ningbo plant. Before all this current China investment craze, German industry has always had a foothold, and they have been there historically, though this is not a well known fact in the Anglophone world. In Beijing and you will see a strong German industrial presence. Tsingtao beer, the standard chinese beer, is brewed with German investment & technology and has been for ages.

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