dannybuoy

For sure, I wasn't disagreeing there. My point was though, similar to what is often said about compressors - "if you can hear it working, you're probably compressing too much". If you can hear the HPF working you might be chopping off more low end than you need to. Rather than just rolling off the frequencies that a speaker can't reproduce, you are in the territory of rolling off frequencies that your cab is fine to handle, but you're doing it for reasons other than speaker protection. That's where adjustability is a very handy thing to have to reign in sub-bass at home and on less than ideal stages. My Orange Terror has no HPF built in as far as I know (they are in the school of thought that less is more in terms of components I think!) and my poor little sealed Ampegs need all the protection they can get so a Thumpinator lives on my board. My wife would probably prefer I swap it for a Broughton and rolled off everything under 120 Hz though!

I realise your reasoning for putting compression ahead of octave is probably to make it track better, but I've found I prefer it after with a long attack time. It helps bring back the thump of the attack which is somewhat lost during the octave process. Try it both ways anyway!

But how are you measuring your scale of pants? Your mentioned previously your marker for whether it was doing its job or not was reducing air movement. Did you stand in front of the cab and measure how much your pants flapped? My point is that with a HPF designed for speaker protection like the Thumpinator it's really hard to tell is having an effect. When it's on you still hear and feel deep bass, and feel air movement from your cab. But you do notice the cones lurching around less which ultimately gives you more headroom and definition. Less steep HPFs with a variable frequency like the Broughton are more about reducing sub frequencies on stage and tightening up your low end. Especially handy playing through your rig at home!

Woops how do you delete a post these days!

It's almost a shame that you don't have an Orange rig to go with it!

Another video with a load of waffling and very little playing: https://youtu.be/kQjmBTErIFQ

That is screaming out for a tort guard and cream pickup covers!

Unboxing videos are a pet hate of mine. I don't care about the packaging, plug the funking thing in already!

Only real way to test is a signal generator into your amp, then view the visible movement of the cones.

But how low and how high, and does your amp even have a transformer?! I would not be surprised if there were some amps out there that would try to deliver 10Hz to a speaker. Just because manufacturer specs only quote from 20Hz-20kHz doesn't mean anything!

Running Cakewalk.exe /? shows all the switches it supports. You should in theory be able to install it where you like with this: Cakewalk.exe /DIR="D:\Cakewalk"

The user download folder is the main one that all apps should use by default - even your browser would. If you reconfigured your browser to use a different location then that would only apply to that browser. The proper way would be to move your download folder: - go to C:\users\username - right-click downloads and view properties - go to Location tab and hit Move This will move your files onto another drive if need be and update all the pointers to it so that other apps that try to use your proper download folder will use the new location also.

Odd, I just hit next until it finished. Looks like you can run this: cakewalk.exe /LOG Then go to %TEMP% in an explorer window and find a log file in there named 'Setup Log <DATE> #001.txt' for the installation which might give further clues.

I just tried to install it via the Bandlab Assistant they make you download. It downloaded the installer then just hung around for hours saying 'installing'. I quit the Bandlab Assistant app and just ran Cakewalk.exe from my Downloads folder and it's now installing properly!

Sounds like great sonic improvements. Now they just have to improve the looks!

I would just look for a used CMD121H then sell the 121P if that sounds like an option you'd entertain. Slightly bigger, easier to reach controls, deeper lows and sweeter highs.

As a long time Cakewalk Sonar fan, and my day job is making and fixing other people's broken installers, I'll see if I can help @Dad3353!

The Diamond and OvniFX smoothie compressors both feature tilt EQs.

+1, Yamaha nailed the BB pickups by having a super high output J bridge pickup - mine is louder than the P pickup. Blending the two sounds a lot more like that sound you get from a Jazz with both pups up full compared to many PJs where adding the J just slightly alters the main P sound rather than totally transforming it.

Only reason being that Mr Bass Compressor absolutely slated TC here! http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/hyper.shtml

It takes a lot of effort to design a cooling system that is both effective at dissipating heat at gig volume yet relatively silent at bedroom levels. But hopefully with enough people moaning about it manufacturers will take note and put that effort in! Quietest bedroom amp I ever had was an Orange AD200B, no fan!

Don't knock it until you've tried it! I dismissed it for a long time just assuming everyone that liked it probably had cloth ears. I was genuinely shocked how good it was, especially given that I tend not to like digital stuff either. I need to spend some more time with them both, but the Cali wins for transparent yet slightly fattening compression, the Spectracomp though is an amazing tone enhancer, makes your bass sound like it has magical fairy dust sprinkled on top!

I highly rate the Spectracomp also, that I just picked up used for £50. So much so that my Cali Compact Bass might be up for the chop!