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Do It U.S.S.R. by The Lillingtons from The Too Late Show, released in 2006

Some audio kits that come close within the audible spectrum. Those are the one's that reveal the difference between original and compressed recordings.

Square waves represent complex wave forms in a measurable manner. Just encoding and decoding doesn't have to have notable impact on quality, but once compressed, the original composition lost some information that can't be retrieved. Whether this can be heard depends on compression ratio, playback equipment and one's hearing.

A few years ago I performed a quick test to find out about the playback quality of MP3 and YouTube. In order to keep things simple, I generated a 600 Hz square wave. Square waves consist of the fundamental frequency plus all odd harmonics. The amplitude of each harmonic with regard to the amplitude of fundamental wave, is the reciprocal value of the number of the harmonic. So the amplitude of the third harmonic is 1/3, of the fifth harmonic 1/5 and so on. If all harmonics (say up to 20 kHz) are present, a neat square wave will be the result. If some harmonics are left out or have an incorrect amplitude, the wave will look distorted. I recorded the 600 Hz signal with a digital recorder which produces a 16 bit uncompressed wav-file. Then I converted this to a high quality 320 kB/sec MP3 file. I also uploaded the original signal to my YouTube account and downloaded it from there. Hereunder the results can be seen, as captured with Audacity. The difference can be heard, even with speakers or headphones of lesser quality.

French punk!

My son is a very good guitar player. Plays stuff like Iron Maiden.

Dunno, I see all instruments as equal contributors to music (with the possible exception of the kazoo ).

Then how 'bout the sheer number of keys on a keyboard?

The guitars are my son's.One of those has been replaced by a Fender Strat since September 2017. I do play some guitar, and keyboard, however. A few examples:

I've been posting on BassChat for a few weeks now. It's a cozy place that feels like home.

Certainly not bad, given the equipment used. Great bass playing, by the way. :-)

Oh, wait! Every other year I attempt to play guitar. London Dungeon - Misfits.

My son on guitar. He mostly plays Iron Maiden like stuff, but made an exception for his dad.

I still didn't properly introduce myself, so here we go. I was born in 1960, in The Netherlands. My father was a multi-instrumentalist. As far as I remember he played organ, piano, violin, harmonica, trombone and accordion. In my teens I played keyboard, but nothing special. Later, in my early twenties I was responsible for a youth bar, where I organised quite a few gigs. In the early 80's we had a few punk bands playing at our venue. Every time I saw a band playing, I thought if I had to choose an instrument, it would be the bass. Many years passed, without playing any instrument at all. At the age of 36 I became father. Eight years later my son wanted to play guitar, so I bought him a cheap acoustic guitar. A few years later he wanted an electric guitar and lessons. We went to a music store to buy him a guitar, a combo and some small stuff. There it happened! I saw many basses on display... At home I tried his guitar when he was asleep. I found out that I really wanted a bass. I didn't even know what GAS was, but I did experience a severe GAS-attack. So I bought my first bass, an Ibanez GSR200EX. I still have it. I modified it to accommodate B, E, A and D strings, plus I removed the pre-amp and optimised a few details. In real life I'm responsible for a thermo-physical calibration and research lab. I'm living in the direct vicinity of the lowest place in The Netherlands. That's about it.

They loose some sustain and clearly some harmonics. In my opinion a broken in flatwound isn't bad at all.

A Happy, Healthy and Musical New Year, Friends!

At least four times a year I perform several check-ups and clean the board. As my fingers are dry as a desert, fretboards don't get dirty. On the G&L I change strings about every eight weeks, so I don't save all old string sets. I've got a few used sets, of course. Regarding stabilizing, I press the strings over the nut and saddles to set the break angle. Normally that's enough to get things stable. Retune the next day and I'm good to go.

Quickly swapping and tuning strings, just for fun. The strings were of the same brand and gauges, so intonation wasn't required.

Suddenly I remembered having posted a comparison of broken in Flatwounds and new ones, three and a half years ago on my YouTube channel. Here's a link...

I've got a clear message to Santa! Happy holidays to all!

I can, after having them dug out. They're on another PC, so maybe tonight...

No I don't. For further analysis I should have arrays with numerical data, which I don't have. The graphs were made directly from the wav-files.

Rounder usually means more sine wave shaped, so less harmonics.