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chyc
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Please put me down as coming. I will be bringing a double bass and my GSS 06b400mkd 6.5" combo.
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I know the official hours of this, but do people stick around to the bitter end? If I turned up late, say at 1400, would there still be people around?
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Stradivarius didn't have power tools so iterative improvements would have been slow.
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I can attest to this. I used a hole saw with a hand drill rather than a pillar drill. It was dangerous and stuff flew everywhere. Lesson learnt. For woofer cutouts I put a nail through the centre of the cutout, and rotate the wood around the nail, trying to keep the running jigsaw steady. I've ended up with some pretty good cutouts although I do say so myself.
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Nice summary Phil. One thing that you don't mention is the inherent phase delay of speakers. An ideal speaker would have a defined phase delay between the signal and the output. In practice that just doesn't happen, and the delay is frequency dependent, so as well as having an intrinsic EQ curve for sensitivity, the speaker will have a similar curve for phase. Put identical speakers next to each other, and this doesn't matter as whatever the phase delay is at a particular frequency, these all sum across the speakers so the only phase cancellation is by virtue of the speakers' relative placements. Put different speakers next to each other though, and this no longer holds true, and your sound will be different in a similar way that on a J bass the mid scooped sound of both pickups on full don't sound like you would expect of the sum of the two pickups together. Saying all that, as with the case of a J bass, this may not be a bad thing and you may well love the sound from the mismatch. It's just not very predictable.
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What on earth happened to it? I've dropped my ABM badly and it all damage was cosmetic. This.....is something else.
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It's a lesser known fact that Marcus Miller is an accomplished clarinettist. Now you too can sound like Marcus Miller with the help of these books! The level of difficulty is very wide with these books. £5 gets it to your door. If you live near Oxford you can pick them up for nothing. All these books have (where appropriate) a piano part included. I have other books where I am still struggling to find the clarinet part, as in I have the piano part but no clarinet only sheet. However, the clarinet part is written with the piano part so if you are happy with that I can bundle it all up. -
Argh, I typoed the title. It's £30, not £20, although if the number of individual books goes down then it may well become that at some point! -
With apologies to the mods for not putting this in the right forum. I hope that it is suitably niche that you can agree that it's better here. All these books are in usable condition, some are pretty good, and some haven't been opened! Where appropriate they have both bass and piano parts, except where noted. If you want a better precis of an individual book please do get in touch. I would like £3 per book, plus £4 P&P per purchase. £30+£4 gets you the whole lot, or you can pick them up. A Sketchbook for Double Bass - Michael Rose Double Bass Solo 2 (OUP) A. Capuzzi Concerto in D Major Alan Ridout Concerto for Double Bass and Strings Amazing Solos Double Bass - Angela Schofield Subterranean Soloe for Double Bass - Keith Hartley (piano part is sold separately) Accompaniments for Double Bass Solo (OUP) The Art of Double Bass Playing - Warren Benfield, James Seay Dean Jr Solos for the Double Bass Player - Oscar Zimmerman Pieces Classiques pour contrebasse - Bernard Salles Evolving Upward Bass Book II - Rufus Reid Jazz Bass Compendium - Sigi Busch Ray Brown's Bass Method Leiche Spielstücke für Kontrabass 2 - Klaus Trumpf
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Bear in mind that the ABM1200 is around 50% heavier than the ABM600, and a fair bit bigger: it's quite a chunky monkey, and as @Woodinblack says it has two power sections. In other words if you have one cabinet it will sound identical to the ABM600, and probably even with two it wouldn't sound that much different.
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I've had two basses left with marks on the bass top due to this pickup. It is aesthetic but I don't know if that's just how it is or if I installed it wrong.
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If I had to explain IR vs EQ, I'd probably start with the fact that IR can capture reverberation whereas EQ cannot. Reverb can be that of the room, but it's there baked into the speaker itself. You apply a signal to a speaker and it will vibrate, and when you immediately stop the current the cone will continue to vibrate a little bit due to the stored potential energy and momentum. Many speakers do their best to minimize this but older designed speakers in particular will have this effect. Impulse response isn't perfect. It's a very linear change from input -> output with no accounting for non-linear changes for different input volumes. As I understand it Celestion's proprietary DSR is much better in that regard, but that requires a computer. I'm sure there are other competing products.
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Cioks Schizofrenic has a mains out. It does say it's limited to 2A, which probably is OK, but don't hold me to that.
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It's quite a coincidence that this is the subject of a recent video by Alex at Barefaced. He's an expert in this field. I know this because he tells us he is several times in his videos.
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Thanks Phil. I want downward port as an armchair expert for the following reasons. It's out of sight Usual design of cabinets it to get 'em tall, so that the moving parts are as close to the ear as possible. Why not take advantage of that so that your port can be as long and wide as possible, which would help with efficiency and chuffing minimization? Too much low end? Put the cabinet on its side!
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I love it! At that price it's a very tempting proposition for a fool with his tools such as myself. I'm looking forward to seeing the final design. If I have enough scrap wood to make it, I probably will. Failing that, I see that BnQ do some "nice" (for BnQ's definition of nice) 9mm exterior plywood at a reasonable price. I presume there won't be a tweeter option of this cab? Been having some interesting discussion with @GlamBass74 about port placement. I'd personally like to have a downward port, because I think ports are best heard not seen. He has managed to convince me it would affect the tuning frequency but I'm not sure if I'd notice it enough. All exciting stuff. My BC112mk3 building has hit an impasse with the lack of available components, sadly.
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I think the Kappalite 3012HO would have been a more appropriate fit for the cabinet in question. Looks identical to the Kappalite 3012LF but is a smidgen lighter so I would double check the weight.
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To my untrained eye it looks like a kappalite. I'd weigh it and see if it matches for weight.
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Line6 Amplifi TT. Hooks up to your hi-fi for output, guitar/bass for input, and phone for controlling the effects and tones as well as being a Bluetooth aux in. Haven't used it for a while and it's never left the house so is in good condition. Comes in original box. Honest opinion: I never quite got on with it. Sound is authentic to my ears but it is heavily geared towards our 6 string piccolo bass playing brethren. It offers more sounds than I know what to do with, but that may well be more your jam. There are other minor annoyances but they're all shared on various forums if you look around so I won't repeat them here. Price includes postage. If you want collection knock £10 off. https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/line-6-amplifi-tt-617854 -
Really nice job! Are those braces done with a hole saw?
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I've owned neither but played both for a bit. The 100 is fairly bulky. If you already own an acoustic bass and you're purchasing with portability in mind you may be surprised at how large the SLB-100 is when packed down, although yes of course it is smaller than an acoustic. This is all moot if the 200 you had your eye on is no longer available, but I thought I'd throw it in here just in case it's useful.
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Size doesn't matter. It's how you use it that counts.
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Can I just check this is the Fane Sovereign 8-225 driver? There is a Fane Sovereign Pro 8-225 and I have no idea what the practical difference is other than the difference to my wallet and the stock levels of them at Blue Aran.
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I'd like a way to stop seeing topics float up to the top in Fluid view. Fluid view is normally is my favourite way of seeing what's happening on here. My current workaround is to tick all forums except Off Topic [OT], which is a cesspit. However OT does come up with topics that I would like to see. Something like a Mute button on an individual topic similar to WhatsApp et al would be appreciated, but if it exists I cannot seem to find it. After clicking this hypothetical button I don't see it come up on the feed, but fresh OT posts would show up.
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According to Wikipedia, the time to crack using brute force increases exponentially with the key length. Using your example above, and assuming upper and lower case letters, numbers and a few symbols for a password, that's around 95 characters available, so average number of tries for the first password is 95⁸/2, or 3.3 × 1000000000000000 tries. For the latter, it's 1.5 x 10⁴⁷, In perspective, if the first took one second to crack, the latter would take around 100000000000000 times the age of the known universe. In other words, even for brute force attacks, password length really matters.
