Downunderwonder

Having to wear a one size fits all suit?

I think the Joint Chiefs had already decided they were coming down on the side of Congress if it got tooooo far.

It would be easier to get a really stout low efficiency driver and put it in a small cab. #Bought hot rodded 300w tube amp and want to know how to make it not so loud.

Adequate is enough to match the unamplified drumkit. Any more than that means there is a PA doing boof boof duty. In a pub you probably have to turn down.

The other easy check is to insert a cable between fx out and return. This bypasses the fx loop interruption that connects preamp to amp when loop is not being used. Sometimes the contact gets corrosion on it and fails to transmit the signal onward.

Junior high school bully was a big fat kid who liked to shoulder charge smaller kids on the way to classes. One day I decided I'd had enough of that and side stepped him while helping him on his way to the lockers and he hit his head knocking himself silly. So I got in trouble for scrapping instead of reporting him. Can't win. He did stop picking on me though.

I left it at basses and amps. Baby steps.

''Does this amp make my speaker look small?".

....in one ear and out t'other.

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I am not sure what you mean. I thought I had described it well enough already but another go... Relying on memory, the samples were set up as level and eq matched as could be. Aim was to test detection of signature SS modeling against real thing. Sets of rerecorded tracks. Each set had iirc three levels of drive dialled in so 'clean' SS vs 'clean' tubes, 'mild O/D' v mild tubes, fuller O/D SS v fuller O/D tubes. Listen as many times as you like before plumping for which set belonged to SS and which was the tubes. I was surprised by the low result. 75% 'correct'. I thought they were very close but no cigar and figured most would pick it same. Even more surprised was I by the enthusiastic interpretation of the tester that it meant 75% could tell real tubes from modeling effects.

The test was set to challenge bass players to pick which was tubes and which was solid state emulating tubes. I think it's pretty straightforward! It wasn't asking which was preferred, only which was which. The hypothesis being tested was ''tube emulation is close but no cigar, bass players know this and can tell the difference''. Further, ''here is our chance to prove it''. Since it was such a simple test the binary choice enforces an allowance for a coin toss answer affecting the results so strongly. On further reflection, the responses that were wrong had to be from folks that ''had an inkling'' but were wrong. I don't think anyone would have given an actual coin toss answer but even if they did they are also ''don't really knows'' split 50/50. So mathematically we know the ''can't tell'' group comes to 50% of the total being 2x 25% who answered wrong. The key to it is I think it is just as likely to be picking correctly as incorrectly if you don't have the capability to properly discern A from B. One of these days I might have a crack myself. I would make it a lot harder by including an unknown number of tube devices to pick out of the samples. If I do I will need a real statistician to interpret the results back to the likelihood any one basschatter can correctly identify a recording is from a solid state or tube amp.

I never get where people are coming from when they say they need more for 'bigger gigs'. If you are covering the bar room 200 size without PA and drummer is giving it what for then you are all set for the big stage as well. If anything you will have to turn down while the PA picks up the weight.

You two might have more luck finishing the year as winners here. Sell two but buy one is all good.

I am neither an electrician or an electronics guy. Afaik electricity is electronics with a single ground and a whole lot of power flying around.

That plucking hand wrist position would give me hell. Holding it more fore aft instead of sideways works for me.

Anyone else scared pantsless by the chances of blowing out hearing with one mistake via in ear speakers?

Describes my maths. I am confident the number with the skills was 50%. Remaining 50% guessed 25 each way.

I forget the exact number but I am confident it was a significant number of volunteers into triple digits. As I recall there were two or three levels of overdrive dialed in as close as possible to equal and recording levels were also equalised. It was very well done. Participants were asked to listen to each set as many times as they liked before deciding which set was device A and which B. 75% decided correctly. Nobody has corrected the idea that the simple calculation is the truth, so long as the sample size is significant, so I am good with that. Result, statistically only 50% of bass players could properly tell a recording of a VT bass pedal from an all tube DI. You can imagine the consternation when 75% got it 'correct'!!!!

The trial has already been done as described! 75% got it correct. All that remains is the interpretation of the very simple data.

It simply wouldn't rate investigation unless that was the point of a different investigation to the one I posted. Do feel free to expand on your almost famous accounts of trialing the new kid on the block GenzBenz ClassD power stage against its predecessor. I only remember the result was not popular among the class A/B rocks best club when they couldn't pick which was which.

Not how I posed the trial.

That's what I figured but still have no maths to back it up. With a result of 90% things get squiffy. 20% and 80%, but surely 90% would claim they heard it right! How does the statistician prove the existence of the other 10% that are just as tone deaf as the other 10%? Nobody even knows if they are in the 10% or the 80%.