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Gibson Basses / Re: Tried a 2009 Thunderbird today
« on: January 11, 2010, 06:22:39 PM »
At least the pipe was stainless.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Nice vid of a guy playing the bass riff from Tull's "Bourée"
« on: January 11, 2010, 06:19:54 PM »
All this time I thought it was a JS Bach composition. Now you tell me it's Tull. You learn something new every day. 
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Vinyl record story
« on: January 11, 2010, 06:17:43 PM »
I'm not suggesting it's cork sniffing, I'm sure some people can tell the difference. Most can't, and most don't care anyway.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Surf gig next Saturday
« on: January 11, 2010, 06:14:23 PM »Despite Dave's (highly accurate) assertion, Miserlou is one of the top half-dozen surf category songs ever recorded. Since Dick Dale made it famous, it IS surf as far as most people are concerned. Ranks up there with Pipeline and Walk, Don't Run.
Agreed. And yet it never charted. Nothing Dick Dale did ever charted back in the day, except maybe in his fertile imagination. It became famous via revisionist history after Pulp Fiction.
But I could hate on Dick Dale all night.
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Guitars Etc. / Re: Got a baritone
« on: January 11, 2010, 09:39:44 AM »
Nice baritone.
Nancy used to be parlor guitar size. Now she's a dreadnought model.
Nancy used to be parlor guitar size. Now she's a dreadnought model.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Tried a 2009 Thunderbird today
« on: January 11, 2010, 09:31:34 AM »As this gentleman recently discovered
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6946257/Mans-penis-removed-from-pipe.html
That was certainly a heartwarming rescue story, one that the firefighters can tell their grandkids about.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Orange drop .047 cap
« on: January 11, 2010, 09:27:32 AM »Let me solve this one for you.Caps in series with a signal act as a low pass filter whose corner frequency is determined by the capacitance. The higher the capacitance value, the higher the frequency of the filter. (I have the equation for capacitance/ frequency somewhere.) The difference between mica and electrolytic caps (like the Orange Drops) is negligible with the low voltage output of a pickup. Even the hottest passive pickups put out less than 10 volts at absolute maximum on transients. Those caps are rated at 400 volts.
That's what I thought. That's why I'm doubtful when people claim they can hear differences, and suspicious when they write up detailed descriptions of the differences. I just don't see how it could affect a guitar tone circuit as long as you're comparing two caps of the same value.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Vinyl record story
« on: January 11, 2010, 09:19:35 AM »Dave, didn't you ever watch "Gilligan's Island" ? you can run a record player off a bamboo bicycle.
I was too busy fantasizing about Lovey Howell.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Vinyl record story
« on: January 11, 2010, 09:18:55 AM »
I don't have an iPod, and if I did it would hold less than advertised because I can't listen to much at 128kbps. OTOH I've read that blind listening tests have shown that most people can't distinguish a .wav from a well done VBR mp3 at 0, 1 and 2 settings. And most can't tell the difference between a .wav and a 320kpbs CBR.
None of this will ever satisfy purists, and that's okay. Personally, I like the convenience of listening to my playlists on the computer through a good set of headphones. YMMV.
None of this will ever satisfy purists, and that's okay. Personally, I like the convenience of listening to my playlists on the computer through a good set of headphones. YMMV.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Gig pics from Friday night
« on: January 10, 2010, 10:42:54 PM »
Always nice to play a small sold out venue.
You look calmer than usual. Must be the shirt.
You look calmer than usual. Must be the shirt.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Surf gig next Saturday
« on: January 10, 2010, 10:40:27 PM »
I never understood how Misirlou got to be regarded as surf music. Sure, Dick Dale did it, but it's an old Mediterranean folk song that has little similarity to anything else that was called surf music back in the day. And it was never a hit song.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Vinyl record story
« on: January 10, 2010, 10:32:39 PM »i also like to collect books.the problem with digital stuff is that its not real. turn off the power and you've got nothing.you keep your ipods and Kindles i'll keep my smelly old books and records.
You have a valid point about books, but your vinyl records won't play with the power turned off either. Sure, a record is a physical object and an mp3 isn't, but the physical object is nothing without an electromagnetic cartridge to convert the info in the grooves into voltage.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« on: January 10, 2010, 05:05:44 PM »
I can easily forgive his English, I can't forgive his pricing. Or have these doubled in price recently?
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The Bass Zone / Re: Orange drop .047 cap
« on: January 10, 2010, 05:04:01 PM »Here it is people, enjoy!
Thanks but not what I expected. This looks like his subjective opinions of sound differences. That doesn't demonstrate that there actually are differences.
I'd like to see a double blind ABX test to see what differences a group of listeners can tell, if any.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Some Ric Porn for you: 4003S/5 and 4003S/8
« on: January 10, 2010, 11:36:55 AM »
Nicely done and most important, it worked.
Since it already had 3/16" rods, seems like the problem must have been not being able to apply enough force to move the rods enough. That's why I suggested not threading down to the Rick specs.
The problem with this type rod apparently is not the strength of the rod, but the way force is applied. Acoustic guitarmaker William Cumpiano used it in his guitarmaking book years ago but there were similar problems so he revised it to make the rod move the way it was intended to. Unfortunately you don't have room in a Rick to use his solution.
Since it already had 3/16" rods, seems like the problem must have been not being able to apply enough force to move the rods enough. That's why I suggested not threading down to the Rick specs.
The problem with this type rod apparently is not the strength of the rod, but the way force is applied. Acoustic guitarmaker William Cumpiano used it in his guitarmaking book years ago but there were similar problems so he revised it to make the rod move the way it was intended to. Unfortunately you don't have room in a Rick to use his solution.