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The Muppets On PCP posted:the overtones on mr. bongo's b3 just leap out of the speakers actually it was a Lowrey
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*slides in* Silver is, funny enough, the most conductive of common metals. It's why audiophiles get excited about it. Number two is copper, not gold. Three is gold, but it's major advantage is its chemical stability (doesn't corrode) and malleability (a little goes a long way), which makes it great for connectors. There are measurable differences in conductivity between them, but functionality they're all the same. Fourth is aluminium, for the record, but it's a fire risk in enclosed spaces so it's only used on high power transmission lines.
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Apr 30, 2020 04:40
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That setup reminds me of the American Epic documentary series. They restored the first ever electrical recording system from 1925, and used that to record modern artists doing tunes from those times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIj5rFxeHFo
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iospace posted:*slides in* seymour duncan makes $1000 silver wire pickups https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ZephHumSetB--seymour-duncan-zephyr-silver-humbucker-pickup-set-black-silver
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iospace posted:*slides in* I always enjoy Steve Albini and his nerdy lyrics here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we3zKwInIac
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Gaz! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvyvqbDyf5o
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The Muppets On PCP posted:seymour duncan makes $1000 silver wire pickups I think we touched on this in the thread earlier, and I think someone who knew something gave a good explanation to why it would actually sound different. And then obviously a bit about better not being the same as more expensive and different.
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Does anyone really think that silver wire in a pickup is gonna make a noticable difference after passing it through your copper cable, through you tuner pedal, and into an amplifier, with copper wiring, through you cabinet made of wood, that has speakers wired with copper cables, powered by copper voice coils, into a dynamic mic, with another copper voice coil, into a PA powered also amplified by copper amps, into, guess what, more copper wired, and copper powered speakers? Audiophiles are the loving worst.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:59
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Pokey Araya posted:Does anyone really think that silver wire in a pickup is gonna make a noticable difference after passing it through your copper cable, through you tuner pedal, and into an amplifier, with copper wiring, through you cabinet made of wood, that has speakers wired with copper cables, powered by copper voice coils, into a dynamic mic, with another copper voice coil, into a PA powered also amplified by copper amps, into, guess what, more copper wired, and copper powered speakers? Not a more pure sound or whatever audiophile crap, but I could see how the coil would have a different sonic profile, just like how amounts of winding affects the tone, or how a tube preamp sounds different than a solid state, even through the same power amp, cables, PA, whatever. After all, we care about what material the magnets are made of, so why not the wiring?
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Apr 30, 2020 22:12
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Lmao if you use anything but the literal cheapest aliexpress electronics when making music.
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Apr 30, 2020 22:21
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I don't think an identically wound (with resistance/inductance as close as possible) copper wire version of the pickup would sound noticeably different, but I'm just a cloth-eared EE who isn't in the business of selling pickups.
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My favorite stupid audiophile thing is the Schick Tonearms website, which has some very cringe product photos In the garden, listening to my $"if you have to ask it's too high" turntable that's not hooked up to anything.  Just unboxing cartridges in steampunk cosplay, nbd.  Love to go for a walk in the garden with a disembodied tonearm.
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"But sir, the agency's contract clearly states that the photoshoot cannot be of a pornographic or erotic nature. I am really not comfortable with this." "For the last time! This is not an erotic project!! These photos will be used to display extremely high quality audiophile products."
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“Sir the tonearm is ejaculating 22AWG silver wire.”
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May 1, 2020 06:49
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Just saw a different shovel guitar used on my local Craigslist. "Neck is solid oak"
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May 1, 2020 07:55
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Snowy posted:This might be stupid music poo poo, but still cool. $600 lathe cut albums. I like this one: Ars Technica posted:
https://starts-prize.aec.at/en/im-humanity/ I'm honestly just a bit sad that a) it doesn't seem like you can buy the transgenic bacteria with the song in their genome, and b) they used such a lo fi encoding. Like come on, there are people seriously looking at DNA as a high-density digital storage medium. It might have had to have been split up over multiple vectors to get it into viable bacteria, but you could totally have dumped an mp3 recording into those guys.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Like come on, there are people seriously looking at DNA as a high-density digital storage medium. i remember my 10th grade science teacher talking about that back in 1995. surely it'll happen any day now
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The Muppets On PCP posted:i remember my 10th grade science teacher talking about that back in 1995. surely it'll happen any day now It happened in 2013. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11875 I don't know where they're at with actually monetising it or putting it into production, but Ewan Birney and Nick Goldman are very well respected scientists in my field, and they're still pretty excited about it.
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About 10 years ago or so, some sound guy was telling us about some fancy new studio headphones that had live bacteria as part of the diaphragm, or some sort of spores, apparently it was the fanciest thing out and had to be stored in a special climate controlled cabinet. Was this a thing? I doubt it
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closest i've heard to that is someone developing a process to grow a particular fungus shaped like studio monitor cabinets in a way that replicated the acoustic properties of medium density fiberboard, but i think that was just a design student's thesis project and never got to mass production
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https://youtu.be/pMEtcnstu9o Seems relevant.
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I can tell that’s Scott Ian by the knife
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Is this image so old that it has already made the internet rounds? Apologies if it has.
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I found an old recording of the time I tried to kill a practice amp: https://soundcloud.com/rickbeanandthetuckers/jordan-10-bass-fuzz Kind of makes me want to try it again with another cheap little amp. I have way more gain available now with all my dirt pedals.
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After listening I had to look and a quick search later  https://reverb.com/item/31787441-boss-tone-jordan-10-amp-1970-s-80-black Looks to be the same as the Mako Piranha practice amp I have, which was also an IMC product. The Tube Blaster switch is more less a Tube Screamer built-in. MIne does not get that fuzzy, though, and now I want to know what I need to break to get there.
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widefault posted:After listening I had to look and a quick search later When I found the Jordan by the side of the road, it had both white and green mold growing inside the grill, so maybe try leaving yours outside for a while? edit: I just noticed you can see the mold in the photo I put on soundcloud! Juaguocio fucked around with this message at 00:56 on May 3, 2020 |
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Juaguocio posted:I found an old recording of the time I tried to kill a practice amp: I kinda wanna use this as an academic example of how to make a square wave by a shitload of clipping
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Juaguocio posted:I found an old recording of the time I tried to kill a practice amp:
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Juaguocio posted:I found an old recording of the time I tried to kill a practice amp: I don't like it too much, it's too musical and not noisy enough.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOAe7JO-dDY&t=983s
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May 8, 2020 02:49
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What's the stupid part? Because that bridge is the best thing Korn ever did.
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rickiep00h posted:What's the stupid part? Because that bridge is the best thing Korn ever did. It’s Korn
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specifically it's the boomerest boomer rock guy on earth vibing to the scat part from a korn song
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rickiep00h posted:What's the stupid part? Because that bridge is the best thing Korn ever did. Definitely. Korn is the band from my youth I have the most problems with today (as in “why the gently caress did I listen to this poo poo”) but that bridge is pretty awesome with many great layers, and I suspect the whole thing was added on by Ross Robinson.
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The Muppets On PCP posted:specifically it's the boomerest boomer rock guy on earth vibing to the scat part from a korn song
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Wark Say posted:Eh, some baby boomers are alright. Like sure, there's a disproportionate amount of shitheads on that generation, but if all you got on a boomer is that he likes his nü-metal slightly butt-rock-flavored , that's like wanting to slap someone silly for walking on grass. His last name annoys me (it has three syllables, which seems wrong), but he's got some decent videos, where he says nice things about Rush. 
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I know it’s fake, but that’s probably the most unappealing guitar I’ve ever seen. It looks like it’s just begging for someone to put it out of it’s misery.
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