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Post by Stevie on Mar 23, 2022 14:55:49 GMT
I would guess that wound thirds were de rigueur way back when but this is outwith my competence Joseph, however I'm fairly sure that someone will break their silence?
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Post by Stevie on Mar 21, 2022 11:33:34 GMT
I had a friend who lived between NY and Philadelphia (closer to the latter) who sadly died last year. He would blow hot and cold at the drop of a hat, but he had a contact at Rivington Guitars, did a fair amount of business with them and spoke well of them. If anyone could have fallen out with them he certainly would have done! That said, if the company behaved that way with a customer's credit card, it seriously leads me to have doubts about them. Provided these occurrences can be substantiated, I don't think I'd be inclined to purchase so much as a pick from them. Nice guitar anyway.
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Post by Stevie on Mar 6, 2022 15:24:07 GMT
I subscribed ,in a heartbeat. So many thanks for the heads-up Pete.
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Post by Stevie on Feb 27, 2022 8:57:08 GMT
Lon is awesome. Most of his videos only get a handful of comments and up-thumbs. When you survey some of the worthless digital avalanche that masquerades as "popular", it's a crying shame in my view. You know- some pathetic unboxing pile of click bait, or someone playing a shovel or "Billy No One reacts to Shine on You Crazy Diamond on hearing it for the first time", it's beyond belief, well it is for me anyway.
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Post by Stevie on Feb 21, 2022 15:42:22 GMT
Bob, head for the bar during the drum solo, plenty of folks around to buy you a drink then.
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Post by Stevie on Feb 16, 2022 9:51:08 GMT
I can visualise such tooling, and the mammoth power press required!
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Post by Stevie on Feb 15, 2022 14:40:19 GMT
This is outside my experience, but as a long forgotten sheet metal worker, I'd stick my neck out and say the side isn't long enough, and you'd need to reprofile the back and top ever so slightly to compensate (as in you'd otherwise need to stretch the timber to fill that gap.) If you reshape the side(s) alone, then there will be a gap at one end or the other? I stand to be corrected in short order!
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Post by Stevie on Feb 12, 2022 19:23:37 GMT
I imagine that you have an online web form ordering service MM? I haven't looked, but perhaps you should have a warning there, because when you are between shipments, folks might think that they're able to source elsewhere, or (eg) USA customers might think it's less expensive in terms of import duties to "buy direct". There is some sense in that anyway because it seems quite wrong for The Exchequer to benefit from a transaction when Blighty is only really a kind of transit lounge?
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Post by Stevie on Feb 12, 2022 18:04:35 GMT
Sorry about this, and I steadfastly hope that the MM manufactory is not shipping out excess production capacity to make ends meet, but 't'was ever thus (or so it seems.)
"The very thing that, makes them rich will, make you poor ...
That's right"
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Post by Stevie on Feb 4, 2022 21:25:57 GMT
I had already just set all mine to "Staff", but thanks for the heads-up H because for the life of me I couldn't remember where to find the setting. I originally figured it out when one young turk wanted to blather our little quiet backwater over FacePage and its ilk.
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Post by Stevie on Feb 4, 2022 14:48:51 GMT
I used a stereo on my MMB because I needed to feed in some DC bias for the internal levalier mic. condenser element. A lot depends upon the other connectors in the chain as in what is plugged into what, although in a music scenario mono should be fine, just as Pete says.
The reason I mention this is because as an example, I have a noise reduction device that insists on 3.5mm stereo connectors for its inputs and outputs, yet when I plug the required stereo lead into one of my mono mixer inputs all hell breaks loose.
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Post by Stevie on Feb 3, 2022 11:21:13 GMT
Whoops, forgot!
Any size polyolephin tubing that physically clears the cables plus join will do. You can buy 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 shrinkage heat shrink in order of increasing cost. You can also buy adhesive lined heatshrink. For 3mm cable, that equates to about 10mm circumference, so if you buy the least expensive heat shrink I'd buy something that looks like about 8mm across "in the flat" (which is how it comes). If you have a build up in dimension at the cable joint then apply the same logic snd go for a bit larger. It's a trade off- buy the 1/4 shrinking heat shrink and you can cover more eventualities. I use a hot air gun but it's difficult to control in these applications. I've seen folks use open flame like lighters and even the soldering iron tip. Heat is the magic ingredient.
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Post by Stevie on Feb 3, 2022 11:05:37 GMT
Twisted pairs are OK too, just open up a telephone / network cable and see, that works well and keeps the four twisted pairs relatively insulated from one another, so it should work fine as a single run. The trick is to keep the differential mode voltages and currents vastly more significant than the common mode. Of course, coaxial achieves that end very well, but then you have to be aware of the potential for the "Pin1 problem" with regard to ground loops. (This refers to the pin 1 in an XLR connector, but the engineering principle is well understood irrespective of terminating connectors and enclosures. Interestingly, the blue chip XLR connector manufacturers have redesigned their product line to correct this issue.) Inappropriately terminated coaxial cable can end up picking up interference on the outside of the screening braid/foil and finding it's way inside at the connector. Sometimes it feels like you just can't win!
Just use coaxial cable! Nominally 1/8" diameter RG174/RG179 or RG316 would do but RG174/9 is probably going to be a bit more flexible due to the PTFE dielectric with RG316. We don't need the low loss and high power specs either, so for this I'd go for RG179 because the 75 ohms impedance should exhibit a little less capacitance over length, and although it probably makes no difference over short runs like this, less capacitance equates to preservation of higher frequencies (and the subtle harmonics that contribute subliminally to *tone*.)
You can find tinier coaxial cables- look inside a laptop or even a mobile 'phone, but they start to get devilishly difficult to strip and solder. Finally, that stiffer RG316 PTFE dielectric has the advantage that it doesn't turn into plastic syrup as soon as you wave a soldering iron at it ...
Well you did ask Chris ;<D
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Post by Stevie on Jan 30, 2022 22:24:26 GMT
I'm just thankful that I've lived long enough to see this collaboration. April 22nd is on my calendar. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Post by Stevie on Jan 28, 2022 0:00:26 GMT
That video seems to have made a bit of a splash around the forums MM! Well worth watching IMHO. Bear in mind that it's a like for like with Leo-types, no one would claim that there's little between those examples and a Gibson, and certainly a hollow body, but it chimes with my long held suspicions.
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