Recent content by murrayatuptown

Oh, yeah, I'm also modifying a baritone ukulele into a tenor guitar, adding electronics, and some a cosmetic Macaferri 'moustache'...keeps me off the street as well as delaying completion of the bass projects...

Ric Vice: 0) I tend to not complete profiles for some reason, especially listing equipment... 1) Not a double-bassist, just a mad-scientist/inventor/electronics tech, luthiery student (armchair, not hands-on...yet) and a few other things rolled into one. I made some violin pickups for my...

Speaking of realistic-sounding recordings... I was listening to one in the car the other day on a highway and I thought my windshield got hit with a stone. No chips, luckily. The next couple times I heard it again, I realized it was string slap on the double bass! I'd have to guess it was a...

Hey, I could go listen to that trio! Sounds great. Had to plug headphones in...speakers on this laptop are beyond trashed. Bit of a drive for me, unfortunately. ;O) Duo with you and Jim Gilliam sounds good, too!

Thanks all...not afraid of sawdust in general...I've eaten my share, good dust mask should be sufficient, but cumaru or tonka bean has some weird properties... It doesn't have anticoagulant properties directly, but can produce dicoumarol which does through fungus...it just seems like it needs...

For once, I did the right thing and deleted, I don't know, could have been 2 pages, could have been 10 pages of response below. I don't know who would have been interested or awake at the end...and it still ended up really long. I'm rally interested in solving this mystery, and hope that it...

The Band for violin supposedly has three piezos. I gather the bass one has two...if they are as critical regarding placement as some have experienced, I would surmise, hunch, or guess they are ceramic, or smallish ribbon types...does anyone know? Interesting that some pickups discussed above...

I completely agree with you...but preventing wrongdoing as far as wanton plugging-into-available jacks goes, one can't control what people will try to do other than yourself. My daughter can't be bothered with her Baggs Para-Acoustic DI box, then uses the stage mic because she can't hear her...

I am going about this probably in the wrong way, but with some organization I hope I can straighten things out. The design goals (ha!) 5 string (I bought a set of 5 strings on sale). Small body, maybe with Klein-like leg rest. (I have a 2" thick cherry slab that might be big enough for...

I hesitate to think what I can add...this was a fun read. I guess I'll have to vote for a very odd album I have that is Zappa's music..."(Pierre) Boulet conducts Zappa"...with a little dog in a dress in a high chair.

My frustration with plugging piezo into a DI, a house 'snake' box, etc., is any luck one had without a piezo-oriented hi-impedance preamp is very likely lost...not only the lower input impedance, but the extended cable length....extra cable capacitance with a piezo can reduce the level as well...

The one thing I'm not liking about Soundcloud is that it seems to default to a playlist format, and after playing the selected soundclip, sequences through an endless sequence of others...that's where I have difficulty figuring out which is which. So I stop after the first selection. I am...

The sound samples are great...although it gets confusing after a while...which was which...there were a few that were pretty disappointing, and they made the really nice ones stand out. The Geoffmic004 is intriguing...looks tiny, like a lavalier electret...I'd like to know more about it...

Thank you. I found the observation about the EAP being "the best device for reproducing the attack/decay envelope of the instrument" very interesting...I have been thinking about the various comments pickup manufacturers make about the responsiveness, and performance for arco or pizzicato...

Wow...how long has the bass version of The Band been available? Several months ago I concluded they only went 'as low as' a cello model (I found violin/viola and cello models), and told someone they didn't make a bass version. Is it a recently developed product, or was I just not looking hard...