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Double Bass Bringing a floor with you to a gig
- Thread starter Calvin Marks
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When I did my recital in school I used the bare metal spike into a wooden stage box to achieve exactly what they are talking about. That way I didn’t need to amplify to balance well in the hall.
I hadn’t considered the differences that could be apparent from different woods/materials. It makes sense. Treager talks about how when an instrument vibrates, every part vibrates and therefore contributes to the sound.
We all know the space you play in makes a huge difference, so of course the floor your instrument is coupled with will as well.
Cool stuff to contemplate!
I hadn’t considered the differences that could be apparent from different woods/materials. It makes sense. Treager talks about how when an instrument vibrates, every part vibrates and therefore contributes to the sound.
We all know the space you play in makes a huge difference, so of course the floor your instrument is coupled with will as well.
Cool stuff to contemplate!
When you hear the A/B comparison with the floor/podium it is audible, much richer. Even though it appears the camera might be closer and therefore the mic. I love my wooden floor practice room, but this must be like playing on a giant guitar.
That was my take too. It's an inverse square law for sound. I'd feel more convinced had he played the first clip beside instead of behind the podium. And he's not actually spiked into it, he's using a rubber tip.
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Cellists often use something like this (see photo of Emerson quartet), often with unintended consequences:
http://www-personal.k-state.edu/~dlitmus/platform explodes.pdf
http://www-personal.k-state.edu/~dlitmus/platform explodes.pdf
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I think all gigging musicians need one of these. I'd like to see a bass, stool, stand, and floor riser on the NYC subway
Obviously the cellist should have known better. I always have
on my mind when I'm playing.
Keep your f-holes open!
I wonder how this would effect pizza tone? Might be a bit more cumbersome to lug around then an amp though, hahaha!
Ask anyone that has ever played a gig on the back of a big flatbed truck- the entire thing amplifies your bass so it sounds HUGE and you can mash a six inch hole in it with your endpin spike while nobody complains....
Y'know, having a contrarian streak a mile wide, suddenly I want to build one of these to play my EUB on
It would likely sound delicious with a few layers of Sauce, Mozzarella and Pepperoni.
Grazie!
Darn autocorrect! Also that's probably what it would sound like and reminded me of an orchestral piece I played back in college. During the first rehearsal of it, I noticed that the what ever notation software the composer used put a Pizz and A Tempo marking right next to each other so that it instead read Pizza Tempo. There were a bunch of problems with the score which were frustrating everyone, so to lightening things up I had to ask our conductor what pizza tempo meant? Our conductor, who basically looks like Hagrid, nearly fell off the podium from laughing and we couldn't get back to playing for several minutes.
