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Dave the bass wrote:
al newall wrote: If thats what it takes to get close to real music.
I may as well give up now and take up knitting or summat.
Move away from the knitting needles :-)

If you REALLY want to get closer to music our-Al there's none-more-closer than actually playing it yerself!

Buy an acoustic guitar and learn a few songs.


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ed wrote:contentious ?, cor, we do contentious..
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really good example imo is robert plant/alyson krauss 'raising sand'..some similar instruments so close together that some systems can't delimit them and the result is a bit mushy while other systems seperate them....reading between the lines...
Thanks for reminding me I've got that, will have to play it again as it's been a while ~ lot of solder under the bridge since...

Well, some....

About this much

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#258 Recording

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andrew Ivimey wrote: How I wish Jimi Hendrix's work had been better recorded originally (bit like how the SACD of DSOTM doesn't really sound any better than the CD / or vinyl)
'Band of Gypsies' is an excellent recording , I think . Very musical, spacious, dynamic .

By the way, anyone an expert on spokeshaving ?
I'm having a right old struggle finishing the (concave) curves on these pieces of 18mm ply for the horn sides . Tried a flat-face spokeshave, and a convex-faced spokeshave ( just bought ) . Can't find a setting between 'not cutting' and 'juddering horribly' . Can't think of another way of doing it either, as the curve is compound .

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If you have a router then you just need a straight cutting bit with a template roller follower. i.e the roller is at the top. You can then simply make a template from 6mm MDF. It's what I do.

Perfect copies each time and perfect 90 deg cuts along the curve.

I find it best to nail the template to the bass ply using some 15mm panel pins. The small holes can be filled with any propriortory wood filler.

Simples Hey :wink:
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Toppsy wrote: Perfect copies each time and perfect 90 deg cuts along the curve.
Simples Hey :wink:
Thanks for the advice Colin , but I'm ahead of you :) unfortunately it's not 'simples' !
A cut 90 deg to the faces is precisely NOT what I need :cry:
Because of the way I want to lay the bendy-MDF flush onto the edges, and the fact these side-pieces diverge by about 13.4 degrees to the axis ( each ) ie. 26.8 degrees included angle, the template has been laid onto each side of the ply and shifted by 4.3mm on one side relative to the other . This is the tan of 13.42 degrees :!:
Hence when finished, the curve , as well as having the correct expanding profile, also has an angle to the faces that goes from about 0 deg at the throat, to about 11 deg at the mouth end. It's a funny compound curve. Hence the only two ways I could think of doing it were :
(i) CNC router coming down vertically with the wood blocked-up at 13.4 degrees
(ii) mark curve on both sides , displaced, and spokeshave down to the line on both sides.

No. (ii) is cheaper !
Luckily - STOP PRESS - I have been getting on OK just now - I found the ply is somewhat directional in how it cuts, and have been able to get along well with the flat-based spokeshave pulling it the other way, and have finished another curve this afternoon . Looks like I have the 'knack' now.

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Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn :!:
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Oh dear.



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I feel like that Greek bloke rolling the stone up to the top of the hill then seeing it roll down again and having to start again .

Ok, so I've finished the two sides and was just working on measuring the placement of the wedge-piece that's going to hold the two sides in correct place while I fit the bendy MDF onto the top and bottom .
Then ...you know how sometimes you have a discrepancy in some measurements, then you get confused and suddenly realise something more fundamental and horrible has gone wrong ?

So basically, when I made the template for the sides, the centre-line and 'X-axis' I used was the axial length of the horn . Unfortunately this is the dimension along the centre-line - in air. I should have used the 'side length'. which longer by a factor of (1/cos 13.42) .
So, my horn will be 2.8% too short :(

Ok, it's not bad enough to make the horn useless, but I will have to make another TWO horns now, in the long run . This one will be not quite right, and not go quite as low as intended .

I suppose if it was easy, everyone would be doing it :roll:
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Bummer. But if its any help, I bet you do a better job next time anyway. When writing software, its normal to have at least two goes.
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#265 Sim

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Actually I've modelled the result this morning .
Looks like I'll get a 122.4 Hz ( was 120 ) Tractrix with a mouth area of 3424 sq-cm ( was 3500 ) . It looks pretty good actually - plenty good enough to finish off 'Nice' and do full evaluation before building the 2nd one.
Phew ! - motivated again :bounce:

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Oh, and by the way I blame Kate Middleton for the error .

Meanwhile, progress, see attached.
(i) Close-up of one end of horn profile showing rounding and (not so obvious) slant of curved edge from one side to the other to allow flush-fitting of the curved MDF .
(ii) Two sides held by temporary wedge ready for fitting of curvy sides .
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Are you making good plans etc so anyone can follow your design? You never know.
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#268 Vines

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Attached, "Still life with horn and vines 2011"

Hi Paul -
All info for these will be available if anybody wants to copy . Really the useful things for someone else will be :
1. Hornresp model
2. Hornresp output data table for the chosen rectangular form
3. The cutting template for the side pieces ( I will save this )
and
4. the wedge-piece for joining the sides, and instructions for where to position it relative to the throat end .

If someone just wants to make it, not try to understand all the theory, then these will save them a whole load of time.

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IslandPink wrote:Oh, and by the way I blame Kate Middleton for the error .
As good a reason as any Image


Silly question time ~ would it not be possible to graft on extra "extension bits" so it's the right lengft, a bodge I know so am I talking out of my orifice


 
 
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Not a silly question , Mike, but there are some problems -
One - it's going to be hard to make that 'nice' or 'neat' .
Two - it will still be a '122.4 Hz' expansion, because the side-panels have already been cut to this curve which expands a bit too quick - so extending the mouth end will not extend the bottom-end response at all - you'd just be making a 122.4Hz horn with a bigger mouth, which means it would have a tadge less ripple on the response ( which is pretty smooth anyway ).

As I said to Nick on e-mail today - it's within the uncertainty of my last few ummings and arrrings about where to finalise the design, a few weeks ago, anyway .

Thank god, because I don't want to repeat making that template in a hurry , it took me best part of two days of very careful work .
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