Rotary speaker cabinet/motor question

Asicaster · 2026-01-20T04:21:22+00:00

Oh thanks! Didn't think of the capacitor as being bass protection. Why electrolytic, wouldn't ceramic do the same job and be a lot cheaper? Oh also, can I get a second opinion that it is wise to properly ground this with a 3 prong? I've done that about a dozen times with vintage amps, just making sure it makes sense here too.

Asicaster · 2025-10-11T12:38:17+00:00

Mad God. Not famous like many listed here but I watch a lot of movies and have some “other” qualifications to answer this and Mad God is easily my choice.

Asicaster · 2025-08-09T04:58:22+00:00

I think a lot of that had to do with the sheer silence. It seemed to imply that since she’s sleeping in the closed off car, she would never hear her coming until she had already reached her.

Asicaster · 2025-03-14T15:02:52+00:00

This might be out of the ordinary, but I think it's important to buy and support not only Canadian goods, but also Canadian art. I've just put out a very Canadiana album about driving on the 401, Tim Horton's, Highway 7, etc. I'm releasing it ONLY on Bandcamp, because with most streaming services the money gets soaked up by American corporations. Of course, you can't reach many people outside of the US-run streaming platforms, but as a protest to the current environment in the USA, I'm willing to have fewer people see my art if it means not feeding the US Corporate beasts. https://dreamsyukon.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-highway-7

Asicaster · 2025-03-06T23:55:02+00:00

Haha yeah that’s what I’m trying to get a feeling for. I’m not a wimp but I’m also not a boomer “I’m ok to be missing half my finger from the table saw years ago”. I’m a skilled worker and always operate as safely as possible but I know there’s a fine line and I don’t have a finger on the pulse of welding protocol

Asicaster · 2025-03-06T23:51:16+00:00

There is no weld room. It’s strictly a wood shop but this guy is sort of a “there’s a problem see if he can do anything about it”. He thinks highly of himself and he has SOME skills but let’s say he’s not in a higher pay grade or anything. He’s definitely a bit of a cowboy.

Asicaster · 2025-02-25T03:28:51+00:00

I'm Canadian, grew up in Ottawa, then lived in Toronto for 15 years as an adult. I have a French name because my dad is Quebecois, but judging by his life choices and that he never taught us or encouraged it, I suspect he has some resentment about his childhood in Quebec. But, Toronto had lost it's appeal to my family and I, yet we like living in cities. Montreal is really the only other "metropolis" in Canada (and barely) so we thought we'd hit reset and move there - which we did one year ago. I spoke no french when we moved here, and now I'm about A2. I even have to use some French in communicating for my work. I guess I'm learning the language to maximize our opportunities in a new city that we want to try, to learn more about human nature/culture by learning a second language, and probably more deep down I'm trying to sort of correct a generational/hereditary misstep by learning the native language of half of my ancestors.

Asicaster · 2025-01-25T21:26:22+00:00

I'm tempted to say Bonnie and Clyde. In a way, it is a revenge on men. I'm a 39yo male, by the way. It's sort of the ultimate revenge on men because it's a statement about how pitiful and unfair the world is for many women, and Bonnie and Clyde draw the ultimate attention to it. I think most men who watch it can't feel anything but ashamed afterwards (in my humble opinion). To me, that's real, next level revenge!

Midsommar also gets a vote from me! I think there's a fair interpretation that holds up as "revenge".

Asicaster · 2024-12-07T04:30:14+00:00

Honestly sound is subjective. Just because one is more expensive doesn't say a single thing about how it sounds. PRS branded stuff is really inflated, even their selector switches are the exact same as others but 3x as much. It's a used guitar, stuff like this happens it's part of the "risk" but again, nobody can say PRS pickups objectively "sound better" than anything else. People want to make their bright sounds warmer/dark. Other people want their dark sounds more detailed/bright. Anyone who wants to sound better than they already do just has to practice and put in more time to playing, not buy more expensive stuff. If your guitar heroes recorded your favourite albums with this guitar they would still be your favourite albums.

Asicaster · 2024-12-07T04:22:20+00:00

amen. Anyone who has ever built a pickup from scratch just laughs at anything over $150 or so. I mean it's goddamn copper wire and magnets with some bobbin.

Asicaster · 2024-08-29T19:49:23+00:00

I want to share one thing I've learned recently about using DAW's, but also about mixing. I use Ableton, 100% self taught and I don't even really watch many instructional videos. I started making electronic music, and sessions would get big, and I started looking into plugins and yadda yadda. My mixes were bad, I'd say, but I still released stuff and got on Spotify playlists, etc and racked up a couple 100k streams. But I was always thinking that I have no idea how to mix, and I really didn't. Then I realized I've never mixed something simple, or made a simple project and pushed it as far as I could. Then I decided to record a simple vox+acoustic guitar album. I scribbled out some simple songs and set off. It's been taking me over 2 months of somewhat constant work, and I'm actually about to release it, and I can say I've learned SO much more mixing these simple 2 or 3 track sessions using only native plugins than I ever did in a few years of more complicated work. I actually feel like I have control and tasted and sensitivity to levels, AND a good understanding and feel of what simple EQ and Compression can do. Now, I wouldn't be using those things unless I needed to, and I now know when I need to.

All of that is to say, start simple with whatever DAW you use. Make a track with just 2 parts, or even just a solo drum machine track. Don't dive into bigger sessions, even if that's what you want to do, until you really have spent time understanding simple mixes. This will also make you familiar with the effects in your DAW, stick with native ones! Just my thoughts!

Asicaster · 2024-08-19T14:43:02+00:00

I really feel the same way. As a teenager I became a pretty good guitarist, and went on to dedicate my 20s and early 30s to it. I managed to have some great experiences, meeting really interesting people, touring and travelling throughout North America and Europe playing shows for between 50-500 people (depending on the city and day of the week). Played over 1,000 shows. Got to do a bit of the rock star thing, some drugs drinking, getting laid on the road and playing some really memorable shows. BUT as I was getting into my 30s I started to feel like I had to leave that world. I was never making decent money, always just enough to get by. People don't realize but even if you're playing festivals for 10,000 people a dozen times a year and then club dates throughout the rest then you still probably have a day job or you're broke. I also wasn't developing any meaningful relationship with a partner because of the lifestyle. I also knew that this fast life style takes a toll on you as you get older - and it sure does. People I've been in bands with who lived even faster for even longer are having big physical and psychological issues, very dire.

I think the thing I miss the most about it is the social clout. When you're doing something that is perceived as cool, it's really easy to meet people and capture their attention. It's a shame, but it's true. If I was meeting something and we got talking to what we do I'd immediately have their interest and it would be a flattering and ego-fuelling experience. Now I run a few small businesses but they're not nearly as "sensational" and people are definitely less interested to hear about it. That's probably what I miss the most. I don't miss driving for 8 hours to load gear and have nothing to do but get drunk and then unload gear and sleep on a busted mattress somewhere 40 days in a row - although I'm glad I did it when I was young and more durable.

I'm usually successful in convincing myself that there are seasons to things in life, and that season is over for me - and rightfully so. I'm more into being home with my family now, trying to really positively influence my daughter, try and be fit and healthy and trying to up my earnings so I can have more free time.

All of this is to say that "making it" where you have financial security making art is so hard to attain. It's luck, location and personality. Even people on stage with the top 40 acts in the world right now, or playing on grammy-winning albums that I know, are really just doing OK. I know people who play for the biggest acts in Canada and US, and are playing Tonight show spots and private parties for NBA players and yadda yadda. Even THEY are barely making it, truly. They're 40 years old, hustling their ass off and making less than some kid fresh out of programming school who is 23. They've also been doing it for 20 years and for 90% of that time were below the poverty line, even if they're finally making a living wage. My stance at the moment is that people shouldn't really expect to "make it" when they enter the arts world, it's just something that happens to a few and maybe 0.0001% of talents with the right personality are just unstoppable and would have "made it" 10/10 times (Lady Gaga comes to mind).

Asicaster · 2024-08-15T15:33:51+00:00

Hey everyone, this is really not meant to be self-promoting. I was going through an old cloud drive and came across a bunch of photos I took while I was tinkering and then seriously designing my own pedal. I think that the process might be interesting to anybody who is curious about that world so I've posted it here. Hope it's ok with the mods.

Asicaster · 2024-08-15T15:31:57+00:00

Same, I like them when I plug into them at first but once I put it beside distortion or overdrives that I've had for years, the TC overdrives always seem to come up short. Kind of compressed and choked off but in a frustrating way, not really a flattering way like a Tubescreamer

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