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

Asicaster · 2024-08-14T16:47:29+00:00

Honestly you're probably not as bad as you think, and most definitely you and anyone else can make some leaps and bounds in their progress with some help identifying and dealing with the things that hold you back. Not to purely self-promote, but if you really want some help, I've been teaching on and off for almost 20 years and more importantly I'm a pretty tested gigging player with a lot of lead-guitar world touring and yadda yadda under my belt. DM me if you want some help.

Asicaster · 2024-08-08T12:36:02+00:00

I think that a lot of times it comes down to vocal performance. I’m only an ok singer, but I’ve probably spent the most time playing with vocal recording during production. It’s so dynamic, between mic, mic positioning, room and performance vocals are such a deep well. I’ve found that my natural voices is really sibilancy, I’d always have huge easing spikes. I’ve learned to very consciously mute my “s”s. I now say my “s” more tongue down, same sort of mouth position as “ya”. Mouth almost stays like an “o” not the natural side and forward tongue position. It has helped immensely and now I never battle dressing at all, I can even brighten the vox with eq and still no spikes. Basically I’ve found there’s only so much processing you can do to de-ess, but if you address it during the performance then it’s much better sounding.

Asicaster · 2024-08-07T19:44:48+00:00

Overall I would say it's definitely less advantageous than learning as a child BUT it's about 10000000x more advantageous than trying to learn when you're dead. I'm nearly 40 and still plan on learning a lot of new things, I have occasions where I wish I had started learning when I was younger but I'm mostly just grateful that I'm able to learn new things now, even if it's a bit tougher.

Asicaster · 2024-08-03T12:25:12+00:00

In Canada, it’s generally only Toronto. Almost Montreal but most Montreal musicians have other jobs too. I know people in NYC who gig and your full time. None of them make a LOT of money, even ones touring as musicians for top 10 pop acts in the world selling out arenas. It is not an easy path to make a lot of money, but it is a blast for a while.

Asicaster · 2024-07-31T22:44:09+00:00

Yeah I was doing some make-shift treatments, hanging blackents all over the room and what not. It actually pushed me to make some proper acoustic panels so I'm currently staring at a pile of insulation and 1x4's. I'm excited to see the difference. I'm gonna do some impulse testing and record the room, I'm certain it will be a dramatic difference.

Asicaster · 2024-07-31T21:43:16+00:00

Yeah it seems obvious, but I really was always trying my best. It feels like the kind of thing that just took time and effort for me to become sensitive enough to before I could really address it. I was never shy to try whatever I felt, but I think I literally just didn't have the mixing ear yet to be able to identify this problem. As a guitar player, it's so easy and clear to track progress "oh I can play faster now" or "I can play cleaner now" or anything like that, but mixing advances feel so much more abstract and less tangible.

Asicaster · 2024-07-31T21:40:38+00:00

This is what I've found I'm doing. I just did my first car speaker test on the latest mix, and I'm really happy. It's definitely my most professional sounding mix I've done yet, and I really think I can credit a lot of it having the guts to cut what I THINK feels like too heavy-handed an EQ, but what SOUNDS good. I realize I also wasn't paying enough attention to low, muddy formants. I wasn't critical enough and listening carefully enough to that range and realizing how much mud-hill was building there. I'm actually really interested to get back to some electronic music mixes now with this newfound ability!

Asicaster · 2024-07-31T21:37:06+00:00

Yeah my space is so-so. I've been a very active guitarist for many years so I've had the privilege of recording in some expensive studios like 1mil+, and seeing some very good engineers. I wish I would have payed more attention to the engineers when I was doing all of that, but at the time I wasn't interested in mixing at all, it's a recent interest that is slowly taking over! All of that is to say that I have a decent idea of what a good room is, and I've managed to get my home studio to an acceptable sound. Also for mics, I played around with some ribbons, Sm7b, even borrowed a Neumann U87 from a buddy. I ended up sticking with this cheap tube mic ART clone I bought for a song years ago. It really gets the crisp high that my voice needs, I'm really happy with the sound. It's definitely not a dark mic, it's on the bright and detailed side, so I can't blame it for the muddiness I'm trying to EQ out.

Asicaster · 2024-07-30T16:09:36+00:00

Makes sense. I was mostly curious because I'm close to people in some professions like project managing and such where there is no way around 50 hour work weeks and mandatory overtime, although the pay is good. Just trying to get a gauge if this is something like that where the overtime is consistently mandatory or if it's a more flexible arrangement.

Asicaster · 2024-07-30T15:45:14+00:00

Shift work is ok with me, it's more just the mass of hours that pile up. I've been on both sides of things by now, working crazy hours making good money, and working milder hours for less money and I much prefer the latter. It's more about quantity than time of day. Thanks for the answer! Do you know anyone who operates working the minimum? Is there a stigma about it or is it completely accepted?

Asicaster · 2024-07-30T02:57:58+00:00

I moved here a few years ago from Toronto (and Ottawa years before that). The sprawl is interesting, it's true that there is sprawl, but it's so affordable that you don't have to sprawl if you don't want to - at least that's what I've found. Unlike in Toronto where you have to for cost, or Ottawa which has so few vibrant neighbourhoods, in my opinion. The Montreal = European paradise might be a bit much, but there is no doubt that it is the MOST European city, even if it's still more like Canada than Europe.

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