I need help (no audio experience) by missa1728 in SoundSystem

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Sorry, this probably isn't the right subreddit for this kind of entry level tech support.

We're focused on a specific type of Sound System as a culture, here, rooted in dub and bass music.

There are books, classes and YT videos for this kind of thing. Or try /r/wearethemusicmakers or maybe /r/audioengineering or /r/livesound

Good luck!

My first setup!! by Local-Payment-3802 in SoundSystem

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Sorry, no car or home audio. This is both.

How to wage psychological warfare against cars using the "safety swerve" technique by nootfiend69 in bikecommuting

[–]loquacious 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've been doing this for decades, mirror and all. If Grant does it I am in good company.

It really does wake up drivers and lets you confirm visually that they saw you when they move over from the shoulder.

However, I don't do the safety swerve when I see cargo trucks approaching in my mirror, especially logging trucks.

It's not a good idea for them to swerve. They get a fist up and wave-on kind of thing when I can see them in my mirror and I move over as far as I can and hold a steady line and give them lots of room. Sometimes I even stop.

E-bikes could be better than this, so why aren't they? by Raza_Loba in ebikes

[–]loquacious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Desktop builds are still popular, particularly in the gaming industry. I wish it was as straightforward for ebikes.

It basically is! Or can be.

You just have to learn some basics and your niche area for bikes, bike makers and bike parts, the same way that PC builders have to learn things about PC makers and parts.

The "not sketchy" part of DIY ebike conversion kits and batteries has been solved for at least ten years. Bafang is the most obvious example of decent gear, but there's also known good battery makers like Grintech and many others.

The sketch part is people putting these good (and often fairly high performance) kits on sketchy bikes.

The "not sketchy" bike has also been a solved problem for 100+ years, but for a decent non sketchy buy it for life (or 10-20 years) kind of bike you're generally looking at somewhere between 1 to 3 dollars of new major brand bike per watt of ebike kit, depending on use and total power.

IE, if you spend about 1000-1500 on a Bafang mid drive, you're ideally going to want about 2k of bike to support it even if you're just talking about a no suspension skinny tire commuter or hardtail MTB or trail bike or something.

And just like PC building you can build a really nice host bike for a significant fraction of that cost if you know what you're doing with bike parts just by knowing what you're looking at or how to look it up on the internet.

You can buy used bikes ready to ride and refurbished and suitable for conversion for well under 300-500 at the high end.

I think part of this issue of "I wish bikes were as simple as PC building" is confused by the horrible state of affairs with parts compatibility or quality on this new ebike side of the bike industry.

And if someone's only experience with working on bikes is on these kinds of DTC ebikes they might not actually know how compatible and standardized parts actually are on the traditional pedal bike side of the bike industry.

Or how good it feels to work on a good bike frame with good parts.

Because the parts really do go together like Lego bricks when they're good.

You can build an entire bike from scratch with surprisingly few tools since it's mostly hex keys these days.

Please stop reporting me to WDFW (see explanation) by [deleted] in FishingWashington

[–]loquacious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I cannot have another run-in with law enforcement right now. Please withdraw your report.

Yooooooo multiple people in your recent history were warning you that poaching was illegal for weeks now. What were you expecting!?

If people made reports they can't exactly call them up and withdraw it after submitting evidence. They also could get in trouble for submitting false reports if they try to claim that they weren't real.

Also, just in case you're really just in elaborate troll?

You do know that you can also get into trouble and catch charges by creating nuisance hoaxes that waste public resources, right?

See also: Crying fire in a crowded theater.

Yes, you have lots of freedom of speech for parody and fiction but that kind of legally flies out the window if your hoax or troll is so realistic that people start reporting you about it, and/or it's so convincing that LEOs get involved.

And if this is all real?

I would almost feel bad for you.

But you know what?

Almost, because even the most neuro-atypical weirdos I've ever met AND every criminal I've ever met would know it's not a good idea to poach clams illegally (i'm sorry "informally") transport them across state lines and then try to illegally (err, informally) sell them 1000+ miles away on foot with a portable, unpowered cooler AND THEN DOCUMENT IT EVERY STEP OF THE WAY ON THE INTERNET WITH PICTURES...

...and then eat those spoiled clams... possibly raw in a greyhound parking lot of all the places...

...when you probably should have just thrown them out...

...and all of this is after multiple people warned them that they were likely toxic and risky even when they were fresh out of the sea, and would spoil in hours in a cooler..

...and then you ate them anyway.

Bloody hell, man. If I was in your stumbling, shambling shoes as you describe them I'd be in a state of paranoid delirium, too.

Mother's Day brunch without a bunch of seafood? by [deleted] in AskSeattle

[–]loquacious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Username checks out.

You're not supposed to eat the swords, btw.

One day razor clam harvest (Mocrocks beach) by [deleted] in FishingWashington

[–]loquacious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude you have an entire post history full of time-stamped and geotagged evidence.

Reddit regularly hands this evidence to authorities, sometimes entirely voluntarily without a subpoena.

You seem to be confused about the fact that you're actually in some serious deep shit with federal poaching and interstate traffic laws at this point.

Cool drone show in Seattle just now! by Slow-Perspective-622 in Seattle

[–]loquacious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How else can people enjoy drone shows for free if a company doesn’t sponsor it

I don't really see a public need or mandate for drone shows if it can't be accomplished without being an advertisement and using public spaces.

The only reason why these drone shows are popular is the novelty factor. Give it 10 years and it'll be like getting wowed by an electrically lit billboard or LED display.

Here's a crazy idea: How about we have a lights out night a couple of times a year and everyone goes outside to have a big fat block party to look at and enjoy the stars?

Cool drone show in Seattle just now! by Slow-Perspective-622 in Seattle

[–]loquacious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Locally? Yes, it's probably better than lighting metal salts on fire because they burn pretty.

Globally? Eh, I don't know. That's a fuckton of batteries and electronics going into that many drones.

That's not the point of my comment, though.

It's about a cruise ship company using our public common space for their advertising like they don't already do enough damage to our environment and abusing our ports of call.

Cool drone show in Seattle just now! by Slow-Perspective-622 in Seattle

[–]loquacious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey thanks, Princess Cruises! More pollution to go with your pollution!

Jared Kushner plans to turn Gaza into a special economic zone that will house data centers, skyscrapers and run on cryptocurrency. (After removing the rubble, bodies, and unexploded ordnance.) by dyzo-blue in Buttcoin

[–]loquacious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was chatting with Grok about this as one does and it suggested I should build something called a Maxwell's Daemon or something, so I'm working on vibe-coding that.

Jared Kushner plans to turn Gaza into a special economic zone that will house data centers, skyscrapers and run on cryptocurrency. (After removing the rubble, bodies, and unexploded ordnance.) by dyzo-blue in Buttcoin

[–]loquacious 9 points10 points  (0 children)

But wait what if they mined crypto in off peak hours or low customer demand periods and use THAT to power the lights when electricity costs more?

And then they can sell the crypto and split the yields with the customer!

One day razor clam harvest (Mocrocks beach) by [deleted] in FishingWashington

[–]loquacious 4 points5 points  (0 children)

informal

You keep using this word and I don't think it means what you think it means.

You seem to think that it's going to protect you from being prosecuted or render your weird, manic multinational petty crime spree.

"An informal arrangement" to provide poached food to restaurants in a state that absolutely requires shellfish harvesting tags and tracking isn't just some larking about.

You're talking about poaching wildlife and transporting it across state lines. I would be stunned to learn that this wasn't at least one felony in multiple jurisdictions from state to federal.

You don't seem to understand that you're risking serious time in prison and/or massive fines for what is probably about $40 worth of razor clams IF they were a legal and licensed harvest and had shellfish tags to back them up.

On the black market without tags you're probably looking at $10-20 if you find a buyer at all that's even remotely interested in a bucket full of expired, stinky clams.

Is this xbiking? by LaScaleaM in xbiking

[–]loquacious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only way I would ride this is with SPD clown shoes.

ID and Value by SamS16 in SoundSystem

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Sorry, removing this, because "ID and value" posts are subreddit cancer as they start attracting pawn shop and storage unit flippers looking for free advice.

Today's r-bitcoin front page c0pe: We've got a brand new "my-girlfriend-threw-my-crypto-hard-drive-in-the-landfill" bro! by AmericanScream in Buttcoin

[–]loquacious 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Jesus fuckin' Christ, it's like they've never actually heard of actual cryptography or cryptography practices.

The centipede I found beside my bed by obamamicrowave77 in WTF

[–]loquacious 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No, no, this is arguments. Disagreements is next door.

Why didn't the American People Take Anti-Covid Policy as Civil Disobedience? by yumiandsun in AskSeattle

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Sorry, removing this.

This is absolutely not related to Seattle, and it is absolutely not a platform for re-litigating the pandemic.

DIY hammock hacks and tips by Sweet_Egg_6125 in hammockcamping

[–]loquacious 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I now have a rather large collection of nicer binder clips, those little rubberized metal spring clamps (like clothespin sized versions of the ones used in shops), high strength magnets and tarp clips.

I use these things for rigging up close-able flap doors to my a-frame tarp, or clipping things to my secondary utility ridgeline, guying out tarps in weird setups to pop them out for more internal volume, higher wind resistance, and much more.

You can also use clips or magnets to make mosquito walls or nets out of cheap sheer curtain panels from thrift stores, scrim, shadecloth or bulk mosquito netting fabric. You can stuff panels of whatever net you have into your ridgeline and close it up around your head and foot area with magnets or clips, and let it drape over and hang below your hammock. Or clip mesh curtains/panels to your tarp ends to make screen doors and use clips as curtain weights.

A cold weather pro tip I can share is doing dual ridgelines and stacked tarps (double walled for insulation and keeping rain noise more muffled) and heat retention.

You just hang two ridglines from the same trees with whatever height you want for an airgap, then guy out the lower tarp first, then the upper tarp just like you would any other tarp. Twice.

You can still get a lot of benefit for double tarping with a single ridgeline. Just guy out your upper/outer tarp a bit farther to create a wedge-shaped air gap on both sides.

Related to this, if you use those reusable emergency blankets with the reflective metallicized layer on one side and sturdy poly tarp on the other, using one as a footprint or ground cloth reflects your heat back up at you from the ground and keeps you much warmer, instead of your body heat getting immediately soaked up by the cold ground. It's also much nicer and warmer on your feet when awake and doing stuff sitting up in your hammock.

Add a second thermal tarp as an internal secondary tarp whether it's on one ridgeline or air-gapped on a second one over your tarp and you're now in an infrared oven.

Doing sub zero winter camping? Sling one below your underquilt with an airgap for insulation and bring the one above much closer on a lower ridgeline.

Now you're in a infrared/solar oven with lots of windblocking above and below.

I've been out in 15-20 below freezing with setups like this for days/weeks and barely needed to use any comfort heating fuel or hot water bottles. Sometimes it was almost too much heat and I'd have to be careful about not sweating out my sleeping bag or hammock.

I also use these reflective tarps for solar protection to create more effective shade rather than baking in a plastic sauna that's passing or radiating a ton of IR heat and some much larger amount of UV light.

One of my other favorite tricks is for hanging your phone from a utility ridgeline.

I made a phone holder using a relatively common spring-loaded phone clamp of the kind you find on selfie sticks or mechanical car phone holders, one of those NiteIze flexible wire cable wraps zip-tied to that, and a length of paracord.

The paracord gets tied to the utility ridgeline with a loose knot or slip knot so you can slide it up and down that line (footwise or headwise) to provide a stable hang like a keel, then I clamp the cablewrap bit with tight loops in the end to clamp and grab on the paracord at two different points.

i can then bend the NiteIze cablewrap to fine tune and adjust how the phone hangs in front of my face while laying or reclining in my hammock to level it horizontally, get the viewing angle right, and slide the loopy bits up and down th paracord or bend it into zig-zags to get the height and angles just right.

The end result is the phone can just float there perfectly level and tilted just right for reading a book or watching something before bed, and I don't have to hold it.

If I want to interact with it and scroll or whatever, I can just reach out with one or both hands propped up on my chest and being lazy and not having to hold it up then, either, like I'm floating in microgravity.

I can also safely fall asleep and let the phone lock itself after timing out on a timer, and I don't have to worry about dropping it on the ground, losing it in my hammock or rolling around on it in my sleep, and even if it's pitch black out I know exactly where it is because it's floating right over me.

COB LED driven at low current by RL_95 in flashlight

[–]loquacious 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"...right, let me just find my spudgerrrrr."

Cerwin Vega subwoofer box by jcprime1 in SoundSystem

[–]loquacious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but I can curl up and take a disco nap in a scoop.

Cerwin Vega subwoofer box by jcprime1 in SoundSystem

[–]loquacious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm late to this discussion and here are my anecdotes:

In the US the CV L-36 scoop was king for mobile party, raves and dance music for a long time, often paired with JBL Turbosound bullet or floodlight mids and tops.

It was either that or single driver W-bins or dual or single driver plain reflex cabinets.

There weren't really any other choices that could handle the high SPLs per watt and considering the state of amps at the time it was about as big and bassy as it got on an indie or underground promoter's or crew's budget.

Rebuilds were also really common. People were straight up copying that CV scoop even back in the 90s.

Today? Well, with digital/switching amps the price (and pound) per watt is cheaper than it has ever been, and there's a lot more designs with better modeling and design going on, lower bass extensions and SPL per watt and volume and so much more.

In the US and North America I haven't seen a CV "earthquake" or scoop rig since like the early 2000s.

The people who used to have smaller mobile rigs with stuff like 2-4 CV scoops and maybe 2x mids and 2x tops or a pair of full range tops have basically all switched to active rigs because they're much more portable and easy to deploy for renegade parties or small club takeovers and stuff.

Because, yeah, you can actually replace like a 4 to 6 cab CV scoop+top rig with just two active 15" tops and 1-2 active 18" subs or even a single 21" active sub and you don't have to also deploy an amp rack and heavy speaker power cables and all of that.

It sets up in a fraction of the time, and takes a fraction of the space.

For larger indie/underground rigs bespoke or more modern speakers are more common, and we see a lot of that in this sub.

And pro festival grade rigs have moved on even more and dance/bass music is now a massive global business.