UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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Option 1) Buy my instrument again with built in pickup and EQ for £185, selling on the existing one to recoup the cost.

Advantages: Going to work
Disadvantages: heavier, differently balanced instrument, might not be so good for taking camping

Option 2) PUTW Octave Mandolin under-bridge pickup. One piece pickup that covers the whole under-bridge area, jack clips on like a violin chin rest. Hi-Z output, needs preamping, but not sure if it needs preamping to reach e-guitar impedance or not. $160 + VAT and import taxes.

Advantages: Highly recommended by David K and loads of others. Simple, requires no luthier work.
Disadvantages: Cost

More options to come.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Will pointy nosed, kentucky bluegrassers cheer you up

Or maybe something with rhubarb in?

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ed - I'd go with Option 1 so far.

The pod is a 40GB 3rd Gen ipod. I have not been able to find someone who would sell me a hard disk, nor do I know how to change it. Any ideas?

Who's been having a go at you Kate? I will go and kick them.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

also maoz falafel

Perfect! I've been to one before in Amsterdam and that'll be just fine for lunch. Not that the other spots don't sound great.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

try

I'm sure that will be illegal http://www.span.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=23_504_1802&osCsid=b40d8ad20c23b3e7b5065000b78d093e

I'm trying to find a supplier of the seagate ones which I prefer.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Me, I would get an acoustic one AND one with a built in pickup, just in case.

Actually, no, not true. I'd probably go for the external pickup, because, say if I obtained any other acoustic folkie instruments like fiddles or hurdy gurdies, then I could use the pickup to amplify all of them.

But it depends really on when your next acoustic instrument purchase will be.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Ed. Will have a look at those hard drives.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes it's good to go back and read something you have every right to be bitter about and realise that you really aren't bitter at all any more. And that time and perspective really does heal 90% of all things.

Sometimes I just wish you could fast forward the 5 or 6 years in the meantime.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

But also, even that awful experience had so many repercussions down the line that turned out to be bloody good in the long run, in totally unexpected ways. That Ladyfest tour was where I met ET, and ended up writing for CTCL/Plan B through that. And CTCL was where I met Miss AMP and FMM, and through them, I met, well, half the people I'm friends with today. And that is really rather awesome. Something utterly awful leading to something really great that ends up totally changing your life for the better. Those friendships formed have been way more important and long-lasting than transitory B-list celeb fame. And I'm really grateful for that.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Option 3) Single or dual soundboard transducer from ashworth, schaller or shadow. Stick on soundboard transducers, these should go near the bridge, and ideally inside the body, however with the really small sound hole this will be difficult. Only £30-50 but it's a bit of a frankenstein solution, with wires tailing out the sound hole or bugs stuck to the surface, sticky tape etc. unless a luthier gets involved, which puts the cost up.

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages, ugly, things to knock off or fall off, glue to fail etc.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds very, very non-ideal. Remember in a gigging situation, anything that can fall off or get knocked off will do so. Also sticking things all over an acoustic instrument, or putting in holes where they shouldn't be, or fucking with the soundhole may change the sound of said instrument.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

I find it really hard to regret/be bitter about things because there are always bonuses like that that can go outweigh whatever the downer was.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Option 1 and 2 will probably come out the same. Option 2 seems neatest, especiallay as they tailor make the pickup to bridge size and it is totally non-permanent.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

that's a good spelling mistake

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

You just don't necessarily find out what the hidden bonus is until years later sometimes.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

this is true, but there almost always seems to be one.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, we've got all the windows open, and the pub downstairs is making PIZZA the smell of which is making me SO BLOODY HUNGRY. Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

You said pizza, now I am!

Later!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am just about to go for my third salad this week. I can hear the cottage cheese calling.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've got curry, as usual. I should eat something else for a change maybe. But curry is so easy. And also cheap since I make it en masse and bring it from home.

God, shoot me, I am turning into the kind of person that I despise, taking advice from the Guardian Weekend psychology pages. This week on how to be happy, they were saying that people who regularly feel or express a sense of gratitude tend to be happier, and it has a lasting effect. So here's me thinking this might actually be a good thing to try and counteract all the bitterness. It's very easy to get on a bitterness tear, and get thoughtwormed out. So trying to distract myself with things or people I'm grateful for.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, Norman and Dada check your emails.
Pass it on if anyone wants it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

One Spagbol later!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, I may end up in the CAN TRANCE for the rest of the day and I need to be having a meeting!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Pass it on to Mr Grout if he wants it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, thanks for this! I love the early years best of all!!

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Esteemed colleagues of the British Library,

Pls stop hanging yr sweaty gym clothes on the hangers meant for coats in the locker room. It's gross.

kthxbye

― G00blar, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

My god, it feels like summer outside

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, sounds good (not to imply I can hear it)

what is it?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

My god, it feels like summer outside

Yeah, same, it's pissing down here.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm waiting to find out what it is when I finish uploading it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Lol Kerr - I meant, it's sunny with little fluffy clouds* in the sky. I'll have to start having lunch on the beach again.

* (c) J Joplin / The Orb

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Rickie Lee Jones, que non?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think the PUTW solution will be the the one to go for. I'm quite attached to my first mandolin and I think options 1 and 2 will come out the same price more or less.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that was a nice, short meeting. I heart my boss.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

If Mark wants it then I need his email. Or Kate can pass it on to anyone she likes.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Like I have everybody's email!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Did you get those other albums I sent you? Odawas is great! Different to the 1st album.(which was great too)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

There's only so much I can d/l and listen to in one day!

What do Odawas actually sound like?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I can't stop looking at things with knobs

http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/product/72c146305cba148fcc48fd48ecab5dba.jpg
http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/product/f81b88a034334cbbe0450187155059cd.jpg
http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/product/6dead5e55436359a8dd1ff42d4aa88a4.jpg

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm really going to resist that one.

I'm so glad that I saved my pear from yesterday, ohmigod melty lush yum.

And now back into the CAN TRANCE.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

CAn anyone geive me, or point me to a good explanation of impedance from a musical perspective, I understand it from a theoretical basis and as an analogue for for dampers in mechanical systems but I want to know more.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to listen to the Salaryman album that came out last year that I somehow managed to miss. I have their 2 cd's so I need to pick this one up somewhere if I can find it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/f/1/8/f186dab0d3df7124f7b100eccdf8635a.png

(sorry, I could not resist. I do not understand impedance.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I found this

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Now I understand, ish.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Why do these people keep insisting that I WORK today?!?!? Can't they see I'm trying to listen to Can Bootlegs?!?!??!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

How is the Can bootleg? My iPod is dying so I won't get to hear it until i get home.

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Eees very good, very nice, very clear sound (makes me wonder if it's even live) and good jams. I have been enjoying it. (When not being pestered for reports.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Well, all of their early stuff is live, live in the Schloss Schtudios, on to two-track

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I am back in the world of the confused again.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

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