I am going to add a bit to what I posted below about deep needling. With bass hammers, it is often a temptation to say they sound okay as is, and aren't worth the trouble to do the normal full shoulder treatment (standard deep needling in the whole shoulder areas of all hammers). In fact, all hammers of all "hard-pressed" hammers need this to develop a full tonal range, and also to develop projection. If the bass sounds dull, and those hammers haven't seen any needles, do the normal 10 - 40 insertions of a 3 needle tool in each shoulder as a first step, pretty deep (7-10 mm), standard pattern. Adding lacquer or other juices to hard-pressed hammers _should_ be unnecessary except at the very top and sometimes very bottom of the range. Hamburg hammers are plenty dense, and needles ought to be all that is needed. (With the caveat I think David Love mentioned about what you are trying to get out of a board that may not have that possibility). Fred On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Fred Sturm wrote: > On Jul 26, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Ed Sutton wrote: > >> First try needling in the very low shoulders, what Andre Oorebeek >> calls "the battery." >> Not guaranteed, but I was recently very surprised to find that >> sometimes it makes a big difference. >> ES > > > I agree, and not just into the lowest shoulders. DEEP needle, > individual needle, more than 10 mm long, heading from anywhere below > 3 / 9 o'clock into the area of felt near the molding, angling > towards the point of the molding (not passing above that point). It > depends what has been done before, and what kind of hammers they are > to begin with, but these should be a good candidate. Try 2 - 4 > insertions on each side of the molding, listen. Also feel what is > happening - how much resistance to the needle, how stiff it feels in > there. If you are getting more of what you want, and if there is > plenty of resistance (which I would expect), do more insertions. > This procedure can give considerably more focus and power. Not > always, but more often than not. > > Regards, > Fred Sturm > fssturm at unm.edu > http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100727/1d67fc4f/attachment.htm>
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