instrument cable and a good construction

If the mixer can be an assumption as the heart of the system, the cable can be assumed as intravenously. Poor quality cables will reduce kulitas audio for the entire system. Nothing can turn the importance of how a cable system in the audio. Various sound company is certainly very large understand it. An instrument cable can be a good show soudstage the image of deep and high, with a high resolution, detail, timbre that is super, natural tonal balance and very neutral. USB-cable ii tonally not colored, and is compatible with many systems aplifier, speaker and pre-amp. We know many conventional cable design has the look that good physically, but does not survive long, because the conductor is thin. Umu shortage of this type of cable is a weak focus and image resolution. Some cable-this is to combine a high resolution of informai, transparency, and focus on the three-dimensional image with a neutral tonal balance and warm.
Construction in the cable
Components
Here we will identify the configuration koaksial (co-axial) and twin axial. Koaksial, this configuration is used for regular cable unbalans instrument. There are conductor (penghantar signal) or the center conductor. Responsible for carrying electric current or signals from the source (source) and disekat by insulation material that separates the conductor from other parts of the earlier dalm cable, ie, shield (scutum). Shield is also a conductor, but a conductor pengembali electric current or signals to melngkapi flow into a circuit.
Before the third component (conductor, shield and the bulkhead) equipped with two arms, in the form of a shield elektrostatis who work to reduce handling noise level. Then, outside the protective / outer cable jacket to protect against the "outside world", and used to beautify the view cable.

Koaksial VS Twin Koaksial
Koaksial a different cable and twin koaksial, koaksial using an isolated conductor is at the middle to bring the voltage signal, as in the shield. Here the shield connected to the contact to "negative" from the plug on both ends, while the conductor in the middle of the contact "negative". Because the analog audio signal is a flow back and forth (alternate current), the signal volatse positive and negative bergonta-change in the central conductor and shield.

While cable koaksial twin (twin-ax) two conductor isolated from the voltage signal that is surrounded by a shield that separate. In this case, the shield to be placed one end of the cable conductor and acts as "negative." Shield is designed to block the entrance to interfensi conductor with the audio signal, as well as to bring interfensi (hnya) sasis to the ground from the device that is being used. Design twin-ax is generally more costly rather koaksial. Especially when the cleaning process for the audio signal path, and to avoid any ground loops.

Relationship between the materials in the cable
Geometrical
Refers to the relationship between conductor and shield layers or protectit (read: shield). Geometrical effect of different akan elektrikal and characteristics to the shielding of a cable, which in turn affect the tmpilan vote. There are two approaches in terms of design that can be made to the overall geometrical instruments for cable, that is, the design of co-axial and twin-axial.
Shield is responsible to bring half of the audio signal. So, perforce, this shield must be able to maintain the conductor cable from the interfensi possible to route signals from outside the device (such as the amplifier or console), that is, to the ground.

Conductor geometry
In a twin-ax design, pattern, relationship between the conductor and the shield will affect the characteristics of a cable elektrikal. For cable, the most relevant characteristics related to the second factor above is kapasitansi and induktansi. Kapasitansi effect of this can be heard clearly in an instrument cable. Kapasitansi is often measured in units of dngan Pico farad per foot of cable. From a two-conductor cable dipararelkan, this cable will have a relatively high induktansi and kapasitansi low, and more can pick up mem-interfensi. Braid type conductor kapasitansi tend to show high induktansi with a lower and vulnerable to noise.

Shield
Cable located in the instrument under the jacket around the outside of the dn signal conductor is usually a form of foil, braid, or a combination of both. Shild foil have a power of good protection against interfensi high frequency, such as RFI (Radio Frequency Interference).
Shield braid are more effective against all forms of interference that is now there, if the shield is in-woven with a sufficient density. Shield uses a lot of copper.
A shield can have a spiral density is higher compared to the braided shield, but less flexible than braid. Shild spiral membka and this can provide a path for interfensi, if the cable is too often be bent or lekukkan. Look for cables that use a shild braided (atai combination of braid and foil) with a density range of at least about 85%.

Insulation
Have a direct influence on the flexibility of a cable, especially for the size and thick tipisnya material. Beinsulas a conductor, the characters actually have not ubahnya as a solid conductor. The thin insulation, the cable is more flexible.
There are criteria for elektrikal this flimsiness insulation. Called "Dielectric Strength", and the voltage levels determined by the work of the cable. Voltage is the use of cable dalm instruments generally very low, so that the level of dielectric strength is needed to prevent insulation anjlok not very small.
There is one factor to consider, when the cable will be used for instruments such as electric guitar, that is, the number of kapasitansi between the middle conductor (center conductor) with a shield.
On the insulation material, there are essentially four insolator material that we know for a conductor in the instrument cable. Can be mentioned here, according to the sequence level and display a higher price, ie, PVC, Polypropylene, polythylene and teflon. The material can be also in the "Foam" or diinjeksi with air to minimize the bad effects of the signal, while the signal is stored or removed.
The process is known insultasi Thermoplastic more ekoomis, but need to be careful in the process of production. This is because the process can not be pemanasannya excess heat (overheated), especially when penyolderan isolate conductor.

Material conductor
Ah copper (copper) conductor is material which is very good, although not all have the quality of the copper as conductor material. Copper is used in a cable of good quality, with levels ranging from the free oxygen to "7N". This type of copper vary in the level kemurniannya who then referred to as the level Percentage of copper. At the end of the spectrum is a copper "7N" which means "seven nine", after the decimal point in value kemurniannya, ie, 99.9999999% pure.
While the materials used for the center conductor may be made from thermoset materials, ie, curry, neoprene, and hypalon. Can also of thermoplastic material which is, namely polyethylene, Polypropylene, PVC, and the FPE.
Silver or silver is also a good conductor, but subjective differences in silver made by the manufacturer, often greater than the difference in copper. Look for cables that use a minimum of OFHC copper conductor, and try each of the cable conductor using copper bersepuh silvery, before you buy.

Conductor design
Source of distortion in the other cable is the interaction that emerged from the strand-strand (strand) in the cable conductor. Strand-strand is made in order to increase flexibility in the cable. However, each strand in a union will bring the same audio signal dngan strand next to it. Akan problems arise, the current balance sheet berjlan dlam will form a magnetic field., Who brought the signal change. The strand that many dimilkiki by a conductor, it will be more problems that arise.

Kapasitansi
Is the factor of interest in a cable. Kapasitansi ability level is a load electricity. In an instrument cable, kapasitansi between the center conductor and shield, is expressed in units per foot (pf / ft). Where is the more low-value, then on the more low berindikasi also kapasitansi. When combined with Impedance source, cable kapasitansi can form a low-pass filter between instrument and amplifier, which can cut the high frequency cut off at the way the tone control instruments.
With the view that the overall outside diameter of the cable is limited by the need to use plug, cable kapasitansi really is a reflection kombiasi between the size of conductor (power conductor), insulation material (cost), and tenuity insulation (the size and flexibility). The term "Dielectric constant" is often used here to see the quality of the insulation material. Of course this will ultimately determine sound clarity.


Conclusion
There is no cable is truly perfect / can improve the sound of our device. There is only a cable that can keep the audio signals from the things that can reduce the purity.
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The Interesting ConnectionBetween Beethoven And Napoleon

Beethoven and Napoleon never met. However they played their individual roles in the new "Romantic Age" apparent in Europe at the beginning of the 19th Century. Beethoven, the independent composer of his time, rather liked many of the ideas that Napoleon had. He had managed to build a strong new power with the will of the people, rather than that of the aristocracy whose lack of government as we would know it today was somewhat archaic, and certainly did not involve one’s average citizen.
Napoleon changed the laws of the land (very frequently); he restructured the Civil Service so that it was functional as well as being efficient; he had scientists from all areas working for him to bring France to a stage where it was technically the best in the world. He achieved much. His metric system is used in nearly all countries today. Most Europeans under 20 today would not recognise a gallon or a yard. Litres and metres, with 10 or 100 increments are actually much easier for your average chap (which the French population was at the time) rather than having to multiply by obscure fractions at which the French uneducated population would be inept.

A lot of people say that the reason for this hunger for scientific information was purely philanthropic. Possibly Beethoven thought so before 1804. Others, perhaps more perspicacious, showed that much of this work was put to almost purely military use. The man was a genius at warfare. Baring in mind the turbulent political climate after the French Revolution, the guillotine executions and the enormous strength of the Secret Police at the time, nobody dared say a thing. Napoleon just got on with it, on pain of death if it was not done.

Beethoven, meanwhile, had been looking at the good things coming out of France, particularly during the ‘truce’ of the early 1800’s. He could see the things that Napoleon was doing for the country and its infrastructure as well as its artistic side. Beethoven wrote other pieces during this period, but his Great Work’ at this time was the fabulously innovative ‘Eroica’ symphony.

This was dedicated to Napoleon and, no doubt, much of the musical content was composed as a result of the successes of this extraordinary leader.

However Napoleon, having re-armed his troops and ships during the ‘truce’ took his ambitions even further. He made himself an Emperor and his family his successors in perpetuity. The Napoleonic Wars resumed and Beethoven was not pleased with this ‘would be’ hero.

Beethoven apparently tore out the dedication page of his manuscript for the Third symphony, and simply dedicated it to celebrate a “great man”, whilst renaming the symphony as we know it today as the ‘Eroica’, rather than ‘The Napoleon’.
In 1809 Napoleonic forces bombarded Vienna, and Beethoven hid in a cellar with mufflers round his ears frightened that the dreadful noise would remove the last of his remaining ability to hear.
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Converting Mp3

Mp3 digital music is one of the most popular forms for music to take these days. Digital music just seems to make sense, and is a natural step forward in the music world today. Everything else is digital these days, why wouldn’t our music be?

While music is still purchased in the form of CDs, it is very often converted into mp3 digital music for use on a computer or mp3 player. Indeed, sometimes it seems like CD players are all but obsolete now, and I almost never use mine anymore. However, it is nice to have music backed up on CDs, and I try to keep my CD collection current even if I’m not listening to them directly very much. I have a sort of inherent distrust of computers and all things purely digital, and I’m just waitng for my digital music players to explode one day.

Mp3 players have a lot of nice advantages to them over CDs. First of all, they are of course much smaller. Most mp3 players can easily fit into your pocket, unlike bulky CD players. Even the smallest portable CD player is enormous compared to the average mp3 player. Also, mp3 digital music can be stored on a hard drive of an mp3 player or computer, and so no CDs are needed. You can load up all the mp3 digital music you want on your computer, and never have to worry about losing or scratching any of it.

One of the most popular portable digital music players today is Apple’s iPod, and since it’s made by Apple it just has to be different. Therefore it does not use the mp3 digital music files other players use, and instead uses its own spiffy Apple format exclusive to iPods. As an owner of both an mp3 player and an iPod, this fact continuously frustrates me, as it is nothing short of a pain in the ass to transfer music from one player to the other.

Mp3 digital music is also of a fairly small file size, which is handy. My laptop has a 120 GB hard drive on it, and I can fit my entire music collection on it in the mp3 digital music format without making a dent in the overall space available. The mp3 digital music format poses some serious threats to the music industry, as it is so easy to share and pass around.


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Guitars - From The Beginning

Guitars are one of the most common instruments that music lovers choose to play. You can recreate sounds from your childhood or from the past after learning a few simple cords to strum. However, learning to play such an intricate instrument such as the guitar is the same with everything else; it takes a large amount of practice and determination. You have to be willing to practice on a daily basis in order to excel with the instrument. If you do not have the time to practice, then learning the basics of beginner guitar is probably not for you. But, if you take the time to go forth with the instrument, you will be amazed at how well you can be playing in such a short amount of time.

Your first step is to decide how you are going to learn to play the guitar. If you have had any previous musical experience, such as knowing how to read music, then the process with go much more smoothly. You can teach yourself with a beginner’s guitar book; however, if you have a person to help you it will be much easier. If you are not able to read music, many of the beginner books will show you how to do that as well.

While purchasing a guitar online might allow you to find a better deal, it is often a better choice to ask a local music store for suggestions, or your instructor. The strings on some of the guitars are very hard to hold down for beginners, and you cannot learn to play on these types of strings until you have built up enough calluses on your fingers.

Many beginner guitars have strings that are slightly more loose to help with the learning process. It might not be a wise choice to purchase a very expensive guitar your first time around. You need to make sure that the investment will be worth it, and you will not know this until you have mastered the art of the guitar. However, keep in mind that extremely cheap guitars are harder to keep tuned and often harder to play.

One thing that can help you excel is to listen to guitar solos in songs. Listening is usually the best type of learning. Many instructors also recommend this and they will usually have you choose a song that you want to learn and request that you listen to it over and over again. Choose wisely, because a very hard song is not always the best option. You have to go slowly and learn the basics first.

“Wonderwall” by Oasis is a great song that is simple for all beginners to learn. The song made the top 10 list in the U.S. and the hot top 100 in 1995 when it was first released. You can search online for the guitar tabs to the song on search engines such as Google. Neil Young’s song “Heart of Gold” is another easy song to learn. It made the Rolling Stone top 500 list, and it has a deep meaning. Overall, the song is easy and very popular for beginner guitarists. There are many sites online that allow you to download these songs for free so that you can listen to them.

The desire to learn the guitar is often not enough in order to learn. You also have to have determination and the ability to have patience when you are not able to get it right the first time. Try not to get frustrated, and know that your fingers will eventually toughen up enough for you to be able to play on any guitar. The first steps are the hardest, but after you learn, it is like riding a bicycle; you will never be able to forget.
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Mp3 And Its Advantages

Few things in my life do I use more often and enjoy than my mp3 music player. Well, maybe its not all that great, but I do really love the idea of mp3 music players. I’m so tired of CDs I could just scream. Sure, they’re way better than the different forms of music storage mediums that came before, but that’s not saying a whole lot. There’s nothing more frustrating than putting on your favorite CD only to hear it skip like crazy during the best songs.


Even taking extremely good care of my CDs, they still somehow get scratched all the time. Furthermore, just trying to keep all my CDs organized is a major hassle. I think I’ve spent many hours putting CDs away in different folds and organizing the different CD cases, and while this used to be kind of fun back when I was in high school and didn’t own many albums, now that I’ve got a large collection it is a total drag. For these reasons alone, I’ve been a big fan of mp3 music players since they first started hitting markets several years ago.

The first mp3 music players were ridiculously expensive, but I just had to have one. Maybe I’m just a technology junkie, or maybe I had just finally had enough of CDs. I do remember the first mp3 music players came out shortly after I’d had my main CD holding folder filled with 90% of the music I’d collected over the years stolen. I’m sure that also had something to do with my decision to make the plunge and get an mp3 music player. I’d already spent a small fortune rebuilding my CD collection, so I guess I figured why not spend another small fortune, get an mp3 music player, and never have to worry about stolen or scratched CDs again?

While I haven’t been worrying much about stolen or scratched CDs since then, I have been worrying about crappy mp3 music players a lot. The first one I bought was such a piece of garbage compared to the newer ones, its not even funny. Fortunately, the mp3 music player I have now is pretty sweet. It’s made by Panasonic, works with my car and has all sorts of neat little features.

Of course, now that the mp3 music players have gotten good, Apple just had to come out with something better. Their iPods are in fact pretty nice, but they of course have their own spiffy music format that doesn’t work with other mp3 music players. Isn’t that just so typically Apple?

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Yamaha BB714BS Billy Sheehan Signature Bass

By Ed Friedland
Yamaha BB714BS Billy Sheehan Signature
Originally published in Guitar World, April 2009
In the early Eighties, Billy Sheehan tore rock’s bass-playing world a new one with a level of low-end mastery that has yet to be topped. If you think you’re a badass, check out Billy—and then start practicing

FEATURES

Sheehan's first Yamaha was built on the well-established BB platform, making the 714BS a return trip. The solid alder body is a bit larger than your typical Fender-style instrument, but the bass is a comfortable weight and balances well. The test bass was a sexy sparkling Lava Red finish with matching headstock, and it’s also available in black. The four-bolt maple neck is capped with a 21-fret rosewood fingerboard, which is not scalloped like the Attitude bass. The 10-inch radius is a nice compromise between a traditional rounded feel and modern flatter fingerboards. The 1.56-inch width at the nut and rounded “C” neck profile were chosen to appeal to those that might be turned away by the Attitude’s bigger neck. The solid brass bridge offers superior sustain and clarity and gets the same black-nickel finish as the rest of the hardware.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Billy bass without a big-old honkin’ humbucker in the neck position, paired with a classic split-coil in P-Bass position. The ceramic pickup magnets give the bass an aggressive quality that fits its rock and roll pedigree, though the humbucker can certainly warm up the tone nicely. The humbucker uses dual ferrous blades instead of traditional pole-pieces to avoid dropouts when bending strings. The passive tone control operates typically but also employs an independent high-cut to the humbucker via its push/pull pot. The control panel is a simple volume/volume/tone arrangement. While the Attitude bass runs its two pickups to separate outputs, the 714BS blends both pickups to one output, which is more practical for single-channel use.

The 714BS is built in Indonesia and exhibits workmanship worthy of a more expensive price tag. You’ll be seeing many more excellent imports coming from this country in the future.

PERFORMANCE

Between its two pickups, the BB714BS can cover a lot of ground. Certainly, classic P-Bass tones are all there, perhaps with a bit brighter presence. Vintage-tone freaks might find it a little edgy, but when you consider the need to blend with the humbucker without getting lost and the potential for multiple effects use, the pickup’s cutting power makes perfect sense.

Yamaha calls its humbucker the “woofer” pickup, and due to its placement at the end of the fingerboard it has the authoritative bark of a St. Bernard. The company designed this pickup to have more high-end than usual. I expected to hear the classic “mudbucker” tone of an old Gibson but found it to have a clearly articulated, throaty rasp. That’s when I discovered the stealthy high-cut switch built into the tone control. Pop that sucker, and it’s volcanic eruption time. Deep, dark, molten dub tones flowed from the Yamaha. Blending in the split-coil pickups narrows the beam for a more distinct voice, and because the passive tone control works independently of the high-cut switch, interesting tonal variations are possible with the two pickups.

Sheehan is not known as a slapper, and so one might expect this bass to be ill-suited to the style. However, if you can adjust to the very narrow window of opportunity between the neck pickup and the fingerboard, it’s possible to slap and pop on the 714BS. The tone is super chunky, but there is enough spank in this plank to get across the funk.

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Acoustic Guitar Lessons For Beginner Guitarists

After taking the first step and buying an acoustic guitar, you'll need to find quality online guitar lessons to learn how to play your new instrument. Choosing the right lessons can mean the difference between success or failure, so it's important to know what you need to look for when choosing a lesson package.
Here are the guidelines of what good online acoustic guitar lessons will teach you:

1.Chords
Knowing how to play guitar chords, and how to change between chords is the basis of learning to play the guitar. Good lessons will cover a large variety of chords, as well as theoretical information on how to construct chords. Video acoustic guitar tutorials are really helpful in learning chords, since you'll not only hear how the chord should sound, you'll also see the instructors fretting fingers holding down the given chords, and changing in between chords as well.

2.Strumming
Strumming is another vital element of playing the acoustic guitar. Most beginner guitarists will be surprised to find out that just buy playing 3-4 chords and strumming in given strumming patterns, they will already be able to play popular songs. Different strumming patterns will create different rhythmic variations, thereby it's possible to play hundreds of songs just by strumming a few beginners chords. Good acoustic guitar tutorials will show you how to play several songs, which make practicing fun and the end result much more fulfilling, in that you'll be able to play actual acoustic guitar songs.

3.Arpeggio
Playing arpeggios means plucking the individual notes of a given chord separately, instead of together as when you strum a chord. You can create really great melodies by arpeggiating chords, and learning how to play different arpeggios is another vital element of good guitar lessons. As always, learning arpeggios by practicing arpeggios used in popular songs is a very effective. Video guitar tutorials will have an advantage over written lessons, since you'll hear what the arpeggio is supposed to sound like, and see how the instructor plucks the strings, and in which order.

4.Fingerpicking - fingerstyle
Learning fingerpicking is very important for acoustic guitar players, especially those that want to play mostly classical guitar. The different variations of sounds you can generate through playing fingerstyle is almost endless. To play fingerstyle, you'll throw your pick away and pluck the individual strings with your fingers. Getting used to your fingers moving separately from one-another takes time and practice, but the results will be more than worth it. Good acoustic guitar tutorials will cover fingerpicking extensively, and again, really good lessons will show you how to play songs that use fingerstyle.

5.Different Genres
There are many types of music genres you can play on your acoustic guitar, and getting familiar with them is important not just in learning how to play the guitar well, but also in understanding music, rhythm and different styles of playing. When searching for lessons, make sure they cover a number of styles, such as classical, reggea, pop to name a few. Learning different musical styles is easy when the lessons teach you in the context of learning popular acoustic guitar songs, since you'll be able to understand it more by practicing a song you've been listening to for years.

6.Video Acoustic Guitar Lessons
Learning via video is the most effective way of learning to play the guitar online. There are many video lessons available, however, many of them are low quality. Good video lessons, which make learning easy, will have on-screen chord diagrams and animated tabs, which make following the lessons and learning the different techniques much easier.

When you choose which lessons you learn from, keep the above guidelines in mind. Remember that with the right lessons, your guitar learning experience will be be fun and ultimately successful, so make sure you choose wisely.
source : ezinearticles.com

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Learning to Play Guitar

If you are planning to learn the guitar or have already started to learn how to play it, you will go through a number of growing pains. Although the guitar on one of the easier musical instruments to learn this does not mean that it will be pain free. One of the first things you will notice when you first start playing is that your fingers become sore. This article will explain why this happens and what you can do about it.

The bad news is that sore or painful fingers is something that you will have to put up with. It is a rights of passage in your guitar learning experience. It happens because you are doing something that is quite new and alien to your fingers. The skin of the fingers is quite soft and sensitive. That's kind of what it was designed for since our fingers are organs of touch.

However the first thing you have to do to learn the guitar is press steel or nylon strings on to the fretboard in order to practice playing notes, chords and songs. As this is not a natural thing to do and understanding how to get the fingering right takes time, it is safe to say that your fingers will be getting quite a workout.

Inevitably, they will start to feel sore. Bryan Adams played his guitar till his fingers bled but that was back in the summer of 69. I'd suggest simply taking a break these days if your fingers show signs of bleeding or long before that happens in fact. If your fingers are sore stop playing for a while. What's the hurry anyway.

As you practice more often the fingers (or the skin on the fingers) will toughen up and you will stop feeling the pain. Unfortunately you will get painful fingers when you first start but this will soon fade once you have been playing for a while. If it continues or you really can't stand the pain then you can think about getting lighter strings or changing the action of the strings.

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