Okay, maybe this question isn't small:

Preamble: I have some very basic synth experience with the monophonic Microbrute. I understand attack, decay, sustain, oscillator waveform (saw tooth, square wave etc).

Question: I've jumped into the polyphonic/ more complicated world with my newly acquired Sequential Take 5. My big challenge is understanding how to achieve stability with pitch/tuning. Both starting off with things in ordinary pitch (I got used to the tuning knob on the back of the Microbrute), but more challenging creating settings that are pitch stable.

As I've started exploring this badass little synth I've loved the presets on it, but know to master the many controls I need to craft my own sounds. When I start minimal and strip away layers of the signal chain, I sometimes arrive at sounds that shift pitch the longer you sustain a chord. It feels dumb to ask, but what is going on there? I can tweak until it goes away, but I get that weird mesmerized, stoner synth deep dive happening and I lose the science. I just suddenly emerge with a new sound that is also cool, and is pitch stable, and I don't even remember the last dozen tweaks I did that got me there.

How does one tune, and keep in tune various synthesizer patches?

Pitch should be stable as long as the oscillator frequencies are not being modulated by an envelope or LFO pr other oscillator. I would star with an init patch and star messing around to see what everything does. As far as I think I have read the Take 5 has pretty extensive mod matrix opportunities.

That being said it may also may have some sort of vintage feel/slop parameter that as you increase it, it will allow for more random variations between voices resulting in difference in tuning, cutoff, and envelope response, emulating an ages analog synth.

And lastly it may take some time for the analog circuits to warm up and stabilize. My matriarch takes about 15 minutes to stabilize after turning on.

Jon

Not to step on the other q’s, but thanks all for the mic frequency graph explanations. I really should be grateful for mics that reveal their character and utility so plainly, even if I take a while to get hip to it.

I need a drum hardware bag that can fold in half. I have this hand-me-down, heavy duty, body bag thing that's strong but is pretty much taking up a whole closet in my studio.

Any recommendations?

That made me realize it's now been a solid decade(!) since I've played a show and had to lug the drum hardware bag around. I never minded lugging gear in and out of clubs/practice spaces but I always hated the damn drum bag.

This is completely unhelpful, sorry!

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:38 am I never minded lugging gear in and out of clubs/practice spaces but I always hated the damn drum bag.

This is completely unhelpful, sorry!

It's worse than the bass cab. The only thing I regret about taking the throne again.

losthighway wrote: Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:01 am

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:38 am I never minded lugging gear in and out of clubs/practice spaces but I always hated the damn drum bag.

This is completely unhelpful, sorry!

It's worse than the bass cab. The only thing I regret about taking the throne again.

Bands need to establish “grab the annoying shit for the drummer” early on - they have (likely) the most physical job and the goodness of show depends on them. All hail keepers of the throne!

Recently picked up a 2x15 Sunn cabinet locally, and it sounds great, but I am puzzled as to why the original owner cut out the chrome dust caps. I was considering replacing them and ordered a pair but am afraid to damage the speakers in the process of trying to remove the remaining aluminum. Should I leave it be, just cover them up with slightly larger paper ones or is there a trick to doing it the right way?

my guess was that they got crumpled and the owner didn't know how to fix it.

They're not hard to replace, just google replacement dust cap kit. Put the speaker on it's back, apply some glue around the edge of the replacement cap and bob's your uncle. As long as the speaker sounds good, you should be fine.

Is it possible to make the "vibrato" on a Fender Twin Reverb slower?
I keep thinking how it would be cool if the slowest setting was a whole lot slower.