Eating Crow

[mullyman]

Someone posted a link a while back to a page that deals with putting rubber tubes in your trem springs so they don't echo. I wasn't totally on board with that idea and took a dismissive attitude towards it. Today I am here to say that I would like that link posted up here again. Recently I've been hearing the echo.....that I had never noticed before, and I would like to do that. I apologize for dismissing it when it was originally posted.
MULLY
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[line6man]

Stuff toilet paper behind the springs.
That's what I've always done.

 

[AutoBat]

^^Stuff CLEAN tp in there!!

 

[Nando Vallart]

^ So gross :laughing7:

I was expecting you to say that crows had delicious meat

 

[DangerousR6]

^ So gross :laughing7:

I was expecting you to say that crows had delicious meat

They do, served up with a nice spicey sweet BBQ sauce and a

 

[line6man]

^^Stuff CLEAN tp in there!!

Pfft. Everybody knows the filthiest, nastiest pieces of toilet paper give the best tone. :tard:

Yeah, damn well better be clean toilet paper!
Paper towels and tissues work just as well btw.

 

[mullyman]

Yeah, but those plastic tubes looked so neat and organized. That really appeals to my anal side.
MULLY
and I'm not talking about my ass :headbang:

 

[line6man]

Yeah, but those plastic tubes looked so neat and organized. That really appeals to my anal side.
MULLY
and I'm not talking about my ass :headbang:

I would have imagined toilet paper to be a bit more appealing to your anal side than plastic tubes. Sounds painful.
Unless you're gay?
:icon_jokercolor: :blob7:

 

[line6man]

btw, apparently Steve Vai does the toilet paper/tissues/whatever thing too.

The elusive tissue stuffing that replaces Evo's back plate, cuting down the noise of the springs and the vibrations in the back cavity that inevitably flow through the body that is picked up through the pickups.

His way is obviously pretty unsightly though.

What I do is fold up a bunch of sheets and then cut them into a neat little pad with the scissors.
You can put the pad between the body and springs.

 

[JaySwear]

my RG570 had a very neatly folded paper towel in the tremolo cavity. never had a problem with noise after that!

 

[Cagey]

Someone posted a link a while back to a page that deals with putting rubber tubes in your trem springs so they don't echo. I wasn't totally on board with that idea and took a dismissive attitude towards it. Today I am here to say that I would like that link posted up here again. Recently I've been hearing the echo.....that I had never noticed before, and I would like to do that. I apologize for dismissing it when it was originally posted.
MULLY
ccasion14:

This isn't a page, per se, it's a video. But, I'll wager it'll tell you what you want to know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJnAbPrmJNA​

 

[mullyman]

Someone posted a link a while back to a page that deals with putting rubber tubes in your trem springs so they don't echo. I wasn't totally on board with that idea and took a dismissive attitude towards it. Today I am here to say that I would like that link posted up here again. Recently I've been hearing the echo.....that I had never noticed before, and I would like to do that. I apologize for dismissing it when it was originally posted.
MULLY
ccasion14:

This isn't a page, per se, it's a video. But, I'll wager it'll tell you what you want to know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJnAbPrmJNA​

That's it. It was a video. For some reason I thought it was a page. This is the one I was looking for. Thanks, man.
MULLY

 

[line6man]

Someone posted a link a while back to a page that deals with putting rubber tubes in your trem springs so they don't echo. I wasn't totally on board with that idea and took a dismissive attitude towards it. Today I am here to say that I would like that link posted up here again. Recently I've been hearing the echo.....that I had never noticed before, and I would like to do that. I apologize for dismissing it when it was originally posted.
MULLY
ccasion14:

This isn't a page, per se, it's a video. But, I'll wager it'll tell you what you want to know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJnAbPrmJNA​

Hmm, that's actually a good idea.

 

[Cagey]

Hmm, that's actually a good idea.

Like Mully, I never gave it any serious thought before, either. But now I'm beginning to wonder if I've been hearing things I didn't want to. It's a super-simple dirt-cheap mod that's easily reversible. Probably worth a shot. Y'know. For science. Gotta have more effect than changing the brand name on a capacitor <grin>

 

[weldfish]

You can also put silicone caulking into the springs too, but you do lose a little bit of resonance. Made me wince hen the string broke. I had that happen once and it snapped up and cut my face.

 

[jackthehack]

^ So gross :laughing7:

I was expecting you to say that crows had delicious meat

They do, served up with a nice spicey sweet BBQ sauce and a

They're not very tasty; but it's fun tricking people into eating them: http://www.thecrowroost.com/EATING_CROW.htm

 

[mullyman]

Hmm, that's actually a good idea.

Like Mully, I never gave it any serious thought before, either. But now I'm beginning to wonder if I've been hearing things I didn't want to. It's a super-simple dirt-cheap mod that's easily reversible. Probably worth a shot. Y'know. For science. Gotta have more effect than changing the brand name on a capacitor <grin>

You know when it really hit me? I had my guitar in it's case and I set it down and it hit the floor medium/hard. I heard a bang and an echo resonating out of the case. Ever since that day I've been hearing that echo, if even only very slightly, whenever I set it down and when I'm playing it unplugged.
MULLY
will do this this weekend

 

[JaySwear]

They're not very tasty; but it's fun tricking people into eating them: http://www.thecrowroost.com/EATING_CROW.htm

this one's my favorite. under "Trophy Crow"

 

[Cagey]

You know when it really hit me? I had my guitar in it's case and I set it down and it hit the floor medium/hard. I heard a bang and an echo resonating out of the case. Ever since that day I've been hearing that echo, if even only very slightly, whenever I set it down and when I'm playing it unplugged.
MULLY
will do this this weekend

I need to go to Lowe's this weekend to get some other things, so I think I'll pick up some tubing, too. It certainly can't hurt anything, and it'll cost very little to do.

The more I think about it, the more sense it makes to eliminate it. Those springs have more mass than the strings, so their vibrations are going to have a greater influence on sympathetic body vibrations. Bouncing the pickups up and down at one frequency while the strings are vibrating at another can't be a Good Thing. Might be the source of some funny harmonics, or at least their fundamental frequencies.

Actually, this might be an opportunity to make some money. Start selling "matched sets" of springs, or "tuned" springs, or even "cryogenically treated oxygen-free pure alloy dead springs" <grin>

 

[stubhead]

I always though that noise was supposed to be there, that's part of why you play Strats?!? :icon_scratch: It's like the guitars with long string lengths behind a tune-o-matic, it's just part of their umm, urp, charm.... Of course when I was growing up, the hum of the amp & crackling of the coily cord was the only way you were sure they were working.
When we broke a guitar string we used to have to whittle down some baling wire, sumtime all we had was bobwire, dammit whar's my club. arty07: