Long covid is honestly the bit we’re scared about
We had it in our house on Christmas Day…I hope you feel better soon, the two of us couldn’t even get off the couch to feed ourselves.
I was in pushermans click nearly 10 years ago.
It all started when a guy on a Facebook eurorack group came up with the idea of getting some mutable instrument PCBs made and sell them to the Facebook group, lots of us put our orders in however he was selling the PCBs for about £15 each (can’t quite remember the exact price)
Then pusherman in the group started asking questions about the price and doing his home work where he basically said to this guy your a conman fuck you I’ll get the PCBs printed myself and sell them for £2-£3 each.
So the group started buy lots of board off pusherman at his super cheap prices, they used to be an excel sheet online and you’d put your name, address and what boards you wanted on the sheet when the sheet got rather full he’d make the order and you payed him by paypal, he then expanded into panels, pots, jacks etc.
The whole operation got rather big so he ended up making the pusherman website and it’s great to see he’s still going strong.
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FINALLY \o/
Eminence Carvin PS10 1034FR 10387 67-92130132 10"
Found a website listing them that way, those are the numbers on the label on the speaker. So they are the original speakers and not some cheap no-name replacements like I thought, because they don’t say Carvin anywhere on them. I guess the original PS10s made by Eminence did not have Carvin (or any) branding.
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On a local sales site I ran across an old ad where the original seller of my cab was selling it o.O I know it was mine because the damage to the carpet matches lol. Small world…
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How does the beast sound?
when it isn’t cutting out (lol) it sounds great. It’s rated at 60Hz to 16kHz but handles the low B on a 5-string well (31Hz iirc). Originally Carvin sold these alone, or with their 15" or 18" woofer cabinets, and it seems to stand alone fine. I took some contact cleaner, a brush, and some pipe cleaners (only thing I have atm to get inside the jack) to the input jack and that seemed to help a lot, but it still needs a little more cleaning it seems. The outside of the jack has corrosion on the outside like you’d see the a leaking battery in electronics (bluish-greenish), which I assume also got inside it. Not sure how that happened; the screws for the plate the crossover and jacks are attached to also had gunk in their screwdriver slots. It’s getting there, and I think my back is finally starting to loosen up.
But since these are indeed the Eminence-made original drivers I could sell them for $50-70 each or maybe even more since they are the Eminence-made ones and not made in China like happened later on down the line and replace them with either Celestion BN10-200X or Eminence Basslite S2010s to drop 13-14lbs off the overall weight from 72lbs to under 60.
But the dirty drivers are part of its charm, too… 
Either way, I need to give it a little more TLC to see if I can get it working reliably.
Edit Holy shit, the Soviet Space Bass has made it out of Ukraine o.O
“Item has been processed outward office of exchange and already in transit to destination country”
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gave the jack some more cleaning, it still didn’t quite want to act right but it didn’t sound like it was the speakers themselves, so… I gave it hell and just kept playing
At some point the cab stopped being a punk ass and it just stopped crackling and cutting out. Loud as hell and just kept going lol. Finally. I think it just needed the dust blown shaken off
I have an opportunity to buy a super-light 4x10 cab. 46lbs/21kg. The Carvin one I showed is 72lbs/32.5kg.
I could sell the Carvin’s drivers for $200-250, and then spend $400 on super light neodymium drivers to bring that one down to about 58lbs/26.3kg, and this is the significantly cheaper option. I can lift 72lbs, and did to get it into my car, but it’s not super ideal lol.
The light cab is an Ashdown, and they recently changed the model with extra bracing, bringing it up to 57lbs/26kg. I can likely get one of the lighter ones for $600 (oof), and if I spent another $400 on replacing its drivers, I could get its weight down to 33lbs/15kg o.O My 1x12 weighs 27lbs/12.25kg, and a 2x10 from the same company weighs 33lbs as well lol. Those are also more expensive, though. The only 33lb 4x10 on the market is made from carbon fiber and costs $2000 new, and about $1500 used.
That Carvin has a lot of mojo, though, tbh, due to its age/appearance. And I have to keep telling myself that I bought it as a relatively inexpensive “get loud now” cab for playing in louder genres/bands. I think it could be my manic side coming out and trying to get me to spend all my money lol. A cheaper solution would be to:
1)Lift better so I don’t hurt my back like I already did…
2)Start up my exercising again for at least some upper body and core work.
3)Learn to fucking ask for help sometimes… 
or accept it if offered.
because if they added bracing to make it a better speaker cab and not just more durable, the superlight one will sound like shit anyway (stiffness lets the speakers work better).
Okay, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Korg released plugin versions of the Opsix and the Wavestate (Opsix Native, etc)
Korg, you are not helping the argument of “tHeY aRe JuSt PluGiNs In A bOx” XD
It’s really not hardware to give workout tips (unless you view your body as hardware and I don’t, actively have to resist becoming a cyborg at this point to treat diabetes but that’s a different discussion anywhoo…) BUT…
IMO the core is everything. If you have decent chest/abs/back and solid posture, I think you will get more good from that and a little cardio than any advanced weightlifting. Good core+cardio and I don’t think there’s a whole lot you can’t do, physically speaking. If you have some freeweights (or any two objects of equal weight you don’t mind clanking into each other and possibly dropping… onto your face) I love flys for my chest. Situps and leg lifts for the abs and back. The flys will probably get enough of your arms for your purposes. You only need 3-5lbs in each hand to start and you’re set.
FWIW, I can move all my synths myself and I have stuff up to a Matrixbrute, to bring it back to hardware.
EDIT: also, jumprope for cardio. I hate it, but it is good. Swimming is much more fun, but seasonal, gotta find/have a pool.
Just give the module version!
Im going to go ahead and skip the Op6 plugin due to the fact that I am 100% certain that within the 6months following the VST purchase I’d have justified having the hardware.
Im still looking to lighten my load gearwise.
Maybe the modular gets chopped, I’ve only used it on one tune and it was for a client production.
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The road from Repro to B’s Pro-1 was a short journey for me…lol
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I ran across this company. Their covers are cheaper than most companies; someone on TalkBass used it for their nice 4x10 and seemed to like it (nearly ten years ago).
Kinda hardware related, but there’s a collab coming between Cats On Synthesisers in Space and DeadMau5 and I want all the t-shirts.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CbdEhr-qJWz/?utm_medium=share_sheet
Been playing with the cycles while we’ve been in our plague pit. Decided to have a go at making some sort of dub step from the time before skrillex and it’s actually kind of fun, may add the monostation at some point to see if we can actually make a track
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Because I know we have some Dirtywave M8 lovers/users here, ran across this and thought I’d share:
He has another video on his channel explaining the process/etc. Drums on the left, synths on the right, the controller in the middle, etc.
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I totally do not have an SP-404 MKii inbound.
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