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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 11, 2024 19:06:02 GMT -6
Not because I’m fat and they rub together (I’ve actually lost 85 lbs in the last year and a half) but - my Desk legs. Apparently hollow and made of some kinda metal. Gee, wonder if this ever resonates?
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 11, 2024 19:06:31 GMT -6
I could probably wrap some kind of fabric tape around them, right?
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Post by wiz on Aug 11, 2024 19:09:43 GMT -6
Congrats on losing the weight that’s fantastic for your health. How did you manage to lose it?
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 11, 2024 19:19:32 GMT -6
Not because I’m fat and they rub together (I’ve actually lost 85 lbs in the last year and a half) but - my Desk legs. Apparently hollow and made of some kinda metal. Gee, wonder if this ever resonates? this is hilarious, "Hmmmmm, my monitors have a resonance at 600hz, what a bunch of shit!"😂 Been here before, congrats on losing that weight man, that is some accomplishment Maybe pull the feet caps off and spray foam inside? |
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Post by ericn on Aug 11, 2024 19:56:13 GMT -6
Not because I’m fat and they rub together (I’ve actually lost 85 lbs in the last year and a half) but - my Desk legs. Apparently hollow and made of some kinda metal. Gee, wonder if this ever resonates? First congratulations on the weight, great job. I pretty much agree with Tony, working from the outside is probably just going to change the resonance frequency. However if it really really really bugs the crap out of you, buy a couple of cans of expanding foam spray it inside and let it expand fill them legs up and trim with a knife. A hollow tube is going to ring filling it with dampening material is the best cure. |
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Post by poppaflavor on Aug 11, 2024 20:46:44 GMT -6
Congratulations on that healthy move with the weight. Kudos! That's inspiring, it's got to feel fantastic.
Great ideas here with the expanding foam. Thanks! That one is filed away in the brain bank for future reference. It's such a good one.
I had a similar experience with hollow stuff laying about. A banjo's hollow shell was particularly wicked. The worst though was some BOSU ball and a yoga ball (don't ask) in an adjacent nook that were resonating quite fiercely. Kicking them out of the space made an immense difference. Cheapest acoustical treatment ever!:-)
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 11, 2024 21:04:32 GMT -6
Congrats on losing the weight that’s fantastic for your health. How did you manage to lose it? |
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 11, 2024 21:05:48 GMT -6
Not because I’m fat and they rub together (I’ve actually lost 85 lbs in the last year and a half) but - my Desk legs. Apparently hollow and made of some kinda metal. Gee, wonder if this ever resonates? this is hilarious, "Hmmmmm, my monitors have a resonance at 600hz, what a bunch of shit!"😂 Been here before, congrats on losing that weight man, that is some accomplishment Maybe pull the feet caps off and spray foam inside? Oh lord…the thought of taking everything off this desk…ain’t happening. |
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 11, 2024 21:10:29 GMT -6
Not because I’m fat and they rub together (I’ve actually lost 85 lbs in the last year and a half) but - my Desk legs. Apparently hollow and made of some kinda metal. Gee, wonder if this ever resonates? First congratulations on the weight, great job. I pretty much agree with Tony, working from the outside is probably just going to change the resonance frequency. However if it really really really bugs the crap out of you, buy a couple of cans of expanding foam spray it inside and let it expand fill them legs up and trim with a knife. A hollow tube is going to ring filling it with dampening material is the best cure. Maybe I could drill a little hole in them and spray the shit in there lol. I’ve used this desk for now like 20 years. Never noticed it. You really think it could be resonating and causing an audible sound? |
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Post by ericn on Aug 11, 2024 21:15:26 GMT -6
First congratulations on the weight, great job. I pretty much agree with Tony, working from the outside is probably just going to change the resonance frequency. However if it really really really bugs the crap out of you, buy a couple of cans of expanding foam spray it inside and let it expand fill them legs up and trim with a knife. A hollow tube is going to ring filling it with dampening material is the best cure. Maybe I could drill a little hole in them and spray the shit in there lol. I’ve used this desk for now like 20 years. Never noticed it. You really think it could be resonating and causing an audible sound? Could be but I think it’s more of a tweak the sake of Tweaking something. Honestly I offered the solution more as a solution for someone who has an obvious problem and digging through thread. Most of that type of leg has removable cap. |
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 11, 2024 21:24:09 GMT -6
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Post by drumsound on Aug 11, 2024 22:07:50 GMT -6
Let me pile on and congratulate you on the weight loss.
I think drilling a hole and spray foam is the best option for your desk legs. You should be able to do that with everything in place. Maybe have someone hold it still so you make a nice clean hole.
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 11, 2024 22:22:25 GMT -6
Now THAT is the kind of low effort solution I can get behind. |
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Post by skav on Aug 12, 2024 5:19:35 GMT -6
Woah, that's almost 40 kilos! Great work and great to hear John. May you have the strength to stay or go as far as you need.
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 12, 2024 9:39:53 GMT -6
Woah, that's almost 40 kilos! Great work and great to hear John. May you have the strength to stay or go as far as you need. I want to lose about 10 ish more. I’d be great right here, but I want to see what it’s like to be skinny. Want to see what the inside of the cool kid’s club looks like. lol The bigger thing is that I don’t really even have the desire for alcohol anymore…which was the reason I was a porker in the first place. I haven’t sworn off drinking - I’ll still have a drink - I just don’t have 7 like I used to - and honestly don’t desire it. Kind of a miracle. |
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Post by Dan on Aug 12, 2024 10:55:26 GMT -6
congrats on the weight loss. not drinking as much is huge. alcohol is a lot of calories and slows your metabolism.
400-700 hz region is death anyway for a lot of instruments and voices and hifi speakers. the box. cut it. api 550 or similar it. kush electra is cleaner. avedis e27 (psp is fine) or tdr slick eq ge or m if you want hardly any phase shift for less eqed sounmd. slick eq m you have to put to steep to get the crazy phase shift like you can butcher with a parametric. the regular slick eq ge, only british and japanese can phase hard. avedis thought about the filters a lot and on the psp you can boost another bell to narrow it if it takes away notes without shifting the phase around if you hit the x2 button. one of the best tone shaping eqs. the modern eqs not clones optimized the filters in a way very few old eqs and typical parametrics did. the old eqs seem to be just built just to have an eq to solve problems or change tones while the typical parametrics aren't there to prevent user error and let you butcher stuff by having poor gain:q or knob weighting or inconsistentcies with some choice exceptions like the maselec mea-2, weiss eq1, manley massive passive.
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Post by poppaflavor on Aug 12, 2024 17:26:25 GMT -6
Woah, that's almost 40 kilos! Great work and great to hear John. May you have the strength to stay or go as far as you need. I want to lose about 10 ish more. I’d be great right here, but I want to see what it’s like to be skinny. Want to see what the inside of the cool kid’s club looks like. lol The bigger thing is that I don’t really even have the desire for alcohol anymore…which was the reason I was a porker in the first place. I haven’t sworn off drinking - I’ll still have a drink - I just don’t have 7 like I used to - and honestly don’t desire it. Kind of a miracle. Yeah I've got about 40 lbs to lose and started calculating how much alcohol might contribute to that. Even a paltry 6 pack of 12 oz (355 ml) weak ass 5% ABV beer will deliver about ~107 grams of ethanol for a total of 750 kcal (at ~7 kcal/g ethanol). That's just the ethanol. Same for shots (6 x 1.5 oz/45 ml shots of 80 proof) and wine (6 x 4 oz/120 ml glasses of 14% ABV). That's about 35% of most sedentary folks' caloric needs. So if we eat the regular day's meals and drink we get a third more calories than we need. And if we cut the food calories to make room for ethanol calories bad things happen to nutritional status. Once I realized that it wasn't the sugar in wine or the carbs in beer, and that even neat bourbon was loaded with calories I figured I gotta change. Haven't yet. But all the figuring is done. Alcohol is the calorie villain. Like you said, one or so won't matter, it's just a hundred or so Cals. But man once I did the math I realized how the kcal numbers add up! |
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Post by ericn on Aug 12, 2024 19:18:31 GMT -6
Every time I see the title of this thread I think of Mandy Patinkins Character on Chicago Hope. He hated to wear pants because of the sound of his legs rubbing together.
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Post by doubledog on Aug 13, 2024 9:04:34 GMT -6
Are your monitors on the desk? and if so, what do you have underneath your monitors? Any decoupling? I got some of these -- www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProJax40--rab-audio-projax-px40-studio-monitor-isolation-kit-8-piecesbut any decoupling like the ISOAcoustics, or other similar devices (but not the foam pads like Auralex - foam sucks and makes it worse IME) These made an amazing difference in decoupling the monitors from wherever they are sitting (stand or on a desk). I have mine on the desk and I could feel all of the lows and low-mids transmitting through the desk until I put these things under my monitors. Now I feel nothing in the desk. and the sound really tightened up too. I did not need the height, so I took the extra spacers and put them under some book shelf speakers I have in my house and they sound better too! |
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Post by bluesholyman on Aug 13, 2024 11:30:42 GMT -6
Every time I see the title of this thread I think of Mandy Patinkins Character on Chicago Hope. He hated to wear pants because of the sound of his legs rubbing together. Every time I hear Mandy Patinkins name mentioned, I think someone is preparing to die for killing his father... |
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 14, 2024 8:43:54 GMT -6
Are your monitors on the desk? and if so, what do you have underneath your monitors? Any decoupling? I got some of these -- www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProJax40--rab-audio-projax-px40-studio-monitor-isolation-kit-8-piecesbut any decoupling like the ISOAcoustics, or other similar devices (but not the foam pads like Auralex - foam sucks and makes it worse IME) These made an amazing difference in decoupling the monitors from wherever they are sitting (stand or on a desk). I have mine on the desk and I could feel all of the lows and low-mids transmitting through the desk until I put these things under my monitors. Now I feel nothing in the desk. and the sound really tightened up too. I did not need the height, so I took the extra spacers and put them under some book shelf speakers I have in my house and they sound better too! They’re on sound anchor stands…that I never filled with sand. I’ve thought about even putting some little pucks under them on the stands, but the tweeters are already a little high and at some point I gotta let some of that go lol. I actually put them under my sub. |
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 14, 2024 8:46:17 GMT -6
I haven’t tried any sine wave to see if I can get it to resonate…but I don’t think it’s been doing it. I occasionally will hear what sounds like a resonance on the low end but nothing has ever led me to believe it was the legs on the desk.
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Post by doubledog on Aug 14, 2024 10:08:49 GMT -6
Are your monitors on the desk? and if so, what do you have underneath your monitors? Any decoupling? I got some of these -- www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProJax40--rab-audio-projax-px40-studio-monitor-isolation-kit-8-piecesbut any decoupling like the ISOAcoustics, or other similar devices (but not the foam pads like Auralex - foam sucks and makes it worse IME) These made an amazing difference in decoupling the monitors from wherever they are sitting (stand or on a desk). I have mine on the desk and I could feel all of the lows and low-mids transmitting through the desk until I put these things under my monitors. Now I feel nothing in the desk. and the sound really tightened up too. I did not need the height, so I took the extra spacers and put them under some book shelf speakers I have in my house and they sound better too! They’re on sound anchor stands…that I never filled with sand. I’ve thought about even putting some little pucks under them on the stands, but the tweeters are already a little high and at some point I gotta let some of that go lol. I actually put them under my sub. those RAB isolators are only about 1/2 to 5/8" high if you use only the base - which is why I opted for them vs something else. I also did not want to change the position of the monitors |
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 14, 2024 10:13:13 GMT -6
I haven’t tried any sine wave to see if I can get it to resonate…but I don’t think it’s been doing it. I occasionally will hear what sounds like a resonance on the low end but nothing has ever led me to believe it was the legs on the desk. JK, For giggles I stuck a tuner on my speakers off your vid, i got 567hz(hear a lot of overtones also), thats definitely in the low mids, any issues for you in that range? |
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 14, 2024 10:23:28 GMT -6
I haven’t tried any sine wave to see if I can get it to resonate…but I don’t think it’s been doing it. I occasionally will hear what sounds like a resonance on the low end but nothing has ever led me to believe it was the legs on the desk. JK, For giggles I stuck a tuner on my speakers off your vid, i got 567hz(hear a lot of overtones also), thats definitely in the low mids, any issues for you in that range? Yeah, but one of many... i.postimg.cc/JhK91wnQ/Screenshot-2024-08-14-at-11-22-40-AM.png |
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