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In Reply to: We're talking cable lifts, not Stradivari... posted by Bill Fitzmaurice on February 5, 2004 at 16:49:53:
I don't know for sure Bill but I agree with you about many materials being condudtive to static charge. Perhaps the thing to look into is a static disipative surface coating. Lets say you have ceramic cable lifters which are perfectly clean. If you were to give these ceramic lifters a polish with a static dryer sheet that would leave a static disipative coating on the lifter. See how it sounds then, it can be washed off if you don't like it. The cryo effect on a block of wood would also have a similar impact as the micro cracks would cover the surface and increase the amount of surface moisture that the wood could hold and so impact the conductivity of a static charge. Just a thought but it is yet one more variable which might just be at play here. After all if you treat a CD with a static dryer cloth you can hear an immediate difference in the sound. Seems like such a little thing but there you go. Triboelectric noise caused by the vibration of the dielectric insulators in a microphone cable is incredibily small in terms of the charge developed but it has an impact and a noticible effect such that all quality microphone cables attend to dealing with it. This business does not seem to be all that different in ways. It is a little thing but an interesting on no less. Best regards Moray James. I wonder could charge build up on your Strad's strings impact it's harmonic structure? Stroking the cat the wrong way certainly makes for sparks and dissonent howels...
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- Re: We're talking cable lifts, not Stradivari... - moray james 11:46:41 02/06/04 (1)
- Stradivarius coating... - bartc 05:55:18 02/07/04 (0)
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