Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.
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#1 · October 26, 2008, 7:47 pm

Posted by: srolfe <srolfe@...>

Compression most likely wouldn't do it.

 

Try an old EQ trick: Set the channel flat, and then set "level" pot on the mid control for a fair amount of boost (about 10 past). Now sweep the "Frequency" pot while you strum the guitar. This will sound a little like slowly sweeping a wah pedal through it's range.

 

At some point along the sweep, you'll hit the same objectionable frequency that you were trying to get rid of, and the problem will get worse than ever. There it is! Just leave the frequency pot at that point along the sweep, and dial the level down for a slight cut. 3 to 6 dB will probably be enough to get rid of the "boom".

 

I don't remember from past posts, what kind of effects unit you are using. It might be fun to run your acoustic through there. If nothing else, the tone controls will be at frequencies that make sense for guitar, and might make it easier to dial out that boom...

 

I have an old Yamaha DG modeller that I don't use for electric guitar any more, but it makes quite a nice floor effects unit for my acoustic guitars, with the amp modelling turned off.


--- On Sat, 10/25/08, klsluder <klsluder@hpcisp.com&gt; wrote:

From: klsluder <klsluder@hpcisp.com&gt;
Subject: [ChristianGuitar] boom boom boom
To: christianguitar@welovegod.org
Received: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8:28 PM

I guess what I thought was quack wasn't. For the most part I am happy 

with the sound from my piezo except for that annoying E string boom. I 

am not one that boosts the bass on my acoustic, in fact I have it down a 

little. I like a jangly acoustic sound. I accept the onboard preamp is 

adding to the problem.


Our sound board is a 24 channel Mackie. I run the acoustic through the 

same channel as the electric - though I use a processor with the Parker. 

The Peavey is straight into the board. I can almost be certain none of 

our sound people would ever think to adjust the eq (not a snotty comment 

just reality) - instead they would simply pull the slider down when it 

booms.


There may be an empty channel I could eq during practice especially for 

the acoustic. Or I could run it through the processor. I have never 

tried that. Would compression help with this? If so can you give me a 

rough idea how to set it?


Peace

Kevin


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