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Post Subject: A very thoughtful exposition, RomyPosted by Paul S on: 5/27/2007
Since I have struggled with my own +/- insurmountable problems with Lowthers, OB, BR, etc., ad nauseum, I can certainly relate generically to what you have just said about horn drivers in this injection thread.
Yet this may be the only time I have heard from a fully-invested horn advocate that there are or might be problems with respect to horn tonality. Did I miss something, or other do other hornys just not hear the problems (a-e-i-o-u...)?
I would have to say you have also painted some pretty clear pictures of some problems one faces with OB and BR; but I freely admit these problems, and I have read your "injection" thread with selfish interest, specifically as it might relate to mitigating (vs correcting) certain problems I deal with.
In any case, no need to throw the baby out with the bath water. I still think your injection channel is ingenious, at least as an idea, and there is a quasi-related, quasi-scientific treatis I am struggling to remember and that I will cite if/when I remember it (just as a point of interest, of course).
Meanwhile, maybe it's time to start laying out what we most want/expect from our drivers? I always though hornys were all about jump, and screw the rest.
In my case, pitch, timbre, weight and scale have been my focus for the last few years, and oddly enough I wound up working with Lowther DX-4s vs horns I have tried, engendering a whole new set of compromises. While I have had some success along the way, I think I am ready to discuss what is good and bad with some objectivity.
To what extent can we figure to be on the same page with respect to desired end results? More than a little, I'll wager.
Are we close enough to anything to begin reverse engineering?
If it can't happen here, it probably won't happen...
Best regards,
Paul S
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