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Post by newey on Jan 8, 2010 12:49:29 GMT -5
The wife and I recently got a new mattress and box spring, which sits considerably higher than the old set. This necessitated also replacing the 2 nightstands with higher ones- gotta be able to reach the "snooze" button on the alarm! The old ones, from Ikea, are a kind of modernish, one-drawer affair with an L-shaped book rack across the top, all mounted to a thick slab at the rear. They are birch veneer over particle board:  I thought, why throw it away? I may find some use for those nice veneered pieces . . . Disassembled and minus the drawer, the main pieces look like this:  Hmm, that drawer piece look like it just might be 19" across!  Ok the screws may be a bit off, but I bet I can get a screw to hold in there! I'll have to remove the drawer pulls, but it looks like I may even get 2 more single rack units in there! And that L-shaped piece that used to be the book shelf? Hmmm again . . . a bit of velcro, and . . .  And the big slab that was the back can serve to get my cab and bass amp up off the carpet, ought to give a bit of resonance:  Reduced, reused, and recycled! And, I have 2 of these, so I can make up a separate pedal board for the Fender amp, and I can stack the 2nd slab to raise the cabs even more! The bass amp and the cab both sound much better up off the carpeting. |
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Post by D2o on Jan 8, 2010 12:57:52 GMT -5
Now that there is what we call ingeneweyty! Good thinking and nice looking job.  D2o |
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Post by cynical1 on Jan 8, 2010 13:43:55 GMT -5
Necessity...and lack of funds, are the Mother of all Invention.
Looks very professional. I used to have an old icebox that I modified for stereo equipment way back in the day. Now I notice that antique stores are selling the same type of icebox for big money...who knew...
HTC1
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Post by ux4484 on Jan 8, 2010 18:17:16 GMT -5
Look for the royalty lawsuit paperwork from Ikea any minute now. ;D Back in my field service days, we were replacing Alloy steel plate doors from the inside of sterilizers (the alloy was not dense enough and the gasket resting against them were leaking), they didn't want the old ones back..I gave them to a bud of mine and he made them the coolest and best car ramps ever. He made about 5 sets of them. Every person who saw them, bought them on the spot (The were wide enough for a truck double rear wheel). Recycling is good. |
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Post by RandomHero on Jan 8, 2010 21:24:14 GMT -5
Holy crap! Who knew?
I'll be sure to keep this in mind the next time I find something on Craigslist and grab it before I decide I need it. My electric setup is in the planning phase now... just working with my acoustic at the moment. =)
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Post by ashcatlt on Jan 8, 2010 23:26:22 GMT -5
I can't believe the wife let you have those things in the bedroom to begin with. Yuck! Looks much better the way you've got them now.
There's some kind of modular shelving unit thing that Ikea sells that has slats which I've seen a number of people have turned into pedalboards. You can run the cables kind of hidden, and even hide a powerstrip underneath. I'll see if I can rustle up a pic here somewhere.
What's under the carpet there, is that a concrete basement, or a wooden floor?
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Post by newey on Jan 8, 2010 23:50:15 GMT -5
Concrete. The carpeting may get replaced with a wooden floor one of these days, but the main part of the house (the wife would insist) needs to come first.  |
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Post by gitpiddler on Jan 9, 2010 0:03:20 GMT -5
Does that old Digitech processor even work? I've owned one and it was that one. I've still got it-Dead In Box.  |
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Post by newey on Jan 9, 2010 0:55:55 GMT -5
Yeah, the Digitech works fine, although I've never tried the MIDI functions.
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Post by sumgai on Jan 9, 2010 1:25:31 GMT -5
What's under the carpet there, is that a concrete basement, or a wooden floor? Why you wanna know? Just because newey invited you over to stand in a puddle of beer in his bunkerbasement, are you gonna get picky about what kinda floor it's on? Sheesh, youngsters these days! ;D |
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Post by newey on Jan 9, 2010 8:39:59 GMT -5
If I'm thinking what Ash was thinking, he was going to suggest that, if it was a wooden floor, that I cut out the carpeting under where the amps sit.
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Post by ashcatlt on Jan 9, 2010 13:35:41 GMT -5
Well, I was thinking about why the block of wood under the cabs makes them sound better.
Might be that they are just a bit more stable. Seems they might tend to rock (like, back and forth, not like RAWK!!11!1) a little bit on the carpet, which could cause some "smearing" of the sound.
More likely it simply changes the placement of the speakers enough to make them jive better with the acoustic space in the room. Changes the position of the various modes and the timing of the first reflections of the floor. The carpet probably sucks up some of the higher frequencies, but you're probably not getting much out of those cabs anyway.
I still think they were ugly to begin with.
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