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...a left hand like this on the piano. It's like a freight train barreling through town!

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I've played with keyboard players with a heavy left hand and experienced phase cancellation. That's where the soundwaves of the bass amp and keyboard amp somehow cancel and it sounds your amp isn't working. It's a weird phenomenon. Has anything like that ever happened in your band?

fisherman bob wrote:I've played with keyboard players with a heavy left hand and experienced phase cancellation. That's where the soundwaves of the bass amp and keyboard amp somehow cancel and it sounds your amp isn't working. It's a weird phenomenon. Has anything like that ever happened in your band?

Adjust the eq on the bass or keys. Get out of each other's sonic territory. Also, cabinet placement can make a big difference.

Yeah, bob, but only at open mics. When it happens, I have to adjust my entire playing style on the fly, as well as make some amp adjustments...& sometimes I just let the keyboard take it & ride the root (no, no THAT way, Mike!) until I get some air space.

I would be honored to walk a line behind that guy... that is just amazing.
Makes me want to whip out an upright...Bass

fisherman bob wrote:I've played with keyboard players with a heavy left hand and experienced phase cancellation. That's where the soundwaves of the bass amp and keyboard amp somehow cancel and it sounds your amp isn't working. It's a weird phenomenon. Has anything like that ever happened in your band?

Yeah, it's definitely a thing that needs to be worked on in a band situation. The EQ on the piano and the bass has to be adjusted to compliment each other, and also the piano player has to realize that covering the bottom end isn't all up to him. I also like that the hep cats in the audience are hip enough to clap on the 2, and 4. It kills me when you hear an entire audience of squares clapping on the 1, and 3 for this type of music.

fisherman bob wrote:I've played with keyboard players with a heavy left hand and experienced phase cancellation. That's where the soundwaves of the bass amp and keyboard amp somehow cancel and it sounds your amp isn't working. It's a weird phenomenon. Has anything like that ever happened in your band?

A couple years ago, there was a company working on a new type of car muffler that worked on the same principle. Dunno what happened to that project.

dizzizz wrote:

fisherman bob wrote:I've played with keyboard players with a heavy left hand and experienced phase cancellation. That's where the soundwaves of the bass amp and keyboard amp somehow cancel and it sounds your amp isn't working. It's a weird phenomenon. Has anything like that ever happened in your band?

A couple years ago, there was a company working on a new type of car muffler that worked on the same principle. Dunno what happened to that project.

Japanese company. They built a car with a white noise generator built-into the exhaust system, feeding back negative waves of the sound produced by the engine. I'm not sure if it went into production or was just one of those things they show off at car shows, with no intention of ever producing it.

Mike Nobody wrote:

dizzizz wrote:

fisherman bob wrote:I've played with keyboard players with a heavy left hand and experienced phase cancellation. That's where the soundwaves of the bass amp and keyboard amp somehow cancel and it sounds your amp isn't working. It's a weird phenomenon. Has anything like that ever happened in your band?

A couple years ago, there was a company working on a new type of car muffler that worked on the same principle. Dunno what happened to that project.

Japanese company. They built a car with a white noise generator built-into the exhaust system, feeding back negative waves of the sound produced by the engine. I'm not sure if it went into production or was just one of those things they show off at car shows, with no intention of ever producing it.

Thanks.

Cool tech, either way.