Sound improvement to Musical Instruments

From the wind instruments of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra to the strings of Rock Band's guitars COLDfire is testing out the musical applications and changes effected by the process. It is certain that instruments like flutes, French horns, trombones, euphoniums and saxophones once subjected to the harmonic influences of the COLDfire process all benefit with a mellow and smoother sound. Metal strings and components for guitars and other string instruments, especially piano's increase in sound benefits and strength.

What is COLDfire?

The COLDfire Thermal Cycling Process of cryogenic treatment for industrial parts is not a surface treatment - it affects the entire mass of the component being treated. This "through material" treatment means the process keeps working for the life of the component. The treatment does not cease to be effective after the surface is worn or otherwise damaged. It continues to provide the same benefit to subsequent grinding or sharpening. The hardness of the material treated is unaffected. There is no additional tendency to crack or chip, while strength and durability are actually increased.

The COLDfire thermal cycling process represents a major technological breakthrough that can improve every aspect of Industry and production. The process is several steps beyond anything even dreamt about by the developers of Cryogenic Technology. This is a process that not only realizes the most positive effects of cryogenics, but adds a heat tempering stage to significantly reduce, and in some cases eliminate, high frequency vibration in metal components, the cause of most wear.

Because the COLDfire process is generations ahead of current cryogenic treatments, the changes in material structure can be made in a fraction of the time taken by what is, in comparison to COLDfire, a primitive process. It has demonstrated regular improvements in wear life of industrial components of up to three times, and in many cases more than that.

By uniquely altering grain structures at the molecular level, the process permits extensive stress relief to take place in the material being treated. This then results in measurable reductions in micro-cracking as an added benefit to the extension of wear properties. It has also proven capable of dramatically improving the performance and wearability of a wide variety of parts, tooling and components used daily in manufacturing and industrial applications.

Initially developed and applied to the strengthening of critical materials at extreme sub-zero temperatures, COLDfire, as currently used in the space program, is now available in Australia to extend life and improve the performance of high wearing components or where safety and performance are major concerns.

The COLDfire Thermal Cycling process, developed over the past five years, has revolutionised the industries of Cryogenics and Heat Tempering. COLDfire has demonstrates results more than double the wear life previously available by the application of other process alone.

The COLDfire Thermal Process has been widely tested by leading edge laboratories a number of large corporations worldwide. In every application tested, it has produced results not previously thought possible.

What is a proven fact is that industrial companies using the COLDfire process have in some cases been able to reduce their tooling costs by up to a staggering 50%.

That's the COLDfire advantage, a process so advanced it is light years ahead of conventional cryogenic technology.

The music industry recognises that Brass instruments become "seasoned" over time. These years of "seasoning" enhance clarity and tonal quality along with ease of instrument playability. We now know that this "seasoning" is just time naturally relieving the inherent manufacturing stresses. With the use of the specialist COLD fire cryogenic processes, brass instruments can be "seasoned" to match one 20 years old in just 10 hours.

Professional musicians liken the process to going from Analogue to Digital. "Much smoother, clearer, more centred, easier to play, more clarity, darker and richer, refined, sweeter, more flexible, truer, and more coherent," are some of the comments. Brass instruments respond to COLDfire's patented cryogenic cycling process by providing increased tonal quality, volume and an increased register, allowing the instrument to sound the way it was designed to.

The why and how of cryogenic music The COLD fire process of cryogenic treatment has been used over a number of years to alter metals and alloys at a molecular level to improve structure, strength and vibration coefficients. The process is based on extensive scientific research and proven efficiency in the reduction and even elimination of the residual stresses caused by manufacture. In alloy metals such as brass, imperfect rows of atoms are stacked densely on top of each other. When the instrument is hammered and bent into shape, the atoms can be pushed apart and whole planes are forced out of alignment, known metallurgically as dislocation. With the advanced and patented "cycling" process used by COLD fire as opposed to standard one step cryogenic processes anchored in the 1960's, the results of treatment are stress free instruments with a regulated and homogenous molecular and crystal structure.

The process itself is very gentle; changes in temperatures can occur as slowly as 1 degree per minute within a sealed and controlled environment. The COLD fire process will not affect lacquer or plated finishes leaving no outward appearance of treatment: the instrument will be returned to you looking exactly the same.