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I have a WO66 shortie which is really nice, quite easy to balance without hauling an EQ6 around. I also have a TMB 100m F8 APO. This needs an EQ6 at least and is a fabulous scope but is so large and heavy it never gets used as my two slipped discs immediately complain just looking at the scope. I know what you have done with the above, the really impressive bit (thought it's all impressive) is the cooling on the Canon (at least to me), that's really difficult to get just right. Everybody has gone Zwo, apart from me. Anyway back to the cab making. Rob
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This was the exact reason (I recall) Mark King saying why he used 10s, back in the day.
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I'm glad I did my time on the no-talc-on-the-dancefloor circuit because it was An Education, as they say, but I don't miss it. Wall to wall stonefaces waiting for the bingo during set one, and then a mass exodus after the meat raffle so you play set two to the bar staff and maybe any students home for the weekend. In fairness I'd have left too: we were shite. Bandleader had a clapped out van, a "everyone knows Sweet Home Alabama, we'll busk it!" approach towards the setlist, and not much else. Oh happy days!
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Compared to free-space, which is outdoors and elevated by at least a wavelength, on the ground is half-space, closer than 1/4 wavelength to a wall is quarter-space, closer than 1/4 wavelength to a corner is eighth-space. Each space reduction adds 6dB. This mainly applies to the lows, where speaker output is 360 degrees. 1/4 wavelength at 120 Hz is about 70cm, so ideally that's the furthest out you want the cab baffle from the wall. True. Where either the cab or you relative to each other or a boundary results in a 1/2 wavelength differential between the original source and a reflection there's a cancellation notch. Said boundaries include the floor and ceiling, so often the worst listening position is on the stage, where you can be getting multiple low frequency cancellations from walls, floor and ceiling. Further back in the room where the distance relationships are much longer the lows can be considerably louder than on the stage. This phenomenon was responsible for the myth of wave propagation, the notion that one must be a given distance from the source for a sound wave to fully develop and thus be fully heard. It's easily disproved by listening to the same speaker outdoors, where there are no boundaries that can cause cancellations.
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NUX Melvin Lee Davis DI/Preamp - £100 (brand new)
silverfoxnik replied to 40hz's topic in Effects For Sale
Opps, so I did! Memory like a sive, me... 🤦😆🤣 Still loving it, btw... 👍 -
I did go for the full size!!!
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My last post just got me thinking. Does anyone know if i can add a fader in Mixing station to control the overall level of a monitor being controlled from a P-16, or better still, just mute it? i had to play music between sets at the last gig and on stage it was really loud, but out front hardly anything. He had left his monitor on and i just couldn’t tell if the FOH was even on. At the moment the music is streamed from my laptop, which is also my sound source, so he has to have this in his monitor while we are playing. If it were a separate device then obviously he could have that always muted. -
I've scrolled quite a few pages. Is the Lekato wifi what a lot of people are using to power their IEMs? -
Very popular with Dr Spooner, or so I'm told.
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My old drummer was a real Luddite, and in a way still is, but the tribute band he is in have just invested in an XR18 and a few bits just for IEM/stage monitors. They always use a house PA but have struggled with monitors. It took me a while to explain what can be achieved these days, and they (he) built a small IEM rack, based on the XR18 and a couple of splitters. For less than £500 they will never really have to worry about monitors again. Even the drummer in my band, who admits he is a dinosaur and refuses anything to do with IEM, has just brought a P-16 for his floor monitor. The downside to this is he had it really loud at the last gig and i had no control over it. I’ve banned anyone else getting one. We use 3 powered floor monitors and i shudder to think how loud they will be pushed.
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Congrats, hopefully this will work well for you, I like the fret markers.
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Here's another one, with Jimmy Smith playing one of my favourite basslines. It's a bit long ("if it's 3 minutes long, it ain't really jazz" etc.) but around 5 minutes in is particularly good.
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What 1" compression tweeter and crossover unit should I put in my cab?
Dev R replied to Dev R's topic in Amps and Cabs
Hi @Bill Fitzmaurice Thank you for the link. This will help me a lot. -
Using more speakers outdoors is appropriate, as you're losing some 6dB or more of boundary reinforcement. That requires doubling the cab count to come out even, especially in the lows. The main issue with using dissimilar cabs is whether they'll integrate to help each other or whether they'll fight each other. You'll want to try it in a practice situation first.
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Going to wait for the Nano price to settle. It'll eventually be in a little sale.
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Skywatcher 66ED cell. ZWO guider on one of my home-made bitsa guidescopes. The cooler is an online design that uses a copper plate slipped between the sensor and the next circuit board. I 3D printed a cover to help insulate it and support the peltier, heatsink and fan. Quite tricky to get right as you have to make a heater from resistance wire to go around the sensor to stop condensation and get the right balance of cooling and warming! Camerea also has the IR/UV filters stripped out. Made a huge difference, but then I got a big cooled mono ZWO and a filter wheel. Sadly, not got up to much since 2021. I think this one is with the ED66. After this, I'd better shut up and let the thread get back to speaker cabs!
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It's a bit like how I LOVE the treble/bite/zing of a bridge Telecaster pickup, but in my old band, the other guitarist wasn't keen at all. The frequencies did not gel with him, whereas I knew it was overly aggressive in the treble but liked it for that reason. I did what every person should do, if it works in the mix, carry on.
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Barefaced One Ten Cabinet Steel Grill reduced to £275
bassplayer76 replied to ash's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
Great little cab, I love mine- 1 reply
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I was hoping to do the triumvirate of bashes next year, Midlands, SW and SE. Down to a duo now though.
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Heavenly Homes - BeBop Deluxe
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NBD: Fender American Vintage II 60's Precision.
Stub Mandrel replied to Stub Mandrel's topic in Bass Guitars
I like the relatively modest output of vintage pickups, I'd say they are pretty spot on for a vintage sound. -
Thank God for digital desks eh?! i wouldn't have a hope of doing this with my old analogue desk! Just as an aside: This level of flexibility combined with the better pre-amps on our A&H CQ18T (vs my old Soundcraft MTK12) and the ability to give everyone a tailored feed that we're already benefitting from, seems to me to make a quality digital desk the single most important factor in getting a band to successfully adopt and accept IEMs in place of backline? With quality ear-buds running in a very close second - one of our singers tried got a set of KZ ZARs from Ali Express for £30 recently. She's over the moon with how good they are! -
This was my problem there:
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Not everything I have released over the past 45 years has made it onto Spotify, but here are the bands that have: SugarBox: Dick Venom & The Terrortones: In Isolation: Hurtsfall:
