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I like them, do they do a Ray 5 in white?

They'll never get away with that, it's back to front!

The xr16 is less than £300 which is incredible for what it can do, the inbuilt processing and fx would fill a transit van in old school kit.

That's it, what he said ^

We went digital before going in ears, and in ears before going ampless. Once you've got the in ear mix where everyone wants it then it's saved and is ready from gig to gig. Not having the physical monitors on stage removes almost all feedback so the FOH can be set and saved and is about right for most gigs you'll ever do, it's not that much different to a DJ setting up to play some CDs or mp3s from a laptop really! Even our mid range behringer has four aux out mixes plus the headphone jack which should cover most pub bands to give individual in ear mixes.

The mixer is the trickiest part cost wise, KZ ZS10 Ear plugs can be had for less than £35!

Time to go wired in ears, ditch all the heavy boxes! Our entire stage setup for a four piece function/pub band is two RCF 735 speakers, mixer and two di boxes, guitar pedal board, drumkit, three mics and stands, kick drum mic, bag of leads and four sets of in ears. I've never been able to hear myself so well and the FOH mix is the best it's ever been, I've actually had random people in the pub say they've seen us lots of times and the sound is the best it's ever been by far and better than all the other band's, ha.

I've got an Orchid DI box (on ebs_freaks' recommendation), that's it, nothing else, bass into di, di into mixer, mixer to FOH and in ears. Awesome!

Part of the appeal of in ears is the consistency of the mix, in theory he could do a full band mix in America using the instruments that will be on tour then have that exact mix on every gig every night all over the world for a year long tour, that's why, you know, errr, almost all pro bands are on in ears even if they are jumping about in front of an amp that people will still go out and buy based on that gig!

Yep that's exactly what they do! You can only listen for a few days in a row before it drives you mad.

I've been in bands exactly like his, as have you, you'll never teach them.

Dinosaur twaddle

Yep, same here, we've added stuff to our set only for Absolute to add it to their play list a few weeks later! If they just played other hits by the same artists it would keep me entertained longer.

I like the "Absolute no repeat guarantee", it's true that they don't play the same song twice in a day but they do however play the same songs every single day!

I've not adjusted mine but there is a truss rod adjuster up the back of the finger board at the bottom I think? Might need a little relief adding in.

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I had an Affinity Jazz, Modded loads but it was already essentially a great player to start with.

I've played this in various guises over the years, it's a nice little festival.

No idea myself hopefully someone here can help? How does it sound and play now, are you enjoying playing the beast?!

Or put all the fatties in the hold, lol

Yeah I had great delight in putting the wife's little bag into my half empty cabin bag. Our entire luggage probably weighed less than 20kg and technically we had three seats so even under the old 23kg per person rule we could have taken either another suitcase or 46kg on board yet they wanted to charge us €60 for a hand bag, the couple sat across from us would have weighed 100kg more than me and my wife anyway!!

Mine is Romanian, it might get deported!! hopefully Boris will have a bit spare from the £350m a week to buy me a nice British made one?

Not asking for much are they?! I suppose they'd like it delivered to the gig by an attractive blonde too, lol.

We flew back from Barcelona a few weeks ago with easy Jet, as we were boarding the lady at the gate said my wife had to pay €60 for her hand bag as it counted as a second piece of hand luggage, at this point we are surrounded by dozens of people with hand bags and carry on stuff, to add insult to injury we'd already paid for the empty seat next to us! The previous time we'd used EJ ages ago we said it we'd never use them again, we only did this time as someone else booked it originally.