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Yep that's the ones you want. That's where I bought mine from.

Our guitarist goes for a beer when we play Figure It Out

How about Mike Kerr from Royal Blood? Pretty unique and a whole world of fun playing his stuff.

Thanks Steve, yeah around 90 gigs a year and lots of driving should keep me out of mischief. BTW my old band will be looking for a replacement for me so if anyone is interested let me know. They're a great bunch and the drummer is an absolute joy to play with. Check them out here www.hypersonixband.co.uk They currently have about 15 well paid gigs in the calendar but that will go up to around 30-40 because they're also with Alive Network and bookings are steadily coming in.

BOOM! Got the job!!!! Band is called Fraudio btw. Absolutely stoked and in need of a beer or two. Now begins the hard work!

Absolutely, I think the odds in this instance are stacked against me but nothing ventured nothing gained and someone has to get it. My wife asked me "if you get offered the position will you take it?". I definitely would in this instance but I've also done auditions where I have turned down the offer.

There's every chance that quite a few of them are BC members. As far as I'm aware, the departing player visits the forum on occasion but I don't know who he is.

I think they're only on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LugsCustomIEM/

When you say 215's don't fit well, have you tried a variety of tips (foam/rubber etc)? A good fit with a tight seal is really the key to a successful iem experience. From what I know of the 215 it isn't renowned for lots of bottom end as it's just a single driver and therefore there's limited headroom. I found that the ZX10's have way more bottom end and headroom but are quite bulky. There are some great deals on custom moulds out there. I just ordered some UE6 pros and I believe that the custom iem co are currently offering a free bluetooth cable and free upgrade to a premium faceplate. The Lugs custom IEM's look like incredible value with them starting at just a couple hundred quid. If you have an unusual ear shape then a custom fit iem will really help. Don't give up. Once you get it sorted you'll be blown away by how well you can hear everyone and you'll also be looking after your hearing.

It's for a bank. They make billions out of pulling the wool over people's eyes. I'd do it and charge a massive fee if it overruns by even a few seconds.

Thanks all. It went pretty well I think. No obvious mistakes and I got on really well with the band. I also knew everything on their set list, above the 5 songs they'd chosen for me to do, and let them pick some at random so they could see I knew it. All gear functioned flawlessly and I showed I'm really comfortable using in ears. They had over 70 applications so I won't be holding my breath but at least I didn't let myself down in any way. Aaaaaand breathe 🙂

Sitting in a coffee shop on a Friday morning waiting to go to an audition at 11am for a really great and busy band. Pretty sure they'll be seeing loads of really great bass players so not getting my hopes up too much. If i did get it I'd be able to pretty much go down to just a couple of days a week in my day job. I feel well prepared and if I don't get it I'm already in a really good band with plenty of gigs but I'll admit I'm pretty nervous. One way or another I'm going to enjoy it and regardless of outcome I'll have a few beers tonight. Wish me luck.

Spending time on a British forum has taught you well Blue.

It depends on the band. If it's a busy function band with heaps of well paid work in the diary then you'd be best to give it the beans and learn everything as well as you possibly can. If it's a pub band that tends to rehearse as much as or more than it gigs then a more laid back approach is no problem as long as you know stuff well enough to make the songs swing. I've got an audition next Fri for a band that is a step up from my current function band. I spent several hours yesterday and again today just getting the bass line to town called malice to really swing and keep time where the drums drop out.

Like many others here, the singer get's on my moobs. I'd take Rival Sons over these guys every day of the week.

I can't comment on the soundcraft gear but I do think you'd be hard pressed to beat the X32 rack as it's currently £634 (over £100 less than the UI24R) and is far more feature packed and configurable than the XR18 and can be expanded in future if you need more ins and outs.

Really fabulous bit of kit for anyone doing live work and ridiculously cheap at the moment. I only stopped using mine to upgrade to an x32 rack which is incredible and seems to have hotter outputs than the XR18 we had.

The crossover on the 745 is set low (650Hz) so it is the compression driver that handles a large chunk of the vocals and this makes the 745 probably the best pa cab for vocal reproduction there is at this price point.

Not quite. The 4 inch voice coil they refer to is in the high end compression driver not the 15 inch driver. The 15 inch driver is identical on both but the 4 inch compression driver allows the 745 to crossover at a lower frequency. The 3 inch voice coil on the compression driver in the 735 is still a great driver but it's not quite as good as the exceptional one in the 745.

Yes it's a big difference because the 745s are voiced completely differently. The crossover to the horn is way lower on the 745s so it frees the 15 to really do some heavy lifting of the low end and the high end is very smooth so much more comfortable to listen to at high volume. It's not just the size of the driver but the quality of driver where the 745 (same in 735) totally outclasses the 712. I think you'd be very happy with a pair of 735s.

For me latency is the killer with these things. I had a smoothound and as much as it was brilliantly made i used to hate roaming out front because i could hear and feel the latency. It was really offputting. Line 6 G50 these days but the whole 50 yards thing is just spiel. Probably 20 yards is the max I'd trust it to.

I have had a pair of Art 722a and a pair of 745a and they are like night and day. The 745s are absolutely immense. From what I gather the 735s are much closer to the 745s than the 722s so you should notice a big step up. That said I really liked the 722s and can't really imagine how loud the rest would have to be to make it difficult to get the vocals to the front of the mix. Are you using backline or is everything through FOH?