Dudgeman

Guys Thanks so much for all your input. Seems there are a few issues going on here. The room on the night..( We've gigged there loads and not had a problem before) but there was something going on that night. It could be that angling the cabs helped in reducing my onstage low end as it is a stage and often acts as a sub. I am also concerned about my hearing and am getting it checked. I did an online check and it was shocking...lots of missing higher end frequencies.. I hadn't noticed how bad it had got in the last year.. I've always had an issue since I was a kid with fast wax build up and haven't had them syringed for years... Could be a game changer. One thing that has certainly changed...we played a regular venue/ pub the other day using my PA. We only have some 15" speakers with horns..Behringer I think. I have also recently bought a Nux wireless...I ran my low end through the PA and was able to walk all round the pub and listen during soundcheck and it all sounded fantastic... My cab was so close to me I could hardly hear it but it didn't worry me as I could hear myself in the room just fine. Gave me confidence that even if I lost backline I knew It was sounding good out front. I've had Sennheiser iems for years and only really used them for click tracks in tribute bands...but they are definitely coming out at future gigs. Sod the backline...the guitarist can use wedges or iems to hear me and the drummer uses iems most of the time. One thing I did notice after the evening where I struggled, and the soundman needs a good kicking for not noticing this....the DI on my b7k ultra had failed and as such he wasn't getting a signal from all of my effects chain... So it's no wonder he couldn't get me any foldback....how he didn't notice I've no idea, considering he knows my rig of old, and I always explain the importance of balancing both my signal chains...I always give the SE 2 DIs...one clean on effected... At the pub gig I had to mic my cab through the PA because of the DI issue. So it looks like I have lots of options to explore ..starting with ear health. I did have a chat with the gents in the band as it is getting ridiculously loud for a pub band... One of the guitarists ran a helix lt and had literally never sounded better...the other guitarists ear pricked up when he heard the tones and looked at his Marshall stack with a look that's said...your days are numbered...even the drummer has started talking about an electric kit.... Maybe we are all getting a bit fatigued by the volume level in general.... In all honesty with the crown and my cab....I should have people screaming at me to turn down, not be struggling. Anyway I'll report back...hope you all had a brilliant Christmas and again thanks for all your input...it's been super helpful

Hi Chris Thanks. I have looked a BF cabs before but frankly I don't get paid enough gigging to justify the cost of two cabs. I have looked into the construct of their cabs as I am ( or was) a joiner so could easily make them but I know how much time and effort they have gone to to perfect their design...wouldn't feel right making copies. I do have iems and maybe I will have to go back to using them... I toured for years with them but really prefer to have on stage sound... I just feel more 'alive' on stage without them. I might speak to the guys at Bare faced and see what they can do.

Cheers Bill.....Ironically I did have the cab tilted on a massive wedge...I'd never done that before. I have thought about 2 x 10 stacked vertically just need some high headroom drivers. The sound guy did say that the drummers double bass drum set up sucked all the mids out... He was super helpful but he did all he could.

I've never really had an issue hearing myself on stage. I have some monster cabs that I have pretty much retired as they are too big/heavy for the car and most venues. I created a Frankenstein 2no...2 X10 cabs all housed in an old Ashdown ABM 4 x 10 cabinet and for pubs etc it works really well. It has 4 neo celestion speakers ..no problem with phase and it's so light and compact compared to my Marshall DBS cabs. I play in a rock/metal covers band but on Friday we giggled a local venue. I had my amp (crown xls 1500i running in two channel mode) flat out..dimed. my preamp pedals on the floor were running pretty hot and the floor wedge had run out of headroom.....and I couldn't hear what I was playing clearly... .the speakers were crying...despite their rating...300w each. They are pretty efficient. The whole thing was loud enough.... Just couldn't get the clarity out of the cab. At sound check I was running the system at about 75% and it sounded amazing..( normally does) but once the rest had got going I had to turn it up just to hear. I'm not a fan of in ears... I have them but trying to avoid them. I'm looking for speaker suggestions with enough Headroom that can deal with this. If you need more specs of my rig happy to get them. Anyone got any suggestions.... I told the two guitarists and drummer to turn down but they ignored me..😂 Cheers

He's currently president of the US mate...

You're very welcome... As I said in our DM's..I'm still learning the capabilities and ins and outs of my printer so really enjoyed the process.

Bizarrely my first thought was D... I did try it just sounded off...I didn't check with the lads later but they may have been in E flat standard... Either way it sounded awful... The fantastic thing now is we are thinking if getting some shirts made up with "Drummer says you're in the wrong key" they will never live it down...we are great mates but the banter will be brutal...😂😂

No...no more pedals for me..😂😂 I would definitely forget to change key... I did try and pick the key but I was struggling with on stage volume and just couldn't pick it. In the end we had a laugh about it .. but it does go to show technology is not always for the best.... 😁

Sat night we threw in Beat it (fall out boy version) played onec in soundcheck and then live..went down a storm... Both guitarists run Digitech drop pedals .once the crowd had stopped going nuts we launched into hallowed be they name ( our closer) So ..guitarist one starts, I play my low E, drummer triggers the bell.... I look at the drummer and say...are we in the right key? Second guitarist joined in...two guitarists nailing it...I'm so far off I literally have to stop playing....total panic ..I've forgotten what key...noo...can't have...... I look donn at guitarist ones pedals board and he hasn't reset the drop pedal to E standard .. and going on the fact guitarist 2 is playing bang on neither has he...so I leg over to G1 and point at his board..he realises changes to E standard now we are in sync but G2 is in the wrong key.. I've stopped playing by this point...G2 finally realises and resets drop pedal ...so I join back in ..by this time we are at the end of verse 1. Everyone thought it was my f*** up...so what would you have done? Stopped the song and start again...try and find the key they were playing in and basically transpose on the fly... Or just hurl your bass at the guitarists until they realised their mistake? Love to know what you think the lesser of the evils is in this situation?

If your playing the sort of tribute circuit...ie most venues have In house PA and Sound guys, I presume they are taking DI out from the Sansamp? What I do which I've found helps when I get to venues...when at home I run DIs from my preamp pedals ( well actually it's a two notes cab plus for my dirty channel and a straight preamp box for my clean) into a Daw ( or I also have a zoom h5 with XLR inputs which I use) and use, headphones, iems and my monitors to help get the best tone I can direct off the board ( no amp models etc in the daw..just straight in) ..that way I know I'm giving the FOH the best tones I can at venues.. As long as I'm happy being able to hear either backline or iems on stage I'm good. Admittedly you're at the mercy of the sound guy but then that's the case at most places we used to play in our tribute. Once I'm happy with my sound through the DI outs at home I just use the headphones out and aux in to rehearse new stuff direct from the two notes... I was advised not to rely on the headphone tone on preamp pedals ( does the Sansamp have one?) as it can differ from the DI tone...hence the faffing around with DAWs and dIs but it is definitely worth it. I get a decent amount of positive feedback on my tones now ....

This is the board at my feet at the mo... Covers all the classic rock/metal we play..and there isn't a pedal on there I don't use during our set, which is nuts... I made the Schmidt Array style 2 tier board a few years ago and it has been fantastic. Ignore all the spaghetti on the left...nothing to do with the board!!

There is a 3d file for a PRS custom on printables...can't get the measurements at the moment, but definitely the same shape..1 hole...I might print it out tonight...see what it looks like ..

Know anyone with a 3d printer...? If you have a mate with one it should be pretty quick to knock up the required 3d model (.STL) file I'm looking to do that with my Firebird as I need a replacement one. I'll have a look at the usual 3d print places in case there is already a file out there. I'd be more than happy to print one out for you if I can find the file.

Hi all Desperately need some help. At a gig about a month ago my filter pro stopped working ..horrible electrical burning smell...nearly cleared the pub. I took it apart to see if anything obvious was going on..the main cap was bulging so I bought a replacement.. the unit fired up for about 2 seconds..a pop near the transformer and dead again...the PCB looks ok..no burnt traces etc .. So the unit is not in my rack anymore awaiting surgery...anybody got any ideas what could be the issue and potential fixes or someone who could mend it ..I love it and will be gutted if it's dead Then on Sat night I was using the same rack and again the smell of burning electrical had the band looking at me again ..I thought my Crown power amp was going the same way...but it seemed to be working fine. Second question is this... Is it possible that the stink from the line 6 could have lingered in the crown amp and once it got hot it released the kraken, so to speak... I'm soak running the crown with no input at the moment and it seems fine...no smell but I'm now paranoid about burning kit...no do run the crown pretty much flat out...with it only clipping into the red occasionally... Is this too much maybe. .any less and I can't get over the drummer... Any help or guidance on this would be hugely appreciated...lots of gigs coming up and need stable reliable gear... Cheers all