Jakester

Yep, that one looks like it’s only one. Our Mackie has two, so we run both tops via the sub. Can your budget stretch to one with two thru-passes?

Not as I understand it - on some you set the threshold frequency and anything over that goes to the tops, and anything under goes to the subs.

Another option - active subs sometimes have a built in crossover so it does the job for you from the existing full range mix.

Wow, lovely job!

👍🏻

Who’s on drums? I’m sure I recognise the face but can’t place the name..

Really big guy, or really small trumpet?

Only musically!

Well, the deed is done. I just explained that I had concerns that some of the stuff we were looking to play might be a bit challenging, and he was very gracious and we parted on (hopefully) good terms - at least I think we did (wait until I find the head of a Precision in my bed!) Now, anyone know any good bass players? 😉

Sorry, I think there's a conflation of two separate occurrences here! New band - jury's out. Other band's singing - deffo gone (just, no-one's actually told him yet....😳)

Yes, this was what happened with the singer in the other band - it was clear that even a little bit of prep could have resulted in a palpable improvement, but he could never be bothered, leading to using lyric sheets on stage. The lowlight was him introducing songs at our last gig as “sorry in advance, this is probably going to be stinky poo” when the rest of us had all worked hard to get the songs down.

Thanks for your views, very interesting. Just to put some meat on the bone: The chap in question is very nice but this is still essentially a startup, so I don’t know any of them very well. It wasn’t just the jamming he struggled with: we’d agreed a list of four tunes to run through at our first meeting; he warned us in advance that he’d only done three owing to work pressures (which is fine - real life takes precedence!) but even two of those were a bit ropy. It’s purely covers at the moment, so there’s no writing etc involved. Although this sounds very harsh as I type it, I don’t have the time to help develop someone - I play in two other bands (and there’s another one ‘on hiatus’) and work full time so I barely have enough time to sort myself out, let alone anyone else. Interestingly this has happened in another of my bands with our singer - we all felt he wasn’t cutting the mustard despite repeated chances, and so we auditioned someone else last night and she blew us away. It showed how we as a collective were being held back by the one individual.

May I prevail on the wisdom of the collective for a moment with this quandary? I’m in the process of putting together a new band. I thought we had the nucleus of something and we had a first jam this week. Everyone was very keen, and talked a good talk. Unfortunately one of the players simply wasn’t good enough - he was a lovely guy, but seemed to struggle to master even the basics of his instrument. He said he’d been playing for years, but ‘had had a little time away’. He managed to get through the first couple of tunes by playing his part rote with no alterations, but when we moved to jam a couple of tunes that we were all less sure on, he really struggled. Even suggesting the chords and then actual notes to him didn’t work. Having chatted it over with the others, we concluded he was lovely but just didn’t have the ability. It’s down to me to break it to him, and I’m in two minds. Do I: a) tell him thanks, but we’ve gone with someone else, (we haven’t yet) b) just tell him nicely but outright that he wasn’t good enough or c) have another jam with more difficult songs and tell him when he inevitably struggles?

I always thought this was what extension cabs were for...

I saw Herbie Hancock do this with his keys/synth rig! Played the first couple of tunes quite happily with ‘just’ the standard piano sound through his keyboard, before realising and switching it on mid-song, so it happens to the best of us!

I had this a few years ago with some custom drums I spotted in Cash Converters in Brum - contacted the maker and he had the owner‘a details and they were reunited.

I think that’s the key point - waiting with bated breath to see how much they go for!

Could be their power at home? I have found with mine that it can break up into a sort of bitcrush-y sort of sound if all of the effects are driven heavily - could it be that?

Yep, it works a treat!

I did check to see whether it could do it - apparently from the Behringer forums there was a suggestion they’d been working on it, but nothing more since.

Well, there we go - racked in with the feedback destroyer for the singer's wedge monitor (which I think I got from you, Happy Jack!) and a random rack effects unit which was lying around looking lonely. This rack case came with a nifty net over the rear cover with a zip in the middle, so til I get a rack PSU all the plugs etc can be stashed in there - genius! Got a couple of old routers kicking around so I"ll see if any of those work and velcro one to the inside too.