molan

I've seen Lee live a few times - one of those guys who always looks like he's having a great time Superb beard as well

[quote name='Beedster' post='907392' date='Jul 27 2010, 05:54 PM']I love organised soundguys! C[/quote] This guy was an absolute star - I've never seen anyone as organised as him at a gig. The speed with which he, and his team if required, would break down a large PA was nothing short of breathtaking. We had a very big rig for Hawkwind once and after the gig was finished the band & road crew disappeared of to the dressing room to 'refresh' themselves. By the time they came out (which wasn't really that long) we were wheeling the last of the cables boxes out the door, all speakers, amps etc had already been loaded into the van. The look on their faces was wonderful - you could see them all doing a double take trying to work out f they'd walked out of the wrong door to a different stage etc

[quote name='Beedster' post='907368' date='Jul 27 2010, 05:34 PM']My speaker cables are consequently 0.5inches thick and day-glow orange, whilst I use (and really look after) old-school Fender grey instrument cables.[/quote] I used to do some sound engineering work for a lovely guy who runs a wet/dry hire PA business. Every single cable he owned was colour coded. All mic cables were black (so they would be as unobtrusive as possible on stage) All speaker cables were red (so people would think they might be 'live' or hot & not randomly unplug them) All interconnects were blue (not quite sure why, lol) This system was so simple yet worked brilliantly - easy to set up & super quick when breaking the PA down to make sure each cable went back in the right box. Conversely I helped run a friend's PA last week end he had about 5 different cable colours and randomly threw speaker, mic and patch cables into the same sports bag - it was a nightmare to find the right cable for each application (didn't help that he also seems to use just about every type of plug 7 socked combination imaginable!).

[quote name='Clarky' post='906506' date='Jul 26 2010, 11:45 PM']Just turned it on again and there's a slight electrical crackle from the on/off switch at the rear and nothing else.[/quote] I think that crackle is very common - mine often does it & so did the only other one I've tried. Have you checked boring stuff like the fuse in the mains plug & the plug itself to make sure there isn't a loose wire somewhere?

Just checked mine and it's immaculate

Nice one - I really like the Half Moon, haven't been for ages though Hope it goes well

[quote name='joegarcia' post='903898' date='Jul 24 2010, 12:03 PM']Surely the point of digital desks is to do away with all the excessive outboard? Never used a O1V live though, are they any good for live stuff or are they studio desks really? I get on pretty well with the LS9 and M7CL, particularly for monitor work. Digital desks are great in some situations but that just sounds totally ridiculous.[/quote] Totally agree the desk has loads of assignable effects so why have a huge rack of outboard kit! It seemed pretty flexible but the nature of digital with pads having multi functions isn't anywhere near as fast for fixing things on the fly. Personally I'd go analogue every time for genuine usable flexibility.

I stepped in as a dep sound engineer for the evening and the regular engineer lent the band his Yamaha 01V digital desk, a bloody great stack of effects & equalisers, compressors etc & lights with a Martin controller. He said he'd label up all the interconnects so they'd be really easy to use and that the desk was very intuitive to use. Once we arrived and got all the stuff out we discovered about a zillion leads with massively ambiguous labelling. Managed to get the hang of the desk and got all the incoming feeds working into my monitor headphones. However, try as we might we could only get a single feed out to one channel of the monitors. No FoH, sod all volume from the single monitor that worked and nothing feeding into the stupidly complex lighting controller. 6 of us tried just about every combination but got absolutely nowhere. Luckily there was a support act that had a good old fashioned Yamaha analogue powered desk. Took me about 5 minutes to get it up & running with a nice FoH sound & two monitor mixes. No eq on the monitors so volume was a bit of a problem but FoH sounded fine. The the bloody monitors blew - pretty sure they had fuses in them & the pair went simultaneously midway through the second set. They really weren't all that loud because of the full range signal they were getting. Because the support act also had a pair of FoH speakers I managed to rig these up as side fills from the monitor mix and got a decent on stage sound. Anyway - the point of this rant is that the band only ever play small venues and a simple analogue desk with on-board effects & maybe a pair of 'set em & forget em' graphics is easily enough for sort of gigs they get. A basic set of coloured PAR cans would be fine as well. So why does the sound guy have this huge array of equipment - apparently he often has problems with things crashing, especially the lighting controller. It must take 2-3 times as long to set it all up & break down again as well. . .

[quote name='fingerz' post='901847' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:19 PM']Molan, that blue one looks very nice! Why are you selling it?!![/quote] It's lovely Only selling because it's near identical to my red one and I didn't think I needed two basses so similar. It's lighter in weight and just a fraction 'softer' in sound. I actually marginally prefer the core sound of the blue but the red wins for me in the colour stakes - purely subjective stuff of course. Build quality across the two is so consistent that you couldn't tell them apart if you played them blindfolded

I really love my Sadowsky Will Lee J bass and vaguely thought about looking out for a nice NYC P to go with it. Had a look around a few places and the most common configuration for a Sadowsky P seems to have a J pickup as well. I don't have anything against the PJ idea but quite fancied a simple traditional single P pickup. So - just wondered if anyone had ever played one or knew much about them. Maybe there's something in the basic makeup of the classic Sadowsky sound that really needs that bridge pickup to make it sing?

Nice one Mike, That looks like a big old Trace cab in the background - not your usual rig?