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1 hour ago, Quatschmacher said:

It does actually come with its own case. 🙂

it does, one that won't fit on my current pedalboard!

6 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

Oh god he isn't using a shure PG58 is he? They really are dull and he'd be better of with a Behringer. 

He does have one now, which improved his voice from the behringer he had. But he as also tried with my mic, the tc helicon one. I was fiddling last night with a multitrack after remembering I had a few and noticed that he needed a boost in the same area (1.5k) that i needed a cut on mine.

6 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

It's reall difficult to watch what they all do  at once sometimes. Anyway a change of mic could emphasise different aspects of his voice, whether he is susceptible to talking about it of course is another matter. Maybe it's time to start sharing You Tube videos with the band

 

It does sound like you know what you are doing though, working systematically through the individual problems.

6 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

OK BA21 is Yeovil? that's just down the road from Chard so we are easy driving distance. Do you want to come over sometime and have a session comparing gear at mine?

I am sure I went to your house once to pick up speaker componants?

I have been looking and I am thinking that I might get a second Evox 8, because if I got the evox j8mix, I wouldn't need to take my mixer to practice, and I could also put the bass into it meaning I wouldn't need an amp or my speaker. So I could save myself lugging stuff around. Maybe also that way go ampless at gigs too, in which case would save even more hassle.

4 hours ago, Kev said:

I have to ask though, when the opportunity to put the device in a fresh new smaller case arose with the new hardware, whyyyyyy wasn't it taken???

I must admit that one gets me too - buying it and then having to pay extra for a case

Closest I could get

2 hours ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

With a name like that, I'm surprised they've not been sued by Rickenbacker.

He was making popcorn while the rickenbackers were in the trenches singing "Die gute kamerad'!

58 minutes ago, Rich said:

Ah, but is that budget popcorn?  

most certainly not, finest popcorn for the longest pointless arguments!

24 minutes ago, Franticsmurf said:

That's great. Nothing to beat the feeling that all the hard work in rehearsals paid off.

I would say the feeling of watching the guitarist trying to get in their locked car probably would beat it for me

Thanks - quite a bit to think about. The speakers are TS212s, had them for a long time, they are fundamentally ok but a bit boxy. Nowhere near as bright as the RCF, although I would be surprised if they would be.

The sax stuff is interesting. He has a wireless transmitter bolted to the side of the sax, with a little gooseneck thing that points into the bell - so it is interesting from your video that that isn't where it should be. The transmitter is a senheiser, but it isn't good although not anything to do with the feedback (it clicks a lot).

The mic is a different shure, but at one point he had the same as the drummer and they have swapped a bit, he also used my TC Helicon mic, which sounds fine with me and is unclear. I guess the problem is just him, I have listened to the sound of a multitrack and he just sounds a bit like that.

His mic technique is fine when he isn't trying to hold the mic like a rapper, He is a bit further back than me with teh mic, but not as far as the drummer (another issue with him and the cymbals coming through).

The PA started off flat with bits being taken out for feedback control - it used to be parametric, but now on the main out I used the graphic and just knocked out any bits that were feeding back. 

I think that is probably the main issue, and I was going to get a pink noise generator to check what the response is.

He is close enough, just a bit muffled. Could be the feedback caused by the alto, although at practices I just use the evo and can get feedback there. To be fair most of the time at practices it is the sax, although often at the gigs it can be.

20 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

Have you tried running the lead vocalist through a Mic Mechanic?

I haven't, although considering I have one, it is not a bad shout!

FoH - I use in-ears, we don't have any monitors.  Me and the drummer have in ears, the singer is out the front and doesn't complain. The guitarist complains about this, but I don't see his hand going in his pocket, I have spare monitor channels!

Its normally the audience saying the vocals are too quiet. There is possibly also an issue the singer is not very clear, as the drummer when he sings is fairly clear, but we can't change him (we have changed his Mic)

Orville Redenbacher caramel popcorn. Why don't they sell that locally any more. Oh I remember, I changed countries! Still, they are dead to me now!

OK, I need to do something as it gets issues. I started off with two alto 212s and a behringer 12 sub (only oudoors the last bit) years ago, and we gigged with that a lot. Originally just vocals / sax and bass drum outside went through, and some keys, But the were always complaints about the lack of volume of the singer. I managed to get a RCF Evox 8, so now we gig with one of those and one of the 212s. I have taken the sub to some outdoor gigs, and it does help with the drum kit.  The clarity of the vocals has improved, and now we put a bit of guitar through it too but still complaints about the volume of the vocals and sax, but even though there is more volume I can put up, it starts getting feedback after a while, especially from the sax (wireless mic inside the sax bell). All of this comes from an X18. 

I must admit I should ring out the system with pink noise and a proper microphone but I haven't.

All the PA stuff is bought by me and carried to gigs by me. 

So I would like to do something to improve it, so if you were in this situation and you had £500 as a max to spend, but not much other space to store and not much incentive to carry, what would you do? Yes, I am aware that better stuff exists beyond £500, but that is completely irrelevant!

In an ideal world I would get another evox8, but they have gone up a lot.

1 hour ago, chriswareham said:

Peter Hook played a Korean made Hondo copy, and I did the same for about five years until the neck snapped near the heel. I now play a genuine Rickenbacker, and the Hondo was a far better instrument to play even if it was made from plywood.

I am sure there are some hondo owners who would swap.

Although I do understand that, I had an ibanez 4001 copy, bolt on with stereo out back in the early 80s and I really liked that bass. It got nicked. When I did play my first real ric, I was a bit disappointed with it.

If you hate your bass, why do you still have it?

3 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

The one built into my Ashdown ABM 600 EVO VI doesn't get any use at all.

Mine neither. But I do like the ABM600 - just not the compressor.

9 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

If the machine didn't insist on the death to all update all would have been fine. 

Why did the machine insist? My music iPad (the one I gig with) doesn't get updates as it has everything it needs on it and it works fine. It will work like that until it eventually dies. My 1994 macbook 160 still works, although it has to be said, the battery life isn't great!

I have owned 2 and sold 2, and keep being tempted to buy a third! Some people never learn

Odd - I went to my calendar to put it in, and for some reason, it was already there 😮

On 24/02/2024 at 14:27, chriswareham said:

eBay has that feature as well for items that are collected, but in my experience most buyers claim they don't have the app on their phone or just don't understand how to use it.

Thats fine, then they don't get the item

Amazon - I did have an argument a long time ago, so I got out of the habit of using them, but now I view them as everything wrong with commerce and just don't want to give them money.

Dyson, never realised how much you could hate an inanimate object that wasn't a printer as I did one of their vaccums, but then brexit made it easier to not buy from them.

Any company that supported brexit, so weatherspoons, there is a local phone / ipad repair shop that spends its time going on about the eu on its facebook page (in fact, even if I was anti them for the brexit thing I wouldn't use them just for that).

A couple of other local companies that don't mean much here

Comet - but they went out of business so I won that one

I would be wary of buying any steinberg thing after spending too much of my life dealing with their dongles that don't work and protection things - they kind of protected me from my own purchaces and certainly protected themselves from me buying any more from them!

btw - currys / pcworld have dropped the PCWorld part of their name recently.

Probably vauxhall. just because of their cars.

Can you edit your first post and add the word sold then to lock this?

33 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

You have indeed missed it!  

ok! thought I must have missed something, so sorry for that.

33 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

At 34 inches and a 38mm nut the bridge spacing is 19mm.

 

To leave the neck exactly as it is but make it a 32 inch scale the bridge would be closer to the end of the neck (I'm ignoring fret positioning etc). As the neck shape is going to remain constant in this example, the string spacing at the bridge would have to be a little narrower. It could not stay at 19mm because the strings would get too close to the edges of the f'board at the final fret and might not even be over the neck at all.

Indeed - it would have to be 18.47mm.. or close to 18.5mm

So if you had a EHB or one of the later SRs you could probably make that adjustment on the same bridge!

19 hours ago, fretmeister said:

Yeah, but I don’t have an SR to measure at a notional 32inch scale to see what the bridge spacing would be at that position. But it will be narrower than 16.5mm.

Maybe I missed the start of the conversation here, but no idea what the scale length has to do with the bridge spacing. Unless you meant the bridge pickup or something. The bridge is invariably either 16.5, 18 or 19mm on an ibanez, which has nothing to do with scale, and whether your scale length is a mile or 10", the string spacing at the 12th fret will be the same (maybe your neck might be wider if they want to put more wood either side).

according to ibanezes mezzo spec, it is 18mm at the bridge and 45mm at the nut, so a max of 11mm (probably some space, so invariably just under 10mm). So the string spacing at the 12th fret is 14mm (10 + (18 - 10) / 2), so the neck has to be at least 56mm to fit the strings over it, and then a bit more either side to stop the strings falling off the side

An SR is the same at the nut but narrower at the bridge, so 10 + (16.5 - 10)/2 = 13.25 so 53 to fit the strings then a bit more.

Looking at an SR here, that is pretty well what it is (except the string spacing at the nut is narrower).

44 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

I could work out the splay properly (or ask my daughter to do it!) but I can’t be arsed! 

There is really no big calculation there, the strings at the 12th fret is exactly half the size difference between the nut spacing and the string spacing at the bridgeg.

The scale length has nothing to do with it, with the same nut size and same bridge size it will always be the same.