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Their returns go to a UK address, so I suspect this is their distribution hub for out and back.

5 minutes ago, thodrik said:

I just love reading old Trace Elliot brochures describing the 4x10 combo as a 'portable gigging solution'

Lol. I’ve still got one of those (in storage) and it really is unfeasibly heavy. When I recover it I am toying with putting the amp bit in a sleeve and dumping the cab as it is unusably heavy all together.

3 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

I''m assuming you can set the sub's crossover point. if not you should use whatever fixed point that has and match it as nearly as possible with the tops. if it is completely variable I'd use 120Hz. My resoning would say take as much bass out of the tops as you can. In practice I doubt it matters or that you would notice as that's only 3 semitones difference

it needs a bit of care, 120Hz should be fine, but if you go higher and start to get low male vocal in the subs things can start to sound a bit strange.

28 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

On the other hand, there's always an antidote:

 

I always ignore those AI overviews as they are invariably utter nonsense. That is a very good example!

For Sale is my mid-80's Yamaha BB1100s. This is the active/passive switchable version with 3-band eq (in active mode). Everything works, but it has the usual minor dings of a 30+ year old instrument. I have tried to capture them as best as I can in the pics. Made in Taiwan.

Weighs 3.5kg and comes with new Rotosound RS66 fitted. Had  a new switchcraft jack socket not long ago as the original one had got a bit intermittent. Everything else is original.

Comes with a lightweight hard case and I have a shipping box so can courier for £25-ish (£15-ish more if full insurance is required). Or can meet up in or around Norwich.

(No trades/swaps thanks - I need the bass count to go down!)

I got a little lift-off lid flight case for mine so it can live in the case when being used.

As per the end of this Facebook thread - the udggear case. https://www.facebook.com/groups/3457246984538074/posts/3768296876766415/

1 hour ago, Happy Jack said:

And yet ... and yet ...

 

The inherent Devil's Advocate built into me is asking, "Do you really need monitoring?".

 

Life is SO much simpler without, and for pubs'n'clubs I've never really seen the point.

It’s a good question to ask. In a small venue at lower levels I’ve sometimes put the FOH speakers behind the band so that everyone just hears the main mix. This can sound really nice if the band can blend themselves and the singers aren’t struggling.

5 hours ago, Al Krow said:

 

Perfection is often the enemy of the good!

 

Get as good a sound as your budget and ability to transport allows: better than doing nothing right?

This is good advice!

1 hour ago, Chienmortbb said:

There is a sub-forum for Feature Suggestions on the A&H forum https://forums.allen-heath.com/c/cq/cq-feature-suggestions/22

 

Yes, I know - I’ve already added my 2p’s worth. Either the ability to un-route a channel from the LR mix (I.e. to fake a subgroup by feeding a post-fade aux into a spare channel) or a multifunction aux/subgroup implementation.

I think the outcome is probably as much a marketing & product range segmentation issue as anything technical.

I have just got a CQ-18T and I am impressed. I worked in pro audio for years before I retired, so have a lot of experience of larger scale digital, but this little thing is very capable. I’d have killed to have something like this when I got started doing band sound in the mid 90’s!

The only thing missing from my POV is subgroups with full eq for things like groups of lav mics, but I can live without and it would be a nice bonus if they add them in a firmware update. (Some flexible busses that could be either be an aux or a subgroup would be perfect)

JLPCB. Very cheap, good quality and delivery is quicker than I’d have expected for the cheap options.

23 hours ago, bremen said:

 

 

23 hours ago, bremen said:

Just found this thread.

 

I posted elsewhere that I've cloned the sansamp bass driver and have a couple of spare boards, anyone want one? £0

Now that is nice work. 
 

I’ve just designed and made my first SMT board for 22 years. I can’t believe I used to do this stuff without a magnifier. (and a proper lab with expert technicians to do things too fiddly for the design engineers!)
 

There is a cable in the DI output of that preamp, so no mic strictly needed anyway.

Sticking a mic in front of a port will give lots of signal around the tuning frequency of the port and not a lot at other frequencies. Probably plus a load of wind noise to boot. Not normally what is wanted.

The DL16s looks like a decent unit. I’ve been comparing the spec and software with the A&H CQ20b and it is very similar, but the Mackie has the advantage of subgroups, more routing options, simultaneous geq and peq on aux and main outs, high pass filters on aux outs etc. Bit more of a complete offering where the CQ is very stripped-back.

It’s only 2.4Ghz wifi though, so it would need an external router to get out of the crowded wifi bands. I’d always want a wired Ethernet pc running alongside tablet control for these surfaceless mixers anyway, so both the A&H and Mackie need an external router to do this.

Given one of the pics shows “DJ Kingdom” on the silkscreen I’d think not. Funnily enough the other sellers have identical pictures, so looks very dodgy to me.

Are you feeling lucky?

2 minutes ago, mep said:

Is the bass a backing track? Running out of options. Unless the bass player is hidden beneath the huge riser.

Looks like bass and keys are tracked with a little bit of live keys now and then.

4 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

There were on the bridges (I was looking) - and the horns just had a few duff notes

My telly only has a small screen 🙁

3 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

Coldplay 

 

insane production quality. If you said I was listening to a CS I would believe you, I kinda don’t know if I believe much of it is actually being played live!

The string section on Viva la Vida looked like a prop to me - no pickups or mics visible that I could see.

30 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Cindy Lauper On now and it sounds all out of time and tune, dreadful 

Aargh, that was painful!

It’s 9/8. It’s a bit sneaky as the verse and refrain words come in on the “3” of an extra bar, so if you started counting on “Blessed..” it can look like a 12/8 bar followed by 9/8s and another 12/8 on “This is my…”.

3 hours ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

EQ isn't optional, it's mandatory. Without it you can't compensate for the room acoustics or tune out feedback. There was a time when I didn't have EQ. That would have been in the early 1980s. 😲

This exactly. 
 

This is part of the revolution brought by affordable digital desks - there is always good eq at both the system and channel level.

I’d definitely try the graphic eq, a small tweak in the 2k-10k range is probably all that is necessary.

When I was doing sound a bright system was always my preference as it’s easy to tweak back a bit to sound more balanced, a dull system was much harder to deal with.

That is an awesome colour 👍

45 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Why not take well known songs and funk them up...

 

https://youtu.be/KcIGbgR0nvY?si=p-oGp11rmvKKOIie

This is a great idea. The best pub band I have seen in a long time (“Them Deadbeat Cats”) take various well known songs (mostly 80s pop) and play them in Rockabilly style at breakneck speed. Just brilliant.