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re. wearing 1 earpiece. Having read those articles it is apparent the harm comes from the user turning up the volume to compensate when only hearing with 1 ear. Ergo 1 ear bud in being worse than no buds in seems extreme but that is the gist of it. I occasionally (depending on which band/gig set up) used to remove or partially remove one ear bud (moulded attenuated protectors not IEM) so that I could hear the band balance better but I always kept the bud in fully that was nearest the drummer. At no point would volume have been increased for me to compensate, hence one ear bud in and one out would not be any worse, though I concede I was always happier with both plugs in. Just as an aside... I recently tried using a sealed plug (off the shelf silicone jobbie) in the ear closest to the drummer and my moulded attenuated -19db plug in the one closest to my monitor (mounted on a stand at ear height). I was actually surprised but there was very little difference in overall sensation/hearing of frequencies when I swapped back to my x2 custom moulded, attenuated plugs.

Unless someone is just playing him.

Dear me... £142. Someone is getting mugged in plain sight.

I own the Line 6 G50 (or is it 60?) system 2.4ghz system and I have since bought the cheapo Lekato 5.8ghz as it is more reliable for not dropping out or being affected by routers etc working on 2.4. You will get an upgrade if you spend bigger money but for home use a £50 system is more than adequate.

£22 is that cheap?

Ditto. I cancelled the 2nd order as I'm wary of a 2 month delivery schedule, never mind 3 month.

Very odd. Mine were £12.95 but Dec delivery and when I went back 10 seconds later £12.95 with Jan delivery.

You can't go far wrong at £50 BUT (imho) I'd not immediately go spending money on upgrades. You'll never recoup the outlay and you might want to try other basses first.

You can go back and buy another single set but the delivery date will push back!

Hmmm 'I' just bought the last set AFTER you and delivery 6th Jan 2024...

Tonight we play Bannerman's in Edinburgh!

I have (paper) diaries from 30 years ago and until recently I've been playing some of the same pubs now that I was then (different managers)... for the same £250 fee! A few ago we started cutting out the venues we least liked and started only playing those prepared to up the fee to £300. Some gigs we lost but on the flip side we did pick up sufficient £300 gigs to balance it. We'll still do late afternoon gigs for £250 as we can still enjoy our evenings or on occasion fit in an evening gig as well. BTW these are 'normal' pub gigs; 2 x 45 sets, starting at 21:00, using our PA and small lights. Anything requiring extra PA or really long timescales we price accordingly. NYE would typically not be a pub gig and we'd want double money as a minimum but possibly triple.

If you are talking 'used' I don't think you can better these. Added advantage of the tall, thin vertical arrangement. Easy to carry through doorways as well.

re communication with the band live. If you have one person who needs to stage direct/call songs etc, you can get a talkback pedal which in effect when pressed gives a signal direct to the desk outs 'except' for FOH which is muted. Only downside is if you don't want the audience to hear, you'd need to mute this going to any live monitors (easily done).

No. It is a genuine pic taken from a local FB this morning and the engineer was displaying his rig in use which was for hire... sadly I'd not hire him based on that configuration alone!

Indeed. In fact there are 4 subs on the far side of the pic. I'm guessing the 11,000 watt figure is calculated from 1000w per unit; 7 bins + 4 tops. The room that this image is taken in, is probably no deeper than it is wide in this pic (I've played it), so the various mistakes made with speaker placement will be compounded. I have to confess I wasn't at this gig, so I can't comment on sound quality but my head just says 'no'.

A full line across the front of the stage would be handy for the introverted musician!

I saw a post on a local FB music group where a sound engineer was bigging up his PA hire and touting for work. 11,000 watts in an Arts Centre which I'm familiar with and I've played it with a decent pair of tops... so I decided to have a look at pics. I'm aware that the equipment design might limit placement but IMHO less might have been more in this instance.

I had the QSC set 'flat' via the presets and the sound out of the desk was EQd to sound good with the RCF, which I had been using. My outboard EQ via the Fishman and the Sansamp was set pretty much flat with the Fishman HPF taking out the lows and the Sansamp giving a smidgen of drive. I also checked the Aux EQ and we had that set for my previous amp and cab set up, which had the lows rolling off from 100hz down over. I maybe could tweak the RCF further but then what would I have GAS for next?

I did an A/B comparison with my RCF310 and the QSC K10 (first series) at a couple of gigs this weekend. Stand mounted at the side of the stage, angled across/back. Volume - no discernible difference at all, at regular volume with both monitors turned to 100% (volume set via Aux Send). I'm sure if I needed to increase the volume, the QSC would better the RCF BUT at regular volume no benefit having 1000w over 350w. Tone - 'subjective' with the vocals, guitar and bass mixed and coming through, I thought the QSC was less harsh and I could detect nuances in the sound better. The RCF was 'fine' but seemed to pierce on higher frequencies. We did experiment playing program music through them and we all agreed the QSC was the winner though the RCF was absolutely adequate. The QSC was more balanced and I'll use the term 'sweeter'. I was always able to tell which monitor was in use, which was/is the deciding factor for going for the QSCs. Note - I had someone swap the lead every couple of songs and I repositioned the monitors for the second sets (swapping stands), so that 'if' I was off axis it was relevant for both.