Downunderwonder

Always hook up the speaker before powering up the amp. Always power down before unhooking the cab. Having this as your routine is to prevent an occurence of amp on with no speaker attached = death to amp.

I put verge of breakup because it's only a matter of digging in and and I get some choice wild hair on. But it's clean if I don't dig in. Such is the joy of preamps that can do that thing with ease these days. Maybe I should have put clean as a clean thing?

Good luck. Having heard so much boom and clank rubbish out front from other bands I just send them my effected signal. At least they are starting from something decent. I still get the odd grumbles it's bloated in the lows. It's the hall and the PA. My cab is full range and the lows are turned down already. Tune your fine PA to the room!

Be sure the desk has phantom power off. Trace never isolated their DI afaik. 18v up it and no more DI. Then they tell you your DI doesn't work!

A few years ago my bro sent me.a YouTube from some dude who must be doing ok selling shows. Never heard of him and can't remember his name. Dude doing country music with a jazz band backing him and making it work. Very listenable. Ace trumpet player etc doing jazz solos over cowboy blues.

Except it didn't stop with muting the strings. It could still be the singer's monitor and mic but it's vocal frequencies doing it because it stops when she stops. Must be a right Shirley. HPF aka low cut her mic and see how it goes. Get away from the vocal monitor and any amount less of crankage will help.

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I'm with you in that there's no way I am forking out for new Mesa gear. But I wouldn't go around calling it overpriced stuff I wouldn't buy and by the way I like some other brand better so Mesa can do one I wouldn't buy it anyway. That's not cricket, and completely unnecessary.

One Thousand Pounds, cough splutter, thankyous for the trade might suffice.

I see why they made it 16 ohms. It's so someone can plug a 500w amp into it and not blow it up only turning the amp up "halfway" putting "250w" into it.

You're all over the place in your description of what you are trying to do. Really. Start again with what gear you are currently using and what problem you have that needs a solution. [ I very much doubt that what you have on your mind is going to be that solution. Maybe it can be, but not the way you seem to think it would go ] Over to you.

If the desk has a spare Aux channel you can send anything you want to be sub boosted to that and the aux out goes to the sub. It makes mixing a bit more complicated but should only be the kick and bass in most bands.

It would have to be a raucous church band in a very big church before the Rumble 100 couldn't blow everything up mixwise if you give it some. Dunno what is going wrong between your current monitor and the soundguy. Sounds like he doesn't have the nouse to put it into a line input on his desk. Have a play with the Rumble at home. I expect it can rumble your living room. You'll want to turn down the lows. Probably best to leave them turned down for what you send to FOH. Churches are naturally boomy spaces. Phone vid to FB is unreliable but your wife should be able to hear you.

If the tone is acceptable from the amp the DI out should be absolutely fine for FOH to use. Piezo pickups can give what I would call a fully emaciated tone when the preamp doesn't have the input impedance, as mentioned earlier. Not at all useful without another preamp in between. The sound people that insist on a pre DI are the same ones that want to make it all boom and clank out front in my experience.