Downunderwonder

At some point rack stuff becomes too painful to let go for the fraction of what you paid for it. I thinks it's getting to where really good low noise stuff stays in service and lesser stuff stays as backups with a very few buyers snaffling the occasional offering.

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There probably is, but what I would be looking for is a 'light' 5 string set since C is a lot closer to B than E. If you are doing some weird 'guitar shaped' tuning you're on your own. It would not be too hard to plot frequency vs gauge for a given scale length and draw a curve. It might look better if you used the area of the string instead of the gauge. Have fun.

Eat a couple of ripe bananas two hours before you go on.

Too bad all the function band bassists wind up like James Bond tied naked to a chair frame with no seat in it.

Not 'arf! I'll complicate it some more. Often something simple does stick out like a sore thumb but be totally appropriate.

My broker explained it to me. Basic tenet of insurance is a risk can only ever be covered by one policy. It follows from the essential nature that the same risk cannot be insured twice by two parties. If your gear falling on punters is covered by MU your problem seems to be they want you to be responsible for the actions of their punters on their stage and any other paid subcontractors you bring along.

We have those XLR's in the wall feeding the ceiling speakers in bars except they don't mind bands bringing whatever else along. I wonder if you piped a keyboard held note and brought it up until it got garbled, and brought it back to clean would that tell you where you could push your mixer output to?

Egad's, they spend a gazillion quid on a system that won't tell you you're clipping it until you hear it?

If the worst came to worst could everyone break out a backup acoustic instrument and make your singers really work? That would be a wedding band to remember.

Hard high passing will get a less tortured sound than zeroing your bass knob, if you find the traffic light is on you.

I was following along looking for the good bit but not following you here. Once you go from your system to their system I don't see that it matters how low the input gain is on theirs so long as you aren't clipping your output trying to drive it.

Does not gel with our other function venue operations expert opinion.

Tone full. Neck down just a little. Bridge full. Growl city, plenty of low end.

Perhaps you can explain how the heck your wrist hits the binding?

Define small. So small you have to play quietly? I don't sing so sometimes I hop off, or out of the 'stage area', to hear wth is going on. It's always plenty plenty loud. You could use the 15 as a stand and pump up the 210 but it's less than ideal having a passive radiator sucking out lows.

Is there another venue needs a wedding of that Tuesday night that is empty on the Monday? Methinks there could be any number doing sfa that early in the week in the middle of winter. Get them on the phone and see if they take on function bands without auditions and let them self manage sounds. With another venue in the offing the bride needs to finagle the current one into admitting by email they actively mislead her on multiple fronts about the band situation. Book the other venue and tell the noise police she's cancelling and wants her deposit back. Small claims court if they refuse.

Anyone in the families a lawyer that can tear the venue contract up and tell them what's happening?

At least it sounds like the venue has backed off from their pre event soundcheck demand?

That's no fun but don't let it detract from your chi! Nobody that isn't Derek the failed DJ will be paying you any attention.

Not your one, the previous two for the high spec multi room tuned system.

The magic number in that memo to bands is the same 96 as what the OP got told. Maybe just coincidence. 96dB on the dancefloor would be a pretty good party.

More on this. Effectively your contract has been broken so unless they find a way to accommodate you someone owes you a cancellation fee. I am the last guy to start playing hardball but maybe that's what it is coming down to in this situation. Everyone getting pished at you seems inevitable so you might as well get the first shot in.

So the 96dB limit they give bands is pure fable. I will have to go back and see if OP's band is under the gun to plug into the house system.

They obviously let the noise police set the limiter far below what is intended when they spec the system. At that point I would give up on the amplification altogether and have a 'campfire band' for those places. Whole world has gone mad.