Downunderwonder

All I know about fancy schmancy actives is local sound co has a fleet of the OP ones so I heard them a few times. They sound F N good to me. Mostly I am asking them to be turned down a bit. I helped them load out once so I can say they are light enough. Since OP can't point to lacking anything I can now be sure this has been a gas exorcism.

Ahem!!!

You mentioned a acoustic guitar gig, double duty as FOH I assumed.

Nobody slips deliberately!

All's well that ends well I guess. One slip with the fork would have put a dent in your f hole*. *Not some thing to repeat at a dinner party.

You two look like the only thing missing is a couple of ginger beards.

I wouldn't worry. If they were too simple to parse your actual words they could have been quite chuffed that they got some forthright interaction all the same.

Being happy with pretty good is a good place to be. Methinks you have got the gas. Otherwise you will have to define what is missing from your monitor sound or your FOH sound that you feel could be improved.

Outdoors level is basically dance level indoors, unless you want that weedy "little village band playing outdoors" sound. Plan for that and you should be ok for anything that comes along including the kickarse bass guitar rig but also adding keys etc. In favour of sub, only need small tops instead of do it all tops. Most of the time everything cruises but if you need more they can really shout. Unleash the big dog up to 120hz.

Six Rounds has a dual piezo with a balancer for rockabilly slapping the fingerboard. I reckon whacking the body would come through the bridge well enough as they are pretty intimately connected. Might need a volume pedal if that's feasible ie "plays bass, breaks into percussion solo, plays bass".

Some rooms really bloom / boom all the way to 80hz or more. Tunable HPF working in tandem with bass knob conquers all. One of my rehearsal rooms is gloriously warm and bassy to the extreme so needs a massive trim of everything to bring it back to just "CHOICE!". Then plug in at a jam in a regular room and it's a sorry scrawny mess, oops. More knobs ftw.

I'll bite, iirc 105dB is enough to cause hearing damage over a couple of hours. Thought I'd better check. According to CDC hearing damage possible from 100dB at the earhole after 15 minutes. It is important to distinguish dB at source from dB where listening. The CDC does a rubbish job of that!

You could always swap the cab for something more capable or add another if it turned out to be just shy. Elf power is handy enough if you want to get a bit rowdy with a bigger cab. I wouldn't expect too much out a single 110 though. 300w is a thermal rating. It doesn't tell you how much low end will come out before it dies. It doesn't tell you how much noise it makes per watt either. Worth a shot if you can handle winding up needing two of them. There was a busted Markbass combo in the classifieds for you but I think it may have shifted.

I reckon anyone who does anything notable in the US takes them beyond UK level "sucess" whether or not they were household names at home.

Anything 2x12 can tear your head off if cranked up. As our friend Phil said, either get them pointed at the players' heads and mic'd, or it's IEM time.

There's three piece jazz outfits and three piece jazz outfits all not the same, but sounds promising. Ime the festival backline I thought must have been DI to the front system turned out to be doing it all by itself when I took the stage. Gobsmacked.

100w Rumble is way louder than it looks it could possibly be. If your Americana outfit is no rowdier than an 18 piece jazz orchestra you're good.

Yup. Can't hear XyZ? Turn yourself down. Curious, what amps are being used?

I was only curious about the UK situation. My old band wrote a jingle for a radio station foc. Enjoy your infinitesimal portion of 1p, except I am.not sure you get any as it was in NZ.

I hope that wasn't because they were "beyond all recognition"!!!!

It's working at home so should work equally fine at a gig, so long as the stage sound or FOH doesn't come back to bite you with feedback. I did my level best with filters to kill feedback at home and it was fine. Audition was not fine. Borrow a big amp and have at it before you need to hit the stage. No guarantees but a much better chance of success.

First BC popped a install certificate request which I ignored. Then it wanted to stuff me full of cookies with no decline option. Pass.

Nowt quasi about it.

The Rolling Stones were a cover band initially. Pretty sure they even played plenty when they broke out across the pond.