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Downunderwonder

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  1. Bristol is a pretty big town. Shirley? You want to add Bristol to your title. There's a recommended amp repairers guide in the repairs section. Ripped off the front page of that: I use Soundburn Audio in Bristol (0117 9555766) - a one man outfit but he seems to be able to fix anything. Plus, he doesn't charge you 20 quid just to look at your amp.
  2. Ime it's incredibly difficult to get the bass to feed back even if trying. Yet the first place everyone stares is the bass player whenever there's a problem in the low end. Acoustic guitars Drums The drummer's tummy rumbling. These are all things to check on before the bass guitar.
  3. If you had your own ambient mic and mixer you could do an independent IEM setup and dep away merrily not bothering anyone.
  4. I have been getting this each time I hit the back button on my phone. Is it the site or my browser?
  5. Doubful. If 15dB attenuation can make you deaf to the music you have bigger problems.
  6. How come this doesn't come with the instructions? It should hang over the door at soundman school. It should be a bit easier for OP as it's all stage amps. A radical suggestion. Mic'ng guitar amps only to put them in stage monitors in a pub is loony tunes stuff so have an open mind: Swap the guitar players' amps across so they each monitor themselves 'under' the other guy. No guitars in monitors.,stop whining! Have them adjust each other. Stop whining! What you get is a nice blend of complimentary guitar sounds at half the volume they were before. Drummer won't need to hit half as hard. Monitor volume much reduced, happy days.
  7. No religious intolerance in Dallas, no Sir!
  8. Ideally each stage should be able to drive the next to its maximum with what came down the pipe, with no red lights. That gets you maximum clean headroom. If in practice the total is too much for the speakers to handle then the safest approach is to wind down the final stage that determines speaker volume. Then if it clips the input of the final stage you can hear it before doing any major damage. As regards mics you are on Struggle St obviously looking for maximum gain before feedback. The quieter it is on stage the more you can get away with. Are your singers using their mics properly? 1st order of business. Can you go on a field trip as a band to hear some well adjusted old rockers rocking out with fidelity and modest stage amps? Mic'ng small amps into PA can do wonders for reducing overall volume. You can point the guitar amp up at guitar hero's earhole and hey presto volume is decimated. Most drummers can adjust nicely to no longer having skull rattling guitar amps on stage. Drummer either gets with the program or gets replaced. Not a problem as you'll be getting more and better gigs.
  9. Guitards will frequently sandbag sound check by keeping their volume in check so that they can crank it later. They also don't level out their fx suite for acceptable levels of boost. They use amps that are too big. Then people conplain they can't hear the vocals and you get feedback trying to wring every last dB out of the PA. Tell me you are not up against it from the get go. Singers must use mic distance if you are to get the most out of the PA you have. Enthusiastic amateurs will make you give them too much gain so they have an easy time singing at regular volume and then when they let rip they clip it to get their compression instead of pulling back from the mic. They have to be right on the mic at regular volume. Everyone turn the hell down. Drummer get some lighter sticks. Deafening volume is what is killing live music in pubs.
  10. Hang in for a bit. If they are as crash hot as you say then you can all agree on a version and 1st run thru of the new tune is the penultimate number at the next gig. Drummers go where the gigs are. Better let them know how you feel about having your time taken for granted.
  11. Not so great unless the active sub can do the filtering for the tops. Sending full range to the tops is what he was wanting to avoid in the first place.
  12. Sure you can. Active crossover and your spare amp. Boom.
  13. That's what they said. But actually that's not what happened according to OP. The seller and OP concur that the numbers were correct and yet the bank sent the money somewhere else. APP scam literally means the receiver is a scammer being sent money deliberately by a duped bank customer. I call bs on the bank.
  14. Any crossover will do the trick so long as you have the right cabling. You can go all fancy with a Driverack, or just a simple rack crossover unit.
  15. Found an image on Thomman of a Dynacord Powermate 600 2x 1000w mixer. It is plastered in outputs and inputs for your amp section. RTFM. And tell me that's not a rebranding of B'ringer. You need a crossover and a power amp and a few cables. Go somewhere else to get them. Plenty of used available. You don't even need a big amp as a piddly little one can do your tops while the mixer does the subs. If your speaker cables for your subs are on the short side you would be better getting long signal cables and a sub amp can go along with the subs over by the wall.
  16. If I had been your vendor there is no way you would have even gone down this road let alone been blowing up stuff. I have never seen a mixer that could not have a crossover applied to the mix before the amp send. Quid pro quo, your vendor is an idiot.
  17. They are completely different animals. I would not form any opinion on the custom molds based on the universal ones. 15dB is pretty minimal if you are right next to the PA stack but for goodness sakes put them in both ears!!!!!
  18. Choice!
  19. Photograph the ins and outs of your mixer for someone to tell you how to patch in another amp all crossed over for your subs. There should be some external fx route or main mix insert that you can fire the whole orchestra through to a crossover. Easy and cheap.
  20. I recommend not going down the BG on a stick route. The flatness of the fingerboard can only give you bad juju at both ends forcing you to adapt your techniques to its cranky form. The Stagg has holes for the rests both sides. You could make a set of more substantial additions to better mimic a full body experience and use those holes to key into. Kinda defeating the main aim of the stick ie portability, but suits your purpose.
  21. Swings and roundabouts. I was coming down the escalator from a casino gig with sack truck piled up with Trace Elliot. At bottom is drunk fan waiting to "help me off". No amount of screaming at him to get out of the fine way was working until the penny dropped at the last second.
  22. Cheaper by far to buy another amp and do active management.
  23. Looks homely enough to me. BYO lawn chairs and all. Shame about the F&B as that's the next thing people remember if the band is good or bad.
  24. The Stagg hip prop is made of aluminium so it can be customized to you. It can't twizzle if it's on your hip.
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