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  1. My brother's manager at work has a saying. We've all been there, somebody suggests something and nobody else in the room cares enough to either say yes, say no, or offer another solution. Ambivalence in the meeting. So my brother's boss will say "silence is consent" and wrap up the meeting. I kind of get what he means in a work context, but also maybe we could change that phrasing a little here man.
  2. My use case is three songs of the set, and even then only if I have a catastrophic failure. I'd say that was more than acceptable. Thank you so much for taking the time. Oh yeah when you're at home and you can still hear the strings they all sound terrible.
  3. Thanks both for the clarification and the offer. Is it really that bad?
  4. This would just be a backup solution for me. I have a board with a quad cortex and power supply, wireless, tuner, everything. Just wondering what I would do if that went down or I lost the whole thing or whatever. At the moment I take a passive DI box, but I wouldn't have a tuner and I have started being lazy, using the digital transpose for three songs on the set list. It occurred to me that transposing whilst already stressed by an equipment failure, or detuning without a tuner aren't good plans. I have looked at taking another pedal (I own a GP100) for instance but they're actually quite big and they also need a power supply. The GP5 appealed because I could put it my bag and run it off one of the many phone chargers that can be found in any space inhabited by humans in 2026. I even take one in my gig bag already. It looks to me like you can just assign a,b,c to three patches but to be fair that's not crucial, I can always scroll back. Thanks both!
  5. I've been reading the manual for the GP5 and it looks like it can do what I want, but I thought I'd double check just to be safe. If I put it in the song list mode (a-z) can I use the foot switch to cycle between 3 presets? Basic amp emulation, amp with -2 pitch shift, amp with +1 pitch shift, back to the beginning? And then I can long press to use the tuner? And it can do all of that whilst running on usb power?
  6. Good news and good luck, I think I'll get the physical for a year.
  7. Shiny! PXL_20240621_185925325.mp4
  8. I normally have a rule about just buying gear that I like and not buying gear for a particular project and once again I have proven to myself why I should stick to that rule. 😔 In summer 2024 my main band decided to go entirely IEM. In autumn 2024 I was fired by that very band. In that time I did somewhere between 5-10 gigs with it. As such, my over £1000 of IEM rack has sat unused for the past year. I have held on to it for a while now but none of my current bands show any interest in going IEM and to be honest I have a hearing defect in one ear caused by a botched surgery when I was a kid that makes wearing headphones a little uncomfortable so that suits me just fine. I don't do things by halves and I put a lot of research into this before I bought it. Obviously you can spend car or even house money on the kinds of IEM systems that the pros use on big tours and this isn't that, but then it's not some budget Aliexpress dongle either. Think RCF pa speakers that sit in the goldilocks zone between Mackie and L'Acoustics. It's a nice prosumer system that works exceptionally well in a very neat 2u rack. I do have some IEMs but they are not the kind of thing that I would be comfortable selling (and expecially buying) second hand because they have been inside of me. For the record I was using this system with the very decent Shure SE215 but it's a standard output that will work pretty much anything out there. As it stands this is a stereo system so youi can have different mixes in each ear, but it can also be run mono. Anyone who has ever seen my gear will tell you that I am super-annoying with organisation and neatness. This rack has strain relief buit into the cables, everything is cable tied down to the shelf. The input loom coils up into the back of the rack. The power cables are tidied away. You get to a gig, take the lids of the rack, plug it into the wall and plug it into the mixer. 60 seconds, tops. When you do it will light up and you'll have a few spare sockets to plug the rest of your stuff into. Please note this is not the (c. £500 new) 'EW 100' series, this is the full-fat 'EW' series. I'm selling the whole rack as a complete system for £650. If you wanted just the IEM system (transmitter, receiver, power supply and rack ears) with none of the accessories that would be £550. I would however encourage anyone new to IEM to go for the whole system as if you do that then it's a turn key solution with all of the hard work done for you. Add headphones of your choice and go. Even if you're not in a brightly lit pop punk band and you turn the light bars off! Pickup from between Wylam and Newcastle. I can deliver locally or I can post. Please get in touch with any questions. Sennheiser EW IEM G4-E Wireless IEM - New from Andertons in June 2024 at a cost of £859 Gator GR-2S - I have three of these cases, two 4u and this 2u and they're the best portable racks I've ever seen Dynamode rack power unit Neewer rack shelf Pulse 1u vent panel Ferswe led bars RCH Audio Engineering 10m stereo loom
  9. Recording? Ewwwwwww, no. I use a wireless when practicing at home, when practicing with a band and when gigging. In fact the only time I don't use a wireless is when recording. It's not so much the 1% difference in sound, it's the latency and the (admittedly very slim) chance of a drop out.
  10. Good recommendations all, thanks. I'll update the thread for posterity when I get something.
  11. I've never taken mine to a gig but I use a QSC wedge to practice at home. The old wooden floors could scratch the bottom of the wedge and they also vibrate. It's great.
  12. Hi all, I need a pickguard making with a slightly non standard route. Nothing too crazy, just one cut different and in a plain black/white/black. Where is good these days? I know you can get a pickguard for £10 or spend £250 so rather than waste 10 businesses' time by asking for quote I thought I would ask where has been good for you guys in the past. And how much they cost! Thanks Jack
  13. Yeah it would be an awesome practice amp, as furniture it would blend into my office decor way better than the qsc wedge does. Unfortunately it is shaped, sized and featured like a home amp but priced like a stage amp.
  14. Adore the look. Will pass on feature set for the price.
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