Jack

I'm not sure I understand, were we THAT bad?

We've just dropped American Idiot by Green Day. I told the guys I didn't want to play a song that used the word that also means meatballs but with offal. They said cool, life moved on.

Against my better judgement that was kind of me on Saturday. It was the wedding of a good mate of mine, the singer in my technically-still-going-but-don't-do-much-these-days hard rock band. Thanks to the excellent Sound Cartel for loaning us some gear, even if I do have the sneaking suspicion that you just felt as though you couldn't say no to the groom. Still, the others were going to do it over my objections anyway, if you can't beat em, join 'em. Anyway, here we are trying to remember some songs we used to play. I think it's clear that I'm rather embarrassed about the whole thing and I'm trying to hide. Unlike our lead guitarist. VID-20240602-WA0000.mp4

As has been mentioned a lot in this thread, different strokes for different folks. But I've got say man, that sounds a little mental to me. If they're not willing to think this through then I don't have the time to be babysitting them. Of course, I'll help out in a pinch if something has seriously gone unavoidably wrong, but if the guitarist has broken a string and they don't have either another guitar or another string then they're playing without. Happy to cancel the gig, I'll even go an tell the bar manager, party organiser, bride, whomever that the drummer says we need to go home because he's broken his only stick. I have in the past purposefully drawn up plans to share gear to save carrying. When I had a full fat rack Helix the two guitarists in that band knew they didn't need to bring a shared amp because I had a stereo facility that I wasn't using. In my current band I've got an unused channel on the desk set up with a Sansamp emulator in case one of the guitar or bass processors goes down. Nobody needs to bring a spare mic because the backing vocals that the other 3 of us do aren't really that important, so one of us would just not sing if ours went, or the main singer would borrow one of our mics if his went. The two guitarists in my current band alternate which one of them brings 'the' spare guitar, etc. That's not a problem, because that's planning, but don't just shrug your shoulders and hope I'm bailing you out. Every few weeks there's a 'do you bring a spare bass?' thread on here, and it's those people that we're dealing with here!

Yeah the tens are "this cab sounds great" and the twelves much more "this cab doesn't sound of anything". Within reason obviously.

I own the desk, my rule has always been that everyone is responsible for getting themselves 'into' the desk. I will happily consult on di boxes, mics and cables if you don't know much about them, but you can't borrow mine.

Thanks for the input! Does the engineer mode disable the volume control?

I'm the only holdout in my band still using a wedge, my two guitarists use the xvives and my drummer uses a wired kit that I'll admit I don't know anything about. However it might be time to bite the IEM bullet. Having read most of the thread, the talk seems to be on the pros/cons of the concept and then the iems themselves, but what about the systems? Is there any common wisdom on the best transmitter and reciever? It would have to be wireless. I'd also need stereo, I have hearing damage in one ear (from a botched surgey, not from rock n roll excess). But other than that I'm not too hip on what's good. Digital or analogue? If analogue then what frequency band? If digital, then how would it play with 3 digital guitar wireless and two IEM wireless? The most recent 'system talk' in the thread seems to be the MIPRO MI58, is that the one to go for?

I'm in Wylam, happy to go with you if you want a more experienced eye. Edit - nope, not on Friday though! Good luck!

Jees, I thought the £100 behind the bar was in addition to the fee.

You can get PA power amps for pennies these days as everyone has moved to active pa cabs. Might be worth finding a QSC PLX or similar on ebay? Assuming your Headrush has a proper line out. But the real question here, before we can tell you what is 'right', is 'what's wrong about the Mesa?'. If you use the aux input it should be as clear as anything else out there.

Is it always really cold when you play bass?

My dream cab back when they came out. I've always liked a 610, very jealous. I remember walking into Sound Control and asking if they could get their hands on an Epifani 610, he smirked and told me that he didn't think "Ep-eeeee-fone" made bass amps.

Probably time to look into doing that again right?

I've got an SE Electronics S1S that is superb in the 'recording only' category and fits almost within your budget. However, if this is a first mic and you're new to this then I'd recommend the Prodipe TT1 Pro. I have two that I use for vocals on stage and they are superb. Google them and see what the reviews and the professionals on ProSoundWeb say about them. £40 for a microphone that you'll never outgrow.

My local post office is very rural. I booked my Stingray 5 (in a hard case, in loads of packing) to be dropped off there. "Hi, I'd like to drop this off please." "Here?" "Yes please, it's booked in" "You can't leave that here, it's too big to go in Ken's van"

We have a pair of the 705ii in my indie rock band. I'm on record (even in this thread) as saying that I think the Altos are great but the rcf walk over them. They go deeper and louder. To make the point we usually just run one, we've never ran just one Alto.

That makes a lot of sense. My hard rock bacd has been using Alto TS for over a decade now. 15 tops and 18 subs, one stack each side (yes, yes, center cluster...) and we feel the same. They are certainly over that 'good enough' threshold.

I either own or have owned the MXR M80, the GK Plex, Sansamp BDDI, Studiospares 458190, Behringer BDI, TC Spectradrive, Two Notes Le Bass, probably a few others. You know what? Most of them have been great, it's just sound preference and feature sets my man. However, for about the past 5 years I've been really settled on either my HX Stomp (I used to use a faull fat rack Helix, bought the Stomp as a spare, then stopped using the rack) or a Sansamp Paradriver. Both are excellent. Top tier in their respective digital/analogue worlds IME.

What PA did you end up with?

Both good posts, thank you.

Well thankfully I was responding to Baloney talking about being a home user. Yes and again I do appreciate the benefits of all of that, I even understand most of it. However, again, I don't know that any of that is something that only Microsoft can give you and also, none of this was in the original discussion. I responded after several posts from home users and non-IT professionals (as far as we know!) talking about how much Windows sucks for them. Specifically, I responded to someone saying that Linux was an inconvenience. I didn't even mention the wider MS ecosystem until you did! Me saying "linux can be much more user friendly than windows" and you saying "but how we possibly start to introduce a data risk management strategy across our 10,000 strong user base whilst still ensuring high availability without Purview?" are kind of two different points. God, no. I take my security very seriously. I have just managed that without an annoying ping every 37 seconds that I need to perform a scan or that such and such a program wants to make changes to my pc.

I got the impression that you did which is why I was careful to state that, whilst I play an IT person on TV, I'm not actually an IT person. I'm a teacher. I will surely bow to your more significant expertise but, and I mean this sincerely, HOW are they the glue that's holding all of this together? I totally agree that device and OS are mattering less and less, which is a bloomin' great thing as now we can finally ditch Windows!

I think you think that's a pro, when it's actually a con. I'm a digital learning consultant by trade. Whilst I'm not technically an IT professional I am IT-adjacent and I fully appreciate the benefits of integration and management for an organisation. Active directory, single sign on and centralised MFA are all very useful tools to name just 3 and I do appreciate that my job would be extremely different without Teams. I might actually have to go into the office. Like, in town. My work provides a Thinkpad, it's a great piece of hardware and the Windows stuff doesn't bother me because I don't have to manage it. But I did have to wait 4 days last week for someone to reinstall Adobe Creative Cloud because a mandatory Windows update had broken CC, which meant that I couldn't actually use any of the Adobe apps that were already installed and working fine on my PC. But, the apps rely on CC... This is an Adobe problem for sure but if I hadn't been forced to upgrade and if all of the updaters actually talked to each other then we wouldn't have had this problem. Like, I dunno. sudo apt-get upgrade? However, firstly all of those management things are possible on Linux too. Hell, our Windows servers are all virtualised anyway, running on Linux machines for stability. And secondly, none of that matters for a home user. Home users want to turn a computer on, have it work, and do something. They don't need an AI assistant, adverts, integration with xbox, adverts, candy crush, adverts, a million free trials, adverts, forced updates, adverts, an army of widgets vying for attention, adverts, everything starting on startup, adverts, antivirus software, or adverts. And if they do, they can install them. The one thing that seems as though it would be really useful to low IT capital personal users is Office 365, particularly having files saved in the cloud. But nobody seems to understand how that works!