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19 hours ago, MrPring said:

Just to say this worked a treat lads. Everyone on stereo mixes now. 

 

Drummer has just ordered a Yamaha Ead10 solely for our IEMs as well so look forward to adding that in. We're also going to use our own mics on the guitar cabs from now on (all 4 of us have our own vocal mics) so we're going to be totally consistent from night to night. 

Our drummer uses one of those - very clever bit of kit, and does a decent job. I record our gigs through our Soundcraft ui24 and just use the feed from the EAD10 as the drum source. Not the best sound (cymbals a bit muted and kick a bit weak) but does the job well enough for snippet videos etc.

Amazon have Behringer P2s on sale at £27 at the moment should anyone fancy any...

Ahhh - stuff that for an idea then. I'll stick with wires

On 13/08/2023 at 22:41, markbunney said:

Had my first gig with IEMs last night, I was using KZ ZS10 Pro X which I picked up for £40.

 

it was a positive first experience using them, and a revelation to be able to hear our lead guitarist so clearly as he is the opposite side of the stage to me. Vocals were distorting quite a bit, but I think that can be fixed as we get more used to the setup and mixer etc.

 

I hate using cables, and so managed to make myself a DIY wireless kit using a Behringer P2 and a Lekato wireless mic 5.8ghz set. It worked just fine, and I didn’t experience any drop outs or pairing issues. I was also using my Boss WL20 on 2.4 ghz, we have a digital desk on 2.4, one of the guitarists has a 2.4 wireless and a gear for music wireless IEM set, so plenty going on but all worked well.

 

I was keen to try IEMs but didn’t want to spend a fortune if it turned out it wasn’t for me, overall I was happy with everything  I had. The P2 and Lekato combo felt quite heavy in my hand, but I didn’t really notice it

clipped on my belt, and it was still preferable to a cable. Only downside was the receiver didn’t lock into the P2 XLR but it didn’t ever feel like it would disconnect.

 

Argh, sorry, the forum editor is driving me loopy. This is the post I was referring to - I assume there are better ways to kludge things together then?

Hmm, that's odd, I could have sworn that there were people using this combo - see my next post - messed this one up....

A quick heads up. Just poking around at the "cheapo" 5.8GHz solutions (i.e. Lekato + P2) - Amazon have a Joyo version of the Lekato which looks to be identical, and they have a £21 voucher off on them until 21st November - making them £84 rather than £105...

13 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

That would take you back into neckdive territory, I suspect. It would also be a helluva challenge to find an aluminium veneer to fit the headstock and which would also take that 3D holographic polish. 😉

0.5mm alu sheet here - can't imagine that would weigh much for the area of the headstock

https://www.smetals.co.uk/product/0-5mm-thick-1050-grade-aluminium-plate/

DIY swirl pattern video here - looks like he's just using a bit of a pan scrubber attached to a drill

Kind of interesting - I was going to buy a body but they are quite compact, so not sure if they would work for a 34" scale neck...

Bodies

"Picked up in a warehouse clearance and confirmed by the previous owners that these were imported in the 70's for Dan Armstrong guitars prior to the company going under. 

Some of these are pre-drilled/routed and some are plain bodies. "

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/386809463556

Necks

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387030022728

The seller has some other more guitar based bits and bobs as well....

On 19/01/2024 at 15:38, Buddster said:

Anything that has a browser, which is any table/phone I guess. 

With our Soundcraft we've used iphone, ipad, android phone and tablet, Amazon fire, Apple laptop. You get the drift. 

I'd recommend at least a 10" screen as it can get fiddly using your finger on a small screen. But as there's no processing (it's just a browser window) you don't need to go expensive. 

As has been mentioned, the wifi can be a bit intermittent so we run a separate router. 

Like you, I have a Soundcraft (Ui24r), which as you say is browser based, so tablet/phone agnostic (so long as it is not totally ancient). However, the Behringers need an app to interact with it rather than via browser, so age and type of tablet is a little more important.

On 03/11/2023 at 22:56, Phil Starr said:

Glad it is working, I’m still slightly surprised by mine when I crank it. Another outing for it tonight as it happens. 
 

I need to get on with the Eight and a finalised design.

...and I still need to get the 8" drawings sorted for you!

Ahhh, yes, they are the ones I have an eye on for a potential Grabber/tbird style build (thundergrab?)

What pickups are you using? 

Crimson have some videos demonstrating how to do bursts with stains, and I'd imagine the principle is the same - you can always sand back it it doesn't look right. I would suggest having a play with some scrap wood.

I believe Mike retired the Boudica shape for a while, but as Lemmywinks says, he has started using the shape again.

That's an early one I think - the logo on the body suggests so anyway. @Cosmicrain - can you fill in any more info?

2 hours ago, stevie said:

Yes, please.

Email winging its way to you with amended PDF.

Stevie, just seen you mention another batten on the baffle - I can add that to the drawings. Do you want it to go full height from top right down to meet the horizontal batten? Looks to be around 160mm?

Stevie, I can email you the PDF for the drawings, then you could perhaps edit your first post and add them to it? (Though maybe you can't do that with old posts... not sure....)

This looks really interesting. I have a Dwarf on the way - as a super early bird adopter, I chose to be in the last tier for delivery, so got caught in the collapse.... haven't stumped up the extra to get it sooner as yet...

However, with all these multi FX devices like the Dwarf and HX stomp, all I really want it is a way to be able to jump between a few set "sounds" - so an additional controller like this looks like just the job for gigging use. Watching with great interest!

Behringer PM1 might be a better bet - £33 - so a few quid more than the SubZero thing, but will give you a volume control as well

https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0BKB

Note that this ISN'T a headphone amp (like the P2) - just a passive in line volume control - but it does the XLR to minijack conversion as per the adapter above, but also gives you volume control at your fingertips.

19 hours ago, Jakester said:

Yep, they’re great if you don’t already have a drum mic setup. If you have, they’re probably a better bet in the long term. 

I do have drum mics, and have been thinking of adding a kick mic to get a better kick sound from the recordings, but the EAD10 is sooooooo easy - and on a small stage space, the lack of extra mic stands is a real boon as well! The recordings are only for us to listen back to for reference as to how terribly we played. Here's an example recording - I have to admit I don't spend ages tweaking the mix or anything, just set the levels roughly in Reaper for the whole set, then export one track at a time. As you'll hear, the drum sound isn't brilliant - but I don't think we have explored the EAD10's capabilities that much yet - but it certainly works for being able to hear.

That's nice!

3 hours ago, Jakester said:

If he likes spending money, the Yamaha EAD10 is an all in one mic/monitoring solution. 

I was going to mention that (but hesitated due to the cost). Our drummer has one, and it works surprisingly well. I multitrack record our gigs via the mixer, and the only drum monitoring we have is the EAD10. We also use the feed from it through the PA to add a bit of oomph to the overall sound. 

I guess a certain cohort of people will (incorrectly) consider 15" drivers incapable of covering the whole frequency range, thus discarding them as a one cab solution.

4 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

We normally do stop the cavalry and Merry Christmas Everyone, and yes, people do want that stuff

 

Stop the Cavalry's a great song - nice choice!

On Saturday we had a gig, and had run through Merry Xmas Everybody a couple of times "just in case". We got to the end of the second set, so I asked the audience who wanted a Christmas song - the resounding answer was "no" - so I told them they were getting a Christmas Number one hit anyway - and we launched into Killing In The Name (our usual closer) - which went down a treat. 

Had the reaction been more positive, we would have busked through the Slade song as well, but Killing acted as a good backstop