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Jodi-Vac, FIR vac...

You can get mini vacuums.

1 minute ago, Rich said:

OK, please bear with me as I am only just now dipping my toe into IEM waters, and only really for my backing vox. The idea being that the in-ears themselves just give me a vocal feed and are loosely inserted so that they do NOT provide a tight seal in my ears, so that I get the ambient sound of my bass coming through (the bass being quite loud on stage as it's backline only and not going through the PA). It's all very simple stuff, just a monitor output from the desk fired through a 5.8GHz wireless gadget into a set of in-ears. In the very first post in this huge thread, there's mention of KZ ZS10 buds as a good place to start... would these do as a toe-dip? I'd like something with a decent bass response so I could also use them with an mp3 player etc for long journeys or the like.

I realise this has probably been covered somewhere within the thread, but I don't really have the time to trawl through 74 pages.  

 

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You only really need to read the first few posts. Loosely inserted IEMs in your ears is not the way to go.

11 hours ago, woodyratm said:

Has anyone used the ultimate ears UE5 pro? Or 6?

 

my Acs ones have a weird issue and they haven’t managed to fix.

Plenty of people on here use UE6 - it’s the entry point I recommend for the pro experience in a custom.

im not usually one for green basses... but this looks very lovely!

Nope. Won’t work. You need a stereo system for stereo.

16 hours ago, dave_bass5 said:

I asked him at the gig on Sat about one song and he said it was tricky doing this.

Perhaps he should spend the next week doing this as part of his practice… assuming he does.

10 hours ago, Killerfridge said:

It's good, but I think it misses some key points. Janek and his wife Chelsea address it very well here, especially around how "we have no evidence that fakery is bad for self esteem", except we have a litany of evidence in young women and facetuning:

 

 

 

4 mins in and they’ve said nothing. Nup, not sitting through any more of that.

16 hours ago, chriswareham said:

Lots of bands mime substantial parts of their performance at concerts, especially at the professional level. My wife is a former professional opera singer and was in denial when I told her that several of her favourite bands mime a lot. I knew this because friends have actually played in those bands and told me about it. Then through one of those friends she was offered a chance to perform with the side project of the lead singer from one of her favourite bands. It was to "perform" the operatic backing vocals and keyboard parts. They sent the backing tracks, which consisted of pre-recorded vocals and keyboard parts that the audience would hear plus an in ear track she would hear. That in ear part included a click and cues of the form like "chorus in 4, 3, 2, 1" simply to ensure the mimimg was convincing to the audience.

Theres more to it than that.

Granted, there will be mimes - but when you get to larger productions, where there is a hell of a lot of effort put into polishing the audio, click is vital for things like time based effects (e.g. delays). Theres simply too much going on for sound engineers to be tapping tempos or trying to get players to control their onstage effects to be in sync to an ever changing tempo. Solution = click, and midi timecode. Lets not also forget, for large scale events, you'll need a click for automations on the light show.

Cues is no biggie - why wouldn't you prerecord the cues if you are running to a pre-arranged show? It's making the MDs life a bit easier on the talk back mic.

I know Rick Beato talked about changing up shows - all possible if you mark your loop zones in the arrangements. Like everything, it's all in the prep.

And thats why the best stadium shows are complete mammoth works of art.

1 hour ago, Merton said:

https://www.instagram.com/share/_tobxtl53

Got lucky with the timings then!

Is Jones really going to deliver on that bass?

Can you not choose lighter woods and get as much as it chambered as possible?

PS - be prepared to spend quite a significant amount of money for that sized band.

Stereo or mono?

And it sounds like you will need a split if running with a house desk.

Figure out who absolutely can't be wired. For example, keys and drums could safely be wired feeds.

Wireless you are opening yourself up to a load of chaos unless you absolutely know what you are doing. The UL1000 for example, you'll only be able to run 3-4 of those in stereo legally. If it does the focus mode (where you can get two mono feeds out of one transmitter and one receiver) - you'll get 6-8. I wouldn't be touching a Ch70 system for that size of band unless you can bail out onto wired. Also, I would hazard a guess the UL1000 isn't going to have the best compander - so probably not going to sound that great. (Not that I've tried one... but I certainly know the trend... and theres a reason why EW300s and PSM900s cost what they do).

2 hours ago, MichaelDean said:

Laney have removed their content of his as well. On Friday they released a custom colour for the Lionheart Fountry with Giacomo all over the marketing. All pulled. Yikes.

https://www.laney.co.uk/artists/giacomo-turra-solo

404 - Hoodwinked.

On 14/01/2025 at 20:43, Killerfridge said:

I see he's got something in the works with Giacomo Turra. Not a fan of his mimed videos, but will be nice if it gets Jones some exposure

be careful who you choose to endorse…

What do you want customised? The size, or the finish? Or both?

1 hour ago, MichaelDean said:

so that the sound doesn't change from soundcheck to the show!

Isn't that called a jazz gig?

I remember this one being born - such a beautiful top! Love it.

First up - have you read the opening posts. You need to get your head around how this stuff works first. Happy to help, but your question at the moment is not at all what you want to be doing as your EQing to hear yourself better is a) going to make your bass not sound how it should to the audience b) is effectively just turning up the volume and defeating the point of what your ear plugs are meant to be doing!

If you are not wanting to plug into anything and have a standalone solution (e.g. volume controllable ear plugs), I refer you to this section in the opening post - 

If you haven't got a desk or aux available to you, you can try using the above with a field recorder (e.g. a Zoom recorder - others are available). See section 3.4.

6 hours ago, warwickhunt said:

 

You can buy a footswitch that when depressed cuts the vocal mic to FOH but can still transmit to all/any IE.  Not sure what you call them but our band leader had one; he could step on the switch mid song and let us know if we were going to change next song etc.

Talkback mic/MD mic/God mic

Switch is usually a A B switch to 2 channels on the desk, (1 to front of house, 2nd to aux feeds only) or a MIDI switch which effectively kills foh but being pre fader allows the signal to still pass to the auxes.

2 channels is nice as it allows you to have 2 different levels for when the MD is singing vs louder for instruction.

Quick Q, did you read the opening posts? There’s some key concepts you seem to be missing.

Jeesh. Arguing over a 5er on big ticket items.

Interesting first post!  Welcome by the way.

Top job!