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We had a family weekend in London last October and probably the thing that we all enjoyed was a speedboat trip along the Thames. This departed from a pier next to the London eye, done the touristy bit at the start. When it got to a certain point they gave it the Beans and turned on the James Bond music. It wasn't to expensive either if I remember correctly, about £130 for the four of us.

We use one of those Egg box shaped acoustic tiles with a hole in the middle for the pole to go through., works a treat.

Thanks for all the replies. Got plenty to think about. Ash

Cheers, just finishing work will have a look when I get home. Ash

The lights I have are 6/10 channels switchable. I assumed that if I had 4 lights I would need a controller which was capable of 40 channels. You say that the cheap ones can handle 256 channels which will be more than enough surely? I'm just looking for something simple the singer can change via the footswitch. Thanks for the advice. I'll have a look at Thomann. Ash.

The band are needing some new lights so I started looking for something half descent. Our old lights were just set to sound and done an OK job. After a bit of research, which entailed calculating how much it cost per Watt. I decided to purchase four LEDJ Performer 18 Hex. These are 18x12W 6IN1 colour LED's [ RGBWAUV] which are 6/10 channels. The idea was to get the Singer to operate the lights via a footswitch. However trying to find a controller/ footswitch which is compatible has been a bit tricky. I take it I need a controller that can handle at least 40 channels and the 6 colours, which has the ability to run a footswitch off it? Does any such thing exist? And if so can anyone point me in the right direction. Cheers Ash.

Done.

[size=4][b][i][sub][sup][size=5]We use the T-Bone wireless system from Thomann and have had no problems [/size][/sup][/sub][/i][/b][/size] [size=4][b][i][sub][sup][size=5] using it for vocals only.[/size][/sup][/sub][/i][/b][/size]

We use a label writer. Once you have worked out how many letters per channel its a doddle. Looks good to.

I was bidding on a few items and was winning on all of them. With 10 mins to go the site crashed. At the end i thought i had won all the items. However i was out bid on most things at the death, which may have been a blessing in disguise as Mrs BA would of had a sh*t fit when she found out. I did win a powered Peavey XR 1212 Desk which was handy as the desck in our studio died a while ago. According to the Peavey site these retail at £925, i managed to get this for about £170 all in. When my invoice arrived i discovered i had also won 9 yes 9 Trace Elliot footswitches. Went down on Friday [ left at 5am ] picked the stuff up, all seems brand new. The only problem is only two of the footswitches had cables with them and i cannot find where to buy the cables from. They appear to be din 9 pin cables. Anyone one have any ideas where i can pick some up?

[quote name='redbandit599' timestamp='1416697603' post='2612809'] Thinking about getting some new lights. Like the look of these LED jobs, do any of you mount them on your PA stands in any way? Would be good to not have to have other t-bars etc? J [/quote]We use some chauvet clp 10 clamps. Currently half price from ebay £6 each. They clamp on to your pa poles with a wing nut to secure lights. They come with various plastic inserts for different diameter poles. However they dont have an insert for standard 35mm pa poles. We used the slightly larger insert with a strip of foam kitchen cloth,l this provides a secure fit and works well.

Have a look at the Peavey 16fx, we recently bought one of these second hand for £300 inc case. It has 6 auxs, 4 sub groups and twin effects where you can have 3 effects on each channel. It has the usual reverbs and delays, plus it also has 31 band and parametris eq's, compressors, limiters, feedback detection and loads of other stuff. Great piece of kit for the money.

[size=4][sub]Does anyone know if they do left handers. [/sub][/size]

I bought some strings off Thomann and put them on after owning them for a couple of months. The E string snapped as soon as any tension was put on it. Contacted Thomann, was told to send picture of string. New set arrived a couple of days later. Bloody Germans!

We played at a local football club the day they were playing at the other end of the country. 6 people turned up. We ended up introduciong the crowd to the band as it would be quicker. To their credit they stayed all night and danced When we were packing up 2 Bus loads turned up and demanded that we set up again and played The Manager was very apologetic and said he would book us again on a Bank holiday Sunday as it's always packed then. The only problem was the August Bank holiday is not a Bank holiday in Scotland and only 12 turned up. We have'nt heard from them again.

[i]Done,[/i] [i]good luck.[/i]

[i]We use a plate reverb on vocals, increase the amount untill you can just hear the effect. Then back it off a bit so it sounds natural to the room you are in.[/i]

Done.