ibmorjamn
Ambassador of Moar Jammin
Man, nice work. Does it play and sound as good as it looks?
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Do you mostly play your guitar clean or dirty
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SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
It does.
C-Grin
Ambassador of Wonderland
That guitar is fab u lous
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Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
I see the rubber duckies are being judgemental again.
You did say rubber duckies, reminds me of a poem I used to say..
Rubber duckie your the one, rubber duckie have some fun , rubber duckie in the tubby , its rubber duckie time. I said this poem to some of the employees I used to work with. They used to tell me they had this poem going around and around in their head all day long...
I have a few of those “ear worms” I could share. But it might garner me a lifetime ban…. And I like you guys too much.You did say rubber duckies, reminds me of a poem I used to say..
Rubber duckie your the one, rubber duckie have some fun , rubber duckie in the tubby , its rubber duckie time. I said this poem to some of the employees I used to work with. They used to tell me they had this poem going around and around in their head all day long...
C-Grin
Ambassador of Wonderland
There was a man from nantucket......I have a few of those “ear worms” I could share. But it might garner me a lifetime ban…. And I like you guys too much.
I was actually thinking of something more like this…….
C-Grin
Ambassador of Wonderland
Like it or not, its a reality in some very deep venues without a house PA.
My point is, to see how many others have experienced it....
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
67plexi
Ambassador of Amps
I have a few PA systems the one I use now light weight QSC K 12.2 42 pounds each 1000 watts RMS 2000 watts peak
and have six of them for mains and monitors so far haven't needed a sub but if I do have a Bag End 4 x 10 with a Eden WT 800C
880 watts RMS bridged but most places we play have house systems and Keith has been my sound man since 1984
2000 to 2008 I had a show band with a horn section and keyboards used a 32 channel board then.
and have six of them for mains and monitors so far haven't needed a sub but if I do have a Bag End 4 x 10 with a Eden WT 800C
880 watts RMS bridged but most places we play have house systems and Keith has been my sound man since 1984
2000 to 2008 I had a show band with a horn section and keyboards used a 32 channel board then.
Like it or not, its a reality in some very deep venues with
For me, more often than not.
Monitors? What are those?
The phenomenon surely has a name???
Not a reality for us. Our band has never needed or used a house PA. We bring our own. Our mix has enough channels for all instruments and vocals and enough channels for monitors for everyone. Three of us use IEMs, the drummer and bass player still use wedges. The mix is a digital system and we all have the app on our phones to adjust our own monitor mix. Interesting that a WiFi router is a standard piece in our gear!
So, we are able to be more or less consistent in how we sound from venue to venue as we aren't at the mercy of whatever the house may or may not have. To be honest, this sort of approach is pretty common around here. Most venues don't have their own PA and the bands provide their own.
A couple of our music chum's bands went full Wi-Fi and IEM's, and then found that the interference in some clubs made the system unuseable. It seems those tabletop video/CC machines can really wreak havoc. On one occasion that i was present helping set up, a cell phone conversation in the club came blasting over the PA.
You gotta remember that we were a 5-6 night a week working band and we played a huge variety of venues.
Now, Bad Dog had its own PA, and we did use it sometimes...an example was when we played a private estate in LaJolla, at the height of the pandemic for a wedding reception of over 2,000 people (the couple got married in barbados and got stuck there due to the travel ban, so the family recovered them on a private plane) but, in general, we like the feel of a noisy crowd and stage volume over a full band PA.
About a year in, we swapped out the huge PA console (it was about 250 pounds in its case) for a Behringer X-Air.
We typically used the PA for vocals and drums. Everything else was stage volume.
There's certainly nothing wrong with the digital stuff and some people really do seem to gravitate towards it.
Out here, there's a lot of competition between musicians and bands about who has the most "trick" or modern/expensive equipment.
I can recall some of the bands we worked with kinda ribbing us for our "prehistoric" equipment choices. I never bought into all that nonsense.
Occasionally, when someone would ask about my equipment and question why i was using a "junk" DSL40C or Marshall Origin, i would just shrug my shoulders and tell them that it was "good enough to pay the bills."
If they insisted on giving me a hard time, (some woukd get really belligerent) i would invite them to compare deposit slips with me for a single week's earnings from their work in music.
That always stopped the conversation dead in its tracks.
I feel good about what we did in that band. It was fun and it paid very, very well.
Having fun is a very important aspect of the game...aside from winning...
We don't use the WiFi for audio. It is only used so our phones can connect to the mixer for individual control.
I never got into the IEM's except at a mega-church worship team, and then, only because it was salaried and mandated.
Ive heard errant cell phone traffic come over Bluetooth monitors numerous times in some venues.
One fellow we know had his Kemper interfered with by cell phones in the club, so much so that he had to switch to an amp - borrowing mine for the remainder of the show. It was transmitting a clipped signal in which you could actually pick out parts of the conversation.
Ive also had a clicking/static effect through my Marshall amps when a cell phone was near them on the stage, such as my bassist's cell phone, but no voice traffic was ever transmitted.
I'm glad to be away from all of that, despite not earning as much as i used to, but i have much more free time now and i like that.
I really like IEMs. I like being able to dial in exactly what I want to hear from each instrument and vocal. Then it doesn't matter where I stand, I can always hear the mix. I can leave the stage entirely and go into the crowd and still hear everything just right.
Ive used them, all the way up to the Oriolus Traillii JP's, and while they give you a facsimile of your sound, its not a faithful reproduction, so ive continued to avoid them, unless the producer mandates them, in which case ill use them.
Lot's of people do.like them...