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Sorry, no pics as I was still setting up until three (as in the three in 1,2,3,4). The Rebbels had a very good gig at my local Legion, in front of all my friends. People that have seen us many times said we had the sound we ever have, although we had to run without on stage monitoring, due to feedback problems. Legion in the next Village next Saturday.

That is all wrong, mixed driver sizes, side by side not stacked and Ampless sorry Ampeg. I bet it sounded grewat.

We supply our own mics and the monitors are mine. The singer has an SM58, I use a Sontronics Solo and the guitarist has a Behringer XM8500. My mic is a super-cardioid and the others are cardioids. The Singer and I have good mic technique, but I keep trying to get the guitarist to sing closer to the mic.

Further to the comments, I remember a gig where the stage was so small for us as a 5 piece that we had to place the monitors at the side. I seem to remember a very nice monitor sound. The monitors I use have a 60x60 dispersion on the horns, so I should have realised that we were firing at our feet. Make some new wedges to angle them at our ears next week. One other thing was, actually two other things, the thumb screw from one of the 12" tops was missing, and the other would not tighten, the thread had stripped. I could contact the seller, but he would deny all responsibility. They had been loaned to the guitarist for a recent gig of his occasional band, but I had not checked them before lending them out. I had a spare M8 machine screw and ran it through the insert in the cabinet. It went in easily at first, but just before getting to the end of the insert is stiffened. Using the correct sized spanner, I gently tried to use the screw to clear the thread. It did finally go through, and so I was happy to search for new Thumb Screws. Despite searching for local suppliers, only Mr Bezos Emporium had the right size and they will be arriving tomorrow.

I would be there in a shot if I could, who said the dinosaurs are extinct?

Our singer will not use IEMs.

We did not mic the drums although we did have the drum mics there. With the monitors, it was the onset of feedback. I believe, but I am happy to be corrected that the monitors were at the wrong angle. They are passive and cuboid in shape, and were on a typical bookshelf monitor so really pointing at out legs. This is where I will start next week. Either add to my collection of one 8” active speaker, or make some new monitor stands angled at around 45 degrees.

Well FOH got good comments and as the Singist was in a chatty mood, all was good BUT I could not get the stage monitors to a usable level. We could hear the FoH quite well on stage and that make me wonder whether that was adding to the problems. We go again next Sat with a few changes that might help. 😀

Tonight I am in total control of the PA so to add to the usual gig nerves I have that to contend with! Add the tantrums of a muddled aged child (singer).., However I have worked through things many time at home and I should be OK😀

What are you using as the control unit?

Some of you will know that @Phil Stayt bailed my band out last weekend by loaning us his RCF Art 310s. Yesterday I battled monsoon and heatwave (typical British summer day) to travel fro Poole to Chard. As you would expect Phil and I spent a few hours discussing speakers. In particular we compared my cube shaped 8” cabinet with his easy build 8” cabinet. My cab was designed to go with my Ashdown After 8 that I had extensively modded and called the After 80. Having been blown away, week mildly amazed, at how my 8” and the 6” cab Phil built, with Fane drivers worked for bass, he did an optimised version of the 8”. Yesterday was the day we compared them. Both cabs used the Fane Sovereign 8-225 driver. Phil will explain why but basically it was the same driver in each cab at substantially the same tuning and cabinet cabinet volume. However the new cab was closer to the traditional cab rather than the cube of my cab. Apart from small issues caused by a cubic cab, we expected the cabs to sound the same. As the saying goes, every day is a school day and the cabs sounded quite different. The difference was that my cubed cabinet had the driver quite close to the floor. Once the other cab was laid on its side so that both drivers were at a similar height above the carpeted floor, they sounded very similar. There was little difference to the low end but being nearer the floor/carpet really attenuated the upper frequencies. We are all aware that rooms with lots of soft furnishings sound different to hard floors/walks but I was quite shocked at the difference.

BE aware that if you just leave the pipe/port at the same length, you will get unexpected results. You may remember the old Bose Bug Eyed PA tops, where the ports extended outside the front baffle, it is my understanding that you do not change the tuning much. However, you will have more internal volume (in litres). @Phil Starr, @Bill Fitzmaurice and @stevie will probably correct me. (flak jacket and tin helmet donned)

Suits Wyman then.

Oh, and the thread is in the wrong place!

Having had 5h1t experience with Elixer acoustic strings, I would need my 12ft bargepole to touch the brand again.