WalMan

Long music day yesterday. First rehearsal with the prog band (Epsilon) in getting on two years during the day and remembered most of it. Slightly increased bass pit, but didn’t bother with the acoustic on a stand or extra keyboard 🤣 Home for a couple of hours kip then out for a bit of classic rock with The Alibi at a new venue for us. Next to no room so used the FPPR Status as a few knocks wouldn’t matter. Had a great night with the best overall sound in a while. I could probably have been up a bit more in the mix, but didn’t want to touch the stage level and get into volume wars. All good with the Darkglass Microtubes after it was back following some top customer service (picked it up secondhand from an auction and it went pop after one gig, I had no recourse to the auction house so emailed Darkglass to ask for a UK service centre and the said “send it back to us and we’ll sort it” and they did 😁). Four hours prog rehearsal and two hours gig in the evening and still cooking with gas. I do need to experiment with the settings but liking it. I should probably let one of the other amps go now as five is starting to become overkill 🤣

Jazz Sabbath - Iron Man

Indeed. The other possibility we talked about last night was cutting down the shaft of the extra pot that came from Zon and finding a way to fix it in the cavity so that the split shaft presents flush to the hole that was originally in the back plate for the mid control originally on the board. Depends whether the old mid pot will go back easily or not, but then it would be broadly back the way it was before with the Mid control on the board and adjusted through the backplate.

We’re looking at putting the original mid control back in the control cavity on the board where it always been and giving up on the idea of putting a pot on the front (a suggestion by Zon as a possibility in the first place when I talked to them about replacing the pots)

The control was originally in the cavity on the board adjusted by screwdriver through the control cavity cover. Currently investigating putting it back. Getting it into expected position for five knobs on the front seems unlikely to be possible unless anyone at Zon can tell us how

It is an option as seen HERE BE A PIC but working out how to do that is a problem. Currently investigating putting the pot back on the board as it apparently came off cleanly so is hopefully possible.

Yes indeed. Not sure whether we may be past that option as the board control is off. 😭

I have a dilemma with sorting the pots on my Zon Legacy Elite. The volume pot had given up so needed replacing. Got pots from Zon and they sent 5, because apparently it is possible to move the mid control from inside the cavity to the front-end that seemed like a good idea. The usual place for this from other photos I have seen looks to be towards the back 'horn' as in the last mocked up picture. But now we have everything out of the cavity (and the mid control off the board 🤦‍♂️) it seems that there is no space in the back position because the shaft & legs on the new pots are shorter, so the board is pulled closer to the front, and there is a capacitor on the board in roughly the same position that will likely snag on the new mid pot. So do we persevere and try to find a way to squeeze it into the usual position, or do we go with an alternate layout as pictured making a five dice face configuration, and if so with a normal side control knob or a different smaller one? The enormous top hat example is obviously not an option 🤣 I do like this bass and am not looking to sell currently, but it may become surplus to requirements (or due to GAS) and is not cheap, so I don't want to be making a change that'll put a big old dent in the value down the line!! Currently stuck in horrendous indecision. Does the 5 dice layout work (it's growing on me) and if so do I go with a fifth standard size top or a smaller one?

Los Pacaminos last night Wakeman/Wilson next Friday. Both at Trading Boundaries, our favourite venue

DOH! Just reread the opening thread and saw 3.4 that answered my Zoom H6 question 🤦‍♂️. So that’s a definite means to an end

Very interesting and helpful thread giving me a lot to think about for getting back into IEMs Having gone the SE215 route a few years back and never really got on with it (perhaps not surprisingly it seems having read through this thread) I am thinking of trying again with better moulded plugs and a new transmitter - though the number of gigs a year may make it an expensive expensive vanity project. However by the end of the gig last Saturday I could really have done with something as I had lost the bass to raging guitars. Vocalist already uses IEMs but not the whole hog just non moulded plugs and no mix just relying on bleed. One guitarist uses IEMs but again not fully. Other guitarist is completely anti. Drummer was talking about starting last night at rehearsal, so it may happen. I did wonder whether my Zoom H6 could be run as an ambient source, though would be a bit of a waste of the unit for rough gig recordings. I was considering either one of the ACS Ambient series or maybe Mercury as they produced my last set of ear defenders and are near to the office for moulds, but maybe biting the bullet and a bit extra for UE6 would be a better bet together with the Shure 300 or Sennheiser G4. But so many other things to get / consider to make it work (and just for me 🤷‍♂️)

First gig of the year for me and a great crowd to start us off, up dancing and singing along all night. Lots of positive feedback on sound and we only seemed to have a couple of alien abduction moments and pretty much caught them or worked our way out of them (not sure I’d want to listen back to a recording 🤣) Bonkers end to the evening with a load of (very whizzed) girls in front of me screaming “we love you, you’re the best” 😳 Seen later outside vomiting over a wall next to the venue possibly at the realisation of what they’d done 🤣 I know someone who’s going to have a very sore head in the morning and wonder at the new follows and likes they’ve added to their social media feeds.

Video for the radio version of the title track 'premiered' this evening on YouTube https://youtu.be/27Dp_-YvxYI

For today's WFH session: Stan Getz then Bill Evans, followed by Kate Rusby, and currently 10CC

Seeing Nik in a small club near me in April. 15 minute drive. Looking forward to it

We're rather hoping that The Tubes might manage some smaller Tubes only shows while they're here. But so sad about Rick

Los Pacaminos - 3 Feb Wakeman & Wilson - 10 Feb Both at our favourite venue - Trading Boundaries

Moron Police, A.C.T and assorted other Scandi punky/proggy bands

I am thinking of getting back to IEM's after many years. We used to have dedicated mixers on CAT5's to the digital stage box but it was a bit of a faff and more cables trailing. Sound guy now has a wifi router connected to the stage box so it would be easy to have a fold back sub on the box and do any tweaks with Mixing Station or X-Air on my phone connected to the router. EAD10 looks very interesting for the kit. I shall have to go back over this thread to find out more

Dep for me. Near home, and finished by 11:30. Now I just need to be paid as the pub uses one of the online payment systems ☹️ No rehearsal and some less well known songs from the 60’s onwards, so working with a selection of chord charts and iReal bits I’d found on my iPad on a stand with a Bluetooth page turner I’d had for a while but never used in anger. That plus keeping an ear out for what the guitarist was up to, as he went off piste at times and reading the nods for endings, but got through relatively unscathed. First night out with the Darkglass Microtubes 500 I won in an auction recently (with my trusty Streamliner in case there were any problems). Sounded good and no problems, which was nice. Now I just need to understand how the Intelligent footswitch works

Currently hoping that a smallish parcel of replacement parts from Zon make it to my friend who is in the US at the mo to bring back with him in the New Year rather than trust the vagaries of International post. Then I need to find funds to get them installed.

Further pointless reminiscence: This was 10 months after Mrs Walman and I married and we went back to Torquay and stayed a few nights at a nice B&B run by a youngish couple that we had found on our pot luck tour down through Devon & Cornwall for our honeymoon the year before. Lay by an outside pool listening on a portable radio in the day and then headed back to the B&B where we ended up sitting watching the show in the evening with the owners.