mcnach

I'm only keeping FB because my main band uses Messenger primarily, and we get a lot of interactions with people and gig info etc through it... but I no longer really use it personally. It's become a really ugly place. The videos kept me going for a bit, it was an easy way to kill a few minutes here and there (as long as you don't go into the comments), but there's some much AI-generated crap... that was the last straw. I seem to have substituted it with Reddit. I found a few subforums that are pretty good.

My Z7-5 was just over 9 lbs and Z3-5 under 9 lbs (I don't recall the exact weight right now)... so fingers crossed Edit: No, the Z7-5 was 8.0 lbs actually, I can't trust my memory 😄 BUt both are light.

You know the island doesn't stop at Hadrian's Wall, right?

The RTA together with the parametric EQ makes it soooo easy to tune out feedback frequencies. That function alone is amazing.

Aha! Indeed, we played a new year's gig there this year. It's funny how a lot of this kind of venues look the same, yet they're distinct enough.

What's that venue? It looks very familiar, I'm fairly sure I have played there. I recently bought a Behringer X32 Compact to use with my main band, as we manage our own sound quite often. We were using a small 12 channel analog mixer with a single monitor aux, so it was quite a change. Digital mixers take a bit longer to get to grips with, in particular setting up the routing to do exactly what you want it to do, but what a revelation they are. I was a bit wary at first, delaying using the X32 live until I felt confident enough... but there's so much they can do, I was getting a bit overwhelmed. So I went back to basics and just set it up to be able to use it just like our previous mixer, basic functions only. That was pretty easy. Then, for each gig, we'd work out something new, saving each gig 'scene' as we went along... and before you realise it just makes sense. I think that because they can do so much, it's easy to get lost a bit, a bit like when I get a multiFX: I may spend hours just experimenting with the different sounds but not doing anything 'productive' with them.