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Get in touch with the PRS.

Personally if was trying to run two mission-critical apps on a single mobile device and found that they wouldn't play nicely together, I'd invest in separate devices for each one. I also wouldn't even bother trying to run anything static off batteries. Use a mains adaptor and if that requires a special USB or Lightning adaptor to allow mains power and control functionality at the same time then get that too. A couple of years ago I witnessed a fairly well-known band abort their sound check because the iPad running their backing ran out of power. Then despite spending a couple of hours recharging it whilst the two support bands sound checked and played, it died again a couple of songs from the end of the set. The only battery driven devices I'll entertain on stage are the mobile end of radio transmitters and receivers. Everything else is run off the mains.

The problem is that mobile devices (tablets and phones) only have the illusion of being able to run multiple apps at once. Most will allow you to use them as a music player while running one other app in the foreground, but they are not properly multi-tasking like a real computer. Anything complex reloads in the background when you switch focus to it, hence the inability for them to run the mixer interface and crib sheet apps simultaneously.

TDK Metal tapes, supposedly the best quality of tape coating and according to the meter markings on my Aiwa cassette deck capable of taking an additional 2dB recording level before distortion. These also had a partly metal shell to give better alignment of the tape over the recording and playback heads I used these for the stereo masters of all my home recordings.

That's a pity. Unfortunately in the grand scheme of things Goth, we're still relatively new hence our lowly spot on the bill.

You could probably merge "Accessories and Misc" and "Repairs and Technical" into a single forum since IME they have a largish crossover with each other and plenty of threads regarding repairs tend to get posted in the forum for the piece of gear needing to be repaired. Which would make room for PA to have its own main forum in Gear.

Next gig for Hurtsfall at the Victoria Bikers Pub in Coalville. We're playing on Saturday 16 September on stage at 5.50pm. BTW since this poster was produced Reptile House have been replaced by Auger.

Whenever I've had problems like this it has been the digital devices going into some sort of protect mode or failing to "boot" properly due to under current or voltage, and it normally takes more time then is available at a gig for things to settle down which is why they don't work at the gig and are fine once you get home and have a proper electricity supply to test things out with. IME the only guaranteed way to stop this happening at gigs is to run your complete rig from a UPS.

Actually I was mostly listening to demo tapes by Nottingham bands, IIRC my favourites at the time were by The Basking Sharks and Fuel To The Fire.

Hurtsfall played on Friday night at The Angel in Nottingham with Inward Strange and Cold In Berlin. Another really good one for us, not quite as bonkers as our last gig in Leeds, and we didn't play quite as well (we were probably the only people who noticed that) but there were plenty of people down the front dancing and cheering between songs. Only down side was that the foldback mix for our set was entirely different to the one we had sorted out during the soundcheck despite the fact that nothing had need to be unplugged in between and the venue has a programmable digital desk. It wasn't a big deal, but in this day and age the only reason I can think for this happening is user error on the part of the PA engineer. However lots of people came up afterwards and told us how much they had enjoyed the set, and we sold a decent amount of merch. I was expecting to be able to post some photos but nothing has shown up on social media yet. Next gig is on 16th September in Coalville at the Victoria Bikers Pub as part of the Gothic Gathering festival. We're on just before 6.00 in the evening.

To the OP, why 1985?

I just had a look at my iTunes library andI have very few albums from 1985 and of those only the Propaganda one was bought at the time. The others were all purchased within the last 20 years. For me the mid-80s (like the mid-70s) was a low point in music. I only bought a handful of contemporary albums between 1985 and 1988. Post-punk and synth pop were on their way out, and I've have to wait for Acid House for there to be new music that I really liked.

Line6 Helix. I can't imagine ever needing any other signal processing ever again.

I couldn't afford a car or even a Walkman in 1985. If I had it would have been Doot-Doot by Freur (which even though it came out in 1983 had yet to be bettered by anyone IMO) or A Secret Wish by Propaganda.

If the OP has all the elements in place then the simplest thing will be for them to just try it. If it sounds OK it is OK.

And IMO fairly useless for getting the Wal sound without the Wal pre-amp.

It probably depends on how you browse. I have Basschat open in a tab of my browser all the time while I'm working so I can quickly dip in and see what's happening while I'm waiting for a 3D render or for Photoshop to process a 2GB file, and because of this the default view works fine for me. If I'm really keen to keep up with what is being posted I can push the window onto my third monitor which is only used about 50% of the time for work. I rarely "follow" any threads because it's easy to see which ones have new posts. On the other hand if I was on a mobile device and viewing once a day or less I might find one of the alternative arrangements more suitable.

A quick reminder that Hurtsfall are playing at the Angel in Nottingham tonight. £7 to get in, we're on about 8.45 but all the bands are well worth seeing.

Nothing. It's all been sold. I started buying studio rack gear in the late 80s as I was building up my home studio and by the early 2000s I had 20U studio of signal processors a similar amount of synths and samplers, plus rack mounted DACs and MIDI interfaces. At the time it was the only way short of having a massive ProTools rig of being able to process multi-track audio. However as my computer and DAW got more powerful and sophisticated I was using the hardware less and less. Also while you can get away with just a single good bus effect, anything that you want to run via a channel insert like compressors and gates you need a separate instance for every channel. When my very expensive digital mixer failed and turned out to be uneconomical to repair I sold the rest of the hard ware and now I do everything "in the box". Not only that but apart from a couple of 3rd party plug-ins Helix Native and VSDSX (both of which I could live without - they make certain things easier but both are completely replaceable) I only use the plus-ins that are bundled with Logic. That way none of my studio becomes obsolete, and I won't suddenly find that one of my signal processors no longer works.

I frequent another music forum where serval of the sub fora have so many pinned threads that the first unpinned one is off the bottom of the "page" on a 23" monitor! Consequently the first thing I do when browsing these is automatically scroll past everything that is pinned.

I have pretty much everything I need. It would be nice if it was all cheaper, but that's basically it. If really pushed I would like Line6 to develop a Synth Filter module for the Helix with full ADSR modulation that can be controlled via MIDI note on/off

If the two signal are completely separate and only one goes to the FoH and the other to your IEMs then it should be fine. Phasing only occurs when you get the same signal from two different sources. The easiest thing is to try it and see if you can hear any unwanted artefacts.

The images of the band all looked like manipulated clips from previous videos, and I'm sure I spotted Bill Wyman in one or two.

Surely the whole point of going for a dedicated pre-amp or modeller is that what you send FoH is the same as what you hear on stage, in which case the last thing you want is a "bass" speaker colouring your sound. That's why those of us who have ditched traditional bass amps use PA-style FRFRs. And if you don't go through the PA and your rig is slowly responsible for what the audience hears then you just adjust the preamp settings until you get the sound you want from your FRFR cab.

If you are getting both the FoH mix and your individual bass send in your IEMs then you may have phase issues with the bass in your IEMs, but in theory not FoH where it really matters. Personally I think that sometimes we get a little bit too precious about on-stage sound. While it would be brilliant have a perfectly EQ'd and balanced mix for each musician in the band, that tends to cost more money than most bands want to spend. In the mean time I'll settle for being able to tell I'm in tune and in time with the rest of the band and enough of the vocals and other instruments to know where I am in the overall song structure without needing to count bars.