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I'm not 100% sure with the x-air, as most of the time I'm using A&H QU's (Quniverse?), but with Mixing Station, you can load all of the channel settings (gain, fader levels, sends etc) from the app onto the desk. I forgot to check it earlier, but I'll try to have a look.

I do this. I've used both the black panel and the super vintage. For me, the black panel is a better choice (we're Americana/Folk/Country or whatever) but the super vintage was very good as well. If you're touring with your own desk/engineer, it's a piece of cake and so easy to soundcheck. If you're going to venues where the desk and engineer are new to the band, it's a bit more complicated getting through soundcheck and it's sometimes a compromise (depending on the capabilities of the engineer and desk).

I'm a bit late to this, but with mixing station, you can save scenes on the app and load them onto the desk (disclaimer, I can't remember for certain if it does it with the xr-18, but I think it does. I'll try it later.) It's then a case of loading it on to the mixer when you connect, so I guess the answer is "it does both".

I wouldn't suggest doing this. Bluetooth has quite a high degree of latency, so it's going to be quite off-putting if you hear it.

That would be my take on it as well. Looking at the price on Sweetwater, it's almost double the cost of the Behringer Wing rack ($2999) so it's not going to be for everyone.

This has just been announced and looks pretty interesting: https://www.allen-heath.com/hardware/sq/sq-rack/ I'm guessing it'll be priced above the Behringer wing rack, but it looks like a good step-up from the QU-SB.

I'm in again. I got through '24 unscathed and there's nothing on the horizon that I think I want. There may be something wrong with me.

Been there, done that! 🤦‍♂️

We (Fine Lines) played at Ragged Bear Festival in Nuneaton, held at Queens Hall (or EEN L according to the sign). Audience seemed to like what we did (no glasses managed to hit us), despite us not being traditional "folk". Gear used was the usual (for me) Sklar Warwick Rockbass, Shure wireless, Origin compressor, DCX and Bassrig. No amplifiers were harmed in the making of this show. There's also one of my really bad YouTube videos, which I won't be offended if you don't watch (there is a song towards the end of the video).

That's pretty much how I look when I'm playing.

We (Fine Lines) played an outlier gig as a part of Leek Americana and Blues Festival in the grandly titled "Leek Bar and Grill" which appeared to have a bar and presumably had a grill (although it wasn't visible). It was the first outing for our new line-up, which featured a change of singist (who also played guitar) and drumist (who was playing cajon, so probably needs to be described as cajonist). All things considered, it wasn't terrible. We didn't get glassed off and the venue has asked us to return (as a band, not as patrons).

For people that don't do the Facebook, this popped up on my feed. Can't be too many of them around, so worth keeping an eye out for.

On some tours, the support act pays to get on the billing, with the hope that they'll make enough in merchandise to cover it. Sometimes, if they're signed, the record company will front the buy-in cost. We've had one occasion where we possibly just about broke even, although if one member of the band had submitted their full costs it would have lost money.

Really interesting, thanks for sharing it.

I think the Hap ax2 doesn't have an external antenna. Right-angled rj45 plugs look to be available from a few different places (Amazon, CPC, etc)