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  1. jimmyb625
    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).
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    That's pretty much how I look when I'm playing.
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    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).
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    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.
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    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.
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    Really interesting, thanks for sharing it.
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    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)
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    You can get over-ears hearing protectors which have a 3.5mm socket, but you'd need to put in an external source (possibly a small zoom recorder).
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    It's been a long time since I tried them, but my main concern would be that they're mainly designed to amplify speech. I'm not sure what they'd be like for music as the in built microphones weren't great. There's also an in-built gate, which I'm not sure is adjustable (probably depends on the model) so that might be problematic as well. That said, it's been 20 years since I last tried them, so the technology may have moved on since then.
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    I think the accessible stereo/mono switch is a useful improvement.
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    Whereabouts in Northwich was it?
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    I use the Behringer rack mounted mic splitters with my stage box rack mixer, in case there's a requirement to split feeds. It's a little pricier than using y cables, but I find it a neater solution and quicker to setup and strip out, which is the main issue for most of the use it gets. I should really label the inputs.
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    A few users here (myself included) swapped out the supplied cable for one from designacable. I thought it was definitely worth it, as I wanted a right-angled jack, rather than a straight one.
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    How unreasonable of them!
  15. jimmyb625
    I think what people are saying, is that it's subjective. For me, the ZS10's are great. I can't say if they're the best sub £100 set, as I haven't tried every model available. They do what I need them to though, at a price that wouldn't make me wince if I had to replace them.
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    Heads up for anyone looking at a cheap way of getting into IEMs, Andertons have the Behringer P2 on offer at the moment: https://www.andertons.co.uk/behringer-powerplay-p2-personal-headphone-amplifier/
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    £405.51 and our back catalogue of cd's signed (or unsigned, as that will probably increase the value...)
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    £402.50 and that's with me already having a QU24 and QU-SB! Seriously, for that money, it's a no-brainer.
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    Cheers! We have one due out in a couple of weeks (or months, no one ever tells me) which will have 3 new tracks, plus some of the ones we usually feature in a set. A kind of "greatest hits" although no one's really heard of us. We ended up having to pull out of the Wickham Festival, as the main singer caught an infection which he couldn't shift, so that was a bit disappointing.
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    We are! We're an Americana/Folk/Country style band (we have a fiddle player, so whatever genre that puts us in, I'm never overly sure). We're playing on the Sunday, not sure of the time yet, but I think it will be early afternoon. Hopefully it won't be too early, as I'm coming back on a ferry in the morning, so have got a bit of a trip to get there. This is the song we're opening with, so they'll know when to leave 🤣) https://youtu.be/mkQjcp2if3c?si=CO0ouqr9O9mBSuRK
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    This is the next one for us, on Sunday 4th August. https://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/artist/fine-lines/
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    Just a heads-up, as I know some of us rate these DI boxes pretty highly. John doesn't sell directly anymore, with all of the sales being handled now by Showbitz. They have an ebay page: https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/showbitzltd?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=Qe7vtgZfT5C&sssrc=3418065&ssuid=ZHVO_SrYQeO&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY But, it's a whole load cheaper if you buy through their webstore: https://www.showbitz.co.uk/product-category/orchid-electronics/ It looks like all of the same gear is available, but it's massively cheaper buying directly from them. I have no associations with them (but if they want to send me something, I'll not refuse).
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    I think someone must be stealing our tip jar...
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    I was going to say, the x-touch with the XR18 is a great combination. The biggest downfall (in my opinion) with the Allen & Heath QU-SB is that it's difficult to get an external control surface to play nicely with it.
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    In our theatre, we use this: https://www.roomeqwizard.com/ together with one of the suggested microphones: miniDSP USB microphone It's really useful for analysing "the room" which means we can set our master eq's for the house system to be fairly flat, or at least control some of our more problematic frequencies. It will give you suggested settings for parametric eq's (I think it does GEQ as well, but I've not used it for a while). It will also allow you to do RTA which we do on occassion. The best thing about the room sweep though, is that it takes about 2 seconds to run it, so we have done it right before the start of the show, to analyse the difference that the audience make to the room response. Obviously, in your situation, you'd be better off doing it during soundcheck (unless you have someone out front who can monitor it). Outboard graphic eq's are pretty affordable on the second hand market, as many people are off-loading them now and moving to digital, but it's one more thing to setup, so only you can decide whether or not it's worth it.
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