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Decent trolley then. Although it has to be said that RCF actually do make a case for it that has wheels! It has to be said it is heavier than the Alto 212 / headrush. although not too much bigger.

I don't know, if I am lobbing it in the back of my car, I kind of like the birch box of the evox!

On ours its also sort of full as the Vocals / bass drum / Sax and a bit of guitar are in it. When we play outside venues we mic up the full drum kit and since the sub arrived that has been a lot better. Last time we played 'on the hill' as we call it, the singers son said it sounded really good out the front, which would have been quite a way away in both the other garden area, and the front of the pub (there is little else on the hill apart from the pub). Which is not bad for a little PA. Back on the hill at end of this month so looking forward to hearing what its like with the Evox. Tell you what though, I am not sure it is because it is the evox 8 (ie, made of wood) rather than the J8 (made of plastic) but it certainly weighs a lot more than the altos - its good you don't have to put it on a pole!

We had that with the guitarists amp blowing up mid gig, someone nipped round the corner and got another amp! If you are only going into a FRFR speaker anyway, not sure there is a difference. Am I misremembering or do you not go into one of those 12" Headrush speakers, which afaik is actually just an Alto 212 in drag anyway. Isn't it always. I missed a pair of Evox J8s for £1k, which i was gutted by, even though I really didn't want to pay 1k (and it is just me paying here, none of that splitting stuff). But then the Evox 8 came up for under £500, made him an offer that i thought he would tell me where to stick, and he didn't, so got it for £440 local pickup. I was going to try one to see if it was worth it, as people on here who know stuff say it isn't.. but it really is. Hopefully at some point another one will come up. You could tell out the front that the RCF was doign the heavy lifting over the sub and Alto, and the volume was down from where it would normaly be in that venue. Thats what I did - i foudn a behringer 12" sub on one of the music tribe ebay clearouts for just over £100 - bigger would ahve been better but the band isn't good at helping with the loadin / out, so it would have been more for me to carry. But it was well worth it, especially if you want to mic the kick as our drummer often does (and as he is the one who does help with the load in I am good with that). Well, the thing that apparently separates my 12" sub from the 12" PA speaker is that the sub is a long throw speaker. And I guess it has filtering for 100 hz down. In this situation it was parallel to me, due to the room layout. So not as far as I would put the 212s if I was using them, but not at the back either, actually parallel across the stage to my bass speaker and microphone.

Ah sorry, that’s why I don’t put my tiny 27”er on the wall!

How long scale do you think that mustang is in my first picture?!

Here are the hanger ones Living room: Upstairs 'office' Desk grab bass area:

I have some guitars in cases - not even sure where they are. Something goes in a case it is not being played, it is being stored. If it is on the wll it will get played. Looking at the collection here, none of the 9 instruments on the wall haven't been played in the last month. Although neither has the JR shorty or the Stick, they are both on the floor - not sure how you could easily hang the stick or I would!

I have 4 hanging upstairs, 5 hanging downstairs. And some others on the floor

Well, the WR902 does both 2.4 and 5, so you are ok there. The iPad obviously if it is made in the last 5 years or so also does 5ghz so that should be doable. For the longest time, like a year or so I used the X18 with its own internal wifi, listening to all the scare stories about how it would go, and mine never did, so I assumed some level of urban myth, then one day at an open air gig behind a pub, the X18 became totally uncontrollable, couldn't change the levels or anything, even when the iPad was sitting on the box. From that day I always took an external router to a gig, and then never had a problem, until I got the XVive IEMs, and that again took it out. You could actually set it with the XVives on channel 1 and the X18 on a high channel number and it didn't intefere, but that was enough to knock my confidence (this was a practice - first time I used the XVives), so I got the 5G the next day and it has been rock solid since then. Afterwards I got the XTouch and another WR902, so it is X18->router (master network) XTouch->router (slave) iPad (slave) and all is good (the master actually just has a big label on it in case I ever need to know which it is, it doesn't matter as long as one is the master). Still love it when you turn the XTouch on, press scan and it kicks all the sliders into the correct position!

The X18->iPad->XTouch changed, because if my IEMs die mid gig, well, its a pain but I can live with it, if the X18 becomes uncontrollable mid gig, that is a bit more of an issue and I figured it would be more reliable at 5G, or at least, not so crowded. I changed from the TP-Link TL-WR802N mini traver router, which is the 2.4ghz b/n box (1 at the time as when I got the IEMs I had yet to get the XTouch) to 2 of the TP-link TL-WR902AC which is exactly the same size, but does 2.4GHz and 5, and switched the 2.4 off.. They have proved faultless and if the stage is looking a bit crowded, the USB port of both the X-Touch and the X18 have enough power to power them, although I don't usually do it that way. Since then I have had no interference between anything and anything else, although the sax sometimes glitches, but it does that anyway, so no idea what - that is a proper shure thing.

Sure - here are my wirelesses* The white ones at the top are the ones I am currently using live, they are 5G, and really clear - haven't had any problem wiht them. Bought them as I couldn't find the black ones, which obviously then turned up in a gig bag I hadn't used for a long time. You can see they are much bigger than the black ones, but they weigh next to nothing (as do the black ones) The black ones are the ones I had before, the 2.4g. Again, no problems, they have better battery life but I think more latency, I generally use those in the house. I used to use them at practice, when I didn't take my pedalboard so couldn't use the smoothhound, but now I just take the white ones. And the silver black one is the smoothhound, which I was using until the lockdwon when I lost it, and couldn't find it again so eventually 3 weeks ago took the reciever off my board, and then at a gig on saturday found it wedged into the lining of a gig bag! Although I don't recall haven't the black ones intefering with much, they don't have alternate channels, and with the IEMs, Singers saxaphone using 2.4GHz,, I feel happier having them on a different channel. The X18 -> iPad -> XTouch connection also used to use 2.4Ghz, but basically the IEM killed the X18 setup, so something had to change * although I went to ebay to see if they had one there, and ended up buying another, as they had a stereo one and I had been after something like that for a long time

Does seem odd thought that the EHBs come with a gig bag whereas the SR premium come with one of those soft hard cases (the hard case shaped bags)

Well, I keep old strings as spares, but I never use them, I just keep a new set so I don't know why I do it. But generally I would say I would be less inclined to keep the old strings off an EHB as putting them on and clamping them down does kind of mush the string a bit at the end, so I am not sure I would trust it. On a normal string, you have a few turns of 'good string' before the bent part so it would be easier to reuse.

Normally I would say yes, but traditionally expensive instruments came with proper cases and everything, but over the last decade that seems to have gone, so getting a gig bag seems to be a bonus - I noticed when I was looking at buying a Spector Dimension 5, for £1599 (at the time, now gone up) from bass direct (other suppliers were the same, but BD were cheaper), you get the option to get a spector gig bag for it for only £65!

Did it not come with a gigbag? I know it was a b stock but it seems odd as by default from ibanez, they come with gigbags (they are slightly offset, like a triangle profile, and they just fit the EHBs and nothing else.

How daft. That is so unlike the original, I bet PG spent a few quid with what he had available!

Looking at the diagrams, 1 is correct (assuming the pentatone is wired like that), and 2 I am not sure how the volume is making any difference at all, other than working as a tone bypass a higher 'volumes'. There will be a loss of volume in some of the settings on the tone control, that is how a passive tone control works, it takes away more or less of the signal at different frequencies..

I am prepared to accept that might be the case, we all have off nights, but I wouldn't be in a hurry to see them again.

But they don't though - they can't. They play with a lot of 50 year old equipment that would have worn over the 50 years. When genesis played with that, it was new equipment that would have sounded different. Unless they play with newly made reproductions of the old equipment it wouldn't be anything like the same Not what I heard when I saw them, but then to be fair, I didn't actually see genesis in the 70s, but if they sounded as lifeless as that they wouldn't be one of my favourite bands!

To dig up an old thread, for one thing and another, I hadn't got a chance of using the Evox 8 until yesterday. I used it a practice, and it worked out well because I forgot my bass speakers (who does that? Me apparently), Worked well in practice, but we were in a bowling alley that the new guy is redoing so he ripped off the floor and wall coverings, so it was a concrete box, echo chamber. We had two gigs last weekend, PA on one of them, pa provided in the second. Got to the first one and the singer me me (good news bad news, you brought the pa for nothing), so I got to transport it around! This week, the first one was a pa provided, the second was a local club so the first time I have used it. Didn't have much time to set up, it was the second gig, I was really knackered by the time I arrived, I didn't even bother with the mix. So I had the RCF Evox one side, the Alto 212ts and behringer 12" sub the other. Went out the front, wow, was it clear, it was not something we had heard before. Did the first half of the gig before realising that the bass amp was way down from the gig earlier, and the mixer had the bass way up in the PA (from the practice), so I was almost entirely through the PA. At the end of the gig the guy who runs the bar said it was the clearest and best we have sounded (he also said that we seemed to have amazing energy considering the first gig, I didn't mention I was drifting off 3 songs in!).The singer couldn't say enough good things about it, although he sang further back as he could hear himself so well (in fact, maybe too well). Honestly, if I had another Evox 8, I don't think I would bother with the bass amp any more.

I agree with the concept rather than the terms - I don't think I am ever going to particularly like tributes, its a bit of a copy of the original - as you say, faithful to one gig at one point in time, like an acted video or a play. I find that Hacketts stuff is more original, I wouldn't say cover band as they are his songs so more like an original band doing their songs, never quite the same as these things evolve over 50 years, so I find them more interesting.

I saw the musical box and hacket in the same year. I thought Hacket was great (even with Nad, of whom I am not a fan!), and the Musical box, I don't think I would bother going to see them again. They did what they did fine, effectively a theatrical performance of an old genesis show, but it didn't have life and I didn't enjoy them.

I doubt it, I don't think it meant anything to him

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