Woodinblack

Mine isn't my favourite, I wouldn't use it that much at home, but it has featured in every gig since I got it, so might as well do something with it!

They still seem to sell, for more than they used to. With anything over 10 years now seeming to be a classic and more expensive than newer ones, I guess the market carries on.

Basically the advantage and disadvantage of being one of those companies such as Gibson or Fender, is that everyone complains they don't do anything new, and if they then do anything new, people complain it wasn't like the old things, and why the hell are they changing things. TBH, I am not sure why purists even accept the truss rod in a fender! On the other hand, they can just churn the same stuff out and people will buy it.

Depends if you paid or not! What might not be clear in any of the previous posts to people who have not been to a bash before is that you can either pay on the door or you can send a message to @scrumpymike and ask for his paypal address and then send £13 to it by friends and family, in which case it is paid and you are then on the list, where you will be allowed through the security cordon as an express VIP * Failing that, just send a message saying you are definately turning up and will pay at the door. * some of that might be overhyped

I remember being at a placebo gig in newport, and the support comes on and the bass player has a US standard Jaguar, I thought that looks nice, wonder what it sounds like. I will never know, as I imagine the much would have sounded the same if they took the jack out of the bass and just put their finger on the end of it - the same mushy drone.

Almost certainly better than the 215. I have a set of 215s as a backup in case all else fails

They made an improved volute that wouldn't break when dropped and noone would buy it as it didn't feel as narrow as the old ones

I had some of the worst rumbling bass on saturday, it was so loud, but turned out in the crowd it sounded perfect and the guitarist couldn't even hear any bass

Good luck with that one!

I had to use a pick the other day as I had blistered my fingers so much. Then the next gig I didn't have a pick at all, so decided to use a coin - unfortunately in my hurry I picked a £1 - not the best choice! Turns out I need a pick for 3 or 4 songs, and can't use a pick with 4 or 5 songs, so I should just keep some spares!

Can't see why you would need any subs with that, its way more than we have. I have a sub, a small one that I bring out for outdoor gigs only, that allows the speakers to have some of the bass taken out of it.

Mine still have the original strings, which seem ok at home, but on saturday, when I switched between the bongo (because I couldn't see the fretmarkers) and the acrylic, the tone was pretty weedy and rattly. I know, it isn't exactly a fair comparison as the bongo tends to out gravitas most things, but it was so weedy that I thought that maybe either it is because the strings were rattling - when I shimmed mine I had to raise the middle strings as they were rattling about the middle somewhere) or just the strings were no good. I should actually just put some decent strings on it really - I have played it at 3 gigs so it has earned me £315, which is £90 more than it cost, so I am up on the deal!

Used to use a sure PM58, which lacked middle, then a xm8500 which was ok, briefly used a SM58, then got a TC-Helicon PM85 and I love the sound of and really works for my voice. Thats all I use now (although the others are spare)

It is when they seem to now be £7 a pair in supermarkets.

We have 1 main singer and me and the drummer also have solo songs, so I change the faders for that (probably should automate that), but the XControl is good for the faders (and easier to use than a screen). Also some adjustments based on feedback.

My microphone stand isn't that high! I have an iPad pro, which I don't use live (but in practices) and that has a battery life of for ever, and I had an iPad air 2 that had a decent battery life when I was using soft synths. However that one died (not live, it just one day was dead and refused to charge), so I got a cheap on off ebay but the battery isn't great. But I don't use soft synths any more and I don't use it that much on the mixer app, as I have the XControl. I use it for setup, then mostly it is lyrics, but I do go to it from time to time. Performance wise it is good, not sure whether to get something else later, or just stick another batttery in it. Maybe after a year or two I might update my iPad Pro and use that one live - I bought it as it was the last one with a jack socket for audio.

That is audio background mode, which an app can register at, such as a music player or youtube pro. There is also timer access, periodic network access and map update. These are a specific type of app, they cannot choose to run in the background. Its not a tit for tat discussions, I am just saying what it does. Personally I was wondering why A&H don't appear to be able to do what behringer do, because its not like behringer are a beacon of app design. What I see of their app looks really good, but that seems a huge drop off in functionality, unless you are expected to have a device dedicated to it.

They tried - for all that people moan about it, noone will buy it

as previously mentioned, the app doesn't run full time in the background, so it isn't a resource hog. Because my iPad is old, if i use the X-Air app full time on the screen for a whole 3 hour gig, chances are it would be dead before the end of the gig. But I don't, because I switch away from it. Ah, ok so you are talking about the processing of the iPad. Almost certainlyt he client device is a combination of streams and request / responses. I would not only argue that there is no point keeping this going when the UI isn't presented, I would absolutely believe there is no reason to show this when the UI isn't being presented. But this is the iPads job, not the mixers job - you can send what you want to an iPad, if it has put the application into the background it isn't getting much time and it sure as hell can't make an interface update. However, the second it does come back, it can. And this is what the issue is for me. Absolutely it can't, because apple have taken care of that and it has nothing to do with the app design. You can't app design your way out of that one *. Again, this is a misunderstanding with what you said, I assumed you were talking about the mixer, as the iPad client software is netiher here or there from a power or processsing point of view. What I want to know (and I haven't used this mixer), is why cant A&H design an app or interface to their mixer that is at least as responsive to the users requirements as behrnger did a decade ago? I mean, the fancy stufff looks good, but if when I switch away from the app to a lyric app and then switch back, I have to reconnect somehow in a way that people are suggesting, then it is for my use case, and most other people I have seen using digital mixers who don't have a stand alone mixing guy, completely useless. * actually you can in specific circumstances, but this is not one of those.

That is partially true, but there are ways round it. Currently with the Behringer X-Air software and a behringer X18, at a gig I can change freely between Songbook pro to see what song is coming up or lyrics etc and XAir to adjust something as and when it needs adjusting. There is no percieved delay between activity in either apps when I switch. So to me as a user, I don't really care what they were doing in the background, if anything, all I care about is that they are both available to me with no additional action when switching to them. And they are. Any drop of of that level of functionality, regardless of how it is done, I would consider not very useable, especially in a more premium product, as this is my main gig time use of that software and mixer. I would say I also have the XControl so I can adjust levels as I am going on in the gig, but I still use the app more near the start of the gig, or if I need to see levels and if there is any feedback or anything.

Both of those arguments make no sense - does that mean while it is showing the user interface it doesn't have enough processing to mix, if it does, what is the problem? A UI should be a result of data that already exists that it just has to send down a network port, and whatever processor that powers it is at least a decade newer than the processing the X18 - I can tell you from my work, the processing is way more impressive it was a decade ago. And power consumption, I can't think how that would be changed but unless it has an eco mode I am not sure why that would be a consideration on a mains powered device.

Seems an odd choice to make - when gigging I flip backwards and forwards between the X-Air screen and my set list app on my iPad all the time. It would be a pain to have to reconnect to a mixer when i did that (in fact it would be a non starter)

I buy mine from batterystation.co.uk, they were £11.49 for 10, so that seems like the going price. I like the little caps, makes it handier to throw in the bag!

I agree, While I think the new site is fine, the emails used to be a list of what was available in 4 / 5 / 6 string in price bands, whcih worked for me perfectly. Now it is pictures, I can't see either the price or how many strings it has on a tiny thumbnail, so not so handy.

I put a *shim in before the gig last night and it worked out perfect. Action is good now. *shim - ie, a bit of a plastic tub that got broken that my wife had delivered, cut a bit out, loosened the neck off and dropped it in, perfect size!