Al Krow
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Ah ok. In my experience it's been the guitarist who wants to stick with backline and "real amps" which, tbf, I can completely understand. Whereas singers, in my experience, generally jump at using IEMs as they can hear themselves really well and only have acoustic drums on stage blaring out. Particularly helped if the desk has really decent preamps which our CQ kit does (a noticeable step up from my previous Soundcraft MTK12). The combination of having a personalised mix at the volume we each want (potentially also giving much less damage to our hearing?), decent IEM earpieces, and quality desk preamps has made the gigging experience a much more enjoyable one for me, and I'm blessed that my current crew (7 of us, in total, on rotation) are all totally on board and very happy with IEMs. I guess I could probably say I'm a convert, haha, having switched to IEMs for the last couple of years whilst previously regularly gigging with amps and monitors for a much longer while before that.
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I guess one huge advantage of IEMs is removing a major source of potential feedback from the stage sound?
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Xvive A58 Guitar Wireless System review | Guitar World Nice little review on Guitar world - pretty positive -
Hadn't come across the Xvive A58 - looks like new kit out this year with good reviews. I'm a fan of their U4 for IEM's. They do look quite bulky though! Btw - if you don't want to take the Nux case to gigs, there's nothing's stopping you leaving it at home - it's just there for convenience and doubles up as a back up battery pack. It's also available in 5.8 GHz.
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Had to look up what that phrase meant! Apparently means: something that is self-referential, self-aware, or cleverly referencing itself or its own category. It often implies a level of self-awareness or commentary on the thing itself, rather than just the content. That phrase is so meta
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Nope. I think the Boss SY synth sounds are much less "classic synth" in comparison to the MXR, C4 and FI. But there are enough decent options for me to use on a few tracks with my covers band which is all I am really needing. And the "faux-tracking" is super tight. This is a pretty cool demo, albeit on guitar
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Admin costs of £14M on what??! It's not like they have a huge amount of staff...
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So useful to know that the MXR struggles to track at pace, thank you! For bassists less competent at "synth bass technique" than you (like me for starters), that could be an issue. Together with the arpeggiator and a decent display, another reason to stick for a while with my Boss SY-200 which delivers idiot-friendly "tracking" at pretty rapid speeds.
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I don't quite follow the economic argument about prices having to go up with scale? I see Pirate's business model being more akin to Weatherspoons vs local boozers. Becoming national hasn't meant Spoons' prices increasing.
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Reading through this thread, seems to me there's a bit of a regional divide here? Pirate seem to be competitive on price and are regularly used by several London based BC'ers (me included), whereas there often appear to be better value, manned alternatives outside the capital?
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Oh I'd definitely use them ALL the time if they paid me 😅
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I guess the principle is that BVs should be secondary in prominence to the lead vox. But that will always depend on: - how strong the singers are relatively (key variable); - what mics they are using. Given the first of these, not sure it's possible to give a general rule?
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Thanks, that's very kind of you to say - I'd best not ask which of three female vox featured, haha! And hopefully an endorsement of the RCF 932As delivering the sound.
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We use Pirate a lot and have happily done so over a number of years. Yes it's automated/unmanned locally; the flip side is it's decent value, certainly compared to other London studios we've used. Also they have many studios per site which means you can usually get a booking and a very flexible cancellation policy. The aircon wasn't working on a recent booking and a hot day! They couldn't fix it remotely in time and so offered us 25% off our next booking. All good.
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Quite a long clip - some decent footage from about 10 mins in illustrating a variety of sounds and pretty tight tracking.
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A fair few of us have been buying kit via AliExpress eg as an alternative to Amazon. It can sometimes be significantly cheaper! What I've really appreciated about Amazon is the secure knowlege of getting a full refund if the item is not suitable, never gets delivered etc. I recently ordered a camera lens off AliXP - wrong model sent by retailer. I was half expecting to have to take a hit, but return, postage paid, was to a UK warehouse, even though the original product was from China, where they are made for global export. Full refund received today.
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Loving my GT1000 Core too - appreciate that it may be less intuitive than the Stomp, but definitely worth putting in the time. Our lead guitarist is also using one and I'm really liking both his range of sounds and my bass tone that the Core is delivering.
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£££spendy though? I picked up my SY-200 £175 used.
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Tracking on their latest release is very disappointing from online reviews.
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Well the: - better display; - arpeggiator (which we use on a couple of our cover tracks as @Kiwihas also mentioned); plus historically: - MUCH better "tracking" / lack of glitchiness; - more compact form factor Are usps that have made the SY-200 much more useful for me as a gigging musician. Sure YMMV etc. Given that FI are now saying the tracking is much improved on v4 and are offering a more compact form factor, the very significantly better synth tones the FI offers, make it a very attractive proposition. But for some reason I thought it now also had an arpeggiator function given that it does so much else, but my bad for misunderstanding that. The SY-200 is the only programmable bass synth pedal with arpeggiator I'm aware of (unless the C4 also provides this)?
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Ah ok, thanks. Looks like my Boss SY-200 is gonna survive for a while yet on my little gigging board.
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Looking forward to finding out more! What is the arpeggiator like on F1-4. Any clips? It's one of the features that's keeping me tied to the SY-200 currently
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For me, one of the very best female singers the UK has ever produced! Love her!
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Going to have to give that a careful listen to: it's not everyday that someone says the tartan crew trump the Four Seasons! 😅
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Fabulous advice!
