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    Subs

    Al Krow replied to AxelF's topic in PA set up and use

    But if you're putting subs behind the mics in order to have them close to a wall you can get awful low end feedback.
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    AliExpress seem to have a deal on at the moment offering the Sennheiser IE300 for around £40. Feels more than a little too good to be true, but at that price worth a punt. I'll maybe see if I can meet up with @dave_bass5 to A/B these against his IE100 and IE400 to see if they are even remotely the genuine article!
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    This was quite a helpful A/B The AS16s seem more rounded/balanced less harsh than the ZS10 Pro but lose some of the detail.
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    Oh I agree that being BL brings a bunch of additional responsibilities, and it would be very nice to be more of a passenger and just turn up well prepared to play at rehearsals and gigs, for sure. But maybe it's the better option than not being in a band at all, if that's the only realistic alternative, which I'm pretty sure would be true in my case and seems to be the experience for a few of us who are no longer in our 20s and 30s?
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    Thanks very much for this - I'm looking to get something that is a step up from my KZ ZS10 Pros, which I agree are a little harsh having gigged with then regularly for 6 months or so. So I will be putting the KS AS16 Pro on the shortlist. I've maybe a budget of up to £150 - grateful for those of you who have previously upgraded from the KZ ZS10 Pros to share where you ended up? @dave_bass5 where have you landed with your own research into these?
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    Yeah, I'm sure I would be in the exact same position Andy. I guess my workaround has been to take the lead in putting together the covers bands I've been in. PS the JMB age demographic can then actually work in reverse - I tend not to bother considering anyone under 30, haha. And 40+ y/os are very welcome!
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    Is your current band covers or originals and, before your drummer left, were you regularly gigging and, if so, were they decently paid gigs? Just trying to figure out what might be behind the drummer drought you're facing - as you say in London it shouldn't be too hard to find someone, but an originals outfit still in its start-up phase is usually going to be a harder sell than a regularly gigging covers band doing decently paid gigs.
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    @Silvia Bluejay another one to move to the PA sub-forum please.
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    Happy to be educated on this! 🙂
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    Subs

    Al Krow replied to AxelF's topic in PA set up and use

    Believe me, the bass sounded a very long way from perfect on that particular set at the All Points East festival 😅
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    Subs

    Al Krow replied to AxelF's topic in PA set up and use

    "If you have sound crew, hours to set up and soundcheck, all of this can be sorted" You'd really hope so wouldn't you, haha?! Just been to a festival and the support band to the headliners had some of the worst rumbling bass which almost killed their set. Could see the bass player grimacing, fiddling about with his on board EQ and finally stopping playing altogether. The sound guy deserved to be shot...or at least be sent on an HPF 101 course! Ah that's where the track got its name from...only taken me a decade for the penny to drop 😁
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    Use a balanced cable and dispense with rhe need for a DI box?
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    Subs

    Al Krow replied to AxelF's topic in PA set up and use

    Two RCF 935s sounds awesome for pub venues! We're getting by very comfortably with 912As / 732As, which I'm sure will be outdone by your two tops. My personal take, is the main beneficiary to the band sound from the sub itself will be to kick drum albeit also giving more headroom to the tops above the crossover frequency (typically 80Hz / 110Hz). Are you lacking in volume for any of the instruments or vocals ie do you need the additional headroom for the tops, or feeling that you need more low end kick? Just playing devil's advocate and wondering if your sound is going to benefit much from adding subs for most of your pub gigs?
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    Very true! Like that sentiment a lot, Paul! Curiosity can defo be a good thing and can keep things from going stale, and if you're buying used it can end up costing very little if you don't want to hold onto it. Been good to spend a bit of time giving what I've already got a decent try out and if it's not a keeper, either moving it on or replacing it with something that's going to be more relevant to making music with my bandmates (e.g. upgrading the PA and moving on amps & cabs). I've not stopped being curious and trying out new kit, which is a lot o fun, but I've ended up being a net £seller in each of the past 4 years, which definitely tells me I had far too much to start with!
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    Yeah the HPF on that seems to be quite neat! From what I've understood it basically allows you to decide the cut-off for frequencies you want distorted and therefore lets you preserve a solid clean low end to underpin the overall sound. I'd personally prefer something a bit more gnarly for the drive itself, otherwise it would be a tempting, if £spendy, pedal. I guess you could recreate what the Genzler is doing with separate pedals eg an hpf and a dirt pedal in the loop of a Boss LS2 or even more easily with parallel chains on offer with some multifx (eg Helix / Boss GT).
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    Hi Russ - are these the current Mk4? Grateful if you could also confirm the weight?
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    I guess my key learning point having had a similar £800 to £900 budget for a PA, is that if you want something that can deal with vocals really well then get one with a decent voice coil on the compression driver e.g. RCF 732A which has a 3.0" voice coil neodymium compression driver and "offers a unique vocal clarity and sound projection" (according to RCF, anyway, haha) but actually they're pretty decent. I think you can hear the difference quite clearly in this little A/B If you can find a pair of RCF 732As used they may just about be within your target budget. We ended up stretching the budget (shared between me and the singer) to get a pair of new 732As for the band - singer is now definitely sold on 732As justifying the extra we spent over the 912As I'd bought.
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    So particularly noticeable for female vox even more so than male vox?
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    8 months in and our singer is now actively preferring the RCF 732As band PA over my 912As for her vocals. It seems we've ruined her ability to put up with "budget" PA speakers! And amusing that my previous line up were content with 310As for years (although the drummer did comment that the 912As were a massive step up from those, first time he heard me using them). Just thinking aloud: if I upgraded just one of my 912As for a 932A so I had 912A + 932A, I'm guessing that should significantly eliminate the gap between a pair of 912As and a pair of 732As?
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    @Kiwi @Silvia Bluejay grateful if one of you could move this to the new PA sub forum please?
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    @Kiwi @Silvia Bluejay grateful if one of you could move this to the new PA sub forum please.
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    100% !
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    Haha yes, very aware it exists Jack - I post in there pretty regularly! 🙂 It was more tht if we did a similar straw poll asking whether we should have an "Accessories and Misc" thread we'd likely get far less enthusiasm for setting that up than we've already had for a dedicated "PA and related" thread, but hasn't stopped one being set up.
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    I wonder how many votes you would get if you asked the same question about starting a thread called "Accessories and Misc"? 😊
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    Is your mate still within the return period (if he bought new)?
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