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Ian Savage

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  1. Russ just came and picked up my Peavey Pro 15s from me before going off to play taxi for his better half - top man, good to deal with!
  2. [quote name='Dropzone' post='1200661' date='Apr 15 2011, 01:41 PM']Still going to try and find some cheap Yams as if I don't get on with them I can always move them on. Ta Mike[/quote] That sounds like a good idea to me - and remember, budget for stands!
  3. Ian Savage

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    Seems to be a lot of us Birmingham/Black Country types around, should maybe resurrect the idea of a West Midlands meetup...I know a good venue in Selly Oak, Birmingham we could use...
  4. Stands and Senn E845 sold, speakers on hold - QSC, E840 and mic stands still looking for a new home!
  5. Sadly, a genuine one from MusicRadar - avoid your 'elephant-ear' style bass tuners being knocked onstage by cutting them off with a hacksaw. I'm NOT joking
  6. Bloody well used to, back when I was touring it was only generally me and the singer who got any action...been off the road for over a year and continually single for about the same time, coincidence?
  7. Matched pair of SE Electronics SE1A small-diaphragm condenser mics (http://www.seelectronics.com/sE1a_Stereo.html), with case and stereo bar, £160 Sennheiser E845, SOLD Sennhesier E840, next model down from the above (http://www.sennheiser.co.uk/uk/home_en.nsf/root/private_microphones_wired_evo800_009894), cardioid but still with very good rejection and low handling noise, again with clip and pouch £40 All in very good condition, studio use only - the Sennheisers have got the model numbers Tippexed onto the pouches as I had a few of the E series and there's a couple of superficial marks on the SE1As from taking them in and out of their clips, but all work superbly. Feel free to make reasonable offers, although considering new prices I think they're pretty reasonable at the minute
  8. Argh...WANT! I used to have one of those too, great little heads; don't suppose you're likely to be anywhere near Birmingham are you?
  9. Speakers provisionally sold, everything else still up for grabs - help a brother out, need wheels!
  10. The band I'm drumming for at the minute are based near Leamington Spa, have a look at the setlist if you like - [url="http://www.blinkwatch.co.uk/index.html"]http://www.blinkwatch.co.uk/index.html[/url] Don't know whether I'll still be with them come August (depends on work and whether I have to move) but they're a good bunch and pretty professional.
  11. [quote name='RussFM' post='1192781' date='Apr 8 2011, 12:20 PM']I'll take the Pro15s please! Bought some Pro Subs a couple of months ago and never got round to buying the matching full range speakers![/quote] Cool, drop me a PM - I'm off work this coming week so be pretty flexible if you want to come have a look!
  12. Moving on my bass floor setup as I'm unlikely to be playing live in the near future - consists of an EHX Bass Metaphors preamp/DI box: [url="http://www.ehx.com/products/bass-metaphors"]http://www.ehx.com/products/bass-metaphors[/url] and a Rothwell Stompjuice 600mA power supply. [url="http://www.rothwellaudioproducts.co.uk/html/stompjuice.html"]http://www.rothwellaudioproducts.co.uk/html/stompjuice.html[/url] I'd rather move these on together as I haven't got the power supply for the Bass Metaphors (which it needs, although it'll run off any standard 9V pedal supply with the right capacity); the EHX unit draws 200mA, so you've more than enough juice from the Rothwell to power a few other effects units as well as the Metaphors. Oh, there's a reverse-polarity and a 1/8 inch jack connector for esoteric pedals off the Rothwell too. Should you want them separately it'll be fifty quid apiece; a hundred squid will get you both units along with the 5m balanced jack-to-XLR cable I've made up tied in with a 5m power cable for the StompJuice; this'll allow you to run from the balanced line output of the EHX to any power amp using the Metaphors as your sole preamp (feeding the gig soundman the XLR out from the pedal), or if you want the cable rewiring I'll put a balanced XLR on there. What you've got here is pretty much your entire front-end on a pedal, with the options to feed an amp or not as you see fit, with power for a good few other stompboxes (there's a cable for old-school jack power sockets, as well as one for reverse-polarity from the Rothwell); I'd be keeping it like a m*****f***er, but vehicle problems preclude this...
  13. There's been a lot of swearing going on chez Savage this week car died last night and will cost more to fix than it's worth, so I'm being forced to move on my PA system much against my will Here she be: [url="http://img848.imageshack.us/i/p1030840o.jpg/"][/url] Uploaded with [url="http://imageshack.us"]ImageShack.us[/url] Top to bottom: QSC USA900 amp, 2x450W into 4 ohms, all kinds of protection gubbins (selectable/switchable 30/50Hz low-cut filters, defeatable limiting, short-circuit protection), solid as a rock - details: [url="http://media.qscaudio.com/pdfs/discontinued_products/usa900.pdf"]http://media.qscaudio.com/pdfs/discontinue...ucts/usa900.pdf[/url] [b]£130[/b] One Sennheiser E845 and one E840, both used very sparingly and mostly for instrument micing, so in very good nick (845 pretty much perfect, 840 with a couple of minor marks but nothing you'd notice) - bloody superb mics, slowly taking over from the Shure SMs as industry standards for stage use in my experience. Details: [url="http://www.sennheiser.co.uk/uk/home_en.nsf/root/private_microphones_wired_evo800"]http://www.sennheiser.co.uk/uk/home_en.nsf...es_wired_evo800[/url] [b]£60[/b] the E845, [b]£40[/b] the E840 Pair of 4 ohm Peavey Pro 15 speakers, 300W RMS / 600W program handling, so a perfect match for the QSC - in good nick, a few minor scuffs to the carpet and handles but they still look the business from an audience perspective (the photo makes the carpet scuffs look A LOT worse than they are), I wouldn't think twice about gigging them at a wedding or whatever. 4 ohms, so you're pulling full power from each amp channel - pretty much ideal for pub/small club gigs as they're more than capable of handling a bit of guitar/bass/kick drum alongside the vocals to avoid you carting subs around. [b]£150[/b] Pair of Adam Hall speaker stands, gas-assisted so you can release the stands and bring the speakers down to a managable height to get 'em off without them crashing down onto you! Brilliant little innovation...[b] £40[/b] And a couple of mic stands, one cheap 'n' cheerful (I think it's a Thomann own-brand job, got it free when I bought a mic ages ago) and one the business (K&M standard line, pretty much bullet-proof) - fiver for the former, twentyfive quid the latter. Now then, as the bigger stuff will almost certainly want collecting I'm more than open to sweetening the deal for anyone who wants more than one 'bit' - were you to take speakers and amp I'll include a couple of good Speakon-Speakon cables (your choice of length), should you want both mics I'll throw in a couple of quality XLR-XLR cables, and should you want all of the stands I'll include the wheeled golf bag-type doohickey I've been using to transport them. If I've done my maths right that could land some lucky so-and-so with a full-on 900W PA system including two QUALITY mics with all the required stands and cables (just add a mixer) for a mere [b]£450[/b] - if you want the lot I'll happily make you up a couple of cables to go from mixer to amp as well, can't say fairer than that. I'm in Birmingham at the minute, but often in Warwickshire and Staffordshire should that make meeting up or delivery easier - give me a shout if you're interested in anything!
  14. [quote name='Horizontalste' post='1190525' date='Apr 6 2011, 02:21 PM']Hope your not being chased out of these town's by angry mob's wielding weapons.[/quote] Nah, more being shamed out by my drunken antics in their bars.... (many a true word spoke in jest...)
  15. [quote name='Dropzone' post='1191883' date='Apr 7 2011, 04:08 PM']Have yet to look at the damping. Once I have the monitors and the room set out, that will be my next task. I am not sure which way I will go, but I know it will be cost related so as always I will be looking for best bang per buck ;-)[/quote] I know the feeling a good, cost-effective and practical way of bass trapping (as long as you've got access to some form of load-lugging transport) is to source a halfway-decent sofa off of freecycle, cheap off eBay or whatever and just place it across the opposite end of the room from your monitors. In your case I reckon you'd be best with the monitors across one 4m end of the room and hence the sofa across the other; big soft furnishings will very rarely damage room acoustics and usually make a very effective first step for taming bass resonances. Whereabouts in the world are you, out of interest? Currently moving on a studio desk (as in workstation, not mixing desk) and a pair of speaker stands which might be useful if you haven't sorted them already...
  16. Used both them and Castle Cases (both of the main UK maufacturers of flightcases are in Tamworth IIRC, what's up with that?) and would happily go to either of them again.
  17. [quote name='Dropzone' post='1191716' date='Apr 7 2011, 01:47 PM']I have heard good things about the Yamaha's which are looking favourite at the moment. Will be in a big shed (6m x 4m) that will have damping stuff nailed to it but that is about it[/quote] That's a decent size, so perhaps look more at 6" than 5" drivers, and possibly even up to 8" (which the Yamaha HS80Ms and the Circle 5As are). When you say 'damping materials', are you talking about shaped foam, carpet, RockWool, loft insulation or what? There's a BIG difference in their effect on the acoustics of a room, with some being next to useless...oh, and don't skimp on speaker stands either, fifty quid spent on a pair of high-mass/sand-fillable stands will almost always be a bigger improvement than spending an extra fifty quid on the monitors which you then just put wherever they'll fit on the desk.
  18. Yamaha I'd certainly agree with; if you're in a comparatively small room with no acoustic treatment IMO there's no point in going for bigger than 6" drivers, so Yam's HS50s would be a good start. I'm also very partial to Samson Rubicons and I had a pair of ESI nEar 05s which were very good for near-field monitoring in small rooms (they 'lost it' a bit when I moved my home studio from tiny bedroom to bigger living room, though). I'm currently using a pair of HHB Circle 5As, which I LOVE; too big for small/untreated rooms IMO and a little bit hen's teeth these days, but if you see a pair of Circle 3As grab 'em...
  19. [quote name='Horizontalste' post='1189819' date='Apr 5 2011, 10:24 PM']Hurry up and move back mate! before you start talking funny.[/quote] Heh, I'm moving away one town at a time...tomorrow Worcestershire, sometime in 2018 the world...
  20. [quote name='stevie' post='1189419' date='Apr 5 2011, 06:15 PM']Agreed. XLRs were quite common as a speaker connection before the Speakon gained popularity. It handles more power than a jack.[/quote] It's also a pain in the arse to figure out which two pins are carrying the power if you've got an old WEM with the transfers rubbed off
  21. How do boss, fellow Black Country-type here (well, I'm about 200 yards over the border into Brum at the minute, but spent too much time in Walsall & Dudley) - looks like there's a few of us as it goes!
  22. A little trick if your desk has channels with low-cut switches is to engage them on the kick drum (sounds counter-intuitive, but stay with me) and then ramp up the bass control to suit - depending on your frequencies of the two controls, you end up with a 'peaking' response around 80-120Hz which is where the real 'meat' of a kick drum is without amplifying loads of real low-end which is often musically irrelevant and eats amplifier power. Tends to make kick drums punch you in the chest without getting flabby.
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