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Its not so much the music... it's the lyrics. Oh man.

Guitarists tend to want their cab to be their main monitor - and that is why they are a complete pain in the backside. Wedges are far superior (as it kind of helps that they are pointed at player's ears for starters) as there is less bleed into the vocal mics (obviously the correct placement of wedges according to the pickup pattern of the mics is obviously a consideration). Again, depending whether you go for directional wedges, or wide dispersion wedges means that you should get a better mix across the stage, with less bleed into open mics. Even better is IEMs, even better still is a silent stage. Springsteen has got his "big amp, big speakers set up" right. They point skywards and are miced from above. Mind you, he probably only plays stages where mic bleed is less of a problem... and is more about cranking the amps without killing the ear drums... with the wedges doing what they need to do. If guitarists actually played for the band rather than for themselves, things would be a lot better - and that is making more use of wedges. Trouble is, in a lot of venues where house PA budget is always on a shoestring, it's always the monitors that are the first to be cheapened out - to the extent where they can't cope with what needs to be thrown at them. Dispersion of guitar cabs shouldn't really come into the equation at all...because if they can be heard over the PA and create problematic nodes in the room, the PA monitoring isn't being utilised properly. Trouble is, you can't tell anybody this and everybody always knows best, despite not being able to beat the laws of physics. Guitarists in particular, are always stuck in the way of thinking - well, this is how it was done in the 60s...

Jagger at 76 still has way more swagger, attitude and talent than Liam ever will.

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Sarcasm. The lowest form of wit.

Just a note - a cab with wide dispersion is exactly what you don’t want when letting the PA do the work. The less you can keep sound spilling into other mics the better. The PA speakers have the wide dispersion. If not using the PA to amplifier you guitar amp and are just relying on the guitar amp to fill the room, cabs with wide dispersion... brilliant.

Alright Boris...

Yes - although reading about that band, it looks like you are on borrowed time anyway. Insanely loud drummers and guitarists can do one. All it does is make the band sound stinky poo to the punters anyway. Who wants to be in a band where they can't even help themselves?

The Smiths for starters.

Great to see you today Rik - enjoy your new purchase!

Ffs not this nonsense again.

Shh. It's not live.... I'll take Ruby Tuner... a welcome change from Ruby Turner.

Trumpet player?

Worthwhile interlude. Right. Where were we?

Does Jools have any input what is shown? He is just the presenter... I would imagine he just turns up and gets told what’s on the show and what dross questions to ask. I’d take that work to be honest.

I was talking about the EQ on the Aux bus on the mixing desk. That will put a lot of the lost bass back, if your inears aren't particularly great at reproducing bass (headroom withstanding) Your point is valid though - people tend to not run their packs as hard as they should.... they start boosting on the mixer, without just turning the volume up on the pack and then turning the other instruments down. Boosting, boosting, boosting will just lead to distortion and a lack of headroom.

Are you using the 5 driver IEMs - or the ZSTs - which seem to be the more popular models in the guitarist world (again, internet rumours haven't helped people out here... The ZST dual drivers won't really pack that much in the bass or have that much headroom (still kick the stinky poo out of a 215 though)) If it's your first outting with IEMs, it's going to take some getting used to. You may want to split some channels on the desk to get you a better EQ through to your IEMs. I am also guessing you are running a standard flat EQ with no compression on your aux either - basically because people don't know what they are doing with desks. Stick with it. Do some homework and fine tuning and you'll be well happy.

Possibly - but mounting a power amp brings with it other issues. But that a side, there is something about the Eich design which fundamentally lets it down... but that's all I'm going to say on that front

You are kind of there in the first paragraph... but there's something else missing... The problem being is - IEM is all about portability of not carrying around a rig or monitors. If you then carry around something the size and weight of a bass board, you are keeping the stage quiet... but not minimising the gear that you are carrying. And bass boards... and associated amps... are heavy and not particularly portable. And again, when a setup comes in closer to a grand...

They are great. They put the feeling of big (even stadium sized) bass back into the room on a silent/large stage. Expensive, fairly big and heavy to carry around and can be quite complex to fit into the rig. Both P&D and Eich are compromised on their amp front though. Maybe myself and @intime-nick will have something to offer up in due course.

It's more bearable than the bass show... unless you happen to be stood next to some cymbals. I find the underlying subby drone at the bass shows the most fatiguing... and the staple guns the most annoying.

Just caught the last of it!

Yeah - out of all the shows I've done, I would say the most popular are the UE6s, particularly with bass players and drummers (which is not big surprise given that's who the piece was targetted at - and when you hear the UE5 next to the UE6, you'll hear the bigger bass, that drummers and bass players tend (but not always) go for). JH11s (historically the cheapest quad BA) are always of interest and I presume the slightly cheaper A4t will now come into play a bit more now that the price of the JH11 and A4t are more similar now. The A2e and A3, although great pieces don't tend to come into play as much as the show prices (again historically - don't know what's going on this year at this stage) makes the UE6 a bit of a no brainer when you hear the bass response in comparison to the aforementioned piece. Remember, there's no wrong piece - it's what you like the sound of best... but as a bassplayer who uses IEMs strictly for monitoring, I tend to steer people towards headroom in the bass... as that is going to be the thing that you crave the most... yet is the most demanding for IEMs to produce. It's like comparing a 1x10 cab to an 8x10 cab. They can both produce bass... but to get the same volume, one is going to be running quite hard, the other will be more controlled and barely on tickover. As for your query about your setup... the answer - I'm sorry to say it - is it depends. If you can't hear distortion and the meters aren't in the red, the chances are, is that you are OK. What you have to remember is this. If you are running everything at unity, and everything is touching 0db, wave theory tells you that you are doing to have some additions of frequency bands that will take you over 0db and into distortion. For example, if you have the peak of a wave at 50Hz (which is hitting unity), on one channel combining with another wave of 50Hz (which is hitting unity) - they are going to add together to sum to greater than unity... which will push you into the realms of distortion. The good news is, with the meters on a (presumably) digital mixer, you should be able to see the output on the aux not being greater than unity. Likewise, you have to change the sensitivity on the IEM transmitter so the AF input is not peaking. I always aim for 3dB under so you have a good signal to noise ratio... but not going into clipping (and distortion/limiting) if the band happens to dig in or whatever and peak over unity. Without seeing the equipment in front of me, it's hard to say what is happening on your setup... but if you meters are all clear of clipping, you are good. I tend to tell my band, if you need more of something in your mix, turn up your pack and turn the rest of the instruments down on the mix going to your aux.... otherwise the danger is that people keep pushing the sliders up and up and wonder why it's distorting... whilst their wireless pack is on tickover... (idiots).

I'll have my ear plugs. And at least it won't be like standing in a staple gun factory like the bass show will!