EBS_freak

There's a number of things at play - the actual sound of the IEM - not all IEMs have the same sound signature - but the reason I push the UE6 over the UE5, is the extra headroom that the UE6 will offer over the UE5. The UE5 will sound slightly tighter due to the use of balanced armatures over dynamic drivers... but the UE6 gives you the headroom comparable to a quad balanced armature (UE11 - quad balanced armature), at approximately 350 quid less. It depends what sort of budget you want to spend... and as I always say, don't put anything in your ears that you don't want to pay the money for... as it can be agonising to drop down to budget having heard up the range! edit - headroom, particularly in the bass, means less chance of distortion (even if not audible - it’s less tiring for your ears)

Hence why I said it depends upon the setup. In the world of DSP, the latency that the smooth hound introduces is a life time and certainly not negligible.

Oh boy. latency is far from negligible.

Surely if you’ve used it for yourself, you’re in a good position to draw conclusions? A lot of it (whether it works well for you or not) depends upon how you are going to use it and what else is happening wireless wise in your band. I have my own views but I think the world doesn’t need yet another latency discussion when the search function works perfectly well!

Just a heads up. I'm going to be helping Paul out at the Drum Show in Manchester on the Custom IEM stand on 21/22 September (I know it's the same weekend as the bass and guitar show in London... somebody didn't really think that one through did they? Some vendors/manufacturers can't be in more than one place at once... but hey). Anybody want to check out the offerings from JH, 1964 and UE, come along and I can hook you up and talk all things IEM with you.

I was going to write this in the other thread but will include it here. I'm going to be helping Paul of the Custom IEM company out at the Manchester Drum show (21/22 September - yes, I know it's on the same weekend of the Guitar and Bass show in London... which numpty thought that was a good idea?) - so if you want to try a load of really nice custom IEMs (there are universal versions of each model available to try) - do pop down and have a look. Then you'll realise that all not IEMs are equal (far from it)... and those apple iphone earbuds you thought were actually quite good... well... yeah. Nah.

This sounds like an excellent setup in which to run IEMs assuming you have the auxes available. Running vocals through IEMs (particularly if you can run them in stereo) is brilliant - easy to pitch, easy to make little adjustments... and gives you loads more confidence. If everything is miced up already, just think of it as ditching the monitors and replacing those monitors with IEMs. You'll have less problems with bleed into open mics. It'll all be glorious.

Change your transmitter to low power too. If you are just on a standard sized stage (eg anything but Wembley), chances are that the high power is doing nothing but churning away at your battery capacity. Best advice is get a set of Eneloops (Just the standard white AAs) and a decent charger. You’ll be sorted. Best practice as above, is to charge them after every gig. Eneloops don’t lose any significant charge whilst not being used... so they’ll be ready to go, even if a gig comes in at late notice.

I use a Mac for all my programming - sorry I can’t be more help - but do let us know how you get on!

No difference really - although the higher voltage may give you more headroom and better reproduction of transients. Anyway, the Trustfire appears to be good... although a tiny bit oversized. It will fit in the Gotoh battery boxes on my basses - but is defo a firm fit where other batteries will quite easily slip in and out. Not a real big issue really though!

There’s more to wireless than just buying a wireless pack and there you go. If wireless is not coordinated properly, likelihood is you’ll have drop outs and interference. The gear you buy greatly influences how many channels of wireless you can run. Id go P2 wired with some ZS10s (without mic version). Will get you a great feed and give you an idea of how IEMs are.

I’d disagree. The Rumour and Spitfire are very similar beasts... especially if you get a neck through Spitfire. The main difference is visual and construction I would say - there’s a lot more laminates involved in a typical Rumour than Spitfire. As Bernie said to me, “you could put my preamp and pickups on a table, string it up and it’ll sound GB - bit of a **** to play mind”

Yeah - it's a pain in the backside. Facebook limits reach quite substantially. I've also noticed that on Instagram... I used to be able to get 100 likes on my posts without any hassle 6 months ago. I still haven't figured FB with all my different pages... and how you expand reach. It's all about interaction - but thats difficult if nobody knows when to interact. Go figure eh? Wide is key - I'm on a load of DSLRs... but the wide angle lenses are all always the ones that get the most use for video. Unfortunately fast and wide glass doesn't come that cheap! All my glass is now 1.4 to 2.8 (or T3.1 for my cine lenses) - thats some significant investment

@mrtcat - saw the fb advert for the next live stream. Nice masking shot for the entry of the *Mandowkr" I'm currently building more electronics to bring more cameras into play for recordings. Want to do more live streams - just need to work out how to make them more engaging. The experiment I did in the top post didn't seem to provide much on the engagement front as it would seem that FB didn't actually annouce that we'd gone live. I think we had more viewing post the event looking at the stats. I'm not up for carrying around and setting up all the equipment without getting the engagement up... so I need to do some thinking. Also, I seem to be spending a lot of time looking on line at lenses!

I have the same with DR Bs as I use a singl 125 with a 40-100 set. Mark at Bass Direct gets me them... but I have to wait and order when he does he bulk ordering.

They kinda work... and they may or may not be your thing. Personally, I think the feedback is in the wrong place. I prefer the Woojer strap placed on the hips. The best solution is a board, like from P&D or Eich - but appreciate they can be a bit cumbersome to carry around.

I wasn’t expecting to get any traction with it - was just trying to get a smirk out of you so that you knew at least one of us was watching. 😉 I like your sound - I think I commented. Reminds me very much of Sister Hazel - which in my book, is not a bad thing at all.

Currently watching - going great @mr zed! You're playing great - see? No stress!

Good effort. Enjoyed that.

You're going be fine... just roll with it, it's live!

How did the test go? Are you all ready for tonight's show?

If you abuse it too much they cry. Sensitivity is basically how efficient they are in terms of wattage in, decibels out. The more sensitive cabs are, the louder they are (in dB) for less watts (W). So a cab with say a single 12, that is say a couple of dB louder than another cab with a single 12, you could say that the first cab is more sensitive than the latter. In reality, the more sensitive the cabs are, the less you'll need to get to the target volume.

You may find this interesting... or not - https://www.powerstream.com/9V-Alkaline-tests.htm

Argh quoted before the edit! 😛