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Also @mrtcat's band seem to be doing more live streams with his band. It can be very entertaining watching bands do this - Fraudio's live streams are amongst some of the best I've seen/participated in. Top tip though - and I think @mrtcat will appreciate where I'm going with this.... it may be useful to have a plant in the audience to help with interaction. My comment about the "Blur vs Oasis battle" certainly got the conversation flowing for their last feed. (Disclaimer, I wasn't a plant - but figured I would give them a helping hand). The danger with live feeds is that it can be quite flat unless you have an underlying topic of conversation - so bear this in mind before you start your feed. "Winging it" can sometimes fall flat on it face with bands going err... err... .err... or relying on the audience to give them content.. which just doesn't come. Just my experience. Oh and make sure everybody gets involved. Having one person speak and three silent muppets is not engaging in the slightest.

Thanks, I did think that nobody cared. I guess people don't! Excellent news on your stream. Hopefully I'll be able to check in, even if it's just 5 mins or so! Enjoy the pressure! (not just from a playing front, from a technical gremlins point of view! ) Good luck!

It'd be in the terms of reference of my tech that they are recycled.

Have you got a router bit for your dremmel? Talking of dremmels, I've got a project for soldering club I'm working on at the moment and could do with some box cutting advice! Sounds like a project night and pie outing!

If I had a string deal, I'd have my strings changed (and then sent off for recycling) every gig.

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I've been playing with gear. I had a no pressure low key bar gig so thought I would give Facebook live streaming a go... Man, what a mission! In short, had three cameras, with a hardware broadcast switcher to sum the audio and video to upload via the power of a mobile 4G internet connection. Three mixing desks - FoH desk, IEM desk and Broadcast desk all connected via the wonders of Dante. I can safely say, I don't think this particular venue has seen anything as complex as this for a "pub/bar" gig... Of course, I didn't know until after the event whether it had worked because I was playing at the time. We did one song as it was churning a fair bit of data... and I didn't know whether it would be OK or all pixellated and distorted. All seemed ok though. Few focusing issues... but meh. Of course the most worrying thing was not messing up the playing/singing... Here's the url : https://www.facebook.com/lunasoundsentertainment/videos/708721866265175/?fref=mentions&__xts__[0]=68.ARDGTTf0cuTmAf_qxdT4koPDBrU1cEnkrnNmiCb5y7XZ99l9Olao244Dp0ZlqA5ZfuPCXuPTdVmmJkdXWyYXJfnDuNVj0n05HgvmV4BqLvP1Eb5ee6aMllLmHjaF8uYaiURBsAFqZuYceyk7RkxH4WGXuVfqVmFINSXcDYKhocwHu2ilwYVI8LwTIzcD_ad1gLU8DOjI94vNRTWuH2IQsG6ETBBi015vIfQUuC8mbg2RTqAIsnO1ix0Ini2GHDqTHX0NOkdjz-hjDuCzy3od6VJazlMMigcKuFVgD5gafT-3DZnGnD_TS8M3AdAQPLmvC3bU137mKpyz40H6KKWYD-FWGSFdPg&__tn__=K-R as the embedded link doesn't seem to play....

Pfft.

I'm tempted to get 4 of these for my bass... certainly cheaper running LEDs on these than pretty much anything else I guess!

Yes! 8.4v I shall post up with multimeter reading.

Balanced armatures vs dynamics!

And does Graham still go on about how expensive IEMs are nonsense?

Ask for a quad - treb, mid, bass, bass.

There's no way I would put Minerva in the same ballpark as UE. Historically Minerva had quite a high failure rate but I don't hear so much about that any more... In fact, I now no longer know of anybody that is actually using Minerva... they've all moved onto other things. I'll repeat the same advice I tend to give on here... Save up for a UE6. If you haven't got that sort of budget, my next advice would be get a quad from Lugs. Knowing Robert's background, he knows what he's doing. He's not just shoving drivers into custom moulds, like some of the other companies I know of are. (Mentioning no names). Also, CIEM company is at the Drum Show in Manchester... so if you are interested, it may be worth getting yourself along there - there's usually free impressions and a decent discount to make it worthwhile.

And this is where bands are making life difficult for themselves. It's not really a hassle. There's a comparable amount of cables in play.. especially if you are talking about plugging amps into the mains and plugging speakers into heads. 2x735A = £1500 1x Behringer XR18 = £370 (or RCF M18 for a similar price... or even a XR16 if you don't need the extra 2 auxes) 1x Behringer P2 + 1x ZS10 per player (80 quid each) 1x kick mic = AKG £65 1x overheads = Behringer C2- £35 So for a four piece band - (assuming 4 players) - £1970 Allowing £500 for cables, stands, IEMs etc... (In reality, I guess this figure could be closer to £300 depending upon how much of a cable/stand tart you are) All the above would fit in one average car easily... and with guitars and a bass. No bass amp or cab. No guitar amp or cab - Assuming your guitarist goes into the XR18 amp emulator... or gets a pedal emulator... but even so the L6 Stomp is going to sound better in all environments because it doesn't care about being driven in a sweet spot. There's two big lumps that have been taken off stage... what was this about space being a premium? (Of course, the speakers out front are going to be there whatever... so the net result is that you've gained space for the band. Of course, less bleed into the mics, better sound out front - no dead spots out front where the guitar is either blasting your head off - or simply not there. I'd say the above is far more portable... and comes with a decent monitoring solution. No wedges to lug about... and you are going to sound better out front and be able to hear and run a monitor at sensible volumes so you won't go deaf. If anything, this is more suited to a pub setup than anything else!

That's not really minor... considering that running two 712s together would yield a 3dB gain in SPL. A single 732 giving you 2dB over a single 712 is quite some increase in SPL.

If you have a healthy budget up to £1500, I would recommend a pair of 735As above absolutely anything else in the market for the same price. Here's why - 1. 3" VC in the horn - lower crossover means the horn is doing more of the lifting work for the vocals. Don't be mistaken that horns are hissy thing meant for very high treble... a quality horn does a lot of the heavy lifting for frequencies in the vocal range. The result is, the vocals will more easily be able to be projected with those particular RCFs than from competitor speakers. You simply don't get 3" VC horns in ABS plastic boxes - and even in wooden boxes, you'll likely to be paying more like 2k a box to get a 3" horn. RCF are out there on their own with these speakers. 2. The horn enables the woofer to be freed up to concentrate on the lower frequencies... So putting bass drums, keys (with some serious low end too) through them - and bass - is not a struggle. You say that you only put a bit of keys and vocals through them... but if you keep your onstage volumes low, put everything through the PA, then you as a band collectively will sound better. Problems like guitar cabs being highly directional get eradicated. (Think about when you've seen a band play and you stand in front of the guitar players cab... you'll get deafened. Stand on the other side of the stage, you won't hear it... Going through the PA, helps disperse the sound evenly so wherever you are in the venue, you'll have a balanced sound). 3. These boxes are good enough to do most venues without subs. You need a lot of power, especially between the 100-400hz range to give things warmth otherwise your band can sound thin and tinny. They'll also give you enough in the 50-70 Hz range to thump out some kick drum (and the rest of the kit for that matter). Ultimately, I would urge you to go for the above and bring your volumes down and let the PA do the work. The 735A will easily enable you to run a silent stage even - and replace your backline altogether. Again, this will make your band sound better. The key thing is, keep your on stage volumes low and invest in those FoH speakers. If you are stuck in your ways... or if you want a more portable solution, than the compromise is the 732A. You'll lose the ability to get big bass (and I know the voice in your head is already saying "but my bass amp can do the bass" - it can - but that is also swamping the rest of the stage and flooding into the open mics that are placed in front of it...). The key figure is the middle 3 though... your vocals really will sing with that 3"VC horn. I'd use the opportunity of decent FoH speakers to make your band sound better. A lot of bands FoH speakers won't give them that sort of opportunity as they can't handle the full range of frequencies at a significant volume without sounding pants.

Are you on Mac or Windows? And is it a genuine Arduino or knock off? Have you set the baud rate appropriately?

Is this your Trustfire?

It would - but the cumulative latency is getting in a bit in that setup. (Expect about 15ms)

OK - coming from your phone, plug in a 3.5mm stereo cable. Split this to two unbalanced cables, one with a jack to go to your DI box. Plug this jack into your DI box and then from that, a XLR to the PA. The other side, with your click on, you can't just plug a set of headphones in as you'll only get it out of one ear. You could bridge but then you won't be summing correctly or presenting the correct load to your phone amp. Additionally, to control the level of the click, you would be turning up and down the volume, which won't necessarily be giving you the best signal to the PA... one feed is impacting the other. What I would suggest, ia splitting as above and then getting something like a Behringer P2 - that has it's own amplifier and will correctly sum the click. This is easy to do, just a simple insert cable, y cable... e.g. TRS (stereo) from your phone to TS (mono) and TS cable (mono). One side into your DI box and onto the PA, the other side to the P2 to do the amplification and the summing so the click comes out of both ears. What I would really suggest though, is running both the LR to the PA and sending the drummer back a mix from one of the desks auxes into a P2* *this is the correct solution.

Make sure you put your non balanced splits through a couple of isolated DI boxes. Inadvertently sending phantom power WILL kill your iPhones audio output.

The antenna are on the surface of the upper edge... so rack mounting would seriously compromise the performance of the radio.

Toys!