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I wonder if there's a stock sound library at the Beeb where they can simply drop in Jool's fave licks...?

And because light travels faster than sound, unless the Beeb have resynced it, the sound of which you are hearing and what you are viewing further screw with the liveness of it all.

Your tinnitus and response to pressure would not surprise me. Funnily enough, if I go scuba diving, then my tinnitus clears up to the point where I don't recognise it at all. Eventually it creeps back. I got bent once and went into a deco chamber and following the treatment, my tinnitus was the best it had ever been. When speaking to the chamber staff, they said that the chamber that I was being treated in was originally from Germany and whilst there, was used for tinnitus treatment - but because the results weren't conclusive enough and consequently the medical research at that original particular research clinic was stopped. I'm convinced - for me, pressure is a big factor in how good or bad my tinnitus is... but for others, it would seem that it has no bearing. There's certainly a load of research papers out there using hyperbarics for tinnitus treatment - it can make for interesting reading... but don't expect a miracle cure. My tinnitus is very mild now - I think my brain has tuned it out... I certainly can't hear it whilst going about my day unless I stop and specifically listen for it. I scope out OK on a hearing test (no significant losses - certainly nothing that wouldn't be out of the ordinary for somebody my age) and it doesn't really bother me now. My tinnitus was a result of a particularly nasty ear infection and not music related... I've always tried to look after my ears in that respect. With specific regard to flying, I've never had the same experience of yourself... but everybody's tinnitus does seem to be different... and that's why it's such a nightmare to research.

Spoiler. It's not live. It was recorded earlier in the year. And you're watching it off a recording. /pedant

A revelation? Looking forward to the debrief over a pie meet at Rugeley. I remember the first gig I did on my first set of IEMs and I was cursing myself that I had done so many gigs without them. Certainly can’t imagine living without them now. Did you make use of the split desk we set up last time at the pie meet? Was your bass EQ phat?! And what about the kick? Presumably you compressed it nicely? Gated/non gated? Oh man, excited for you dude. You still working on Jim ditching the amp?

The last thing you want on stage is a big sub to bleed into your mics and muddy everything up.

You do know you can post old photos to Facebook?

13 posts. Did you sign up especially for this thread or something? EDIT: oh no. I see now. Yeah, funny that you should choose to weigh in on another Jools related thread.

I’m not, I wrote this post in September.

Again, didn’t say anything about live music. Just Jools.

I didn’t say anything about live music, just Jools Holland.

The boss solution is to use Dante... but sadly very few FOH desks are equipped with the cards. A single Cat 5 and you’re good. Actually, if the FOH is a X32 or Midas you could do a split using AES/EBU. The chances of you having somebody clued up or prepared to allow you to reroute though... again, slim chance.

Ok - I guess the key thing is who has got access to the cabling. Is your FOH guy going to be the same guy who is cabling on stage? It’s all doable as long as you have time and have the comms and expectations laid out before you get to the venue. The worst thing you can have is an expectation that everything is in place and you have such a reliance on your setup being in place, your performance is put at risk. With that many vocal mics, you are defo looking at using a split no question. I think you need to be very clearer on your rider what you need - and get to the venue early. Also, make sure you have a 16 way snake of your own as suddenly requiring an extra 16 XLRs could really screw some venues (although I suspect you will wire the split into a rack? - that does potentially bring problems on stage as it depends where the venue stage box is and whether there’s physical space for a racked x32 to be sitting around). Also, are you looking at a rack x32 or physical slider one? Just revisited the x32 rack and yes, looks like you should be able to use the TRS aux outs (obv 1 per stereo side). You are right, you are limited on the bus count on the XR18. What you may want to look at is if a Y cable split post the isolated split from the splitter to feed a pair of XR18s may be order of the day... may work out cheaper and offer some redundancy. You have the opportunity of still going mono if one of the XR18s failed that way.

Is Jools even relevant anymore?

Rudimental and Nile... (as long as they are playing by themselves and not with Jools and his band spewing boogie over the top) as for the rest, meh.

I think I was too bust checking out the 20th Anniversary in the window of the Bass Centre around the corner.

That was good old Woz!

Wtf is that fossil?

Come join us in the IEM thread!

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Sorry about delay... Christmas and all that. So in terms of practicality, well, that depends on the type of gig that you are going and if your sound man is your friend. How far up the pecking order you are on a gig is probably going to be quite key also. In short, it can be quite a bail ache... especially if there's quick turn arounds involved. If you are a playing in a support slot, than expect life to be very difficult for you. Front of house guys want to plug their mics and gear into their gear. If they go via your splits and your gear causes them issues, you aren't going to be very popular. Front of house guys will want to control the gain on the mics. They won't want the hassle of going into your split if you aren't the headline slot, thats for sure... especially if you aren't sticking around and you expect to remove your splitter from the stage. If you are looking to insert a splitter in-between bands... then I'd say defo forget it. The key thing is, if you can, talk with the sound guys in advance of the gig and tell them that you are planning on bringing a splitter so you can run a band run monitor world. Advance notice is always the polite thing to do and the sound guys are more likely to accommodate you. You haven't said what your line up in the band is. You may want to run independent mics to FOH so you are completely self sufficient. A mic on each guitar cab (or a split if using modellers etc) may be the way to go. The only issue is going to be with regard to vocal mics. Sound guys may be more accommodating if you you are looking only to split a vocal mic... or send you a vocal feed back via XLR to plug into your mixer from the FOH aux. Stereo mixes are preferable to mono if you can spare the auxes... so going X32 over XR18 will be preferable for a a 5 piece band. However, you are going to be struggling for aux outputs on a X32 without buying the extension rack/stage box. With regard to the XR18, remember you can use the LR as a monitor mix bus independent of the auxes - because the L/R isn't going to be sending anything out front. I haven't done the sums but you may be able to find something like a Mackie DL32R (an excellent monitor mixer) - that has the full I/O available to you without having to worry about extra break out boxes. (they are due to become Mac/PC and Android compatible to - currently only iOS).

Yup. And another one. Look what we've started here.

Man, no way is it a waste of money. It's a massive difference.

I’m out at the moment but will give you a run down later.