EBS_freak

As I said up top - EQ pedal. Gain reduction.. with buffer in front of first pedal...

Now you've done it. Half the sexually deprived community of BC will be missing in action for at least 30 seconds.

Man, I'm such a slag for LED screens.

OK - so your signal chain description is still missing the DI bit - would be interesting to know what they have used to mic the bass cab though. I always find that there is not a great mic that captures the sound of a cab well... - to be honest, you aren't going to be getting the cab sound anyway, you are at best going to get the cone. But that's a completely different conversation. SD7s are a nice choice - presumably they were recording over MADI or DANTE. Probably straight to a laptop or Joeco or something like that. Would actually be very interested in that aspect of the production. Any seperate monitor mixer? Or was that directly off the FoH?

Jeez, you can't leave a picture of a woman anywhere.

Yes - you would need an external router... but you can literally get them for next to nothing. Basically, you'll have control of your mix via the tablet, so instead of walking over to the mixer, you'll see the mixer screen represented on your tablet for you to tailor remotely. It's the best solution - and if you haven't already got an iPad, a cheapo one from down CeX or similar will see you OK. Its the best investment you could make in regards of being in control of your mix. You are right - your mixer will give you an individual monitor mix from the desk - tailored as you say. As your B3 has two outputs, one balanced XLR and one (unbalanced? - I haven't looked) jack, you can split the signal to the front of house desk and to your Yamaha. The question would be though - why? If you want to hear more bass in your own monitor mix, just reach for the iPad and turn your bass up in your monitor mix. The other thing to watch, is because the Line6 is digital (incurs latency) and the Yamaha isn't (no latency), the two signals will be out of phase with each other. How noticeable this is depends upon how out of phase the resulting signal is... and how much you perceive it. Maybe I am missing a trick here - are you planning on sending your B3 signal to the FoH desk? Because if you aren't - you should be... even if you aren't sending your bass through the PA out front. Assume that you can't hear anything in your IEMs unless it comes from the FoH desk... and for anything to come from the FoH desk, it needs to be plugged into the FoH desk (irrespective of whether its coming out the FoH speaker or not - for example, you bass amp may be doing all the bass amplification for the venue you are in).

Shall watch out for the mic on the DVD then Seems a little odd having a stage setup and having a mic come in as an after thought. I'd like to mix a full show - probably the sort of thing I'd like to do only once because given the time it takes me to mix up a single track and be satisfied with it, I'd wager it would take what would feel like a life time to do a whole show. Herculean task - as you state. The lighting looks to be pretty good to be fair - it takes a lot of lights to light a barn - I don't know the budget of this show - but it looks to have done alright on that front.

Which mic? Where? Bleed through vocal mics? Looks like your signal chain is hitting a Klark Teknik DI which would be going straight to the desk, meaning your rig is for your ears only, not the audience or recording? Not that it really matters as the stems will be processed within an inch of their life before they get anywhere near the audio track on a DVD. Cool looking gig though - I do love a good LED screen - some serious money on display there... and some serious power requirements too! Looks like you had a great time - certainly one to tell the grand kids about one day! It was good to hear Joe McElderry - I think people write him off because of his X Factor links. That lad can proper sing. Anyway, seems like you did a top job.

The Rolls device is great as it lets you tweak your mix locally without going over to your desk. If you are in the world of digital desks, then the preferable option would be to remote control from a tablet... for @Osiris and their Line6 desk, I wouldn't bother with an external desk to power my headphones. I would just get a decent headphone amp and make sure I have a tablet as the "Monitors view" on the Line 6 desk gives you a Hi Pass, Limiter and EQ for the aux - which is going to be a lot more powerful than just the 2 band EQ on the Yamaha. I would agree that the PM351 is a pretty cool solution for analogue desks (although it hasn't got the EQ functionality of the Yamaha). A bit different to the Yamaha desk as it gives you the "through" functionality so you can tap off "more me" feeds before it gets to the desk. I think that this is what @Osiris is trying to achieve... but you won't be able to do that natively with the Yamaha as it has no throughs or monitor sends to do this. That Yamaha is a great little mixer - my O/H uses one for her Spin classes.

Most active basses are going to be OK with pedals. Some active circuits do not play well with pedals at all. It depends upon how much boost that your circuit is putting out and whether it slams the front input of the first pedal in the chain too hard. You can get around this by getting something like an EQ pedal that is left on all the time but the output is lowered... meaning that the next pedal in the chain isn't fed with a signal that is too hot.

Yup - all looking good! As you've described, that'll work for you. That will give you a perfectly serviceable setup - and it'll sound great.

Im glad that some of the stagewear of my youth was when cameras werent built into phones.

Successful outings then!

Should fit the bill perfectly.

Indeed it will. The only issue you can get with DC barrels is that they can be slightly loose. You can get around this by slightly (very very very gently!!) deforming them so they aren't quite circular. That will stiffen up the contact. I've only had two or three connectors like that but this little hack can solve some frustrations.

No worries!

I presume the "All at the same time" comment means that they do. Sorry - the above isn't arsey - everything I write in that manner comes out really arsey though! Can't figure a way of saying it without sounding like a douche.

The only interface that springs to mind that has 4 preamps for under a hundred quid is the Behringer umc404hd.

It should show on either the device or the transformer. If you can't figure it out - shoot up some pics.

The above is spot on advice - also abcproducts are nice for replacement PSUs. They are offer the inline transformers (so like a laptop power supply as opposed to the clunky adapters that plug directly into a socket). I use them in my racks (don't know if you are racking or not)

I dont know what his throughput is like... not being able to supply has crippled many a small business.

The string lie is awful though. Tuning issues anyone?

Frigidairius

Inverto?