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  1. EBS_freak
    Bass > PA.
  2. EBS_freak
    UE900 are long since obsolete. If you were looking at a reshell from lugs anyway (with a donor set of UE900) you’d be in for around 500 - which is circa the price of Roberts triple and quad anyway… If you like what you have, give lugs a shout - don’t know if they will rehouse dynamic drivers… but you know, nothing to lose by shooting an email. Circa 250 for the shells and a bit extra for ear impressions should see you under 500 total spend (especially if using your existing mees as the donor)
  3. EBS_freak
    BA = balanced armature. Type of driver... (typically IEMs use BAs... and can use dynamic drivers (like how'd you'd think of a typical speaker)) Dont quote me... but I suspect all the manufacture of these drivers are done in China anyway. Knowles certainly has a manufacturing presence in China. re: custom drivers for manufacturers, just remembered that I read something about the tweeter in the JH Sharona that was down to a unique partnership with Knowles... let me see if I can find the link. EDIT: here you go - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220502005085/en/JH-Audio-Debuts-Flagship-In-Ear-Monitor-with-Exceptional-Treble-by-Knowles’-New-Balanced-Armature-Supertweeter Also - I suspect that that the mass production market will be using off the shelf drivers (I know KZ do), whereas the large custom IEM companies, such as JH as evidenced above, have some tailor made, as I said before, to engineer themselves out of some of the constraints when building multiple driver pieces.
  4. EBS_freak
    The component prices of BAs tend not to be too high. The cost associated with manufacture was historically down the the labour intensive custom shells that were hand poured. With 3D printing, the labour intensity has decreased dramatically and build times have gone down incredibly. However, what you are really paying for, is the the R and D in getting an IEM tuned nicely. So this means the manufacturers scope out loads of different drivers and tubes and damping to get the crossovers as good as can be. Of course, some manufacturers spec their own custom BAs to engineer their way out of the constraints of combining off the shelf drivers. Notably JHs single housed quad BA (recall its Sonion) escaped the issues of phase alignment for example - and is built specifically to their spec. So in short, types/manufacturers of drivers is only a small part in making an IEM sound good (or bad).
  5. EBS_freak
    And don’t forget Sonion and Bellsing. Most balanced armature based IEMs are going to be made up from one or the others (or a combination of)
  6. EBS_freak
    Just had a look at the Mee. They are custom tips as opposed to custom shells. I can't really comment on the Mee as I have no experience - but I do know of peoples experiences with Shures with custom tips... and they aren't good - they tend to separate at inopportune moments.
  7. EBS_freak
    That's exactly I went to my first customs. My ears are just weird. Nothing but customs stay put.
  8. EBS_freak
    I mic the kit in its entirety.
  9. EBS_freak
    I shall tell you the secret of how to get anybody in your band onto IEMs. Have a talkback mic. FOMO soon kicks in when the rest of the band is laughing at what is being said over the talkback mic between numbers... and you're not.
  10. EBS_freak
    I used Recorderman and Glyn Johns for live use for a while... never convinced. And neither was the drummer.
  11. EBS_freak
    That sounds like somebody who has damaged hearing. Playing at home at quieter volumes and maxing out the mids and highs so that they can hear note definition. They are somebody that could really benefit from IEMs - in that you can split the bass to two channels. One with a front of house sound... and one with a clanky nasty donkey horrible trebly mess for your bass players monitoring needs.
  12. EBS_freak
    Bump
  13. EBS_freak
    Not gold… Silver on the other hand….
  14. EBS_freak
    BA wont benefit from any “burning in”. Dynamic drivers - the jury’s out… but I’ve always been in the camp of just use them. Unless you are using earphones for mixing and mastering in a professional capacity (and you don’t use IEMs for this anyway) - just get on using them. Especially in a live situation, the nuances between a burned in vs non burned in will be so negligible in real world terms.
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    To me, it's just making use of tools. There's plenty of bands making use of backing tracks, clicks or whatever... - at the end of the day, it's the entertainment game. If the audience is entertained, then job done. It still doesn't take away from the fact that in order to perform some of the songs, you have to be a great player. Take the bass player for example, there will be plenty of people poo pooing the above - but would have nowhere that level of competency on the bass themselves. For me, the interesting bit about all this sequenced stuff is that it opens up a whole multitude of possibilities. For example, automated MIDI changes - the guitarist can be anywhere on stage when they need to change patches to their lead sound... automated lights (lets face it, a band turning up to a gig running time aligned lights to the audio without a lighting folk would be pretty impressive for most people)... Funnily enough, there's an awesome video worth watching on Katy Perry's band setup and how they do exactly all this. Less being tied to the spot and more about moving around stage and providing visual entertainment on top of the sound. And of course, they aren't miming which makes the experience better for those wanting a more purist approach to music than miming. Also - worth noting on the looping - I don't know if it was done in the video above, but if you are playing with a sequence, you can lock a playback skeleton to loop - so I had a drummer trigger off a midi controller to enter an 8 bar loop in ableton. We would stay in it until he hit the midi controller for us to exit. You can also set up things like "jump to the chorus" if you want to elongate things.... so things aren't as necessarily prescriptive as you would think. Anyway... Here's the Katy Perry rundown - Wireless DMX to the lights on the guitar. Pretty cheeky eh? There's also this case study - there used to be a video but I can't find it - https://www.allen-heath.com/media/Camryn-Case-Study.pdf Basically, whole band in a rack, all the digital domain, time line running with all the MIDI changes, running VSTs for everything. Performers just provide the input, everything else done in the box. Pretty slick to be honest - and it sounded ridiculously good.
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    It's not as if it's a vintage Fender.... so... if it's your keeper bass and you are thinking about refinning it, just get on with it. May as well enjoy the bass with its new coat sooner rather than later. It's all part of it's and your story.
  17. EBS_freak
    Sounds like you may have the "auto" level mode set in the input setting menu. What's happening is, is that the D07x detects that the input is peaking and then automatically adjusting the gain down. You can hear the input gain being reduced on the recording. Every time it starts a new recording, it will do the same routine... hence why you are seeing the repeated behaviour. What you need to do is switch the "level mode" to "manual" (under I/O setting menu item) and save - and then when you hit record, pressing the |<< and >>| buttons will enable you to manually set the recording level. Get the band to play and monitor the levels to make sure they are not clipping (get it to peak at -6dB to be safe) Being digital, you an afford to under gain a bit which should give you a bit of headroom to avoid distorting peaks. You can then bring it into audacity or whatever DAW you want to normalise (or further process).
  18. EBS_freak
    EBS use Eminence woofers in their Proline and Neolines with Selenium Super Tweeters.
  19. EBS_freak
    Custom will be one of the best bits of gear you will ever buy!
  20. EBS_freak
    @dave_bass5- yay! Sounds promising! Get refining!
  21. EBS_freak
    Deco - as mentioned above.
  22. EBS_freak
    Ah - seems to be fixed channel... so that'd be a no.
  23. EBS_freak
    "Less than 12ms per system" For 40 quid, not a bad find - if they work for you. Watching the vid, interesting to see it will do 1 transmitter to many receivers... I'm wondering if you can run multiple transmitters for multiple mixes?
  24. EBS_freak
    If the socket that you are plugging into is giving an unbalanced stereo signal and your P2 is switched internally to be stereo, then yes. (assuming the XLR is locking into the P2) I'd get a proper cable made up by designacable - just show them what you want. I would be surprised if they haven't made one up before. This kind of cable is worth investing in as due to the nature of it, is exposed to more wear than your standard cable.
  25. EBS_freak
    The art of understanding wave theory is defo more in the science space than the arts space.
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