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    Thats the studio for you. In a studio, you can wrangle a bass tone to be almost anything you want!
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    You must go stereo if you have the kit to do so!
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    Out of the ultranet of the XR18... into the first P16M... them out of that P16M into the next P16M... then out of that second P16M into the next..... rinse/repeat
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    Those rear plates and front ferrules could be hiding a multitude of split edge sins though.
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    Behringer P16M Or... get another XR18, and a couple of 8 way splitters (e.g 2xBehringer MS8000) and two sets of XLR looms. Then split your monitoring needs across two mixing desks.
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    re: guitar cab, tilt it back so it's firing at the roof (the springsteen way - google image his stage to see), or have it's pointing off stage... better that than going through the mics. For smaller venues, if they can go the modelling route, then this will be better for keeping the sound under control... and enable more consistency not just for FoH - but also your IEM mix. As you've probably now found out, the more noise on stage that you can take away, the better the band will sound out front. Drums is always the hard one...! I think I have written a bit in the opening posts about thoughts on silent stages that may be of interest. (No drummer likes elec drums... but in some difficult venues, they are the key to sounding the best that you can!)
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    TBH, they are probably the best ones.
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    That's fine. You got your experiences, I got mine. I have played loads of gigs with deps on with no issues. There's defo been a shift post covid though. Its not the capabilities of the players that are ever in question... it's whether they are actually dependable and reliable and know how to get the job done. It's largely a behavioural thing. The "best" musicians aren't necessarily the best musicians.
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    The contract usually points out that all members are able to be depped out - "to a same or better standard". So makes all promo and associated marketing material meaningless really. It's all about as useful as an agent's contract. (Spoiler, there isn't. They take the "desposit" their fee and broker the contracts between the client and the band. No repercussions on the agent - they don't have a contract with the client... the band does.
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    agreed up to a certain extent... but try telling that to an angry bride and groom who hate the "screeching sound" that the dep singer is making compared to the "buttery smooth tones" of that other singer in the promo. A dep is a dep. A dep band is something completely different. or manage the dep bass player that turns up and slaps their way through every song... or manage mr gospel chops on drums... I've been in this game a long time and seen most iterations and sometimes unwittingly been involved in them - the most corrupt experience being 16 players meeting each other in the car park. We didn't even know each others names... but there was the charade of a band with promo that was nothing like and the supporting text that claimed the band had been playing together for 15 years.
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    Just out of interest, just what is your budget?
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    Morally bankrupt isn’t it?
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    Indeed - it’s a formulaic process from that agency for sure. It’s not particularly inspiring - but it does make it even more important that the lineups are static as it’s certainly not the difference in the look and feel that makes a band stand out. Mind you, with that agency, I don’t think they care. If it’s not broken and all that.
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    Theatre is still moderately buoyant. Wedding scene is largely unimpacted, corporate is well down. Everything else is crashing compared to where it was 3 or 4 years ago. People just aren't spending the money. At the lower budget end of the wedding scene, people that would have stretched to a band are mostly going for DJs. Trouble is for me personally, I'm bored of where I am. Weddings are pretty frustrating in the fact that it's so formulaic and predictable. I can't complain, I've earned some good money over the years and like yourself, spent a few years doing the big NYE gigs. They don't even excite me anymore! Your comment did make me smirk though - one of the things that angers me a lot about the wedding scene, is that it's basically becoming a bunch of scratch bands - and that really doesn't sit well with me. There's folk like yourself with a static lineup which is great - but then, the vast majority seem to be a bunch of musicians thrown together at the last minute, going out with scrappy gear. It's amazing how many of the "UK's Best Wedding Band" go out with inappropriate "Powerful PAs" (a couple of Behringer tops), a sorry excuse for "Amazing light show" (a couple of par cans) and sound absolutely awful and totally non representative of the promo material that they present. I don't think thats fair on the clients who have no doubt spent hours choosing their ideal band only for a band of deps to turn up. That's becoming the norm as more and more musicians scrabble about, ditching gigs for other gigs to earn another fiver. I don't want to be part of that scene, especially when I'm the one holding the contract. The whole thing has mostly become a joke anyway, it's a battle of the promo - and as you'll know and I've stated, the promo rarely represents the reality of what the band sounds like live. It peeves me off seeing all these super produced mega band promos where you can hear the vocalists have been tuned within an inch of their lives, vocal stacks for days, a million over dubs yiddah, yaddah, you know how it is. It's Richard Turpin stuff.
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    What mixer have you got?
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    For the price you pay for a pair of C2, you will normally pay the same for one el cheapo condenser! If I recall, you get a stereo bar so it's quite a good all in one purchase for a cheap stereo set up. Also... running stereo ambient and a mono mix can work really well as a half way house if you are only getting a mono IEM mix from your main mixer. (Also assuming your sub mixer can take three feeds a pan the C2s hard left and right)
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    Turned out nice that.
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    Thought he was a Fender J 5 man. Dunno. Whenever I saw him play, he seemed to be on something j5 flavoured.
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    Carvin SB5000
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    Any condenser will do you. Behringer C2... or cheaper. (Just look for that style - pencil type condenser) If it's just for ambient sound for IEMs, pretty much anything will do you - you just want a condenser that will pick up the room, so a 58 is pretty naff at doing that.
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    Quick summary of the Xvive system - Good - no compander (ergo better audio quality than an analogue, especially analogue with a poor compander) more affordable than most Bad - 2.4 Ghz is more prone to interference that ch38 mono latency - IF it is used in line with a lot of other digital devices that are introducing their own latency. (Ideally your cumulative latency should be sub 7ms - or 10ms if you are less sensitive to latency. So if you are using a mixer with sub 2ms latency and just a xvive, you are at around 7ms, which is a decent enough figure. If you are using digital mics (or beltpacks on your bass) with digital pedals/modellers in lines... this figure could grow quite significantly) Good/bad depending upon viewpoint - non user replaceable batteries (if you forget to charge it, or it runs out on a gig, you're stuffed)
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    Pro bands under the age of 50 - most. Certainly on pop gigs, it's a given. Level 42 are in the old school scene - although you'll see PRB on inears/overears (at least with his own band) and on L42 for backing tracks and click. Most MDed gigs will be on in ears for talk back too. EDIT - just looking at L42 - theres a fair few of them on inears.
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    Its defo heading towards a crossover...
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    @ChienmortbbAs with everything... thats a "that depends". There will be some latency with the A/D D/A conversion - but the top systems can now do that sub 2ms. So the tradeoff is no compander, better sounding feed for minimal introduction in latency. Most of the consumer IEM products are circa 7ms+ though... which is significant. Like most things, you get what you pay for. Having used decent IEM systems, I would say for me, the low cost systems dont cut it. Likewise, with channel 70, it's potluck - typically they are ok... but if you start playing areas where there's multiple AV devices being deployed, then yeah, crap shoot.
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    I have never been so disinterested in gigging. I think covid really took the wind out of my musical sails and got me reevaluating what I want to do with my time. Couple that and dealing with people (music is never the problem, it’s the dealing with people that rips all joy from it) I’m just not excited for 2023 and the headaches it will no doubt bring.
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