EBS_freak

I'm with you. The live performance element is the pinacle. Being skilled enough to do your art "live". No studio trickery. The interaction between you and the audience. That's what makes it all for me.

I couldn't possibly steal Tony's thunder... but there's a great pic of him out on the interwebs with his ears full of gunk! (with a tampon string hanging out)

Man. This is not good. Where is good customer service these days?

Tony - is SCS using an SPD?

Personally, I'd get it to Bernie. It's dead easy to blow the LEDs with a short, especially with the older GB Controller that is in this Status. When you see the amount of strands coming off the circuit board, you'll see what I mean.

Glad that it's exceeding your expectations... they really are wonderful units. Just a shame that it looks like the Thomann Sony DWZ dream is over

The Sony's transmission delay is sub 3ms - so any delay you get when you are further away is not due to the unit itself but the fact that it takes time for the sound to travel to your ears from further away! Glad you are enjoying the unit, it's a monster, especially for the Thomann price

PS the ambient sound from the ACS is really good - it sounds just like your normal hearing... but obviously with bionic capabilities. Great for eavesdropping. And of course, the pack has a built in limiter and the like so no need to worry about transient spikes deafening you!

[quote name='ubassman' timestamp='1395321975' post='2401069'] As I progress gracefully into mid life my hearing certainly isnt as clear and crisp as what it used to be and some gigs are just muddy as hell with sound bouncing all over the place. Not come across the ACS Live but have just looked it up and it looks really very interesting. For ease , heres a link I just googled [url="http://www.acscustom.com/uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117&Itemid=91"]http://www.acscustom...d=117&Itemid=91[/url] Dumb question - but what do you plug the 3.5mm jack into? As you can tell not my area of expertise ! [/quote] OK, what you have is your In Ear Monitors (IEMs) - the things that you stick in your ears. These IEMs have a microphone on each of the earpieces. There is a multipin jack on the end of the IEMs, that provide the connectivity to the microphone and the balanced armatures (the loudspeakers in other words) inside the IEMs. This multipin plug plugs into the live pack. At this point, you adjust the volume level of the signal coming in through the microphones (so the signal from the microphones goes down the cable into the live pack, is amplified (at the volume set) and is then sent back up the cable to the loudspeakers in your ears). The 3.5mm jack input is to typically receive the monitor mix from a radio pack. The radio pack would be typically receiving a signal from the radio transmitter which has an monitor mix going into it. Your monitor mix can be tailored to whatever you wanted it to be... So it could be a full band mix, or it could be just a signal from your bass. If you want to cut out the radio bit (which can be expensive to do well) you could use a small desk and take a DI out of your bass amp into the mixer... and then from the desk, probably using the headphone socket, connect the headphone 3.5mm out to 3.5mm in on the ACS ambient pack. The level of bass you then hear is controlled by the headphone level on the desk (as the ambient pack just does a straightforward pass through). If you bass amp has a headphone out, even better, you can ditch the desk and control it straight off the amp (assuming it has a headphone output control, or you don't mind the speaker being silenced on stage) Just shout if you want more info. I use this setup pretty much every gig (albeit with a radio pack) and I think this will transform your life.

Also got these guys in my favourites who appear to do ambient vents. Can't vouch for how good they are though - [url="http://www.inearz.com/"]http://www.inearz.com/[/url]

Without spending lots of money then, (well, maybe lots of money but not lots and lots and lots of money) 1964-V2 + ambient vent Jerry Harvey JH5 + ambient vent Alien Ears C1 + ambient vent Alient Ears C2 + ambient vent Aurisonics A1 + ambient vent Ultimate Ears 5 + ambient vent ACS T2 Live + ambient pack (OK, maybe this one is lots of money...) I still think that anything with an ambient vent is bad news though (or anything that doesn't seal well on your ears) - you will lose your bass out of what is coming through you IEM (OK, this is only for vocals in your case but it still has an impact on the tone). I would urge you to read this too - [url="http://www.sensaphonics.com/hearing-conservation-tips-for-musicians"]http://www.sensaphonics.com/hearing-conservation-tips-for-musicians[/url] - saves me writing any more.

Hows the desk working out? In other news, tonyf is about to be very naughty...!

Agents get tons of applications daily. I'm guessing if you are saying no weddings, they aren't interested in working with you... as that is the majority of the work that comes into agents. Agents want bands who are good and have empty diaries so that when any enquiry comes in, they know you will be available and know that they can fill your diary there and then. If you only have 2 or 3 dates a year for example, or you already have a fullish diary through other agencies, you are even less likely to be taken on. If you aren't getting any bites, its down to the above, or your promo material not being up to scratch (most agents want videos too) or your look isn't right and it'll be hard for them to sell.

If you've got two auxes, you can run independent mixes. Two of them. You can select how much of each channel on your desk you want going to each aux send. You have also got the option of running radio packs in focus mode, so you can send a band mix off the mains (not as ideal as doing a seperate mix) to say, the left channel - and then the vocal output aux of ever aux 1 or 2 to the right channel. Then you can use your monitor pack to balance between the two. I didn't say that you wanted to take the headphones out of your ears - I am describing the effects that will happen if you aren't comfortable with your monitoring situation. If you want to leak sound through your monitors, you are going to end up with a variable that you are not in control of - the ambient level... therefore, you are already in a situation where your monitoring capability is comprimised. Of course, every "leaky monitor" is going to leak by different amounts also. If you aren't happy with the monitoring, you'll pull your monitors out, or you will over compensate with an increase in volume. Both bad news. But hey, you seem to know what you are doing, so go for it.

I don't get it. You've got a great IEM radio system and you want to comprimise what it can do by using £4 headphones or replacing them with something where you are relying on leak to hear whats going on around you? In turn, this causes you to take the in ears out of your ear to hear more of the ambient sound, which will then cause you to thrape the output on the vocal feed... which in turn is likely to cause damage to your ears. The worst thing you could do is have one in and one out... because you will then over compensate with levels and deafen yourself in one ear. You've got the ability where you can mic up the band and not run out of channels on your desk with ease and have an amazing sound coming through your ears... at a volume which isn't going to cause damage to your ears... why aren't you keen? What are your monitoring requirements of all the band members? Do you all want to run an independent mix?

This will make a good read... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/205633-in-ear-monitors-help-needed/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/205633-in-ear-monitors-help-needed/[/url] But by going what you say, what you really need is an investment in the ACS Live system. It's an expensive system but it's really fantastic. What it gives you, are a set of IEMs with a tiny microphone built into each ear. The IEMs will give you a lot of isolation but then, you can adjust back in your ambient noise... e.g your normal hearing with a output level control. Then, you can also mix in the sound of your bass... so what you will get is your normal hearing plus the option of chucking in a load of your own bass sound without any problems with feedback or onstage volume. It's a big investment... but I reckon if you went that way, you'd never want to play any other way. I've gone all in with IEMs... and I wouldn't want to play any other way now. No struggling with volume, mix levels, being able to hear yourself... it's just a joy to play. As stated above, IEMs on a budget aren't a sound investment... but if you go with the ACS system, as I say, you'll not want to play any other way.

Guess you want something like a Jerry Harvey jh5 with ambient vent then. Still reckon you could do a lot better by piping your favoured mix into your ears though.

PS - what you dont want to do is start around messing around with one IEM in and one out... thats where you are going to overcompensate and blast your ears and cause some damage.

Tell me more about your in ear monitoring system. Ideally, your in ear system should isolate you from everything on stage. Anything that you want to hear, should be fed into your ears via a monitor mix. However, there are systems that are out there that enable you to add an ambient mix from the outside world. These fall into one of two categories - ambient via mic, or ambient via vent. The latter is simply an opening on the IEMs that are adjustable to "leak" sound from the outside world in. The other is where you mix in a signal from ambient mics, in with the monitor mix. This can be achieved with a couple of permiter mics pointing at either the stage or audience (wherever you want to pick up the ambient sound from) or using something like the live system from ACS or Sensaphonics. Biggest question at this point is... what's your budget? Great monitoring solutions don't come cheap!

1964 do remoulding also. Were you looking to change the driver count or anything? 1964 have proven to be quite rapid.

Bare Knuckle would probably get my vote for UK manufacturers too.

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1395143553' post='2399077'] Yeah, GoPros are the main choice. Just expect to spend money and have the fish eye lens affect all the time* *I'm pretty sure that this is true.. But it could just be their lens of choice.. Hmm.. May have to research that. [/quote] That can be fixed in post. I think it's even an option in the GoPro studio. It's the nature of having a wide lens. It can be altered on the camera, wide, meidum and narrow - but you'd tend to leave in wide to capture the most action and the fact youhaven't got a viewfinder (unless you buy the LCD back).

[quote name='tonyf' timestamp='1395087956' post='2398593'] Mind you, Russ is a VERY bad man. I'm currently on the 1964 Ears site designing my V8s. [/quote] I'm sorry Tony. When you started talking to me about tech and IEMs, I did say talking to me was likely to cost you money. A lot of money.

Overkill? Huh? Playing a Ritter bass down the Dog and Duck is overkill - but people still do it. No harm in playing through gear that you love.