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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1389276897' post='2332233'] EBS-freak, I'm still not convinced about the logic of only having the output jack on the back of the Line6 unit. If you have the rack mounted version surely it would make sense for to have both front and rear mounted jack? If you are going to use it with a pedal board you'd buy one of the non-rack mounting units which are cheaper anyway. All my serious rack mounted guitar orientated equipment has front and rear mounted jacks to give you maximum versatility when patching the gear together. [/quote] Sennheiser, Shure, Line6, Lectrosonics, AT, AKG, the main rack players... none of them have an output on the front (apart from a headphones which is designed for use by the monitor engineer). There is obviously argument enough for it not to be there. There are primarily there for vocal mics. Maybe I shall ask next time I speak to somebody on the inside why the output isn't present on the front. They'd probably argue that any decent rack gear should have inputs and outputs on the back leaving the front for controls! I suppose it's the equivalent of putting a HDMI cable on the front of the tele! It would make sense to have front and rear mounted jacks for the purpose you are looking for but I believe we are in the minority using rack gear for wireless right next to our amps. The manufacturers have decided that we should be using pedal versions of the wireless... and when you look at the majority of players, that actually makes the most sense. I guess the manufacturers see most of the gear we see on stages as toys - the real rack stuff wants all the external antenna... and that is never going to be visible right up on stage.The market trend is to get away from bass rack gear anyway. Why take up real estate on the front of a rack wireless unit when more useful information can be displayed on screen - and that's what the monitor engineers care about. A looped round cable will solve the problem - a bit annoying if that's going against how you imagined your setup to work. Even Axient and D9000 don't have front outputs... simply because most guitarists won't be putting them in their racks. Generally, AV companies would be taking care of that from their racks and probably using digital distribution over long cable runs to get the signal to near your gear without any impact on quality. Anyway, to do it properly, as above, we shouldn't even be using standard cables to go from wireless unit to preamp. The tech way is Dante. The transmitter sends it digital to the receiver. Receiver sends data stream via Dante to Dante input on your bass system. Conversion to analog takes place. No capacitance on the line! No loss of signal. Despite all of this, I understand that it's probably annoying for you.

[sup]That's crazy.[/sup] [sup]Alternatively buy a system with a transmitter that is fit for purpose?[/sup]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1389268230' post='2332055'] EBS_freak, I've had a look at the rack mounting kit for the G55. Still no provision for a front-mounted output jack. I'd be very reluctant to be drilling into a brand new item just to fix an oversight by the designer/manufacturer. [/quote] I've been thinking about this. I think the reason why there is no front mounted output jack is because I would wager most of these systems are used for wireless mic (either handset, lapel, headset) and hence would have no reason to have a duplicated jack. I'm guessing in Line 6's case, they would argue that most guitarists would use a pedal board so they would say that the pedal board solution is the one to go for. Looking at the design of the Line6 and the rack kit, I reckon you could sneak a George L through the corner. Looks like there would be just enough clearance to get the cable in between the rack units and through that corner... but that is, of course, unconfirmed. As for the Sony receiver, everything is flush. The knobs are set into the unit and the tops are flush with the top. Whilst I had my Sony unit, I don't think I ever changed it from channel 1 - and never had one bit of problem with it. Must have played over 40 different venues with it including hotels with comprehensive wifi... and the Sony didn't drop out once.

According to wiki... One rack unit is 1.75 inches (4.445 cm) high. You may just be in luck! Just!

You're a very restrained man Tony. New toy to play with and you didn't give it a bash?!

I've got my stuff PAT tested courtesy of StingrayPete. In reality, I've only ever been asked twice to provide PAT certificates - once at a hotel and another at a large corporate function. The hotel wasn't interested in the stickers, they just wanted to see the certificates. They didn't even check that the certificates matched the gear. They obviously have some checklist and them having a copy of our certificates no doubt proves that they are following that - probably as mentioned before, for health and safety and insurance reasons - anything that shows that they have taken reasonable steps etc. The function however, they wanted to see the PAT certs in advance and checked the gear against the certs on stage on the perfomance night. Why so much interest? I'm not sure... maybe they have been stung. But that gig was worth a lot of money and you have to play by their rules... or you don't gig. This gig was for a very, very large events company, so you don't want to get blacklisted with them for the sake of PAT testing. To be honest, it's good piece of mind to know that everything you have got on stage has had some, even if it's minimal, checks.

[quote name='njr911' timestamp='1389261886' post='2331952'] What's the best way to approach this ? Trip to the GP? I notice the local ACS place is in the Leeds General Infirmary Boots [/quote] It's dead straight forward. I've had a few IEMS made now. Basically, get yourself an appointment there with the instuction that it's for taking ear impressions for a custom moulded in ear monitor. When you get there, they'll check in your ear to make sure all looks good. If you've got a build up of wax, you'll have to get your ears cleaned out which may delay the process slightly. If all good (and it usually is), they'll take some impressions - this involves squirting a silicon type mix into your ears and effectively waiting for it to set before being removed. Then, that gets shipped to, in this case, ACS. Most impressions for musicians are taken as open mouth impressions (especially with acrylic IEMs), with a bit block between your teeth. ACS seem to go for closed mouth impressions. My ACS are from closed mouth impressions and they fit perfectly. It's no biggy - dealing with overseas manufacturers is no sweat either. Just send you impressions to them.

B'tard has nicked all my moves. Those who have seen me play, will know this. :/

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1389194853' post='2331165'] I'm still looking. I was going to get the Sony if it would fit in a 1U space and could be powered off my existing 9V PSU as it was nice and cheap on Thomann. Will have to look at the new Line6 model now though... [/quote] From memory, it'll be a touch too tall for a 1u rack space. It's a bit of a minefield all of this - the only company offering a rack mountable solution at a non crazy price is Line6. It's a shame that Shure decided not to put the GLXD in a rackmount format Will be interesting to see what cards Sennheiser will play... as they are only looking at digital at the very top end of the market at the moment.

Did you ever go wireless? See that the Line6 rackmount is available now.

[quote name='Tom Brookes Music' timestamp='1389015764' post='2328767'] Yeah I'd considered IEM kits. Not going to be taking an engineer with us and at some venues I'd guess our first song will be the soundcheck so I'm so sure that it would be the best way to go... Thanks for the replies so far guys, food for thought. [/quote] Don't bother with IEMs if you haven't got the ability to sound check properly...

[quote name='kristo' timestamp='1389016687' post='2328787'] Exit: The Top Gun Anthem. [/quote] A mate of mine's bride made her entrance to that! Ha ha.

[quote name='clauster' timestamp='1389027852' post='2329011'] I really rate his PR35. The engineer at our local venue was trying to work out what the hell was going on when our singer first plugged it in. When he found out it's a Heil he was really happy. As far as he was concerned it was MUCH easier to place in the mix due to the flatter frequency response. He'd just been bamboozled that suddenly there was a lot more top end than with the 58s. The filter switch is good too. Almost completely cuts out any handling noise. [/quote] That surprises me - the handling noise I don't think is anything special on it - the hp filter should cut the boom as opposed to anything else? A lot of sound engineers will put HPF at 100Hz as a given but the HPF is a really nice touch to have included on a mic. The plosives are the only thing that I think this mic suffers with - it punishes people with bad mic technique! The supplied windscreen tames that though. It really is great though - with that top end, as you say, it's as close as damn it condenser sounding from a dynamic as you can get I think. Filter in, channel strip flat. Job done! Feels great with the rubberised finish - but I'm not sure how well it holds up over time... [quote] Oh God, more wireless gear is the last thing he needs.... It all ends up piled in "bass corner" at gigs. [/quote] Ha ha - wireless gear gets dumped with me as I'm the only one who understands it all! I'm responsible for everybody getting their wireless working and IEMs sorted!

[quote name='clauster' timestamp='1389021921' post='2328873'] The Heil gets the most use. He only got it a few months ago and the clarity over the Betas un-nerved him a bit at first. Sounds great to my ears though Really clear and great dynamics through it. The Shures only get used for rehearsing BVs and when we come up on an engineer who doesn't like the characteristics of the Heil. (Shures seem to be the Fenders of the mic world). The Shure wireless is the Beta58 Rackmount system. Not sure about the Senheiser as it's about 10 years old and he hasn't used it in about 7 of those years. It just stays in the rack as a backup. [/quote] The Heil gets mixed response from a lot of sound guys. I had a guy turn his nose up at it so I said to him, set your EQ on your channel strip flat, turn your gain down from where you'd have a 58... then come back and tell me you don't think it beats crap out of a 58. I think everybody sees Heil as broadcast mics. To be honest, their dynamic PR40 will beat most low end condenser mics in the studio. Very underrated mics. In fact, the PR35 sounds ace on pretty much everything you want to throw at it! I was wondering the exact system he was using to see if he could change the capsule on the wireless transmitter. With a lot of the Shure stuff, it's only the real top end stuff that has the removal capsules. I'm investing in more ULXDs I think... and they will be having the Heil capsules put on them.

PS, any self respecting vocalist must have one of these - [url="http://www.rebelmicstands.com"]http://www.rebelmicstands.com[/url]

[quote name='clauster' timestamp='1389005124' post='2328563'] Mic box containing typically a Beta58, Beta57, Heil PR-35 and lots of XLR leads. [/quote] Tasty. Which does he use the most? I can't get enough of my Heil - I want to get the wireless capsule (bloomin' more pricey than a whole wired mic :-/ ) [quote] Rack with 2 different wireless mic systems (Sure and Sennheiser). [/quote] Which systems does he use?

What sort of vibe are you wanting? Here's my take so far... shall add as I think of more. Bride Entrance - You're My Best Friend. The Wurlitzer EP opening will make everybody in the room smile Signing of registry - Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Maybe a bit obvious?

[quote name='tonyf' timestamp='1388768880' post='2325893'] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]<VACANT GAZE>[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I ...need.....new.....strap. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color] [/quote]I I best stop now... I could cost you a lot of money on the strap front...

Ooh... guitar straps....

[quote name='tonyf' timestamp='1388767239' post='2325853'] EBS_Freak used his Jedi mind tricks yesterday and there's a Sony DWZ-B30GB currently winging it's way over the channel from Thomann. Bargain deal, £180 quid. [/quote] Shhh.... don't tell everybody about them! Actually, go get them. They p1ss on everything on the 2.4Ghz range at that price point, especially at £180. Sorry Tony... I know one day you are going to stop talking to me. I'm costing you too much money. Got those strings yet?

[quote name='Balcro' timestamp='1388762492' post='2325756'] Can you imagine the Americans carrying on like this about one of their own. [/quote] Hang out on headfi for a bit. You'll see plenty of that.

[quote name='njr911' timestamp='1388762720' post='2325762'] Will the ACS 15 improve the sound I hear over my current protection ? [/quote] Yes

The ACS 15/17s will be perfect.

Always found the Cornford amps highly overrated. The Hellcat was probably the best - but even then they had a high noise floor... :/ Even when I spoke to Cornford about it, they blamed poor valve and transformer placement as the reason. Like all Cornford amps, it still got 5 across the board in Guitarist magazine. Hmm. I reckon you can do better with the budget stuff now anyway. At the time, the Harlequin was one of the few small wattage valve amps. The market has certainly opened up since then.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1388674694' post='2324645'] The one thing I don't understand is why would someone want to play their own songs if they new their fellow band members would struggle to busk it and do it any justice at all, surely thats not in the interest of the one who wants their songs heard ? [/quote] It's not necessarily that, it's that they are used to playing with a set group of musicians who know each other repertoire and are used to just getting up there and playing. It's a mindset that they have got used to I suppose as opposed to out and out selfishness? I feel for Pete - it can be a bit of a baptism of fire and I've been caught in the exact same situation... (probably with the same keys player!). Thing is, when I was playing, I was at a bigger disadvantage to the rest of the guys on stage because I didn't even know the original of the song that they were playing, let alone their cover version. All I can say is, I've worked on improving my ear and trying to read other players!