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Musicians are the most salty breed out there. The narrative, "we are all friends, we all support each other, we are all "good friends" etc...", meanwhile, they can't bring themselves to click a simple like button in support of others - and will go after your gig or use you to their own advantage, whilst bad mouthing you to your peers and generally stabbing you in the back. Terrible isn't it?

I'll give you a bit of background on the Swissonic router. I took one apart - It's basically a router that can be found on Aliexpress for $30 that has been rehoused in a nice rack unit. That's not to say that the router doesn't do the job, if it works reliably, then it works reliably... and as stated, it's a nice format in that you can keep it racked up and ready to go. The reason that there isn't much out there in terms of rack mount WAPs (wireless access points) is that from a physics point of view, WAPs should be mounted away from metal as metal interferes with RF. When mounting WAPs/wireless units in racks (e.g. including microphones/IEMS), the antennae are usually external to the rack to avoid this issue. In larger scale gigging situations, the WAP is usually mounted with external antenna with hidden SSID(s). This not only reduces the risk of interference - but makes for a more reliable connection (assuming you have line of sight) You've probably noticed that a lot of home routers are very plastically and avoid metal construction - there is a reason for that - they are self contained and its often not practical to get the antennae away from the base unit. So from a purist's point of view, the Swissonic is a terrible implementation as you are putting your WAP in an area that typically dense in metal structures - and additionally, combined with a load of electronics that produce EM that can also negatively impact the performance of RF. In @DaytonaRik's deployment above, things aren't quite as bad as they could be - as the antenna, although close to a lot of metal and electronics (including radio transmitters AND radio receivers - more on that in a minute) at least stand proud of most of the rack. As for the placement of mic receivers and IEM transmitters, this is as about as worse practice you can get and it will be greatly reducing the amount of intermodulation free (e.g. interference free) channels that you will be able to access. Given that there's only two channels in play here, and they are on different channel bands (one on free to use, the other on shared mic license), it's likely, I'm guessing, you are getting away with it Rik! If you upped your channel count with this style of deployment, you would have a right ball trying to get your radio working! Having said all of that, if the resulting performance is good enough to be reliable for your needs and you can justify the price, than for the neat integration into the rack, the router may be a good call. At the end of the day, if it works and meets your expectations, then jobs a goodun! I only included this post as anybody working with wireless should go into this with their eyes open. @BCH - I would be wary of your stageclix system being placed right next to a 5G router - hopefully the device is clever enough to find a clean channel on 5G (there's a lot more of them compared to the 3 intermod free channels on 2.4 for starters) but you may have to set your router to fix on a channel that plays nicely with the stageclix. In short, always be prepared to ditch the Stageclix and ditch the wireless because a venues wifi may take yours out. A lot of conference centres are great at doing this. Always cater for a wired connection to your desk too... because not being able to control your mixing desk is a bit err... stressful. (Been there, done that, without the cat5 cable...) Hope this is insightful - this hasn't been written to run anybody's setup down - quite the opposite. I've tried to be helpful to avoid any mishaps down the road!

I doubt it. I think the last time he mentioned it, it was built for him taking a standby gig where he needed to practice on the plane. I would be interested in one if it did though!

@IvanBass456 Just to clarify - are you talking dispersion from a hearing yourself point of view (in which case, you are more interested in vertical dispersion), or from a width perspective. Vertical dispersion isn't that good with the cabs that are being mentioned - and as you have alluded to, vertical stacking to get the drivers closer to your ear may address some of the issues that you are describing.

You could ask yourself, do people really know what good sound dispersion is? If I told you that dispersion was good or bad on my cabs of choice, would you believe me? Should you believe me?

M200s too. Very nice!

Pretty much YouTube anything and hold onto your hat. He was the bass player with Prince before Prince died... sad that MN never got to tour with Prince as that would have just been a crazy show.

What is his, is hers and all that. Nataly is great too - and Pomplamoose as you say, are a great success story in their own right. The key thing is, unlike most other musicians - they try and try again and dont let failure get them down... AND work together. That reminds me... I have loads of admiration for Jack and Nataly as they have worked hard for their success. If you've got some spare time, I would urge you to watch this to understand what a great character Jack is and how he deserves every success -

Don't want to deralil the thread, but why don't you look at avoiding the issue of cabs by finding a FRFR solution. By eliminating the baked in sound of a cab, you can can control the specifics of what you like through a comprehensive pre/modeller?

Nice headphone amp there!

Their music. They perform it. Just because they didn't write the music doesn't mean that they can't say it's their music. Using that logic, the majority of pop stars are just about lose the right to call their music theirs. All those classical musicians that are performing the works of others are suddenly nullified and what they have brought to the performance is void? If it's not for you, you could have just moved on. Did you have some salt on your Frosties this morning? I enjoy some of their takes on songs, not always. But I don't need to justify what I think to anybody. Just enjoy music for what it is. If it talks to you, enjoy it. If it doesn't, move onto something that does.

To answer your questions in turn.... Conducting Soloing when required. Probably sitting down when not. Playing when required. Probably counting bars when not. Playing when required. Probably counting bars when not.

Yes - but are they sharing their music with studio quality produced audio and professional video with the rest of the world? They aren't - so immediately Scary Pockets aren't your average covers band - as they know how to market themselves.

WHAT??? ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT THE LYRIC IS NOT FIT FOR THE SINGER??? HOW DARE YOU. HOW VERY DARE YOU. 😜

It doesn't has to be better or worse. It's just different, there's room for both.

Nah, she can identify as anything she wants. To be fair, identifying as a man probably fits better than identifying as a carrot. Or perhaps it's more deep than that. Perhaps she has a lot of stereotypical male traits - aggression, foul mouthed... and she is looking at somebody that she thinks has unwanted male traits and she doesn't like that.

Average. Lol. Why do they have to do anything original? Millionaire founder of Patreon Jack Conte does this for sh1ts and giggles to amuse himself and play with great musicians. If you have the likes of Robben Ford guesting, you ain't average.

get woke

Oh they were riveting live..........

Spot the jazzer...

For me, groove doesn't get much better than this. He's not from this planet. And yeah, he got the note about the dress code... but nobody dresses MonoNeon in just green.

His bank balance agrees with you too.

I used Arctic F8 - I started with an Arctic F8 silent but the air flow was noticeably lower than the stock fan. The F8 is a very quiet fan anyway, certainly quieter than those found in some bass amps!

Be wary of the noise of Behringer amps (although you probably have already clocked this) - they are perfectly good (a little optimistic with their ratings but the DSP onboard is very good) but the fans are incredibly loud. I switched the fans out for some Arctic quiet ones that seem to be good and keep the amp cool enough - but I couldn't any proper specs for the fans (admittedly this was a while back) that enable me to be confident with a like for like change. I'll see if I can find what fans I bought by looking through my emails.

So good isn't it?!