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5 hours ago, JPJ said:

How was your PA last night JPJ? Well it was pretty bloody awesome than you.  

 

 

Ah, that brings back some memories. It must be 20 years since I was last at "Stormin' the Castle". 

 

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5 hours ago, JPJ said:

How was your PA last night JPJ? Well it was pretty bloody awesome than you. Massive RCF line array setup with a wall of bass bins the width of the stage, centre fills sitting on the stage, Digico desks at FOH and monitors, and the best bit, a professional crew to run the bloody thing. Massive sounding rig and a couple of engineers who really knew what they were doing, Shout out to ‘Dave’ on monitors for accommodating our request to not use his rather beautiful Martin monitors and to use our in-ears instead. 

Sound enginers have sometimes had a bad rap on Basschat but there are some great ones out there too and a good monitor engineer just gives you confidence to play your very best. Here's to Dave and all the others like him 🍾

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On 01/09/2024 at 00:04, Phil Starr said:

The problem is pretty well known but I've never seen a band address the problem before and to be fair not very many venues. Full marks to you for thnking of the solution and finding the right product. 6db extra headroom before feedback will make a difference.

 

My 'regular' club finally did that for the upstairs ballroom - big window with a Venetian blind behind the stage! Now looks and sounds much better.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Over the weekend we had two gigs and continuing my monitor theme, the ups and downs of narrow dispersion have revealed themselves.

AS you may remember we had to put the two monitors that we use to the side on one gig bue to the depth (or lack of depth) of the stage. That worked really well and these speakers have a 60 x 60 dispersion angle. As a result our feedback issues all but went away.

This weekend, sideways positioning was not possible so the speakers went back to the front and... we could not all hear the monitors. So with narrow dispersion we need more monitors......obviously IEM is the way to go? NO, dinosaurs do still roam the stages of southern England so we need more monitors. I do have a third identical cab but with a powered  mixer, we are at our maximum.

 

I do have a solution that still needs testing so I will keep my powder dry for a while but...till then I must leave you in suspenders.

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On Saturday we used a house pa with alto tops and a single H+H sub.

 

Our vocalist used his desk and started by equalising with white noise and a reference amp. Then he let the system ring out any feedback automatically.

 

I asked him not to low pass my bass, he showed me the default curve which was a hpf about 40hz, a slight dip at 4-500 to make space for guitars, then flat.

 

Positive comments from the audience, which inclded a few musos. ! few people here have commented that my bass sounded 'really deep' on what are just phone recordings.

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