Best Sound Ever?

[Chienmortbb]

At my local Legion, my Saturday night haunt when not gigging, the band were The Abbaholics. Tribute bands are not my thing, I like a bit of Abba occasionally but two hours non-stop? Nah!

 

We went anyway and it was clear from the start that this was not the usual club act. The club secretary was celebrating his 60th and was paying half the fee. Just the lights as we went in were just professional. From here I will copy what I wrote to @Phil Starr on a DM.

 

They were clearly an outfit used to playing bigger venues but one of the committee had his birthday yesterday and subsidised half their fee. The were a four piece, surprise, surprise and the two men played guitars and keys. Drums and bass were backing tracks. 
 

They had a sound man and from the sound check it was clear that the sound would be good. The two girls had superb voices that blended well but the real stars for me are the speakers. Clear at volume, plenty of bass without subs. I asked the sound man what they used and he said they had left most of the PA behind were just using two RCF HD12 A Mk2s as tops and another two as floor monitors. 
 

On paper there is nothing to suggest that these should sound better than the ART 712/912s that I have heard. Maybe the sound man was the difference. 

 

 

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

A system with a few knobs set up by someone who knows what they are doing is always better than one with a lot of knobs set up by someone who doesn't.

[Jack]

On 11/12/2024 at 13:42, Chienmortbb said:

On paper there is nothing to suggest that these should sound better than the ART 712/912s that I have heard. Maybe the sound man was the difference. 

 

 

On paper my p bass is just as good as Pinos and better than Jamersons. 

Edited December 14 by Jack

[Chienmortbb]

Where do you put the paper, under the bridge? Sorry that would have been Flea. 

[cbd]

I played a wedding this summer where an ABBA tribute act did a set between our two function band sets. It was sort of sprung on us so we were a bit grumpy about it, but they were in fact thoroughly lovely, and I'm pretty sure it was the same guys (unless there are multiple Abbaholics...). I too was blown away with how good their HD-12's sounded, and had a similar conversation with them. I was doing sound (and bass obviously) for my band that night and was a bit envious of how good they sounded - I've had the HD-12s in my thomann wishlist ever since.

[Chienmortbb]

11 minutes ago, cbd said:

I've had the HD-12s in my thomann wishlist ever since.

Me too but NAD put paid to that.