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Post by muppet on Jun 6, 2007 23:25:07 GMT 1
did you have any problems pumping so much bass through the monitors?
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Post by soundmanjim on Jun 7, 2007 11:26:06 GMT 1
not with my monitors, they handled it brilliant - and no problems for the performers as they WANTED lots of bass - and it gave them the impression that there was lots in the foh, when thewre wasnt in fact. good job bass is omnidirectional, they couldnt tell where it was coming from. only dj's and mc's so they loved it.
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Rick Sarson
Senior Engineer
In search of fidelity
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Post by Rick Sarson on Jun 11, 2007 16:56:53 GMT 1
Be very good little Sound Engineers or you will end up being bored to death at the back of a conference (in Italian) in Milan. Actually I am quite proud to be still doing it at 51. I have never surrendered to the lure of a cushy desk job. A career spanning Rock and Roll, West End Musicals and endless conferences is a fine one by my lights. I could do with a bit more music in my life 'though.
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Post by soundmanjim on Jun 12, 2007 0:54:05 GMT 1
oooh and a lovely M7cl there as well.
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Rick Sarson
Senior Engineer
In search of fidelity
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Post by Rick Sarson on Jun 12, 2007 14:26:57 GMT 1
It was a distributed d&b E9/E3 system with Turdo Impact 50's as front fills. The M7CL was providing all delay, EQ and processing. My techie dweeb side was hoping that someone would notice that I was using Smaart, but there you go.
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Simon Ryder
Boss
Bringing out the best through sound
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Post by Simon Ryder on Jun 25, 2007 12:20:55 GMT 1
Looks like version 5.4 form the horizontal waterfall plot. This has changed to vertical in the new version which makes it easier to read. Still prefer 5.4 overall though, however updates to 6 should correct all the glitches and omissions. Looks like your coherance trace has taken a real dive in the upper frequencies. Reverberant room? Dweeby enough?
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Post by soundmanjim on Jul 1, 2007 22:07:30 GMT 1
Hey all. Just finished packing away yet another outdoor gig over my local park, (Stanford Music Festival) and although the weather was particularly unkind, the crowds that stayed made up for it and a good day was had by all. No mikes nicked, the pa sounded sweet and the bands and punters were happy. Only bit of drama was during soundcheck when an as yet unknown problem occurred with one channel of the monitoring (a dead tone, subsonic we think as no-one could hear it) which in turn caused a catastrophic destruction of a brand new JBL mx500 wedge (oops) to the point that smoke could be seen venting out the front! That's what you get for using rubbish Alto grafs - but that's all we had spare - there rest were out on hire that day. Oh dear. Anyway we soldiered on with one less monitor channel and all was good. tops and subs were ANIMATION 500w units, driven with CREST CA6's per pair. Monitors were (or at least one of them was!) JBL mx500's and FBT VERVE 12" concentric 300w units on Vocals, driven from matrix 500 amps. Love the jbl's as they are so light and robust, and the FBT's were amazing even though they were so compact. I'll be using those again. Desk was Allen and Grief, mikes were sm58's for vox, Sennheiser E609 silvers on guitars, akg d112's on both kick drums, AKG D1000 on o/head and hat duties, AKG C418's on all five toms and a good old 57 on the snare. here are a few pics i took from the booth (which was nice and cosy). Note the anti-rain improvision adopted by the crowd - plastic sheets. Bless 'em. in the above picture you can clearly see the peak light on the meter of the offending channel - it was like this even with EVERYTHING was DISCONNECTED from it. It was either damp or just simple electronic component failure. This all happened AFTER i had gone out to ccollect a drum riser. i get back - 'can you smell burning? EEK the monitor. No-one heard a sound the entire time. Mystery. Band on stage -
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Post by muppet on Jul 1, 2007 23:23:49 GMT 1
Tut, Tut, Tut, I hope you wernt drinking on the job there jim
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Post by muppet on Jul 2, 2007 0:12:59 GMT 1
...also good to see an allen and grief desk in use lol. Have you ever tried turning your gains down and opening each channel one at a time on those GL desks?
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Post by soundmanjim on Jul 2, 2007 10:40:58 GMT 1
*embarrased* yes there MAY have been some in-flight entertainment there - but i did have a ticket that said crew -free drink all day' written on it. That's asking for trouble! What happens when you do that on the heath then Muppet? I was actually very happy with the old desk, only thing i don't like on those is the fader monitor led bargraphs are on the LEFT of the fader not the RIGHT which caused me to grab the channel next to the one i wanted every time; the soundcraft gb4 has the led bars on the right - causing me a little confusion.
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Post by muppet on Jul 2, 2007 15:08:56 GMT 1
Nah, GL stuff is alright its just very noisy. if you open each channel you should get a build up of hiss from it which after a few channels just becomes absured, just what ever yo do dont get me started on the Mixwizzard! lol
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micmk
Tea boy/girl
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Post by micmk on Jul 2, 2007 15:43:50 GMT 1
Hey i'm a big fan of the MW3 For small applications it's the business especially if you've lost the top end of your hearing like me
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Post by muppet on Jul 2, 2007 17:15:33 GMT 1
i think they actually fixed the phantom issue with that model right?
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Post by jimthedrum on Jul 23, 2007 15:19:11 GMT 1
Hi heres some pics of when i was doing we will rock you last week. none of my pics of the actual show came out though, at least i'm a better engineer than a photographer. www.geocities.com/jimthedrum/IMG_1362our desk, finally compromised from midas to a&h. we had a live band on stage as well as a chorus off stage and 16 radio mics, there needed to be 2 of us foh to do the job www.geocities.com/jimthedrum/IMG_1364the power board kept tripping every time it rained, and as being in worcester which is now under water, it rained every show, lol www.geocities.com/jimthedrum/IMG_1365started off with 16 radio mics, by the end we were down to 10 working properly www.geocities.com/jimthedrum/IMG_1372me on one of the props, sounded fantastic i will try and find out how to put pics on the message board that are small enough for next time
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Post by ian hasell on Jul 23, 2007 16:27:40 GMT 1
Good pics (try photobucket). What speakers?
Ian
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