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  1. WHAT? Why are you slagging me like that man? I COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY RECOGNIZE THE KNOWLEDGE BASE HERE...Thanks for pointing me to the other thread on PSW. I have been in touch with Behringer directly on the issue and the party I work for is working towards getting the AV company who put the system in to recognize they don't know what the hell they are talking about and hopefully the hotel will force them to change it. Guys...That's ALL I CAN DO! With your help, I pointed out the issues to those above me...They will either fix it as per my and the other soundman's recommendations or not. That's that and it's FUBAR now but documented on our end so if it goes tits up and they don't fix it, it's not on us.
  2. Who is arguing with you? Maybe you are misunderstanding the situation? This was an install at a hotel. We had nothing to do with that. an AV company was hired to install the system. Fine. We came in to RUN LIVE SOUND. The AV company doesn't really wish to communicate with us and all the problems we have been having have been brushed aside so we the sound men are left hunting for answers on our own. I relay to the company that hired me and they have meetings with the hotel, AV company etc and again, it's a corporate, political issue as always. Bottom line is WE ALL know this AV company fucked something up but they won't admit it and thus won't fix it. They are also in politically at the hotel, THUS it's up to US, the SOUNDMEN to try to fix it if possible on our own. Get it now? I was never arguing with you and i'm sorry I don't have your depth of technical knowledge about UTP, STP etc...no reason to be an ass. I wasn't. Maybe something as usual was lost in writing as opposed to us just having a face to face conversation? Either way, Sorry if you thought I was being argumentative. My hands are tied here unfortunately. If it were my call I'd have it wired point to point and we would NOT being going through their entire AV system matrix with software controlling the EQ curves etc. The live sound aspect (There's Club Sound/DJ also going through this system) Should be split completely from all this rubbish according to everyone I have talked to who knows WAY WAY more about the wiring etc than I.... Anyway, thank you and everyone else for helping me confirm what my partner and I suspected IS the issue. As to resolving it, It's going to be politically difficult but I may end up just home running my own AES50cable from the board to the snakes, bypassing the stage connections and the house AV system altogether.
  3. I don't think it's in a network. I think the entire AV system is over AES50 so it's just connecting that way...but maybe that's what you mean?...either way, it's definitely in there the way it is and it would take Behringer talking directly to the hotel and AV company after repeated failures for them to think about tearing it all out..BELIEVE ME!
  4. Between Stage Boxes is about 15 feet. Connection from the stage to the board is I don't know. It first goes into a plug on stage, then it goes to some kind of distribution system in a room next to the stage and from there to the board. The Hotel had an AV company install the whole thing and the PA is used for the house sound, DJ's and band. The Board is run through their whole convoluted system through a bunch of BSS software, an ethernet routing system etc...Whereas I would have split the band PA off but alas...... I don't know what STP or UTP are...Sorry. If it were me I would have used the AES50 cable that Behringer calls for. The AV install guy says they are using CAT5 cable.... I don't know what kind of connectors they are. The look like CAT5 and I don't know what terminated to the drain means All I know is this entire system has been FUBAR sounds like shit, is the wrong speakers and we've had problems with the stage snakes. NOT fun and as soon as I can replace the income i'm OUT.
  5. This is a new install...All new CAT5 Cables under stage etc, with plugs on stage to the S16's. From the stageboxes to the Snakes is a very short run of cable. Maybe 5 feet. There's no way to lock the settings if someone messes with the boxes, only on the board which is fine. Either way, I like the simplification of the new Stageboxes that are coming out. All the functions seem accessible from the board only which in my opinion will work much better.
  6. The club I'm running sound in has been having ghost issues with what we think after lots of hunting, are the S16 Snakes. The system is an X32 with two, S16 snakes on stage. Basically the settings change, sometimes one mirrors the others on some channels and they don't match up to the P16 settings on stage. P16's are plugged into the back of the snakes. The solution thus far is to keep changing the setting and changing them back a bunch of times until everything seems to "pop" back in and the correct channels correspond to the P16 units again...VERY VERY weird intermittent issues here that can shut a show down INSTANTLY! When it works, it works flawlessly but when it doesn't, it's horrifying...Here's the description my partner wrote of the whole issue. " When they work, they work flawlessly, but they seem very temperamental…if settings get changed, they start behaving erratically, and get "stuck". If things don't change…no problem. The email you forwarded from Jeff at Behringer was helpful in confirming several things that we suspected were the case, but in some cases given info to the contrary from manuals, videos, and the like. Not surprised, as sometimes the info you find online has since been changed, etc. Thanks again for that, though, because at least now we have some confirmations. On his advice, I did do a factory reset, loaded the scene back in, and that cured the channel mirroring issue, but the P16s were still wrong. We tripled checked the board assignments / settings for them, and verified the snake's settings. And that's the big issue. Everything is set correctly, yet it's still not working correctly. So then, we began a process of power cycling the snakes, and changing the settings, and changing them back to the correct setting. We did this a few times, and all of a sudden the P16s popped in correctly. Let me repeat…the settings are set, and it doesn't work…then they are changed and changed back to the SAME setting it was and then they worked. Very odd, and obviously not behaving as expected. There is a switch that we engaged called "Lock Stagebox" however I believe that's only for the preamp remotes, and doesn't lock the knobs on the S16's front Panel"
  7. OK, I've consolidated my lists into everything I can remember now. Here is the Sean Mormelo Ultimate Cover list. It's in the process of being expanded even now.
  8. Cool! yea, it's certainly tried and true..I'm going to go through and add all the ones I never put on that list that I can think of, in a reply here... EDIT: OK Here's more that I know..I'm going to consolidate my lists to one big list. Ryan Adams -Come Pick Me Up, LaCienega Smiles. Answering Bell ACDC-Highway to Hell, Shook Me All Night Green Day-Wake Me up When September Ends, BLVD Of Broken Dreams. American Idiot Dishwalla-Counting Blue Cars Tonic-If You Could Only See David Gray-Babylon, Flame Turns Blue John Mayer-Gravity, Daughters, Waitin On the World To Change Amanda-Waylon Cash-Walk The Line, Ring of Fire Nora Jones-I Don
  9. Here's My basic solo cover list but there's a bunch more that I never added..I got a few new ones i'm adding a bunch of older, but new to me tunes for this summer...Maybe this will give you ideas though as it evolved over 20 years playing solo full time and always worked no matter where I was. SEAN MORMELO SOLO LIST
  10. Hmm...Well in my younger years..Too many too list... Spring Break, Key West, Ricks/Durty Harry's...I was fronting with a 3 week strep throat and I lost my voice completely so the soundman took over lead vocals and I made a show out of lip synching to the point of unplugging my mic and dancing around..I was jumping into the crowd and they were carrying me..Crazy times!! Anyway...I would come back to the bandhouse which we affectionately called the Tuberculosis Hut (Because we were all sick!) and there would be 2 or 3 girls dancing on the table with my drummer Mickey drinking from whatever bottle he had and grinning...One night my guitar player and I were upstairs in a room with 2 girls and we were both literally almost arm and arm F#$%^&* these 2 college girls..Like we could high Five and {censored}...There was no bed so we were just on the floor..All of a sudden we hear a gunshot and a bullet flies up between us through the floor from downstairs!! The soundman was a maniac and shot a 22 pistol up at us because he thought it would be funny...Troy and I looked at the hole which was about 6-8 inches from either of us, between us, yelled down on Dave the Soundman that he almost shot us to which is replied with loud cackling laughter. Then we looked at each other, shrugged and both went back under our respective blankets to finish the job with our college girls....That was crazy!!! There are many other stories though..I had my fill of those groupies buy the time I was 18 for the most part so I guess I'm lucky.
  11. So the soon to be ex-wife calls me up and seems one of her friends has convinced her to join the Air Force. That's all good that she wants to better herself, but here's where the problem arrives. See, we were originally gonna do a joint custody of my kids and both live here in SA. But now, if she joins they could send her ANYWHERE and she says SHE wants custody which would basically make me have to follow her wherever she has to go for Uncle Sam if I want to see my kids. This totally pisses me off because I have been the best parent I can be considering the circumstances and she has put little effort into being one for the past 6 months. Now, with a "contested" divorce here in Texas, she could win custody of our kids and I'd be a {censored}ing nomad if I want to be part of their lives. This was NOT the original plan for the divorce and she has gone and thrown a {censored}ing monkey wrench in the godamn spokes. I can't be without my kids. I won't do it. I WILL NOT be a weekend dad (or worse yet a once or twice a year dad). I'm so {censored}ing pissed right now I don't know whether to punch something or just breakdown and have a good cry. {censored}!!!! Get a GOOD Lawyer NOW...File for joint custody but you want physical custody. You'll have the kids for at least 6 months while she is training I would think so you have a very good chance of getting perminent physical custody. I think this is a bad thing for her, joining the AirForce if she really wants the kids living with her. She WILL BE deployed sometime in the near future as well so you should get them then as well. All in all, it would not be a stable home for your kids with her and it will be easy to show that in this political climate. .She is making a mistake here. So Calm down and get busy.
  12. craig, it's called celebrity worship and the powers that be make damn sure that we develop a huge case of it while they are stripping our civil liberties away and pissing on the constitution. Meanwhile most people only care about who won American Idol. Hence I do not have a TV. Have a nice day!
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