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  1. I bought another pair to replace the RCF310's (weight is becoming important to me) and they sound as good to me (the RCF's sound amazing). So now two as backfill/monitors and two as mains. I just ordered the matching sub (TS212S) to replace the Behringer one. I hope to be able to play bass ampless outside with that as I now do indoors. Probably run both outdoors until I feel I need (or just want LOL) two of the TS212S .
  2. Specs compare to the older QSC K12 - nice. I've recently "upgraded" to Alto TS308's ($289) which seem to be clones of the current QSC K8.2 at less than 1/2 the price. I use one pair for mains and one pair for backfill monitors for everyone / "Texas Headphones" for the drummer. Just ordered a TS212S sub as an upgrade for my Behringer B1200D-Pro (might run them both outdoors). Anyways glad to hear you're still beating up speakers for us
  3. I picked up a "renewed" Dell laptop with a Ryzen 5 (4 cores, 8 threads) processor (i7 class) with 8 GB memory and 256GK SSD that kicks arse for $300 a while back. I'd recommend something of those specs unless you are on a really tight budget. I just ordered a 27" quadHD screen (recommended to me as the optimum size for Reaper) and a Logitech M575 trackball. Just need a wireless keyboard now ...
  4. Limiter6 does have a 64bit version and FerricTDS's author just released 64bit beta versions of many of his plugins, hopefully he'll get around to doing FerricTDS soon . In any case I'm moving over to Reaper which can run 32bit plugins in the 64bit version 😲. Also just heard that the next release of Audacity will have a 64bit version for Windows 😲.
  5. Check out Slate Digital's "Fresh Air" https://slatedigital.com/fresh-air/
  6. Oh, and from last year - "if you can't be good be loud" LOL
  7. Almost all radio stations stream these days - I just stream them with my phone. I have Visible mobile (division of Verizon) service with truly unlimited data for $25/mo (well actually one guy got cut off at 40 TB I think? 😲)
  8. I miss Al's speaker reviews . Anyways I'm "upgrading" my super small and loud PA to these QSC K8.2 clones. 2KW peak, 1KW RMS bi-amp'd 8" speakers. I had been using Behringer B108D's and B208D's (anyone know why they still make both?) but I have 4 that need service - I suspect the quick disconnects to the drivers have loosened and cause noise at high volume. I just soldered those in one of my $50/pr studio monitors that were doin the same (Sterling MX3). Right now the system has two Behringer B108D (former mains as the B208D are down) for the drummer's "Texas headphones" / backfill monitors for the rest of the band, two RCF 310's for mains (temporarily replacing the two B108D used for indoor gigs, the RCF used to be only for outdoors), A single Behringer B1200D-PRO sub, and a Yamaha MG12XUK mixer. I normally play bass ampless indoors with this but use an amp outdoors (Town common type gigs). Guitarists run un-miked amps and one also plays keys through his amp (Hotrod Deluxe that I just re-tubed and biased). I rarely do sound for others these days, I'm in six bands (two doing originals and recording albums) so just a bit busy LOL. Only one band has been gigging over last year but the horn band just restarted and has a county fair type gig next month (sound supplied by them ). Anyways, who's still about and breathin'?
  9. Check out lime lights and salt water dimmers 😲 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRe1x2OpEy-1IPuoOg5_tJg
  10. I have a plug-in that can replace the kick with any sample you want - but am getting a good sound with a mic in the kick close to the batter head run through the "Debleeder" plug-in https://wilkinsonaudio.com/products/debleeder . Could probably get the same sound with most any gate that has adjustable parameters including a bandpass filter on the trigger.
  11. Oops, not my mic and I'll not have access to it until Saturday - but checking out pictures on the web it is a D112, they look quite different. With the plague and all, we haven't recorded there since although the drummer and I do rehearse with three bands there now. I did pick up another originals project (less than 2 miles from my house) that has about 20 songs to pick from for their 4th album. We did scratch recordings with a set of CAD mics the drummer owns that worked out OK. I've got 5 active projects now rehearsing 6 nights a week. I may have mentioned it on another thread but I picked up a Zoom L-20 and L-8 this year, weird little mixers that are more live sound compatible than their older "recorders" like the R24 (24 tracks but only 8 inputs).
  12. If I had my druthers I'd just use one of my EV PL33 kick mics - nothin' special but old friends
  13. I did try gating but the snare is SO loud in the kick mic that I didn't have any immediate joy 😕 especially if I have to crank the $#@! out of the ~3k to get any thwack. Anyways its easy enough to get a better track to start with. I have the luxury of ir being a couple more sessions off before I need real tracks - plenty of time to get it right
  14. Yeah - not the first drummer I've run into who's proud of their D12 because of it price more than the sound. I try not to bum them out and just use them live. Recording it's just not working with that placement. Maybe I should stick one of my shiny new M5's in there?
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