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On 4/3/2022 at 7:42 PM, Mike M said:

Has anyone else upgraded their rig since their original post?

Hi Mike!

I have my own mic kit when I'm touring ... if you want to hear about that.

Kick in - Beta 91A
Kick out - Audio Technica AE2500
Snare Top - Audio Technica ATM650 (I can't find an ATM25HE)
Snare Bottom - Audio Technica AE3000
Toms - Audio Technica AE3000
Hat, Ride, underheads - Audio Technica AE5100
Guitar, bass cabs - Royer R10
Hand drums, etc. - Shure SM57
Vocals - Sennheiser E945

My regional co. supplies me with whatever dreamy speaker system I want, so long as it's Adamson. They also provide staging, rigging, lighting, a systems tech, and a LD.

I gotta say, those Adamson 212 wedges have been tearing my face off and they refuse to feed back. Too bad everyone's on ears now ... I'd kill to play on these wedges.

I've been seriously considering picking this up for my home studio and for the odd gig. I've been hiring out for my sound work but I don't need an SD9 to mix an acoustic act.

I haven't mixed on a Yamaha platform since the PM5D haha

This post is still on the first page so I will say — when Midas launched the M32, Behringer made it a point to send the Midas engineers to our shop to show us the key differences between the platforms. Both that the M32 was engineered for reliability and usability and that the X32 offers the same performance and function.

We had already been using the X32 for corporate and regional stuff, and the X32 rack was (and in 2023, still is) the go-to rack mixer for touring IEM splits, so it was both reassuring to know that you're getting your money's worth out of the M32 AND they didn't lock features behind a paywall with the X32.

On 4/8/2023 at 7:32 PM, agedhorse said:

A little late I know, but I have these switches in stock. While the company is "gone", those corporate entities who owned the brand set me up to continue the factory service program. 

Andy! If you read this check your dm's.

On 6/23/2023 at 8:36 AM, Craig Vecchione said:

I just popped in to see if the site still exists, it’s good to see familiar names still around. I’ve completely dropped out of music: I sold off my system, even sold my Ric 4003 to my older daughter. Starting and trying to maintain a small home improvement business for the past ten years is exhausting and stressful, and just didn’t leave enough of me to do other stuff. But in 4 months god willing I become a part-time retiree, so who knows what future might be in store for me!

Be well.

Nice to hear from you Craig. Glad the Ric is staying in the family!

On 6/25/2023 at 7:29 AM, Dookietwo said:

Good to see you stop by and keeping the site going. I did retire and am home with my wife. She has stage 4 cancer so keeping close to home. Still do a small show for fun once in a while. Did one this Thursday and things went well. Please keep in touch!

Thanks for posting the photos. I think we've all dealt with cancer in our family and it's not easy. My dad's beat it twice now and I am grateful, all I can do is send you, yours, and your family my love.

On 7/22/2023 at 2:20 PM, Bobby1Note said:

I haven't done a gig  in many years,, since I injured my spine (stenosis in 2010), and now,,at age 75, I doubt it'll ever come back. That said; there's a little "ember/spark of interest" glowing in the darkness For a while there, I had up to 12 guys and gals dropping in to jam together.

I think you've earned your rest ol' pal. It's really assuring to hear you've still got the spark. So many of us get jaded it's easy to miss the forest for the trees.

Ugh. Best wishes, I hope they get their stuff back.

I can't believe I missed a D112 thread. 

I sat in with a friend's band a few years ago and was appalled with the D112 they were using on the kick drum. As a goof, I swapped it out for a spare SM58 when nobody was watching and put a happy little smiley face on the channel strip EQ. When we started rehearsing the songs the bass player actually stopped the band to proclaim that the kick drum sounded great in his ears. I told them what I did and we had a laugh.

Some of the venue restrictions lifted last summer and I saw some photos of their band on facebook. They were still using the SM58 on the kick drum 😂

Howdy y'all. I really hope everyone has been keeping it together. I wouldn't expect too much activity on this forum with everything that's been going on. Lots of familiar faces in this thread! I haven't posted here in some time. 

I'm doing alright. I fell out of the live music game some years ago as I shifted careers towards IT. I was doing the occasional gig here and there as a freelance engineer. I was working as a monitor or FOH tech with a few artists but I've sold off almost all of my inventory and don't have any regular ties these days.

I lost my job at the start of the pandemic and have been working on a project which has really hurt financially but well, I suppose it could be worse. I was thinking about this place because I picked up a Genz Benz El Diablo head and cabinet last summer and I was reminded about the conversations I had with agedhorse back when he was with GB. I needed to replace an impedance selector switch and I was surprised to find out GB isn't around anymore lol

The problem is that it's not a true network, it is a dedicated, closed protocol data stream. It should never be connected through or to any other network.

That's how I understood AES50, but further reading shows the audio data encoded as layer 2 frames for use in standard ethernet networks.

Obviously it doesn't quite work that way in practice. I've always set up and installed AES50 systems with dedicated lines.

Connection from the stage to the board is I don't know. It first goes into a plug on stage' date=' then it goes to some kind of distribution system in a room next to the stage and from there to the board.[/quote']

Would you be able to try connecting the S16s to the X32 directly, with CAT-5e cables? If everything works perfectly then we know the problem lies within the network infrastructure.

 

If all else fails, you can leave the X32 on deck, connect a wireless router and run your shows with an iPad.

We had intermittent issues with the S16 losing connectivity with the X32 rack. The problem was solved with a firmware update. If you haven't done so, make sure the S16s and your X32 are all running current firmware revisions.

We've never used more than one expander, though.

I'll chime in with my band's practice PA, since it doesn't get out to shows much any more (we hire out).

About me, I'm an 18 year old bass player, my band's been together for two years and this PA has pulled us through. I've worked with a number of sound companies, basically just cheap help doing whatever I can to learn as much as I can from as many people as possible (hence me being on these forums). I think at this point I'd rather be behind the console than on stage, but I'm not abandoning my band!

Anyways here goes.

FOH:
- 24 channel Peavey RQ2326 (??) mixer.
- 2 dbx 266xl compressors
- 1 dbx 231 EQ
- 1 Furman M8D power conditioner

Speakers:
- 2 Peavey PV215 tops
- 1 Yorkville LS700p sub
- 1 Peavey PV2600 power amp

Monitors:
- None!

Mics:
- 1 Shure PG58
- 2 Shure PG57
- 2 Shure SM57
- 4 Shure PG56
- 1 Shure PG52
- 1 Shure PG81
- 1 Audix D6
- 1 Rode NT1

And that's that! I can't really afford too much at this point, nor is it really needed that I own a huge PA, so this works very well at the moment. Right now it sits at my garage as our practice PA, but does make it out to some small gigs.

The Peavey PV215 speakers are JUST loud enough to keep me from buying new tops. Getting the vocals out on top of our drummer and guitarist (which admittedly aren't very loud) is no sweat. Great clarity and projection once tuned and I'm very happy with these speakers, considering they're peavey's low end models. My only complaint is that although they're light for their size, they are still big and awkward to carry, and take up a lot of space. Aside from that I'm very happy with these.

The Yorkville LS700p sub never ceases to amaze me. I've yet to get this guy to clip, or do anything less than provide awesome low-end power. Even in a medium-sized community hall, it got the low end out there with force to spare, just the one sub! I would like if it had a high-pass filter for the tops, but I'll need a crossover eventually anyways so it's not really an issue. I doubt I'll buy another one, but I'm still considering it.

The Peavey board is meh. Some channels are going on it and other weird stuff, but the poor guy has been tossed around a lot the past two years without a case. I plan on upgrading to an A&H mixwiz. It does what it does, it gives you a lot of mic inputs for not too much money (24 REAL channels) and not a lot of other stuff. Very basic and simple board.

Mics are decent but will eventually get replaced with better ones down the road. Haven't let me down and sound good.

Some pros with hollowbodies fill their guitars with foam insulation, then put a black piece of something under the f-hole to hide the insulation. That may work for you, might not.