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T_Gowan wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:59 am Guitar cables, mic cables, speaker cables, enough to go around the block, Stuff may never leave the van but its at the gig.

I hear ya. I have a Go Bag for guitar gigs and a Go Bag for PA work. And the most important tool I have stays in my truck every day of the year - my fan!

I always write the date on the batteries in all my basses and check them on a regular basis. That makes you a professional. And I bet you show up to the gig with more than one guitar cable, right? The only thing worse than the guitar player who shows up with only one cable and says, "Well, it ...

I had a similar situation with a sax mic. Early in my sound man learning curve, day of event, sound check, my mind was a million different places already. I set the system up, fumbled through EQing the system with RTA, got everyone dialed in, and it was all way more stressful than it played out in ...

The Saga continues...... I'd just finished posting the above, when I get a Facebook Message from the owner of the same venue. He can't get anything out of the big stage system where they play music. They have an X32 at FOH and the amp rack is down in the basement. It is all on a Furman sequencing po...

Another saga in the life of a soundman...... Just got a phone call from a neighbor who plays in a touring act. On some Fridays, when he doesn't have a show or it's close by, he plays an acoustic duet at a local venue. This venue has had me come in and fix the various issues that have come up. Starte...

Two things you can play pretty much all of your life is music and golf. My back has taken me away from golf, but I can always play music sitting down.

Keep on playing!

If the Yamaha isn't doing the trick, an SLA isn't going to be any better. Before you do anything, tell me this.....do you have a 15 band EQ on that monitor, or is it a digital board with available graphic or parametric EQ? If it's an analog board, you need to get an EQ in line on that monitor. If i...

At the range it's used at it a 2x6 will be plenty. But pray tell why he didn't have one of your Yammy monitors? :confused: He does have his own 12" Yammy. I aim it at his face from a stool beside his floor tom. He keeps asking to turn it up, or move it closer, and then it becomes a fight with ...

Bill Fitzmaurice wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:54 pm

Oh, yeah, I did mean 10ms. The speed of sound is 1130 feet per second, so a close enough time align for length of horn figure is 1ms per foot.

Now that I'm searching my memory......I guess I was thinking 1.1 ft/ms instead of 11. So, I was off by a factor of 10. Pesky decimals.

Mea Culpa

Time align with subs is seldom required, the wavelengths are too long for it to matter. If you have the ability to delay the mains by 10ms or so by all means try it, but it probably won't be audible. Besides, doing so could cause a sync issue with the images on the TV screen. Are you off by a facto...

You won't hear any difference by trying to time-align the 1-2ms that you'd implement. I wouldn't bother.

Alfalfameister wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:12 pm I might have outdated plans (2014), as I didn't see it. I'll just email you privately about them. Cheers!

Not in my 2015 plans either......get you an update....

Yes sorry dispersion 😅. Haha ...🤣 So..In a line source when multiple boxes are stuck over each other high frequency's need to be spread horizontal not vertical due they might interfere with each other. I'm right? The horn on the cabinet determines the horizontal dispersion. It's not an interference...

Thank you Bruce. Piezos or compression driver for the best vertical depression? I believe you mean vertical dispersion? Wow, I read right past that...guess my brain just filled in the word I was expecting to see. But, too much vertical dispersion can create some musical depression if you can't get ...

Thank you Bruce. Piezos or compression driver for the best vertical depression? I don't think it makes any difference on the vertical. The melded array has a wider horizontal dispersion than the compression driver, but not by a lot. I have both. I put the melded on the bottom for the wider dispersi...