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  • Re: Industrial Power Amps?

    From what I understand, Techron has much tighter component tolerences; some models are laboratory grade, and work from DC to 100K+. They can be used in rf transmission, MRI machines, to fry up some quick vittles, check for cavities, irradiate the neighbors, and can maybe even arc weld in a pinch. Cool

    A friend had a some of their of 2kW mono blocks that were originally shaker table amps to drive some power hungry JBL 4400 series. Waaayy overkill, and he needed to upgrade his residential power serivce, but seriously high fidelity.

  • Re: Looking for a decent book to help me learn about live sound

    One last book to mention is Jim Yakabuski's Professional Sound Reinforcement Techniques. ISBN 1-931140-06-5. You do have to ignore the photo of him on the back with the raging mullet.

  • Re: 01V96 Rack Mount

    I fit an 01v96 into one of these guys.

    http://store.roadreadycases.com/dyn_prod.php?p=RRM14UW&k =113886

    its a tight fit, and I really want to go bigger, but it was a good deal and has worked well for the last year.

    Things i really want:

    More depth- i have to unplug the power cable, USB, and MIDI cables from the back every time i close up the rack cause they won't fit plugged in.

    Rear rack rails- I'd like to be able to switch to multi-pin and have one power inlet, a Mass connector, 2 cat5 ports and a USB jack on the rack panel so it makes my life quicker.

    Need desk space on the sides. I was going to buy these
    http://store.roadreadycases.com/dyn_prod.php?p=RRMW&k=11 3886

    but i'm rethinking my plan of what i want to do for my FOH. I might be going to the audiopile case as it is pretty much everything I want. The one thing I am not sure of with the AudioPile is that if i put right angle connectors on the mixer for the mic inputs will the top lid still fit on when its completely down flat??

    This is what my FOH looks like as of a month ago.

    index.php/fa/32359/0/

  • Re: "Best" overhead and/or hat mic choice for live?

    AKG 460. Small condenser. Sounds good. Right price point.

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=28051 8242614&rvr_id=133682447106&crlp=1_263602_263622& ;amp ;UA=M*F%3F&GUID=d3b6e50612a0a0e20314c394fe630714&ite mid=280518242614&ff4=263602_263622

  • Re: PM5D Clipping at -12

    Ryan Lantzy wrote on Thu, 02 September 2010 12:54



    Well, here's what I know. If you PFL an input, set it to meter as 0 dB, raise the channel fader to 0, group meter, to 0 and master fader to 0, the signal is 20 dB down at the master fader meter.

    How that is accomplished I guess is not important, and as you say the designer has nudged me in the right direction. By padding the faders for the channel and group 10 dB, each mix (group, master) has 10dB of summing headroom.

    If one were to mix on this board with all the inputs at -20, the output could be a lot lowere than where you'd expect it.



    Just to be certain you might want to use an external meter and compare channel insert level and group insert level. If you bring a 0dBu input into the channel, trim it up for 0dBu level pre fader. Then run channel and bus faders at unity. What is your output? Since most bus master faders only have 10dB of available gain, that sounds like you'd have to push both channel and master fader +10db just to get unity out?

    Note: I once made a "Unity" mixer series with the channel fader calibrated for +10dB gain while it actually was only unity, and -10dB when it indicated unity. I added 10dB of gain post the sum bus, to make everything come out correctly. This was designed to allow the user to accept a +20dBu input, run the channel fader at +10dB (actual unity), bus faders at -10dB (actual unity), and still be able to cleanly output that +20dBu signal. I only did it on that one series, my competition just didn't put a clip indicator on their fader gain stage, and advertised how much headroom they had. Rolling Eyes arghhh the power of advertising

    To be honest I can't imagine any reason for 20 dB of loss on a bus. I once made a recording console with an adjustable 10dB pad on the master bus, but that console also had well over 100 feeds to the L/R.

    JR

  • RIP Kit benge of Bandpasses.com

    A friend of the local Olympic peninsula Rock Scene Passed away about 2 weeks ago. He died of a aneurysm at home. Kit and I didnt always see eye to eye, but he and his wife Katy did a lot for the Port Townsend music scene, and I had a lot of respect for the guy.

  • Acoustically Transparent Foam

    That's what JBL calls the black foam mounted behind the steel grills on many of their cabinets. Anyone know where I can get the stuff? I have a couple of SRX 712M's with rusted grills. I would like to paint them and replace the foam. Also I think the black grill foam would be a nice addition to some older SR cabs I have to make them look more modern.

  • Re: "Best" overhead and/or hat mic choice for live?

    I have 3 KSM27's that I paid $200 for new when shure was switching over to the new SM27 model. They are great stage mics and sound good on a variety of sources. I have used them on horns, grand piano, and a whole variety of acoustic stringed instruments.

    Jay

  • Re: Best mix position EVER.

    Anyone been out here on my turf at Mulcahy's in Wantagh? Crow's Nest mix position next to the lighting guy (he's actually a great dude). You have to climb a utility ladder up to it and back down to reference your mix. The house guy has a tablet and mixes from the bar.

  • Re: Best mix position EVER.

    Brad Weber wrote on Thu, 02 September 2010 08:44

    Club Anytime in Atlanta. Similar location, including the ladder up to it, but a bit more centered and a much smaller opening. Oh, and an old Yamaha PM console with tape over some channels and meters to help identify which did not work.


    Cotton Club in Atlanta also had the mix position in an aerie with a ladder. Only it was just a Yammy 2404 you found up there after climbing.

  • Re: A weekend with K1

    Evan, did you get any info of how many and size of the mid pass band driver or drivers are?

    Franz

  • Re: Firefox crashing and burning?

    what silas said. ctrl shft esc and kill the firefox process. I'm running 3.6.8 with no issues. but I use chrome at work because we're not allowed to have Firefox?? Some weird company policy, but they didn't say anything about chrome.

    Can't say I've had any issues with firefox yet... on any of my computers, even in my linux box. Girlfriends Mac hasn't had any issues yet either.