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|    Ouisie to JimD    |
|    Re: Tempest in a teapot ... might be an     |
|    08 Oct 18 11:42:47    |
      From: someone@anywheret.net              "JimD" wrote in message news:2018100720393771385-email@nowherecom...              > Had the ability, but she has steadfastly ( pigheadedly by her own words )       > refused to do hers.              Whatever for? Let me guess, because a monitor mix is not a FOH mix, or       something like that, is that it?              > Both of our drummers jumped right on controlling theirs, she fought it.              Who wouldn't want their own custom monitor mix?              But then I've HAD IT with Incompetent sound persons - so if I can get a       monitor mix to where it works for me, that's all that matters and I couldn't       care less whether the audience can hear me just right, too loud, too quiet,       or not at all!       If they don't like what is or what isn't coming out of the FOH speakers,       they can dump on the sound person!!!              > I have a suspicion. If she has her contacts in, she can't see her iphone       > without readers ( close vision glasses ). So basically she either       > doesn't wear her contacts, or has some readers hanging on her mic stand.       > Otherwise the iphone she would use to control her monitor mix in the XR18       > would be just a blur.              Or do it the Right way, with a *tablet* that is large enough to see, because       my eyes are terrible too, which is why I've always got 3.25 reading glasses       with me, but Never use them when I play.              > I have one, but no, she'll be suppling her own. Actually, it'll be one of       > our old JBL mains, a powered EON ( 15 and a horn ). We just bought some       > new FOH cabs. Peavey PR15's ( the neo magnet versions ) Those are       > plenty big enough for the gigs we do.              Maybe that's why she's so hung up over the sound of the FOH speakers.              > That jbl is very much overkill, and maybe she'll get tired of lugging it       > around. Then again, maybe not.              JimD              It's overkill on the effort to move them, of course, but not the sound,       because volume controls can also be rotated Counterclockwise ;)              Ouisie              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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