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   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019022222141364174-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > Major good day talking with band girl.  Her and I are beginning to have an   
   > understanding on stage levels and monitors. We don't talk the same   
   > language on that.  We use the same words, but we don't mean the same   
   > things.   
      
      
   > Making progress tho.   
      
   > If you're gonna work with people, you have to talk to them. And talk   
   > enough to be sure that what you're saying is what they are hearing. That   
   > what they think you said is what you actually meant.  Tricky thing   
   > sometimes.   
      
   Trying to get others to Think is the tricky thing, that *and* communicate!   
      
   > Her and I are finally starting to understand each other on the monitor   
   > issue. It's a long tale, but basically, I want low to very low STAGE   
   > levels. My experience as a solo guy has me wanting to sing and play at a   
   > pretty nice acoustic level. Plus, I see the stage level as totally   
   > different from the FOH levels, other than as how very loud levels in the   
   > mains will wash back on the stage. What the audience levels are don't   
   > affect me other than that they are ok with what the people who pay us   
   > want.   
      
   All I want is to *clearly* hear *everything* *without* damaging my   
   hearing!!!   
      
   > She wants it to sound like a record onstage, as in the same balance and   
   > tone and studio sounding room ambience. And she wants the FOH system to be   
   > ripping people's heads off in the back of the room. Ok, I might be   
   > exaggerating a little on that second bit, but not much :-)   
      
   IF long as no one is going to be made deaf by it, I'd have no problem with   
   that ;)   
      
   > The problem with her wants is room echos and backwash from our main pa   
   > cabs.  She's been using her monitor( s ) to try and overpower / mask all   
   > the room sound, the audience noise, the dancers, the pa blowback.  It'll   
   > take a pretty loud floor wedge to do that, as she's learning.   
      
   It all seems too loud.   
      
   > We could go to the BOSE sticks and satisfy her desire to have the stage   
   > sound good.  But, we couldn't then satisfy her desire to make her friends   
   > happy who want us LOUD LOUD LOUD in the room.   
      
   > Thats really the point of the Bose. They sound good onstage AND they limit   
   > how loud you will be in the room because they'll be just as loud to the   
   > players. The players hear the same thing the audience does, from the same   
   > speakers, only just a little louder because they are closer to   
   vthem.  So unless you are a near deaf musician, the sticks are a self   
   vlimiting volume thing.   
      
      
   JimD   
      
   As usual, Bose-O Gimmicks are Overpriced Crap!   
   My church has one of those  silly sticks and the last time I looked at their   
   specs, there were NONE for WRMS, as to suggest that even for  1,000 bucks,   
   they still don't have much in the way of power, and they don't - they're   
   LAME!   
   Now, if they were closer to 100 bucks, I wouldn't complain.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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