The SC - We've Been Waiting to Show You The Rain Again! 

Hi Dean - thank you as always, for your continued support. Every video is an adventure and it is interesting to see what we are able to extract, especially when we are unsure where it's going....some good stuff here.

Exactly!

Drummer made it easy and we just added the sugar!

We appreciate the feedback...that helps us know we are on the right track!

It's our preference as well....but we need to be ready for both!

Appreciate the comments! Yes, I would agree...I would put her up against anyone on a load out! We feel so lucky to work with so many great bands and musicians!

The drummer was a sub that day....that kit was pure joy to mix! It was perfectly tuned for live sound!

Thanks Michael - that's the plan!

Thanks!

Thank you Michael!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you Scott

You can tell we really like this venue...it's like our home a way from home..not perfect, but it's home.

Thanks for sharing!

Let us know how the CDL10P's work out for you!

Rain stresses us too! In this situation, if the band is covered and the customers aren't....it still isn't happening.

That's a good catch! We are lucky the RU-vid ears aren't that good!

Good point - not only food that is not messy...but food that can sit for some time without issues.

Yes, we know someone that actually does it at this venue. For us, it's just more to carry and store. With the two of us, we just want to get in and out...this is a low budget gig! Thanks for continued support!

Buy second hand gear ...you'll get so much more value for money... I started my local business in Aus at 17yrs And now after 5 years have Around $30K worth of decent gear spending nowhere near that much.. The main way I got clients was word of mouth and making good musician friends.. Best of luck :)

Agreed, second hand and check out local venues for what equipment you may need. E.g. a couple of JBL EON 15s and a couple of subs, plus stage monitors … or do you need to go big for heavy thumping bass gigs, or a couple of Bose Linear PAs with or without subs for acoustic/wedding music? You can spend a lot of money starting up, so also look into what to buy and what to rent. Bart & Stacy have a fairly minimal lighting rig, but it’s very effective band, but doesn’t replace a disco setup or lighting for presentations and conferences (which may also require video projection and vari-lights, plus lapel and table microphones. Don’t borrow too much money to start with, don’t spend all your income on kit, and save for your taxes. Stay away from the alcohol and drugs. Coffee and sugar are bad enough! ;)

We couldn't agree more with everything said so far. Starting out is hard but exciting...and honestly, we can make things look easy, but the truth is, some of it is not. I can think of times when I should have been fired, I have lost the gig, or I have made people very unhappy....and I have had people thankfully give me another chance. This is all part of learning. The most important thing is to be humble and learn from your mistakes and be motivated to do whatever is needed to make sure the next gig goes better....and the fact is, it may not. In our videos, we are in effect, showing you the end game which comes from our years of experience. We hope that our channel can help you learn by watching what we do and not do and perhaps accelerate your experience. If you have the the drive and skills, it doesn't take years but doing the best you can and being nice can go along ways. That's how we see this business working....your reputation and skill is key!

@@thesoundcouple thanks for all the tips really appreciate them!!

Good luck!@@jackcroker2687

That is very valuable feedback...thanks!

Thanks!

They did and were tuned well!

Even before you had them up in the house I could tell they were going to sound good. Very well tuned, and great player

Yes! We were all in these cabinets and were sad to see them go. We set a new direction switching to a more compact powered speaker so someone got a great deal on ours!

LOL! That's awesome!

Thank you for your feedback. We have covered many aspects of mixing over the course of our videos...but after thinking about your question, we may have drifted a bit on this topic. Will take note for the future! Our Fix My Mix video comes to mind as I really put myself out there in critique mode if you want to see some finer points of mixing! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pRRbhSN48UI.html. Also, Heated Sound Check specifically covers mixing topics too! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G5pYgldmU6c.html

Oh man...never heard that one...that's too funny because it's so true! We will never forget the day a guy with a big truck backed into the driveway and took it all away...there was definitely some mixed emotions that day. From a fleet of speakers and amps to I think we have one QSC amp laying around somewhere....never looked back!

Gracias por tu comentario. No creo que seguir subiendo el volumen de los altavoces sea, en última instancia, la solución. Sin ver cómo ejecuta su sistema, sólo puedo ofrecer algunas sugerencias. Es importante tener una estructura de ganancia adecuada en cada paso de la señal. Si no puede aumentar la ganancia maestra a la unidad, puede intentar reducir la ganancia de entrada en el canal y hacer que el atenuador del canal esté más a la unidad. Luego, a partir de ahí, suba el volumen maestro y finalmente ajuste la ganancia en el CDL a la salida necesaria y vea cómo funciona. Siempre y cuando no escuches distorsión o la luz del clip no esté fija, está bien si parpadea. También sugeriría probar con otro orador como referencia. El objetivo es conseguir que la ganancia de entrada, el atenuador de canal y la salida principal de los altavoces estén en buen equilibrio entre sí. Parece que estás ejecutando los canales y el altavoz con una señal activa. ¡Espero que esto ayude!

We have thought about it and do have some ideas so it's on the list of future videos. We still have some par 38's and 46's, but the rest of aluminum cans we literally gave them away, including dimmer packs....There was a lot of money invested in those!

It happens...sometimes things just don't "click" and you get rattled. It can feel like all eyes are just waiting for you to screw something up...In some sad way, it could be a protection mechanism as they are looking for an excuse for their own fear or insecurity. We believe that type of energy can cause situations like yours to manifest.

Yep! That's what our frequent customer Rhino uses!

Yes, we provide the iPhones so they can control their mix. That is the nice feature of the PreSonus system is that you can assign the mixes with permissions so the musicians are only presented with their own mix. The Donner EM1's are working great. They do have a built in rechargeable battery, so you may or may not like that. Our experience with their batteries has been good so far with our DMX dongles so not worried about it. They have unfortunately, like a lot of things, have gone up in price, but still not a bad deal.

​@@thesoundcoupleI have the Rockville wireless DMX. Looks identical to your Donners, and knowing Chinese mfg, likely are.

Yes, wouldn't be surprising.@@XIIMonkeysMusicGroup

We run everything off of our PreSonus mixer. Combination of wireless/wired (PSM 300's/Donner EM1, or PreSonus HP2). We supply iPhones running Q-Mix so the musicians can control their mix. Default is mono mix or stereo by request. We are limited as to how many wireless stereo mixes we can provide. In total, we can provide 5 wireless mono mixes and a handful of wired mixes...we have never not had enough!

Please check out our Community page. We posted some screenshots and the proj/scene. We typically don't apply any FX to the Aux's.

Yes! I just didn't that day because it fell on an even channel. However, the problem with linking is that you can't pan it then...not sure what to think about that....especially when that's what they want to do in the in-ears.

​@@thesoundcouplethat is the odd thing with PreSonus, not being able to pan when stereo linked, when Allen & Heath lets you pan when they're linked! I switched from Allen & Heath to PreSonus a while ago though!

Very interesting...thank you for sharing!@@XIIMonkeysMusicGroup

We will attempt a follow-up post with settings, etc. Keep an eye out for that! For live sound, we are all in digital...the sound quality is certainly up for debate, but considering all factors, digital allows us to do our job way better. We couldn't do what we now do with an analog console....digital set us free!

I wish we knew too! From what we can see, it looks like a real nice addition to the series....nice for smaller gigs or for some of the wedding stuff we do. The subs definitely look thumping as well!

We ignore it...ha ha! Seriously, we kind of do....I remember with other speakers we had, the manufactures were very conservative on their limits, etc. We feel the same way with these...we look at it as we are reaching the threshold, but we will run them there if we need to....so far, they have taken it.

Since we save the scenes from all of shows, we should be able to recall and can post them....stay tuned for that. This kit did sound great, so it makes our job much easier when the source is good.

I love when drummers know how to tune it makes our job as engineers easy.

That's for sure!@@ryandavis317

The band is Coyote Wild.

We are really happy with the our 6th gen. All of the issues we were having with wifi with the old one was the iPad. It is doing just fine in its new role as home use, but we believe the wifi on it was not up to par with other Apple products or our other devices....It took us a long time to be convinced of that.

We use an AT&T NETGEAR Nighthawk M6. Our main system Wi-Fi router is configured with to a wireless WAN bridge that connects to the Nighthawk wirelessly. With this configuration, all of our devices on our network have Internet access.

@@thesoundcouplethank you so much

Siri can be very random sometimes!

And that’ll be an extra amount! The things we get ourselves into…

Coyote Wild