soundian

This isn't quite correct. The experiment involved two planes, one travelling east and one travelling west, with atomic clocks on them and an atomic clock on the ground. The clock travelling west had a higher speed relative to the one on the ground and the clock travelling east had a slower speed relative to the one on the ground. The west one showed less time and the east one showed more time compared to the one on the ground. This has nothing to do with the earth revolving at a higher speed the further you get from the core, it is after all quite thin air up there and there's nothing to "drag" it along at the speed of the earth's rotation. It is due to the higher/lower speeds of the aircraft RELATIVE to the speed of the "stationary" clock. Your statement that the higher up you are the slower time passes is completely wrong. Time slows down in a gravitational field (or, to be geeky, time slows down when spacetime is more curved) so the higher up you are (the less gravitational pull, or the less curved spacetime is) the faster time goes. All this is, of course, relative to the observers frame of reference.

*sigh* can't be bothered explaining why I sigh.

How many bands they soundcheck is entirely dependent on the timings that the promoter gives the sound engineer. Normally every band will get a soundcheck if it's possible. I've always found the monitors to be a bit muddy in there if I use the house EQ which is why I go in early to tweak them when I'm doing the headline act. Stoned or hungover? Knowing Calum it's the latter,he's not a stoner.

...and who can get it there in time to soundcheck.

Ah, you guys are playing soon aren't you. Take your own if you can, as long as your willing to share cos there's not normally time to change over kits on the FH nights. The house kit has seen better days and they don't seem to understand the word 'maintenance' in there. Or 'tuning' come to think of it.

Don't bank on there being any working footswitches though.

I don't think I've ever seen a power amp with an impedance selector, only backline amps.

Get the speakers first. If you get a 1400W into 8 amp and run a 4 ohm cab on it there's a fair chance you'll toast the speakers/x-over with the extra power unless you're very careful. If get a 1400W into 4 amp and try to run an 8 ohm speaker you'll be hideously underpowered and may well toast the speakers trying to get the amp to over-perform and going into clip.

What ohmage are the speakers you're wanting to run?

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Now you've let the cat out of the bag I bet you're deported by the end of the week.

Atrocious.

I asked for that one.

First impressions do count, especially in your line of work.

This is, in my understanding of copyright law, wrong. The APRS (Association of Professional Recording Services) standard terms and conditions state that copyright belongs to the recording studio until the bill is paid in full. Recording studios don't have permission to do anything with the recordings, they only have the right to withhold them. In the absence of any written contract stating otherwise that is the view that, imo, would be taken in any legal dispute over ownership of recordings.

No offence Sam but wtf has that got to do with overpricing?

The only people that got an interview for the techie jobs, (so I hear) were the people who used to work there. Same old, same old all round so it seems.

There's a trombone, piano and sax in there as well.

Up until the point where they accept your money they haven't done anything wrong because it's not a fixed price but an "offer to treat*" and if they say that an offer is wrong they are perfectly within their rights to advise you of the price that it should be and then let you decide whether to continue with the transaction or not. So, let them overcharge you then go to customer services and clear it up there because you have them by the short and curlies at this point (and you won't have the embarrassment of holding up a queue of people) because if they have accepted your money they are now guilty of misleading advertising, which I believe can carry a fine of up to 2000 for every single item advertised.(e.g. 50 boxes of frosties on the shelves would be a potential 100,000 fine) I'm told that asda have a mispricing policy where they give you a 2 voucher for every mispriced item. *treat here is used in the sense of negotiate

All they need to do is not lose by 4 more goals than Dundee United do.

They missed a chance to slag you off more there, if only they'd scribbled out DJ instead of Giles.

IEM does not require every instrument to be miked up, either that or every single IEM mix I've ever done has been wrong. I'm not talking about wireless IEMs either so the cost is a headphone amp or three, some decent in-ear phones and some cables. Whether they have a lot of noise rejection has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of the IEM, just the moulding which goes in the ear. Bear in mind I also said that if they rehearsed with the system they could fine tune this "highly unforgiving", "complex" set-up at their leisure. Also note that I put it forward as a matter to consider, not the best or only way to do it. Not in my experience. feedback is generally the result of a system being wrongly set-up ,bad mic positioning, the band playing too loud for the equipment available or the equipment just being a bit gash. I would say it's best to have as many different mixes as required, it avoids what I call the "upward spiral of noise" where one person can't hear themselves, asked to be turned up, then someone else can't hear, continue ad nauseum/speaker failure But it's a good benchmark when you're dealing with gear of roughly the same quality Apart form the fact that a 12/4 mixer is unlikely to have more than 3 shelving filters I fail to see how you can give EQ advice without hearing the system and the band going through it. Wow, I agree. Another point about reverb/FX being subtle, in between songs any heavy effect sounds awful so unless you're switching them off subtlety is the order of the day.

No, it means that the amp will happily throw out 275W>8 ohms:450W>4 ohms all day without breaking sweat. How much you get out of the cab depends on other factors. It all depend on whether your cab is rated at 500W RMS or not.

No, not a fan. feedback is generally a sign that something has been set up badly, gain structure, system controller etc and it makes more sense to find the source of the problem and deal with it there rather than applying a "sticking plaster" solution. I can see why it might make sense from the point of view of your set-up though.

Does anyone else see the irony in this statement?