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Hi Ken - was talking about the CK - was that what you meant?
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I second Al's option #1 - it's what I've been doing since I got my QSC K8s 14 years ago. I'm usually all the way stage right so I angle my whole setup inwards a bit, as illustrated in my wonderful artwork below. This helps the rest of the band hear me and gets out to a good proportion of the audience. As Al says, keep the drivers away from ear level so you can push the volume and do the job without murdering your eardrums. The folding footstools are perfect for this, IMO. I was helped by the K8s' generous horizontal dispersion (105º, more than the arrows below would indicate). Of course, depending on the shape of the room and the location of the stage, it sometimes entailed a compromise in how much of the audience was covered, but that's life. Putting the speakers on poles can work too (and would get your sound further out into the club), but I missed the energy of feeling my sound coming out right near me. It's always a compromise when you want your amp rig to essentially do three jobs - you, band and audience. I'm selfish so I take care of #1 first, then the band, and last is the audience. It usually works out OK for everybody (except they have to hear my playing!). 🙂 -
You can easily map other controls on the YC to control non drawbar settings in B3X. I just printed a few labels for the buttons that I programmed. -
I used to hook up a MOTU MicroBook IIc to my MacBook Pro, for a variety of reasons - the "CueMix FX" software controlled a DSP mixer in the interface that gave me some cool (to me!) features, like mixing a feed from a small recorder on stage so I could get stage ambience in my in-ears, along with limiting & eq for my in-ears (the headphone output was a separate bus from the main outs). I hacked the OSC commands so I could adjust levels via my Roland controller (the MBook IIc's mixer was designed to be controlled using a phone or tablet running TouchOSC, not midi). It was all nice until the driver took a dump during a show and I had to re-boot my host software and switch to the headphone out - where I've been ever since! OS resources used for processing audio might have been a thing with laptops 20 years ago - not any more, I think. Macs have been pretty good in this regard; I remember hearing complaints about older Windows laptops when it came to low latency and click-free audio. I ran Windows on my MacBook Pro for a minute and remember spending time with the ASIO4ALL dialog trying different combinations of buffer sample numbers to achieve decent performance - this could have been pilot error of course. It was a long time ago. The bottom line for me is that if you only need stereo output, I would go with the headphone output. I've been doing it for years, even done two live CDs with AWB using it. IMO it's way more than adequate for playing a gig using a laptop.
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By GovernorSilver · Posted
Oh, I see. Collaborative review with Daniel Fisher would be interesting. I'm fine with whatever you decide to do with this thread. Speaking of new products, I just heard about the Boss Gigcaster 8, having just had a conversation with someone who is already convinced it can replace his Model 12 mixer for traveling, solely on the basis of it having all the GT-1000 effects onboard. Does not matter to him that it seems to be targeted to peeps who livestream, which is not what he does. -
By Dave Bryce · Posted
None of us are doing a review. Daniel Fisher walked us through the features and functions of the piece in his video. I know it’s an unusual thread. In order to cover more products, I’m curious if we can do these in conjunction with a retailer/reviewer whose content I respect. Sorry if that was unclear. In that respect, maybe this thread would have been better placed in the New Product Announcements forum…? dB -
By GovernorSilver · Posted
I'm waiting for the review to actually start before I can offer an opinion other than "looks like a fun little thing to play with" 😉 -
By KuruPrionz · Posted
I have an X-Key 25 and a good stash of synth plugins. The purpose of this widget escapes me, especially after reading the bit about the cryptic interface. Simplicity makes me happy, stuff should be easy to use. I mostly use a Fishman Triple Play for synth plugins to be honest. Not much of a keyboard player, I only use it when I need more sustain than a guitar string. 😇
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