ACS Pro 17s for me, without question. I baulked at the price some 12 years ago, until I got them. Then, when I sadly lost them 6-7 years later, I was straight out to get another pair, no questions asked. It's *all* about the custom fit. Even my wife now has them for occasional gigs and musicals ...

The screws for the tripod base have arrived today and they have fixed the issue. My Pulse stands have had a fare amount of use for almost 10 years and the only issue I've had is a simple £1 fix. Indeed, it's a piece of cake with the right parts. And, of course, if you're replacing both threaded ...

I went to the big Knebworth show in 1996. Honestly, I found their performance lacklustre. Wasn't going to bother again, but persuaded along by my daughter. Sound will likely be typical stadium meh. But, from the first night reports, the athmosphere will be electric with 50,000 drunk people euphoric ...

It's K&M all the way for me. I've had too many issues with cheap stands in the past. Cheap stands - quite hideous - horrible to use and fall to bits. That said, the Pulse ones were reasonable for the money - especially the short ones. But they'll eventually fail exactly as you've found, with thread ...

Lightweight / cheap / folding / fits in the boot are pretty much incompatible with uneven ground / gravel.

Most, if not all, of the trolleys listed earlier on in the post are likely to be harder work than just carrying the gear - which is what you'll probably end up doing anyway.

For me, church PA is well summarised as being the not very capable operating mediocre equipment to amplify generally poor sources. Harsh, but generally accurate. Physics will always win. Move from lavs to headset mics is one of the few equipment investments worth making - not that it need cost more ...

A "pack away" church like this is crying out for a rack with all the kit (mixer, radio RX, amp). This keeps day to day cable management to a minimum. A case like this makes a surface-less mixer worth the additional learning curve of getting people to "mix on glass". I helped a local church do this ...

Back in my day, I learnt by experimentation. I would happily try an acoustic guitar through a passive DI, discovering that some behaved much better than others.

Sadly, learning through experimentation appears to be a lost art...

People should I think make greater use of the principle of "sacrificial connectors" Absolutely. Had a friends "lump on a cable" PSU for a Shure radio pack passed on to me, bare conductors showing where the 12v cable exits the strain relief and has clearly been over-flexed. Of course, these things ...

I have heard the 910s and thought they sounded very sweet, and I loved their compact size (plus low weight and low price) but they were working with a sub when I heard them and I was concerned that they might not be loud and versatile enough on their own. There's really not a massive difference ...

Everything I've heard about them is good... except a few complaints about hiss from the power amp which is audible in quiet situations — like conferences, publuc meetings, after-dinner events, etc. Have any current users found this to be an issue? While not 900 series, I've got ART 710 and 722. All ...

Hugh Robjohns wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 4:08 pm A vehicle registered to the old Outside Broadcast section for lugging gear around? Sure.

An 'outside broadcast vehicle'? Not by my definition!

Sounds about right to me.

In case it helps date things, that logo on the side would appear to be from 2008-2011, curtesy of Logopedia

resistorman wrote: ↑Fri Apr 25, 2025 10:39 pm There's a reason why Rhodes, Wurli, Hammond, Oberheim, Jupiter and Prophet sounds are eternally popular for pop

My thoughts entirely.

With one of my TS310s I got some distortion at one point, so I opened it up (it was 2 years old at this point) and the compression driver was a tiny bit loose from the horn. Literally just screwed it back on and the speaker worked perfectly from then and I've never had another problem. To be ...

You may be hearing physical rattling. Not unheard of in some cabs - especially cheap ones like you have. Can be hard to identify and track down, and not always easily fixable. Don't worry about your level when feeding a PA, any competent engineer should be able to handle pretty much any realistic ...

The sound has been excellent at all of their previous gigs I've been to, including some other places that don't have great natural sound. They were having some technical gremlins as well so I don't know if there was some knock on effects but I can't think what. And there's the rub - you don't know ...

Newer kit with its own rechargeables can be great. We have Sennheiser EW-DX, with the custom Li-Ion packs (can use 2xAA in a pinch) where the Tx drop into chargers for storage along with charging. Works an absolute treat.

Was tempted* to last night at Public Service Broadcasting. Low mids were swamping everything, so the guitar went too loud to compensate and then the vocals and samples were being lost. And we were right next to the sound desk, my friend in the seating area said it was terrible up there. :( Doesn't ...

Only once. At an Am Dram production where the RF was behaving dreadfully. At half-time, I clocked the pile of receivers at FOH with no antenna distribution, expressed my sympathy with the tech and offered to try and help. Could do no more than reposition stuff more optimally, and suggest that ...

Picture failure aside, I do believe the HA Control is on for the TF5, but the console is prone to turning on and off analog gain and phantom power (seemingly randomly) for channels 1-8 regardless of HA being on. I will try turning off HA Control and will reply back once I am able. Thank you ...

I'm no TF user, and neither image worked, BTW. But you may benefit from reading p36 of the TF user manual : HA Control button Determines whether the head amp of the Tio1608-D, R series and so on is controlled by the TF series. Turning this button ON and OFF has no effect on the DZR-D series and the ...

If you're happy with the limitations of generic fit IEMs over custom fit IEMs, it's hard to go wrong with KZ ZS Pros. Currently only £22 & VAT from Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32999600612.html I've used these for a couple of years. Keep meaning to get round to getting custom fit IEMs, ...

alexis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 01, 2025 5:59 pm I always wonder about durability with Behringer, "buy quality, buy once; buy cheap ..."

Here we go again...

So do I, I’m going to risk ridicule (again) by saying it's the only cable that my ears heard a definite "improvement" in sound quality from, I made up a set of leads for my CD player using Klotz cable, I'm not normally into all this malarky, but there was a nice improvement, quite an obvious one. I' ...