As with many things, budget is the issue, not the inherent quality of 8 inch speakers. You want smaller speakers to sound good and have enough power, you've gotta spend. I use the AEDAudio Flex6 speakers for my rigs now, and they're dual 6.5" drivers on the low, and they can kick out a fair amo...

As powerful as TS415s are, I'd say that the rig is underpowered for that number of people in that size space. That said, as Wonks has mentioned, it depends really on context. If you're providing music for that number to dance to, then it's no where new enough. If you're providing a sit down concert,...

I use really useful boxes. Good size, and I can get them in different colours, so cables are split by length. Fully box is not too heavy.

Neutrik with me too. And Van Damme cable.

Made all my cables myself, and they've never let me down.

Just incase you needed a further opinion....get a bass. Octaver pedals and the like do not sound the same. I engineer a couple of bands who do it to get a bass sound live, and it's always muddy and I really miss the real bass sound. If a bass isn't an option due to space in the tiny apartment, then ...

I don't see it really. I think it's a solution looking for a problem. I have never felt "boxed in" by a digital console. Mostly the opposite. Almost all the high end engineers I know use waves or just the desk. The flexibility and routing power of high end desks such as Avid SL6, DiGiCo Qu...

Depends on if they system is running using redundant secondary, or if you can daisy chain from the secondary. If you can daisy chain from the secondary, then simply select that option on the desk in dante setup, plug in the laptop and launch DVS. You can use dante controller to route audio from the ...

It's intriguing to me too. Splitting for monitors when doing monitors from FOH is something I do all the time. I usually do it on layers, effectively having separate channels for my FOH and monitors. Means I can do whatever i like to the FOH mix and not affect their monitors, and yet still have acce...

OOo...good things to try. I've usually got too much hi-hat on all the other mics, and I've been trying to work on embracing the bleed more to cut down the work load. For example, side mic on the snare and use the bleed from the hats on that, plus less need for a snare under, so have 1 mic where I'd ...

As with many things, it depends! I'll usually high pass quite high on the hi-hats, and be careful of the harsh or sibilant frequencies, but it's also very possible to get the hats being too fizzy if you take out too much low and low mid. I have to be honest, more often than not I'll put the mic up b...

That's interesting, as I've had 5 of the TS310s for a couple of years and they've never gone wrong. But there's always good and bad!

If they are new, then contact Alto or the seller. Sounds like a fault. Could be a dry solder or loose connection, but as switching the input switch from line to mic solving it, to me, sounds like a circuit board issue.