Recoding quality sound mic-mixer-pc

[Sam Spoons]

Again great post Mike, (and Dave)

[Sam Spoons]

I can't say I have had the same experiences as you Andy regarding the hosts. But I can tell you for now manchester is full of useless ideal brain dead snotty little @#$%&, that are not great singers or song writers at all but think they are. Whilst on the other hand karaoke hosts seam to be on the same level of musical skill but with our the ego of there heads up there asses. There is not one karaoke host that I hold a grudge against! But open Mic and busking on the streets and 200 quid a night Pratt bands well where do I start. Want prof that 99.9% of missions are all BS then head over to join my band .co.uk to find out!

Sorry don't watch main stream media at all as it's all BS! But I do know who Donald Rumsfeld is
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TsMCeypay4M

But having seen that image that Sam posted of the speaker box, I can tell you for now I won't be going into Dawson's again

I must admit I have had instants where I could not hear the backing tracks on open Mic nights well. But people have told me it's more likely the host did not have the mix volumes set correctly, but since I could not hear what the audience where hearing I just don't know the answer to that. As they are generally set up for a singer and there acoustic guitar not a singer and mp3 backing tracks. But What about a wireless ear piece that plays the backing tracks only, might work so long as the out channel on the mixer has out channels for each individual in channel or could I not take the sound from the input hear. But you could have a wireless ear piece with both you and the backing tracks, this is how they do it in recording studios

PS uselles Dawson's said I don't need a monitor as well

late night, post beer rant?

[ef37a]

Re the "beer rant"?

I have banged this drum before here and elsewhere. You get the goods and staff you PAY for!

I know nothing of Dawsons save they are obviously a bricks and mortar shop and I guess struggling against the tide of internet retailing. I will also bet the price of a 3mtr mic cable that a fair percentage of their enquiries are from people who have no intention of buying from them!

I come from a family store retail background (not MY family!) and as the Magnet type stores took off we had a steady stream of timewasters who wanted the information but also the 20% from the pile 'em high outlets.
If you want well trained, enthusiastic (not just about their commision!) staff they need to be paid a decent wedge and it is the customer who foots that bill.

An example, sort of. I recently found a small USB mixer that had solder pad routing options. I emailed one of our largest online reatilers asking if they would be able to setup such a mixer to a client's requirements? No, it seems they either don't have the skilled personell in house or there is no money left in the sale to pay for the time involved.

Dave.

[Wonks]

Dawsons are a chain, but they vary greatly in quality of service (good to bad) from shop to shop. It is really all down to the shop manager as to the level of staff they employ and keep (though ultimately down to the chain management not pressing for higher standards). I've only used the one in Reading through necessity of needing something quickly, not choice (but once through boredom). Knowledge of product there seemed to be pretty low in all the staff, even during the week; rather like the dreaded 'Saturday' staff of old.

[ef37a]

Ah! See now Wonks they are almost ALL "Saturday" staff on zero hours contracts.
The staff at my local Maplins were varied in their knowledge but quite a number were pretty PC cute it seemed to me. They were all very cheerful and helpful, a point I always stressed on the odd occasion I complained to HQ, usually about "web only" stock. Their powers that be never seemed to grasp that if I wanted to wait three days I could buy a 1TB HDD cheaper from almost any other online retailer!

Saddly missed.

Dave.