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Too Wimpy Looking?
RoadRanger:
I actually had a hard rock band complaining about me not having a snake and a console at FOH :shock: . Oh, and also that my little RCF 310A's over Danley TH-Mini's rig couldn't possibly be loud enough for them. The only time I've opened that rig up indoors I was measuring 115dbc at 20 feet :shock: . I'd not normally subject folks to that but it was the last gig a singer was doing with a band that had a SUPER LOUD drummer and he paid me out of his own pocket so he could be heard over the band for once :mrgreen: .
Anyways I'm curious if anyone else has had a similar reaction to them downsizing to a DL1608?
Wynnd:
Most of the people I run into think it's really expensive. An employee at the Chamber of Commerce where I did a panel discussion for the League of Women Voters, thought my system of the DL1608 (In a rack) with ZXA1s, 8 wired mics and a wireless must have cost $50K. I laughed. I own total about $12K of equipment between my keyboards, PAs and Bass equipment. What I was using was bout $3500 worth brand new. Maybe he was thinking about getting into the PA game. Don't know. It is much less impressive looking than a MixWiz. All those knobs on the MixWiz make people think there's no way anyone could understand what's happening. I don't miss my MixWiz and it's found a new home with an Outlaw Country band in Colorado Springs. (Good band too.) I try not to worry about when a musician decides my equipment couldn't possibly be up to their needs. They're probably too loud and probably too stupid to see the advantages of backing off a bit. (Or a lot in some cases.) I don't need their headaches and if they want to be that loud, they can purchase their own $20K system and hopefully find someone who can run it competently.
sam.spoons:
No, not so far, the usual reaction is along the lines of "isn't modern tech wonderful" :)
Never had anybody complain they it wasn't loud enough either.
ijpengelly:
I had the Mackie Onyx 24.4 before this, which was not a small mixer at all, two snakes and a 6U box (compressors, effects, feedback destroyers). People would occasionally comment on it all. When I got the DL1608, and it was when it first came out, I got loads more people commenting and being surprised that I was mixing the sound from an iPad. At one gig a woman was about to comment on how rude and ignorant I was being for playing games on it when I was at a party... thankfully I had been chatting to her husband earlier and he chose that time to lean over and tell her what I was doing LOL
With bands and those who are into music, the most often question I get is "what app are you running".
Last night was the first time I have come across someone with one of the alternatives, the A&H Qu-16.
gerenm63:
--- Quote from: ijpengelly on October 18, 2014, 09:38:55 AM ---I had the Mackie Onyx 24.4 before this, which was not a small mixer at all, two snakes and a 6U box (compressors, effects, feedback destroyers). People would occasionally comment on it all. When I got the DL1608, and it was when it first came out, I got loads more people commenting and being surprised that I was mixing the sound from an iPad. At one gig a woman was about to comment on how rude and ignorant I was being for playing games on it when I was at a party... thankfully I had been chatting to her husband earlier and he chose that time to lean over and tell her what I was doing LOL
With bands and those who are into music, the most often question I get is "what app are you running".
Last night was the first time I have come across someone with one of the alternatives, the A&H Qu-16.
--- End quote ---
I had a woman last night who thought I was using my iPad Mini to take pictures or video, until she saw the screen. She was thoroughly impressed.
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