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Hello everyone, This is Laura, Rob's wife. I know he was very active on this forum so I wanted to let you know that Rob Edge (aka thumbknuckle on this forum) passed away on October 7th. You can read more here: In memory of Rob Edge. My guess is that he left many conversations...

Can you rotate the horn in those?

Digital mixer and powered speakers is probably the best place to start. Once you start spending real money there are both passive and active speaker systems that sound very good, but even then in the passive case you would be using a system processor or smart amp. For less than about 1000...

This gets said a lot around here and I don't buy it. I can grab a copy of Powerage and it sounds like a really good, balanced P-Bass/SVT kind of sound that works great in the context of the ensemble. It sounds really good on quality headphones, it sounds really good through my KRK V8/V12...

First thing you want to do is make sure you know what the signal you are sending to FOH actually sounds like. If that is a mic on a speaker spend some time recording and get a sense of what that actually sounds like, and how it differs from what the rig as a whole sounds like standing in front...

That's old school. I have a couple kicking around.

How big an audience? How loud do you need to be? How many monitor mixes? How long is the event? Is there anything hinky about the load in or venue?

An increasingly common advantage of a digital system is venues not wanting to set aside the space for a FOH position. I see this a lot these days. Trying to mix a band from backstage with an analog setup is just about the worst of all possible situations. If you have a PA you can drive with...

My FOH position looked like this ca. 2008: That is, of course, in addition to the mixer itself. Big, unwieldy, heavy rack. Big heavy snake that had to be manually plugged in every time I set up. Insert cables for the outboard comps and gates and stuff. The six auxes on the console gave me...

These days I think powered speakers are the way to go. Dollar for dollar you will have a better sounding PA. For example, the QSC K12 is a solid speaker box that gets a lot of love around here. It's a biamped 2 way box with a DSP. You can get a pair of them from Sweetwater for $1600. You...

I still have an analog 32x4 Soundcraft that I like just fine, it's now the front end to my recording setup. It's the massive rack of outboard that I don't mind seeing go. The size and expense and time wiring it all up to an analog snake is now down to one ethercon cable connecting FOH to the...

I'll try this one more time: the headphone jack has both signals. You are only listening to the stereo left channel. It's in stereo. Input 1 is going to the left ear, input 2 to the right.

That will short the ring to the tip. Might work, for some definition of 'work'. A headphone amp might be able to generate enough current to actually damage itself in this configuration. The problem is not that you have the wrong cabling. The problem is that you have a mixer that...

The second one will get you the left side on one of the 1/4" cables and the right on the other. God only knows what the first one will do. It might short the left and right sides together, causing unpredictable behavior but most likely some sort of sound. It might only give you the left. It...

It is a stereo output, that's the problem. You are only hearing one side.