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Wanting to going IEM: Tasty Blender?

John Le Guyader

John Le Guyader

Jun 6, 2006
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Considering going IEM to hear myself better being in a loud band. Looking for a wired solution and I find Rock on Audio's Tasty Blender for a wired solution to mix more me and a PA send of the full band, but has a built in limiter for IEM.

Anyone have experience with Tasty Blender?

Advice appreciated and already practice with TF10s running in custom molds

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jleguy said:
Considering going IEM to hear myself better being in a loud band. Looking for a wired solution and I find Rock on Audio's Tasty Blender for a wired solution to mix more me and a PA send of the full band, but has a built in limiter for IEM.

Anyone have experience with Tasty Blender?

Advice appreciated and already practice with TF10s running in custom molds

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I've been using the Rock On Rock Box for about 18 months and it's been a total success for me for a wired IEM set up. I also have a wireless IEM rig but use the Rock Box 90% of the time. The best feature of it is that you can take a feed from either a line or wedge so you are always covered as far as getting a signal to your box.
 
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I tried the Tasty Blender a couple of weeks ago. Looked great on paper, but I was disappointed when I got it.

Didn't have enough gain to give enough usable volume and the sound was distorted. The limiter was too aggressive and hard to set.

It might just be me, but these small boxes with multi function knobs and switches are hard to manage. The features look good, but having to step through three button pushes to get to something you need on the bandstand is a recipe for disaster.

I sent it back and used my refund to buy Rolls PM351. A little worried about not having a limiter, but since I am running the Rolls, I will control the volume in my ears, not some random sound man.

Rolls is a very flexible box, zip tied a headphone extension cable to my instrument chord, so far so good.
 
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OK, So far it looks like we have 1 vote in favor of the Tasty Blender, and 1 vote against. Does anyone else have experience and an opinion? What you guys say is important, because it's unlikely to find one of these in any music stores
 
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The Tasty Blender has a 30 day money back guarantee, which I took advantage of with mine.

Be aware the Rock On Box isn't the Tasty Blender, so I don't see the 1 vote in favor. The Rock On is very limited compared to the TB and Rolls.

If you feel comfortable only with a limiter, you could go with the Rolls and the wired Shure body pack (I think it's a PM200 maybe), but it works wirelessly and wired and does have a limiter. Run a wire from the Rolls to the Shure body pack.

The Rolls is $80, the Shure is round numbers, $300, so you will have $380 in this setup versus $180 in the Tasty Blender.
 
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bhubb3rd said:
Be aware the Rock On Box isn't the Tasty Blender, so I don't see the 1 vote in favor. The Rock On is very limited compared to the TB and Rolls.

The Rolls is $80, the Shure is round numbers, $300, so you will have $380 in this setup versus $180 in the Tasty Blender.
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Thanks bhubb3rd. I read too quickly and missed the "Rock On", so you're right, there is no yes vote. It would be great if the Tasty Blender was a good solution, because as you point out - it is less than half the price of the Rolls/Shure.
 
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I Love the Tasty Blender - But I have the bass signal into a Rane Tiny two cross over so I can take some of the low end out. No distortion at all this way. I use channel one as Low end from bass / Channel 2 as High end from bass & Channel 3 vocals / guitar / drums from board mix. Really it's all about the signal your imputing. Ears are 1964 Quads
 
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