Yeah JBL are a pretty good brand.
And $200 def' seems like a pretty good price.

What connectors do they have on the back of them?

[QUOTE=Trigger_003;13682698]what file format are they already?
[/QUOTE]

.wma

Haha $1100 off isn't too bad :)

<3 Billy Hydes. Camped out for their insane sale - awesome times right there. I was going for a $40 PRS but someone got in line before me for it. Nice bloke though so I'll let him have it. No idea if I'll ever use this speaker but at least there's the option to sell it for a bit of a profit. My dad got a $20 trumpet and my keys player got a $10 keyboard so we're pretty happy all up.

Neutrik Speakon NL-4 and 1/4" phone jack.

Only thing I can think of is when you rip in wmp you can set it to rip to mp3 in Options... that's a long way round but hey. Other than that I don't know.

[quote=Trigger_003;13686780]Haha $1100 off isn't too bad :)

<3 Billy Hydes. Camped out for their insane sale - awesome times right there. I was going for a $40 PRS but someone got in line before me for it. Nice bloke though so I'll let him have it. No idea if I'll ever use this speaker but at least there's the option to sell it for a bit of a profit. My dad got a $20 trumpet and my keys player got a $10 keyboard so we're pretty happy all up.

Neutrik Speakon NL-4 and 1/4" phone jack.

Only thing I can think of is when you rip in wmp you can set it to rip to mp3 in Options... that's a long way round but hey. Other than that I don't know.[/quote]

WTF??? You there????

Were you at Blackburn????

If so, I was the dude that turned up on Friday night, after travelling down to Melbourne and busking up $80 for the bass amp, but ended up settling for a pair of bongos (which my drummer ended up buying off me, even though I was probably going to give them to him anyway).

Heck yeah I was there. Oh man are you serious? No way were you going to get Nick's combo haha. My dad was the guy with "The List" down at the classical store - he says he remembers you. Depending on what time you got there, I was sitting down with my mate and dad down there holding Alicia's spot (at the front of the line down there) while she was holding mine up there with Nick and the rest of them.

Far out man. No way!

Yeah, your dad was the coolest guy there.

Me and another dude set up some pizza boxes in the middle of the road, and put an empty beer can on top of it.

A car collested them, and the can got wedged under the wheel.

The two guys in the car got out and walked towards us (we thought they were going to kill us) and asked where the guys that did it went, to which I quickly replied:

"Yeah man, they ran off around the corner."

Afterwards, your dad came up and we were expecting a lecture (I knew he was a school teacher). He ended up showing us some wire cutters and telling us how he was going to be up to mischeif...

Your dad is a god. I still intend to share a slab with him.

I actually remember introducing myself to you, except it never clicked that you were THE Trea.

I was wearing a leather jacket and had a guitar on my back.

Oh so you are the guys we were calling idiots for the pizza boxes then lol. We were a bit o.O'd about the fact that it was an L'plater that picked it up that's all, coz there's no telling how much experience he'd had driving.

Sneak me a few will ya? :p.

OH wait, I think... yeah, haha I remember thinking "I've seen that face before" but then being too tired to be stuffed thinking about it. You were there with another bloke weren't you? Maybe if I hadn't been half asleep I would've realised.
Haha go my bed (or street as it was) hair. That's scary you had to see me like that :p.

Yeah, that a Sash. I met him at Flemington Billy Hydes. I went there first, and there was nothing left, so we teamed up and went to Blackburn.

Hey, the pizza boxes weren't my idea. All I did was buy the pizza that was in them... and the beer that was in the can.

And I put the can on top of them.

But other than that it wasn't my idea.

Did your dad end up doing anything to those ladie's chairs???

Hey don't worry man, it's all good. I guess we were just worried for the guy particularly seeing he was only on his L's.

Haha I don't know. So you heard that whole story then? Man I hate those two ladies. They lied straightout to my dad after he had spent hours trying to talk to them nicely, helping her out even, and making sure everything was going to be as fair as possible. They were using emotional blackmail both to us and to the staff, and this is after coming across as a very strong christian. Contradiction and a half lol.

We managed to keep them out of the doorway the whole night but somehow they managed to push their way in about half an hour before, when some of them were off at McCafe and then of course we couldn't exactly feel correct in pushing them out of the way or fighting them for it lol. So yeah we tried talking them out of it but it was pretty much pointless, and Mike (if you met him) started gently pushing against her to get her to move, at which point she started fake crying and stuff :rolleyes:.

When the doors opened, Mike ran off in the other direction to me to go grab his Line 6 but it wasn't there. He was told it had already been taken even though he was the first one in the bass area. We think the ladies (who had been in all the stores talking to the staff across the Friday after all this blew up on thursday night) had asked to have it taken up to the table for them because they wouldn't be able to carry it in the rush or something. Anyway they ended up buying his line 6. So he was basically prettty angry and as us 2+ night campers were standing around talking afterwards, we saw him heading over to the ladies' car with some brake fluid. That's when we left.

Yeah, I met those ladies. When i first got there they seemed to be under the impression that I was a satanist or somthing. When I smiled and said 'hi' to one of them she pretended to not have heard me.

So yeah, my first impression of them was not a good one, so I decided not to really talk to them.

That's pretty sh!tty of them, especcially after Mike had lined up all that time. Particularly if they were buying it to send to a dude might not have even wanted it (it's a Line 6, after all).

Middle aged ladies with too much free time @ a sale = trouble.

Down at the drums end, we all ended up talking about physics, followed by religion, followed by philosophy. We came up with 2 new big bang theories and established that because all our atoms in our bodys were around at the time of the big bang, we were all brothers and sisters and we shouldn't hurt eachother (staying awake in front of a music store all night will do that).

One of the dudes was wearing a No-Idea t-shirt (they're from Ballarat), which was pretty cool.

I was tempted to see what happened down at the guitar end, but I had to get to band practice (which we ended up having in our bassist's driveway, but that's another story).


By the way, keep those JBLs. JBLs are pretty much the minimum you need for a reasonably large gig.

They're great for parties too. Loud enough to disturb the neighborhood, but no so loud that they'll blow people over the back fence.

You'll find in a few years, if you have speakers like that just 'lying around' people will love you... particularly me.

And we thought those crazy percussionists were only playing chicken and fighting :p. Nah that's cool man.

Guitar was sweet as and Orchestral was only fun coz my mate Derek was there. And dad every so often. Hah we were holding everyone's spots down there, making sure nobody jumped in from about noon Friday, and we kinda got bored so we somehow ended up rocking on our chairs making percussive sounds with the legs and blowing over the tops of our assortment of bottles, drinking out of them to try to get a nice dissonance happening.
Our music teacher drove past (fortunately not then) and sms'd us saying we looked like a pair of homeless people with nowhere to go :cool:.

They got pretty drunk up at guitar but that was only the same as the few nights before anyway haha. Thursday night (or more like friday morning actually) someone went home and brought back a full drum kit from who knows where and we played it for 4 hours straight. I feel sorry for the neighbours. Fun group up there.

I had to get to a rehearsal too. Though I can't say all 40 or so of us were crammed into a driveway.

Awesome. I need to line up some new gigs with D of S so I can test it out.

We got the finalised design for the 07 youthweek back from the designers yesterday arvo, so today was me being bloody hard at it trying to get the website done for a preamptive launch this friday.
I think we'll see if we can put off launching it 'till next friday tho, because the content still may take a while.

Hey dude, where abouts in Australia are you???

And what do you know about lighting?

My band decided today that we deperately need a lighting technician, and I happen to be the best one I know (which sucks, because I can't sing, play guitar and operate a lighting desk at the same time).

Would it be appropriate to post a track in here if I need someone to lay down a drum track that I could compile onto it?

Sure, but do it in the forum, not in this thread. Might have more luck trying over in the drum forum though.

Chris - design anything near as good as the other one?

Jase - the only lined up slab of Aussie without any surf. Sucker :p.
Haha you could try. There's no point in trying to per-program everything (or at least into sections) then quickly bringing one of your mates up to speed with a few basic steps in the alterations they have to do and letting them learn as they go is there?

Yeah. the ACT.
But hey.. come on now. It's only like a 2 hour drive to the beach where I am.

The design is great given the constraits they were given.

Sweet, hook me up when it's done for interest's sake.

Haha yeah, not much longer than it takes me :(.

I got a colleague of mine to put a teaser up online on Wednesday.
The site should be live (in a 'lite' version) next week sometime.

Trea - Nah, I tried programming entire songs into light jockey, then found that most venues we play in either:

a) don't have a compatible desk (you need a high end Axiom, minimum).

b) didn't have a spare phono - rca lead to run from the kick mic to the lighting desk that was long enough (I program our shows to follow the kick drum, so it doesn't look stupid if we play faster).

c) hire their lights, so if I was to come in to see how their lighting rig worked, then go home and program it, I'd come back to find that everything had changed.

d) the entire show would f*ck up if our drummer used his kick by accident between songs, or did a drum solo.

I've trying to teach friends, but their brains seem to pop whenever I go through how to do lighting shows:

"okay, you have faders and buttons, these are your front cans, these are your back lights, these are your rays, these are your blinders, this is to control the DMX, this is the add/kill button, don't touch the DBO button or the add/kill button if the DMX lights are running, make sure you turn your," *POP* "Oh dear, now your brain's exploded all over the dimmer rack, hold on while I turn the three phase off."

Chris will probably kill me for saying this, but it's easier to learn how to run a sound desk then to put on a lighting show, because learning to run lights properly is like learning another instrument, except the instrument changes how it's played and what it can do with each venue.

There's more to it than making everyone visible and having blue lights for quiet songs and red lights for loud songs.

Chris - bugger... throw an egg or two at parliment house for me though.

Haha that sounds great - you can abuse the House without getting arrested.

Yeah I understand how complex it is... just wasn't sure about the whole programming thing. Hope you find someone good for ya. I'd learn but it'd take me too long :p.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 10 minute walk to beach :p

I haven't been around too much lately, but me/other guitarist/drummer are going on a music shop hop in sydney tomorrow, should be fun :)

How is everyone?

I got mates who do theater production, and who work for Staging Connections, they know alot more about lighting as what i would.
I can't see it being too overly hard tho, plug em in and turn em on, for the most part. :)

I made a lighting pattern generator once. It can run up to 2400 watts across four channels that can be set to modulate along to the intensity of the music.
So like 600 watts for bass frequencies, 600 for low mids, 600 for high mids and 600 for highs.
Run the drum kits mics through it via a spare Aux of the mixer and it's like an automatic lighting rig that triggers itself along with what the drummer is doing. Handy to run spots and washes off.

I guess the only reason why it's restricted to 2400 watts at this stage is because that's it at the full 10 amps that it's safe to draw from a standard power socket. It could easilly be adapted to suit larger applications.

[url]http://www.dropbear.net/files/lights.gif[/url]

Ooo, look at all the pretty lines.

Sounds like fun.

I'm okay... other than my ankle haha. It's looking pretty artistic right about now, lovely shades of purple. I was helping dad with a hike camp at Wilson's Prom and on Monday I was going down a steep slope, some rocks and sticks moved, I twisted my ankle in 3 different directions then decided I should probably land on top of it (while carrying a heavy pack because those year 9s were complaining so I took some of their stuff into my pack to help out) just to make sure that I did some damage. I also chose to do this with 14km left to walk plus having to set up camp/dinner/etc.
So that was entertaining.

Owwww that sounds like a fantastic trip.

I sprained my ankle too the other day, me my drummer and another friend had a free period and became so bored that we started jumping from one seat to the next (like 4 seats facing each other in a square) and trying not to run into each other, i landed not so good one time :)

In Billy Hydes today i played the most beautiful strat i've ever come across. It sounded sooo good, i played it through a podxt live as that's what i'm looking at getting. But mann i want that guitar soo badly, bitta saving to do though. :p

Haha go crazy stuff that you know you're going to get hurt by eventually but really don't care.

What model/brand? On the net anywhere?

would i be able to get a decent drum sound from one sm57/other mic by itself?

Trea. Bad luck about the ankle... pics?
I love going walking. I used to walk quite alot when i was younger. Mainly around Kosciusko.
[QUOTE=Retrovertigo;13744364]would i be able to get a decent drum sound from one sm57/other mic by itself?[/QUOTE]
That's a hard one.
But you could get something semi-useable by positioning one mic at about head height behind the drummers left shoulder.

We record our drums with just 2 mics when we just record jamming. They are decent enough for that purpose, we have one for the kick and one overhead...our drummer is pretty loud especially on the snare though, experiment with an overhead position like where Chris suggested, and let your ears be your guide :)

Haha no, no pics.

Yeah Kosi is great :).

Drums. Yeah. Drums are good.
<_< I leave that aspect of recording up to my drummer lol.

[QUOTE=Aes820;13744778]That's a hard one.
But you could get something semi-useable by positioning one mic at about head height behind the drummers left shoulder.[/QUOTE]

definetaly not for a serious thing, but just a decent recording of my drums thats not distorted to all hell.

can a single mic handle that?

[quote=Aes820;13736538]I got mates who do theater production, and who work for Staging Connections, they know alot more about lighting as what i would.
I can't see it being too overly hard tho, plug em in and turn em on, for the most part. :)

I made a lighting pattern generator once. It can run up to 2400 watts across four channels that can be set to modulate along to the intensity of the music.
So like 600 watts for bass frequencies, 600 for low mids, 600 for high mids and 600 for highs.
Run the drum kits mics through it via a spare Aux of the mixer and it's like an automatic lighting rig that triggers itself along with what the drummer is doing. Handy to run spots and washes off.

I guess the only reason why it's restricted to 2400 watts at this stage is because that's it at the full 10 amps that it's safe to draw from a standard power socket. It could easilly be adapted to suit larger applications.

[url]http://www.dropbear.net/files/lights.gif[/url][/quote]


You may as well make a 32 amp one dude. If a venue has a dimmer rack, they'll have 3 phase, and since I guess you could replace a dimmer rack with this...

That sounds pretty friggen cool to me man, except I desperately want a lighting guy just because I don't want our shows to be repetivive in the way of lights.

Since I've started doing lights for some of our support bands, I've been trying to teach our drum tech what to do.

Looking to have the new youth week website live by COB today. Busy ironing out the last little creases.

I didn't see that post up there trea.

I haven't been able to find the exact model or any pics on the net, partly due to me not quiiite remembering exactly what model :p too in love with the sound.

But i think it was a Fender Classic Player Strat, maple fretboard, BEAUTIFUL paint job/pickguard, $2.8k

Haha go crazy expensive stuff that you know you're going to get upset by but really don't care. :p

Haha I'm like that but in a different way. I'm just too lame to actually go out and spend any of my money even though I can usually afford something I want. Dam[I]n[/I] I'm indecisive.

Hehe ah well at least its there when you find something you can't say no to :p

I haven't been up to too much lately, had composition due on thursday and i've got a performance next friday though its non assessable. Goshhh im mixing up my posts with this and the VCE/HSC thread.

Hows everyone been?

Haha nice work. Let me do it too (for the others):

VCE results are out. Study score of 49 for IPM, heck yeah!

Annnnnd! AYB is playing in the opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We're making a bit of a 2-week tour out of it as well.

That's awesome news about the 08 Olympics. Well done!

Thanks :D

Btw, for non-vic people, that 49 is out of 50, so it's pretty much the top 1% of the state or so xD.

That Guitar Kid
 

Hey, My name is Andrew and im from Florida. My main thing is guitar. I have been playing for alittle over 10 years. Ill admitt it, I'm a gearhead. I also play bass very well and a little bit of drums (working on that). I love to run live sound. I just love the rush it gives you and the pressure to make things work the first time. I also like engineering things for recording sessions. Not so much the producing that takes too much creative critical listening. I feel What you hear is what you get. Anyway enough of my rambling on. I just love to Jam.

Got a valve amp for christmas


am now in love with valve amps


:p