Recent content by dafunkmonster

We just finished our production of Beauty and the Beast here. We had the Beast and Prince double-cast. We used a trapdoor to switch out the beast (heavy makeup and big mane) with the prince while he lay "dying" in Belle's arms. Belle actually held the Beast's cloak out in place while he...

+1 I use this a lot when I'm looking for raw recordings and don't have time to record them myself, or don't have the budget to buy full sfx.

I should also note, the HD 215's, while not as punchy in the low end as the HD 280s, still produce crisp accurate bass. For example, they can reproduce all four bass notes at the beginning of "I Put On" by Young Jeezy (One of my favorite bass test tracks). Out of curiosity, I once played that...

My friend owns a pair of Sennheiser HD 280's, and they're great. My ears don't fit comfortably inside them though, which is why I own a pair of HD 215's. They have a fairly flat response, and decent isolation. I can use them for mixing down effects, or for cuing tracks while DJing. They're...

Well, its about time for an update. Not more than three days after my last post, they started razing the building. Apparently, the backlash from alumni and students was not enough for the Alumni Association to halt the process. Anyhow, we're at least going to go forward with some...

Haha, yes, there's lots of WoW, not many girls, and a massive St. Pats celebration (from which I am still recovering). In fact, we get several days off school for it, and everyone basically parties for a week straight. I myself had to deal with setting up for, running, and DJ-ing for all of...

Here at my school, there is a local venue that is in danger of being torn down. It was built as a movie theater and finished in 1941, and has since been modified to function as a bar, club, and most recently, a small concert venue. The organization that has purchased it "looked at"...

It only takes 100mA to kill you. Once your skin burns through, your body has an internal resistance of roughly 500ohms. Muscle paralysis happens at 20mA, breathing stops at about 50-75mA. Now, 100mA through your hand (thumb to pinky) probably won't kill you. It will hurt like a b***h and...

:eh: I think what you've missed is this: Every device in the chain from signal origin to the amplifier has the ability to boost or attenuate the signal. As has already been stated (somewhere in this thread), you want to keep your signal at a level so that it is well above the noise floor...

Are they externally-powered or self-powered? I've watched people spend a half hour trying to troubleshoot self-powered stage monitors, only to figure out that it was an issue of the knobs on the back being set incorrectly...

Yes, if the amp is rated at 1000W under a 4ohm load, and you're running two 8ohm cabs in parallel, the amp will see a 4ohm load, and each cab will see 500W of power. In this configuration, you'll want to make sure that each speaker cab is rated for at least 500W RMS power. Don't confuse...

When I run into problems with burned discs not playing in cd players, the most common one is the disc type. CD-RW's almost never work on players older than a few years. Plain old CD-R's are the best way to go, no fancy colors or anything, and stay away from mixed-media burns. Mixing ISO data...

I'm curious, do you have any issues with it sounding too thin, or is it a pretty fair substitute for a microphone setup?

If you're just trying to identify the delays, then no, it wouldn't hurt anything to turn the mains off. Just don't push the delays. If you're unfamiliar with the system, I wouldn't touch the amp levels either.

Good lord, that's loud... I personally find that talent obsessed with personalized microphones are obnoxious talent...I once had a girl tell me her gold-spraypainted radioshack mic was better than my beta 58 because it was "prettier" and "had the sound she liked"...she about threw a fit when...