From bobbysimons@verizon.net Thu Oct 11 08:15:53 2012
Subject:Re: OT Mixers and outputs

It's not like he's got nothing to do. There are the usual overall issues that need to be minded: a guitarist gets too loud, someone's not singing quite on his mike like he did at soundcheck and needs to be raised up, a guitarist gets too loud, the organ solo is coming up and needs to get goosed a bit to sit on top of the mix, a guitarist gets too loud, someone needs more or less of something in their monitor, you know how it goes. Not to mention, sometimes a guitarist gets too loud. But no need to micro-manage my keyboard mix, thank you.

On a slightly related matter (since 'outputs' is in the subject line): after a dozen years of criminally careless abuse, my Roland KC-500/550 (whatever it is) finally developed a bad crackle in the Line Outs that I think isn't worth fixing, it's all beat up anyway. I know there are some here who routinely and gleefully trash the Rolands but I've always liked them. After much back-and forth, I replaced it last week with the next one down, the KC-350. I've only used for one show so far, but I have to say it sounded great. I'm really liking the tone of 12" speaker for both the organ and piano patches, not to mention it being 15 lbs lighter. It's fewer watts, but I as I'm also always in the PA and that's what people are hearing, it's only for me. I have it close, on a tilt stand, and can barely turn it up past a quarter. The one nuisance is that it doesn't have the XLR Line Outs that it's big brother sported, they were convenient. But I'll probably velcro a stereo DI to the top of it and that will be that.
The only other amp Iooked at was the Hartke. I Iike the way the sound, the tilt enclosures and the lower price but a little leery of the aluminum cones and damn, those bad boys are heavy! Too bad, because I even have a Hartke t-shirt. Oh well.

On Oct 11, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Bill A wrote:

> That's exactly what I told our sound tech. I trust my ears for blending synth and piano better than his.

Bobby Simons
bobbysimons@verizon.net

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