What's a good wireless?

[Nitro Express]

Most of the guitarist in my bands played live with a wireless......if you can do it and it sounds good, why the fuck wouldn't you.
I mean really, having a grest tone is the bedrock of all great players and, I don't about you guys but most of the bars I played were either acoustically a mess, too much PA for the size of the place, cheap ass PA, any combination of the two or the sound man was a moron. So having a studio quality tone, while nice, would of never been noticed by the audience in the first place .

The best we went for was a great sound on stage.....meaning as a band, no one was drowning anyone else out and everyone's amps/drums were tuned/tweaked just right. The other shit you have little or no control over.

I just figure if you start to see them smiles and people heading to the dance floor you are doing your job, which is providing background noise while people try and get a piece of ass to take home.

[ZahZoo]

My problem with cables is people steal them. We played a talent show and man people were claiming my cables were theirs and then one band said our XLR cables were theirs. I said fuck it and bought a gold Dimarzio cable and nobody has one of those but me. End of argument and I put colored tape on my XLR's. One place we played at couldn't find their cables for their PA and then tried to take ours. It's crazy.

Get a gold or silver sharpie and paint a few stripes near your connectors on the cable... bright and easy to identify.

Plus you can go corksniffer and totally "Eric Johnson" on gear heads... put 3 stripes on 1 end and 2 on the other... then you can explain to drunk sudo-gear-nerds that you've tested all your cables and get superior tone because the electons flow better in one direction over another... "whoa... really dude?" Oh yeah... lol

[jhale667]

My problem with cables is people steal them.

That would suck. Never had that problem because most dudes don't show up with Monster cables...no way they could pull that off as a "mix-up" with their cheapies...

I just figure if you start to see them smiles and people heading to the dance floor you are doing your job, which is providing background noise while people try and get a piece of ass to take home.

And if you really play it right, you and the band are smiling as well while all the rest you mentioned is going on, and you get a piece to take home, too! Y'know, unless you show up already equipped with that...

[GAR]

Music people just aren't serious about music to have any money.

The justifications are numerous, and all of them fair.. to the justifyer:

"When I make it, I can own any cord/mic/effect I want"
"When I'm known, we'll look back on stealing the opener's cords and laff 'we were so broke we had to steal' because we 'did what we had to do' ."
"We stole that power amp over there from that ripoff club.. it's only fair after all."

Wrong, wrong and wrongo.

If you worked all summer for a power amp, you'll appreciate and use it more.
If you spent good money on your mic, you're going to pay closer attention to the quality of it, or the disquality and upgrade when you're ready.
If you don't ripoff clubs or other people, you don't risk the chance of getting caught.

I remember when Joey Vera ripped off Juan Crucier's alltube SVT, that Juan stole from Hoover High or whatever school.. after this one gig at Perkins' Palace, they're hanging out in the apartment with the fucking thing right there in the living room with the "H H" stenciled log on top of the head, and Juan and I think Blotzer comes knocking "uh yeah I came to get my head, motherfucker."

Vera goes, what do you mean are you accusing.. then looks at where Juan's pointing "yeah my head please. That right there. It's my amp."

See, you don't want to have to go thru this shit: and where is Armored Saint today? Are they ripping off other bands.. clubs.. bandmates.. no. They're nowhere.

My advice is always: buy good quality and appreciate it.

[kwame k]

I just figure if you start to see them smiles and people heading to the dance floor you are doing your job, which is providing background noise while people try and get a piece of ass to take home.

You got it!

[ELVIS]

Music people just aren't serious about music to have any money.

Says who ??

My advice is always: buy good quality and appreciate it.

Like plywood guitars ?

[Diamondjimi]

Projecting FAIL!

"When I make it, I can own any cord/mic/effect I want"
"When I'm known, we'll look back on stealing the opener's cords and laff 'we were so broke we had to steal' because we 'did what we had to do' ."
"We stole that power amp over there from that ripoff club.. it's only fair after all."

Wrong, wrong and wrongo.

Coming from an admitted band "saboteur" and scam artist, this furthers everyone's belief that you are a lying sack of assholes, with bi-polar issues bordering on Munchausen Syndrome.

And you bust on Hale for name dropping...

[GAR]

I do like the specs on the Shure unit http://www.shure.com/stellent/groups...less_en_ug.pdf but I don't know what one of the terms used is - "Image Rejection >70 dB, typical."

I know what it sounds like, I just need some kind of confirmation it's what I think it is: some type of reception demodulation?

How would I find out, email Shure for an explanation?

[GAR]

And you bust on Hale for name dropping...

Ho, then I shall go no further. And destroying other band's gear?

They were usually bands from out-of-state: "carpet-baggers" if you would. Fair game back when alls' fair yadda yadda and there was something to win.

There's nothing to win anymore in being a music act besides applause, so when everyone gets home from working their day-job the next day they will appreciate that their Twatter fan club joined up 2 new followers to their stupid blogs.

We are all now truly the same, great or suck. Or in your case, sucking greatly, you're still a peer unfortunatley on the inndernets.

[ELVIS]

Funny you can't even spell when actually posting your own thoughts...

[GAR]

My thoughts are rife with cookies, termites, and tinnitis so the typing hand has much to compete with okay..

[ELVIS]

I believe termites...

[GAR]

No cookie for you.

[ELVIS]

I don't want any...

[jhale667]

I do like the specs on the Shure unit http://www.shure.com/stellent/groups...less_en_ug.pdf but I don't know what one of the terms used is - "Image Rejection >70 dB, typical."

I know what it sounds like, I just need some kind of confirmation it's what I think it is: some type of reception demodulation?

How would I find out, email Shure for an explanation?

That's pretty much the upgraded version of the one the guy I worked for used. He had two transmitters running.

And yeah, I would email them.