intyra
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Re the Thomann t.bone headsets – we bought 20 of these recently. They are:
- Obviously from the same factory as the CPC headsets
- A slightly pinker colour than their CPC comrades
- Slightly more durable and comfortable than the CPC equivalent; they are able to be resized more easily
- Worse sounding than the CPC equivalent; specifically, all of ours have significant hiss and sound more muffled compared to the CPC equivalents
In summary I'd avoid them. For a similar price the Pulse / CPC headsets are significantly better in terms of sound quality, albeit somewhat less durable.
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We have a Yamaha MTX5-D which we're considering replacing due to age (and various other reasons; servicing, parts and accessories are tricky), probably with an Allen & Heath AHM-64 with a Dante card installed.
Are there any other good options I should be looking at? We need at least 12 analog outputs on the processor (to drive left, right, center cluster, sub, fills, delays, surrounds, hearing loop, etc) and a handful of analog inputs (our show relay mics are routed through it), plus about 16x16 of Dante I/O, along with the usual trimmings of EQ, limiting, etc.
I've considered QSC Q-Sys but it seems both overkill and rather expensive for what we're doing. Would love to know if I'm missing an obvious contender.
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Thanks for the advice, all. It was a bit of a thought experiment to be honest – we’ve decided to keep everything comms-related analog for now, but move our stage pickup / induction loop / dressing room feed onto Dante.
The cost (and complexity) of a system like Green-Go or Bolero is just too much to justify in a small venue!
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I only really listen to tracks after tuning a system to a known quantity using pink noise (and Smaart traces).
Listening to a song that you know really well will verify you've tuned the system well. I don't think that trying to tune a system to a track is an effective way of getting a consistent and repeatable result, which has to be the number one thing you're looking for when tuning PA.
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The vast majority of our venue's sound infrastructure has moved over to being Dante-driven in the past few years, but we maintain a few analog XLR lines between FOH and stage purely for sending (Tecpro) comms over.
Is there a good way of converting these lines to the digital realm? We can easily move our stage pickup onto Dante using e.g. a Sonifex DIO9 and AVIO converters, but it seems like to get the actual comms network over there we'd need to move to something like Green-Go, which is a bit more of an endeavour cost-wise.
Tool for 3.5mm Jack Sockets
in General Technical Chat
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You’re looking for a “knurled nut driver”. They’re quite difficult to find.
These should do it, but seemingly out of stock until January: https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/thonk-knurled-nut-driver/