If you think that's pushing it too close, for only about $150 more, you could up it to the EON515 which is considerably more powerful at 625W.

Yep that's right, usually around the 150-200 capacity.

I have been looking at the whole JBL range under $1200.

Boy that's light weight for 15" speakers - 32.5pounds (under 15kg's)!

The more I think about it, the more I think I'd prefer either these, the QSC's or the EV's and will have to buy one at a time. So I guess it's a matter of working out which brand I go for by some comaprisons.

I get what you mean about the matching of the FOH speakers, though as you said it is highly unlikely anyone (except a very small % of the population, yourself included!) would notice.

I've played gigs where I know the sound has been absolute crap and people were raving about it afterwards (in a positive way!). I just shake my head and think wtf were they hearing!

Thanks for all of the advice, I really appreciate it.

No problem man, keep me posted with your progress. I'd be curious to hear what you end up going with.

I know it's been a thousand years since I posted etc but I ended getting the Allen and Heath Zed 12fx and the Electro Voice ELX112P (two for FOH).

I've had the EV's for a month or so now and love them. Really solid sound at all sound levels, which is really important for me, as I play a range of venues from quiet restaurants to larger loud pubs and clubs. My previous setup was quite horrid at all but high levels.

The Allen and Heath desk only arrived today and I just did a quick session to test it out. I still have a bit of tweaking to get it to the sound I want and need, but I am sure it will be good.

My foldback was peaking out a bit and I just need to resolve that, as I need it to be able to put out good volume at some of the venues I play at, without cutting out due to sound/volume limiting. That seemd to be happening a bit at first trial.

Anyway it's good to see the Studio find a home and I hope to back posting a bit more too.

Cheers.

Welcome back. Sounds like you are pretty well setup now, glad to hear it. I've always been a fan of the A&H stuff.

Proper gain staging is the key to getting a solid foldback.

Haven't posted in awhile either, but I have a "story" that I find rather funny.

Decided to pick up the Universal Audio Apollo after hearing nothing but great things about it. I wanted to use that as the basis for a full revamping of a smaller studio in my garage.

Put it in the rack, looks amazing. Went to install the software and it turns out that I needed to have 10.6.8+, and I had 10.5.8. No big deal. Did the upgrade, and was ready to go. Oh yeah, I have Pro Tools 8 on that computer.

So, now it's been 2 weeks and I haven't even had a chance to use it because I need to have Pro Tools 9+, and I might as well go all the way to 10. Won't be able to use it for another week.

BOOOOOO!!!!

Cheers!

Yeah I haven't upgraded gear in over a decade, so totally due.

I think the A&H gear you get some quality gear at affordable prices at their entry level. Obvioulsy you get some trickle down effect from their high end gear in the technology and design they put into it.

I mean everything is getting manufactured in China (Asia) now, so I guess they have their **** together.

So any tips on getting that balance with high enough gain without feedback?

I mean I have read tips on dialing it up to the point of feedback and then just pulling it back a fraction. The problem with this is I play so many different rooms it's not always that simple.

One venue has a timber stage (a permanent structure which is solid timber flooring and sides but floated above the main concrete flooring) and it just produces this rolling feedback periodically throughout the night. I assume it's a vibrational thing, so I tried getting the foldback up off the floor. It seemed to improve it, but far from perfect.

They obviously want to keep us all in the "Technology Loop"!

I have been using a 2006 version of Cubase for the last 5 years as I realised for what I want and need if it worked in 2006 it will work in 2012.

Obviously new technology is great and things are improved, but I think the basic foundation of Audio Software hasn't changed much in that time (I could be totally wrong and will stand corrected there).

As an example I got Sonar bundled with my A&H desk and I had Home Studio back in 2004 and apart from a nicer looking interface I just think it's much the same.

I think making software backwards compatible is something very doable, but maybe not attractive enough to the companies involved.

I remember the same issue with Direct X many years ago and whilst it wasn't a $ issue, as you could get it free, I had dial up and it was always a monster file that took like 20 hours to DL and they updated it constantly (whine over!).

It doesn't bother me at all that they require these upgrades, even when they cost a lot. I'm not too happy with myself for not researching that I'd need those, but that's my fault. That's the game and I get it.

There has been a huge change in the quality of the higher end stuff. And Pro Tools has only gotten better and easier to use. Especially the MIDI, but I don't do much of that. PT9 was kinda BS though when it first came out. It was supposed to be standalone and you were supposed to be able to use any interface you wanted, but without doing some weird hacky stuff, you couldn't use older PT interfaces with newer PT. I set up a friends studio and they had an 002 and an original M-box and couldn't use either for awhile.

I still have a Mix 24 PT setup at my main studio (pics in this thread) and that is from the early 2000's. Works just fine and it can run 24in/24out simultaneously. I'm hoping to upgrade that one soon, but it's running like a beast for the 6 years it's been running, and for however many years it was running before that.

I'm in the same boat with my personal computer. I just have a mobile rig on a MacBook Pro but it's still on 10.5.8 as well. Want to upgrade, just haven't really had the need to on that one yet. I'm using PT10 on a Mac Pro at work though and I really dig it. The clip gain and timeline cache features are probably my 2 favorite additions.

This kind of falls into the whole "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" territory. That's sort of the mentality I've had with my above mentioned mobile rig. It runs like a charm and I don't really want to mess with it since it's so stable. Eventually, it's all gotta upgrade though. Gotta love the rapidly moving world of technology.

It's getting to the point where I want to upgrade specifically because when the system goes down for it's last time, we won't know until it's too late. We won't lose anything since it's all backed up and I don't mix in PT or use plug-ins, but there are times where I expect an implosion based on how it reacts when I hit play sometimes.

Anyone in here use Amplitube?

I got the Amplitube 3 Free bundled with my mixer and it has 50 included credits for effects/amps/cabs etc.

I have already "purchased" an amp/cab combination based on a Supro and a Silvertone and am pretty happy with the sound.

I was just wondering if any users have recommendations on good effects or amps. There is a 2 day trial on each plug in, which is a good concept imo.

Cheers

Have used it, yes, but not enough to make any good recommendations. Guitar Rig is pretty bad ass too.

Have you used it enough to say if something like Guitar Rig kills it in terms of quality of modelling etc, or is it pretty well much of a muchness?

It's just that I could get away with spending a 1/4 of the $$ with using Amplitube compared with GuitarRig.

hey guise

looking at getting an acoustic guitar

i know lots about electrics, not much about acoustics.

want a single cutaway

what are the good brands, Taylor, Martin, Takamine?

any recommendations in the 300-500 range?

type of music would be blues/classic rock ish (think Clapton unplugged)