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Subject: Damned Mackie's
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Original Message 1/25 17-Jul-02 @ 12:53 AM - Damned Mackie's
What a pain in the ass. This party we played on Saturday had Mackie SRM450's set up for stage monitors. We played at 2:00 for a party that started at 10:00. The crap Mackie's shut themselves off at around 1:50 during the DJ set before ours. The DJ before us and the sound guy don't bother telling us. Later the guy that owned the system says they're notorious for this. After a few hours they get too hot and shut down!!! Other people at the party agreed, like it's a well known fact!
WTF!!!??? I see these monitors everywhere... Why the hell would everyone buy these things if this happens?
Anyway the set's not loud enough, everyone keeps telling me to turn it up, but I think the monitors are working so I figure the house PA is plenty loud because I CAN"T hear the monitors over the house... and figure the people telling me to turn it up are just high!!! None of the artists bothered to tell us we were too quiet it was the kids at the front of the dance floor...
So I think I'm pissed at the sound guy and MACKIE... No big deal... the show was successful and i finally did turn it up.
My question is, (took a long time I know) has anyone else encountered this with these top selling monitors? Or was I just surrounded by... well i better just leave it at that!
e
Message 2/25 17-Jul-02 @ 02:03 AM - RE: Damned Mackie's
If you are really hard up get a big old fridge, like a commercial fridge with no upper icebox, and rip off the door and all the outer pipes and compressor etc so it's a raw shell, cut a sheet of marine ply to fit in the door space and bolt it in and drop some 18" spekers into that - 100% yard stylee bass bin mate!!
use the mackies for the top end only and get a bloody great amp for the bass end and a crossover to split off the tops to the mackies.
or check the DT PA SECTION and build some boxes. (we added 18" bass boxe design recently cpurtesy of celestion UK - there's planty of others, and THAT is what you want, not this newfangled malerkee
Mate you want to go down carnival and checkout the boxes there. Sounds good to me.
or hire proper pa for your gigs - those mackies wont take hours of pounding clipping bass end I reckon.
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 3/25 17-Jul-02 @ 02:04 AM Edit: 17-Jul-02 | 02:06 AM - RE: Damned Mackie's
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 4/25 17-Jul-02 @ 05:15 AM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Message 5/25 17-Jul-02 @ 01:58 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Message 6/25 17-Jul-02 @ 02:25 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
We bought our own monitor setup. If nothing else, you'll always have something you know works.
-Craig
Message 7/25 17-Jul-02 @ 04:59 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Ape
Message 8/25 17-Jul-02 @ 05:03 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Message 9/25 17-Jul-02 @ 05:52 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Message 10/25 17-Jul-02 @ 06:21 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Marianne, I like the Yorkvilles, personally. Good combination of price and performance, pretty good sounding.
-Craig
Message 11/25 17-Jul-02 @ 07:12 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Message 12/25 17-Jul-02 @ 07:16 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Message 13/25 17-Jul-02 @ 07:17 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Message 14/25 17-Jul-02 @ 09:03 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
it's not like I was pissed, I was just surprised that he'd use them when he knew better!
The mix for the show was good (we recorded the set in line to the mixer so we know everything was good) just not loud enough for the first 2 tracks... pissed me off at the time. But we got respect!
e
Message 15/25 19-Jul-02 @ 08:47 AM - RE: Damned Mackie's
I dont wanna piss any dj's off but it seems that some are pre maddonnas somtimes. Get your in ego out of the clouds man! I was at an outdoor last weekend and some dj was waiting for our set to be over and he keeps comin up to us and demanding that we finnish cuz he wants to play. And it was OUR party, then he starts scratchin over our shit like it will make it better. I had to tell him 5 times to get the out. I found out he wasnt even on the set list.
As a party person I owe alot to good dj's and they do alot of cool things that require some talent, but lest we forget, most dont in produce shit. You spin records, your not a god!
Jesse
Message 16/25 19-Jul-02 @ 11:06 AM - RE: Damned Mackie's
SHIIIIIT. most of the time? fuck yes
as for the duct tape limiter...god DAMN that made me laugh!
Message 19/25 22-Jul-02 @ 09:30 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Message 20/25 23-Jul-02 @ 03:12 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
Message 23/25 02-Aug-02 @ 08:34 PM - RE: Damned Mackie's
"The brown acid is... Good?!?"
And so it was
-Craig
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