pstamler
Well-known member
Hi folks:
So tonight I'm running sound at the local folk club and since their main mixer is out on a different gig I bring in my 12-in Yamaha board. I'm running through a Rane 23-band EQ and a Parasound power amp (via transformer). I plug everything in and turn it on, and say my usual One-Twos through the mic, and it sounds like somebody has cranked the treble way the hell up. (I'm using an E-V RE15 microphone, which is pretty damn flat.)
So I finish setting up, and the musicians get there and start talking and doing sound check, and it's still sounding bright as hell. I check the house curve -- it's absolutely standard. So I shrug, turn the treble EQ down on the channel strips, we finish sound check and I go drink coffee.
Showtime comes...and the brightness is almost gone; by the midbreak it's completely gone. And it stays gone for the entire second half of the show.
Look, I know gear takes some time to warm up when it hasn't been used for a while. But I used the Yamaha two weeks ago. Do the caps deform that fast??
I've heard stuff like this happen when I hadn't used the Yamaha in several months, but not when I'd used it 2 weeks ago, fer cryin' out loud.
Weird. But I know what I'm burning in for 24 hours before the next time I use it.
Peace,
Paul
(PS. Perhaps the problem was the Parasound, but I *think* they use that pretty regularly. And I know the Rane stuff is used every weekend.)
So tonight I'm running sound at the local folk club and since their main mixer is out on a different gig I bring in my 12-in Yamaha board. I'm running through a Rane 23-band EQ and a Parasound power amp (via transformer). I plug everything in and turn it on, and say my usual One-Twos through the mic, and it sounds like somebody has cranked the treble way the hell up. (I'm using an E-V RE15 microphone, which is pretty damn flat.)
So I finish setting up, and the musicians get there and start talking and doing sound check, and it's still sounding bright as hell. I check the house curve -- it's absolutely standard. So I shrug, turn the treble EQ down on the channel strips, we finish sound check and I go drink coffee.
Showtime comes...and the brightness is almost gone; by the midbreak it's completely gone. And it stays gone for the entire second half of the show.
Look, I know gear takes some time to warm up when it hasn't been used for a while. But I used the Yamaha two weeks ago. Do the caps deform that fast??
I've heard stuff like this happen when I hadn't used the Yamaha in several months, but not when I'd used it 2 weeks ago, fer cryin' out loud.
Weird. But I know what I'm burning in for 24 hours before the next time I use it.
Peace,
Paul
(PS. Perhaps the problem was the Parasound, but I *think* they use that pretty regularly. And I know the Rane stuff is used every weekend.)