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Next time for sure Eric. Not sure if you remember but we did reach out to you but no shows locally while we were in town. We did see paper city hustlers at the conch house. They are very good!
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Oh yeah Mike! Next time for sure!
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I use ev stuff but agree Bose sounds better for most. If you just plug into it and don’t fiddle around, the Bose always sounds good. The EV requires more thought. I personally get a “better” sound for various things that I do because of it. But some people find that wildly annoying!
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Help me understand what this means. A few folks have mentioned similar quotes. Is the thought the built in mixer?
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When it comes to sound, we both agree that playing venues where we have to “blast through the din” are the least desirable so we try to avoid them. With all due respect, we don’t want or need excessive decibels. We are an acoustic duo playing amplified, not AC/DC. Anyway, if we can’t enjoy what we do the way we do it, what’s the point?
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The Bose most definitely has a preset sound to it. Even though there’s a low bass and treble setting on it, it always adds the “Bose sound.” The EV stuff sounds more like a regular PA system. If you don’t know what you’re doing you can really make something sound terrible. I see it a lot with people saying the guitar is feedbacking or their vocal is boomy. I notice a lot of the hobbyist guys or people who picked up a guitar in the past five years are the ones who really get into Bose. Also people who have a loooot of stuff to set up. I personally like the inputs on the ev systems and I also just like more adjustability for my sound.
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Got ya. I like a separate digital mixer for sound control. Was using a Bose TI now a UI 24. Just a heads up for folks using digital mixers. Bluetooth for just about all mixers suck. Better off with an old wireless router or plugged in directly.
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I saw a local duo a couple of weeks ago with a perfectly decent conventional system, a couple of JBLs or something on stands, totally okay mixer etc....and the acoustic guitar sounded like fingernails on a chalkboard, all icepicks. This was My Guitar But Worse. The pickup probably wasn't top-level but some attention to EQ and maybe another trick or two would have made it fine. I'm always asking my musician friends about levels, vocal/guitar balance and EQ at my events. |
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What I can say this is: when I see somebody show up with a "stick" system (usually a Bose, but others are becoming common now), I am almost always pleased with what I'm hearing. I tend to favor the Bose (I own the L1 Compact).
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I sold my big PA stuff last year and picked up an EV Evolve 50 for my Acoustic group. (3 singers and me on acoustic) we use a AH AS ZED10FX mixer and it sounds pretty good. A good mixer helps the ZED had excellent eq
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I certainly have no regrets about switching from Bose to EV columns. The sound is almost identical, but the ruggedness and simplicity of the EV is wonderful.
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The guy I'm in a duo with has a Bose stick. Best-sounding setup I've ever played through.
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Case in point, I got to see Ricky Skaggs last week in Luckenbach TX. They were inside in a smaller hall that probably seats 300? They were very good, of course, and quite entertaining. The overall sound was good. Vocals were nice and clear and punchy. But their guitarist, Jake Workman was buried in the mix. And for me, that was a shame because he's amazing. I could "see" the amazing things he was playing, but I couldn't really hear it. Bummer for me, but the audience didn't seem to notice or care. Every time he played an amazing solo that they couldn't hear, they applauded with gusto. That tells me people come to "see" a show and most aren't tuned in to the nuances of the mix like we musicians are.
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