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Hey guys, I am trying to upgrade some shit. Another all in one, giant fucking question for you guys. My band will be touring next summer (recording got in the way this summer) and we are trying to get everything we need to have a perfect, flawless tour with no equipment failing at all and without any issues. I realize this is impossible, but we have a bunch of time to prepare and test out our rigs on upcoming shows, show were gonna give it a damn shot 
. At the moment we have an alright setup, good instruments and gear, but it's the small stuff now. I'll give you the idea of our situation, don't mind the fact that this may be the longest OP in the history of this forum, nay, any forum.
We have good gear but need to kind of get our guitars and bass stuff to mesh together and make that wall of sound. Do you suggest just sitting down to take the time to re-EQ our amps and find placing correctly to get that sound awesome?
We need to flight case everything, we kind of want to have our heads, cabs, rack shit and shelves for pedals and chords all in one case per rig (should be 3 in total, 2 guitars 1 bass, and we're not into building that stuff), so you guys got suggestions for something like that, or close?
We have wireless for instruments, we have the traditional crabcore boxes, we have mics, we have mic stands, etc... We don't have mics to mic our cabs, do we need that stuff or does the venue generally handle that stuff?
I recently asked in another thread about lights, and after taking the opinions from that thread and my own research I'm thinking about these: http://www.usedlighting.com/14206/aiwei ... oving-head, on top of the par 36's we have mounted on PA stands to point up at our banner behind our drummer when we get one (more on that later), and ones mounted under our boxes up front to provide accent lighting, are those good? I realize their cheap, but we're fine with that.
Can you guys suggest some strobes? Or would that be overkill?
Can you guys suggest a dmx controller and program to accompany it to set a synced, specific light show?
Back to the banner thing, we have a placeholder logo right now, but we need some nicer stuff, do you guys know any graphic design artists that would be good for a metal logo somewhat like Adestria's, and be in for doing shirt designs in the future?
We also need to get some banners themselves made up, we may know someone for that, but suggestions are welcome. We are looking for 4 banners, 2 small ones to put in front of our rigs on each side, one for behind the drummer, one for the merch, all set up inside of that pvc-piping type stuff.
Do we need our own drum mics?
HOW TO WE GET THIS STUFF SET UP QUICKLY?
And on to the big one(s) (as if the stuff above wasn't enough
We are looking to possibly buy a laptop for the band use only, as we currently do not have a synth player to spend all his money on that stuff. Ultimate goal: Laptop runs light show, backing tracks, click tracks, possibly triggers for kick on drum kit. I am thinking a pimped out Mac Mini, with high ram and shit, SSD hard drive (particularly good for touring) and some random shitty screen to put the stuff on. But it's even more setup time for keyboard and mouse and stuff, but that's all pre-set stuff we can handle. Give your opinions riiiiight...... now.
We need suggestions for in ear monitors, preferably one receiver with multiple bodypacks, so as to save money. The issue with this is that we need to try to have vocals in there too, as this is one of the main reasons for trying to get in-ears, because vocal harmonies become substantially easier when you hear what you are singing. So this is my thoughts on it, vocals -> input of fast track ultra 8r -> laptop -> output of fast track ultra 8r (with 8 outputs) -> all three (click, backing track, vocals) go to DI boxes, but backing tracks and vocals go through THRU on the DI boxes to the FOH -> all go to mini PA (4-5 inputs, as compact as possible, probably will be rackmounted on a shelf or something), where levels are controlled for everyone -> one output to in-ear wireless system -> separate bodypacks for each person, including drummer. After some moderately extensive research, this appears to be the best possible way for us, because I am EXTREMELY wary of 99% of sound guys (if there even is one, which sometimes there is not), so this gives all control to us. As long as the computer can handle the processing power, this shouldn't be an issue. Let me know your opinions on that setup. We need to find the in-ears that send out the same signal to multiple bodypacks. From my understanding of how the hell wireless frequencies work, any in-ears should be able to do this as long as they have matching bodypacks and stuff, but I want to make sure. I was thinking of these, nothing too expensive: http://www.zzounds.com/item--NDYPEM1000. Or these, slightly more expensive: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004Z5BEV0?tag=get.comq-20.
How would you go about setting up such a complicated setup so fast? HOW? I don't want extra people on tour. We went over our setup time with our current setup, so suggestions are definitely welcome.
I think that's it. Not too much, right?
. Sorry for the probably pretty close to the 60,000 character limit message, but these all had to be asked at some point, might as well ask them all at once. Feel free to only answer one or two, I don't want anyone to feel obligated to answer all of these questions. That may take years. Thanks in advance!
. At the moment we have an alright setup, good instruments and gear, but it's the small stuff now. I'll give you the idea of our situation, don't mind the fact that this may be the longest OP in the history of this forum, nay, any forum.We have good gear but need to kind of get our guitars and bass stuff to mesh together and make that wall of sound. Do you suggest just sitting down to take the time to re-EQ our amps and find placing correctly to get that sound awesome?
We need to flight case everything, we kind of want to have our heads, cabs, rack shit and shelves for pedals and chords all in one case per rig (should be 3 in total, 2 guitars 1 bass, and we're not into building that stuff), so you guys got suggestions for something like that, or close?
We have wireless for instruments, we have the traditional crabcore boxes, we have mics, we have mic stands, etc... We don't have mics to mic our cabs, do we need that stuff or does the venue generally handle that stuff?
I recently asked in another thread about lights, and after taking the opinions from that thread and my own research I'm thinking about these: http://www.usedlighting.com/14206/aiwei ... oving-head, on top of the par 36's we have mounted on PA stands to point up at our banner behind our drummer when we get one (more on that later), and ones mounted under our boxes up front to provide accent lighting, are those good? I realize their cheap, but we're fine with that.
Can you guys suggest some strobes? Or would that be overkill?
Can you guys suggest a dmx controller and program to accompany it to set a synced, specific light show?
Back to the banner thing, we have a placeholder logo right now, but we need some nicer stuff, do you guys know any graphic design artists that would be good for a metal logo somewhat like Adestria's, and be in for doing shirt designs in the future?
We also need to get some banners themselves made up, we may know someone for that, but suggestions are welcome. We are looking for 4 banners, 2 small ones to put in front of our rigs on each side, one for behind the drummer, one for the merch, all set up inside of that pvc-piping type stuff.
Do we need our own drum mics?
HOW TO WE GET THIS STUFF SET UP QUICKLY?
And on to the big one(s) (as if the stuff above wasn't enough
We are looking to possibly buy a laptop for the band use only, as we currently do not have a synth player to spend all his money on that stuff. Ultimate goal: Laptop runs light show, backing tracks, click tracks, possibly triggers for kick on drum kit. I am thinking a pimped out Mac Mini, with high ram and shit, SSD hard drive (particularly good for touring) and some random shitty screen to put the stuff on. But it's even more setup time for keyboard and mouse and stuff, but that's all pre-set stuff we can handle. Give your opinions riiiiight...... now.We need suggestions for in ear monitors, preferably one receiver with multiple bodypacks, so as to save money. The issue with this is that we need to try to have vocals in there too, as this is one of the main reasons for trying to get in-ears, because vocal harmonies become substantially easier when you hear what you are singing. So this is my thoughts on it, vocals -> input of fast track ultra 8r -> laptop -> output of fast track ultra 8r (with 8 outputs) -> all three (click, backing track, vocals) go to DI boxes, but backing tracks and vocals go through THRU on the DI boxes to the FOH -> all go to mini PA (4-5 inputs, as compact as possible, probably will be rackmounted on a shelf or something), where levels are controlled for everyone -> one output to in-ear wireless system -> separate bodypacks for each person, including drummer. After some moderately extensive research, this appears to be the best possible way for us, because I am EXTREMELY wary of 99% of sound guys (if there even is one, which sometimes there is not), so this gives all control to us. As long as the computer can handle the processing power, this shouldn't be an issue. Let me know your opinions on that setup. We need to find the in-ears that send out the same signal to multiple bodypacks. From my understanding of how the hell wireless frequencies work, any in-ears should be able to do this as long as they have matching bodypacks and stuff, but I want to make sure. I was thinking of these, nothing too expensive: http://www.zzounds.com/item--NDYPEM1000. Or these, slightly more expensive: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004Z5BEV0?tag=get.comq-20.
How would you go about setting up such a complicated setup so fast? HOW? I don't want extra people on tour. We went over our setup time with our current setup, so suggestions are definitely welcome.
I think that's it. Not too much, right?
. Sorry for the probably pretty close to the 60,000 character limit message, but these all had to be asked at some point, might as well ask them all at once. Feel free to only answer one or two, I don't want anyone to feel obligated to answer all of these questions. That may take years. Thanks in advance!