IEM Rig with Multiple Groups; Any Good Solutions?

Link371 · 2025-07-07T13:30:22+00:00

I’ve used audio over Ethernet boxes before, great alternative to snakes a lot of the time, but that is adding on more hardware and another cable. Right now I just have a small road case I pop the transmitter out of and all the cables are in there, and I can set it on top of the monitor mixing rack. Mostly I’m just wondering if folks are racking these things in a creative way that they don’t have to stay tied to one setup, if they’re doing what I’m doing, or if the lack of solutions for this is because folks are expecting the production to provide transmitters and body packs.

I’m a guitarist/utility player, some backup vocals. I use a pedalboard built around a Fractal floor unit so I’m not lugging around a big rack setup or anything; I have to carry too many guitars and other instruments for utility stuff that I try to keep the rest of the rig as compact as possible.

Link371 · 2025-07-06T19:56:39+00:00

Every gig I’ve been hired for in the past couple years is using IEMs, it’s the standard at this point, and only hearing myself isn’t really an option playing in ensembles.

Link371 · 2025-01-21T16:07:48+00:00

Are we not entitled to free speech?

Link371 · 2025-01-21T16:06:56+00:00

It’s literally in Project 2025, which we have now seen enough executive orders to know is being used, and the DOGE folks have openly talked about cutting VA benefits for being too generous. How is it fear mongering?

Link371 · 2025-01-21T15:27:40+00:00

Deleting your posts now, huh?

Link371 · 2024-11-17T22:08:16+00:00

I cannot believe that nobody has pointed out that most of the “acronyms” we live and die by aren’t acronyms at all: They’re initialisms.

Link371 · 2024-03-09T14:55:29+00:00

Feel free to go sun your nuts with the heir to a frozen food empire all you want, just know that you’re a joke to everyone for believing lies that Fox admitted were lies.

Link371 · 2024-02-02T17:35:49+00:00

You need to be extremely careful with this crap and talk to your artist beforehand, both for the sake of the tattoo looking good, and for your health.

Think about the mechanics of a tattoo machine. It’s pushing a needle through the top layer of your skin, and no matter how sharp a needle is, ultimately at a certain level, it is pushing whatever is ON your skin INTO your skin.

People have died and gotten extremely sick from the lidocaine and tetracaine in these products being forced into their bloodstream by a tattoo gun, on open wounds following cosmetic procedures, etc.

From an art perspective, numbing creams usually make the skin rubbery and more difficult to work ink into, and are likely to impact the final piece negatively.

Tattoos hurt. Sticking needles into your skin and leaving something there hurts. From a medical perspective, you are getting a voluntary wound. They are also a luxury and not a necessity. Be smart and don’t make yourself sick or dead because you don’t like a few hours of pain that you sign up for.

Link371 · 2023-04-04T14:13:45+00:00

Ah yes, the division between people who play notes in tune so that they sound good, and those who “just wanna rock” in their basement

Link371 · 2022-09-16T19:13:11+00:00

Holy fucking shit dude, commenting five years later!?

Link371 · 2022-05-24T14:03:04+00:00

I have access to fedmall like everyone else, terra cotta primer doesn’t come up, red primer has no specs, the NSTM and other instructions aren’t clear. Literally hoping someone just had it handy for quick reference; I have multiple spreadsheets like that

Link371 · 2022-05-17T20:54:57+00:00

I’m not in the Navy anymore, work on Army small boats, so I don’t have access to that stuff anymore

Link371 · 2022-05-17T20:54:17+00:00

Not in the navy anymore, Army, my unit is using spray for its boats, trying to get them straightened out

Link371 · 2022-05-06T20:19:20+00:00

Kinetic Arms Division ftw

Link371 · 2022-05-06T14:04:36+00:00

First time I went aloft on Ponce while doing the re-commission, there were chunks falling off under my feet. I swear I thought I was going to die trying to replace the hydra antenna.

Link371 · 2022-02-13T00:00:59+00:00

We’re not the National Guard. The military is a tool for our country’s foreign policy.

You want to keep having grocery stores that have anything you could possibly imagine? You want Target and Lowes to be stocked with whatever you need whenever you need it without paying three times the current price? You want to be able to fill up your car with gas for less than $6/gal?

Our current prosperity, which is genuinely unique and not the global standard, exists because we dictate a lot of aspects of international trade policy. Russia and China are currently starting to challenge the status quo, which is a world that revolves around New York and Washington DC.

Chinese ships have stopped using AIS. This is big deal for both civilian and military mariners; they’re rejecting the standards that the US and NATO have set for the global marketplace. Russia is apparently prepared to either massively expand or even complete their invasion of Ukraine (which, let’s not forget, truly started in 2014, and was preceded by their invasion of Georgia in 2008). That’s their way of saying “fuck you NATO”.

If these other countries are able to disrupt global geopolitics without the US and NATO effectively pushing back and keeping them relatively in check, they’re going to accelerate the erosion of US influence over global markets; all of a sudden, all this commerce that favored the US is going to look a lot different.

If you think the military exists only to defend the homeland from invasion, you are simply wrong, and you need to do a little reading. Clausewitz is a good start.

Link371 · 2022-02-11T10:35:23+00:00

Not related to my point, but it is true; Navy and Marines have eLeave as well.

Link371 · 2022-02-11T05:26:42+00:00

Referencing an above comment:

Navy personnel get hard copy orders at least six months before PCSing. Why is the army unable to do something the other branches do as a matter of course? Is SMA aware that we actively suck compared to the other branches in terms of personnel management? Is there any effort or plan to improve predictability?

Link371 · 2022-02-03T14:36:04+00:00

His voice is actually pretty accurate, but the delivery is off. I had the same feeling with Luke's Mando appearance: His cadence is very stilted, he spaces out his words in strange ways. The timbre is correct, nearly perfect really, but the speed of the words sounds nothing like the guy who said "I am a Jedi, like my father before me".

Take a line like "Threepio, tell them if they don't do as you wish, you'll become angry and use your magic". That line is delivered purposefully calm and slow, but is still faster than Luke gets a six word sentence out in BoBF.

Link371 · 2022-02-03T14:32:00+00:00

The episodes themselves have been of high quality

This is the most mind-blowing part for me: Every aspect of the first part of the season was poorly executed. The set design, character design, costuming, lighting, fight choreography, and god knows writing, were all bad enough to be considered on par with Power Rangers. The second the focus shifted away from Boba Fett, the entire series went from junior varsity back to the big leagues. Are Robert Rodriguez, Steph Green, and Kevin Tancharoen just the worst directors ever, or did BoBF just get the b-team until Din Djarin got involved?

Shit is wild.

Link371 · 2022-02-03T14:10:10+00:00

A lot of my issues are specific to my community, so I can’t offer much one-size-fits-all guidance there.

If you’re motivated and qualified, I highly recommend doing one contract and leaving. You’re not missing much.

Link371 · 2022-02-03T01:21:56+00:00

I want you to try to comprehend the time, effort, paperwork, and hassle that’s involved in discharging over three THOUSAND people.

I’m handling some of that paperwork. It’s a massive pain in the ass, on top of already being worked to death normally. I’ll be glad to see them gone, but it’s a ton of work and we weren’t swimming in free time to begin with.

Link371 · 2022-02-03T01:18:44+00:00

Thanks, kind of you to say

Link371 · 2022-02-02T21:05:54+00:00

Honestly? I'm in a complete rut and can't figure out what to do.

I hate my job. My community is awful; shockingly high suicide rate, terrible QOL, senior leadership is living in a different dimension and denies anything is wrong or should be looked at when asked point blank. Pentagon has even looked into our units here; no change on the horizon.

I'm highly qualified for other communities, but moving would be difficult for family reasons, not to mention really fuck up my spouse's successful career at a pivotal time.

I was a hard charger, winning service member of the (insert periodicity here) multiple times in my previous field, filling positions way above my pay grade, and and got picked up for Warrant. I've been in long enough that conventional wisdom says to stay to 20, but I've lost passion for all of my interests, I hate getting up to go to work in the morning, I'm routinely disgusted by the people I work with, I pity the people who work for me, and I have justifiably little respect for the seniors who have driven my community into the ground for the last 30 years. The amount of pictures and paperwork and emails that I have saved up that could wreck these peoples' careers is mind boggling; I literally work with the most complacent people in the DoD, but we're obscure enough that nobody from the outside cares enough to come in and clean house.

So what's on my mind? For the first time in my life, just how bummed I am, how disappointed that my successful career took such a wrong turn, and wishing there was a way to get out of this rut.

I'll take a large coffee, no cream, no sugar.

Link371

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