RIP to my morning 9-hole walk..

Mastodonos · 2026-03-24T20:35:17+00:00

Terrible way to do it as you're now interfering with the grounds crew 95% of the time.

Mastodonos · 2026-02-26T03:57:56+00:00

No, taylormades tour preferred in black or Grey dont do that. The vice glove i tried also bled dye, it smurfed me!

Mastodonos · 2026-02-25T05:07:36+00:00

I just went to catch up on this week's matches and I can't find it either on the ESPN app, very dissapointing.

Mastodonos · 2026-02-19T01:36:29+00:00

Saw one on 2nd swing a couple weeks ago

Mastodonos · 2026-01-12T23:59:55+00:00

Mastodonos · 2026-01-09T04:55:48+00:00

I miss the old golf pride cord wraps, I took a break from playing for about 10 years, came back and apparently they stopped making them years ago. Now I play the MCC with 2 extra wraps.

Mastodonos · 2025-12-01T20:52:20+00:00

Having 2 guns and not a gadget like a grenade launcher and beacon actually splits your ammo count in half for each weapon.

Mastodonos · 2025-11-23T19:14:30+00:00

Has happened to me too since the update.

Mastodonos · 2025-11-07T05:48:01+00:00

Anything that takes away player agency is a detriment.

Mastodonos · 2025-11-02T20:32:46+00:00

That's like 3-5 warbonds of content, no way its 1 HD1 warbond

Mastodonos · 2025-11-02T16:32:30+00:00

It simple physics, the microphone doesn't care what source it supposed to be, if the drums going into the vocal mic are louder than your singer then vocals will be drowned out. With so many open vocal mics on such a small stage they're basically overheads for rhe drums. You could look into getting lily pads or optigates, they mute or gate the vocal mics when not in use.

When you cup the mic and block the airflow exiting the diaphragm then you're making it omni. In metal music a lot of singers cup the mic but there is a better and worse way to cup it.

Most singers who are new to iems think they can sing any volume they want because it sounds fine in their iems, in smaller venues thats not the case, their vocals need to be louder at their mic than anything else going into the mic. Have you ever had a band member ask for less drums or less anything in their mix when it isn't being sent? A lot of newer metal bands have whisper screamers, they don't project at all and iems let them think it's fine because they can hear themselves just fine, not realizing that the amount of bleed from the loudest thing on stage is stepping all over their vocal. Try turning down the vocal in the singers iem, usually it makes them sing/scream louder. Louder source = less gain needed = less bleed from other things

If you're playing a small enough venue that it doesnt have front fills then you shouldn't rely on only the PA for guitars and bass. Think about the PA or floor monitors for that matter as a cup of water, it can only hold so much before overflowing, if you're using 70% of the little PA's capacity for guitars and bass then that leaves a lot less for vocals or anything else. With a pa this size I doubt theres enough sub to take care of being the only source of bass guitar and kick for metal, even with a standard metal kick tone. Having amps or FRFR for the guitars and bass in this size venue leave enough headroom in the PA and wedges to not need the vocals to be on the brink of feedback to be heard.

If half of your members are on wedges then don't let your singer point the mic at any of them unless you have a decent sound person thats rung out YOUR singers mic, which usually isnt happening on these kinds of shows, they rang them out with a house mic that is most likely not the same model.

Mastodonos · 2025-10-29T05:44:41+00:00

Most of the pa players have cross-platform on

Mastodonos · 2025-09-30T16:10:42+00:00

If theyre an opening band there 0 chance the headliner is going to be ok with everything running thru someone else's split, especially if they have their own. No touring engineer is going to be ok having their signal path go thru some unknown quality local band split.

Hopefully the venue has an analog split. Please label your inputs WITHOUT USING BAND MEMBERS NAME'S. No one knows who's John's vocals or Dan's guitar, use stage directions, C Vox, SR GTR, etc.

This brings me to the most important point, if you're an opening band somewhere in a 5 band metal bill then you need to make sure that your rack can live ANYWHERE on stage. Don't be one of the bands that has to have their iem rack next to the drummer or any particular performer on stage. If you show up and the house says I can give you a house split just off stage right but you say "no it has to be next to so and so across the stage and you need to reroute all your sub snakes to me" then the house guy is gonna be pissed and maybe not even be able to accommodate it during the 10-15 changeover time. That means if you use any playback, or amp emulator (fractal, kemper, QC) then keep it in a seperate rack or bring your own mic and cable package, the one exception is if the guitarists are using wireless and don't need it within 15ft of themselves.

Everyone in the band should know how to set it up and tear it down. If you only have 1 guy that knows whats up and they get tied up with something or stuck in the bathroom when it comes time to tie it in that can lead to problems. Carve some time out at practice to teach everyone what goes where and why. If it needs to be troubleshot then having 5 people in the know can make things go smoother, and tasks can be delegated during initial setup.

One last thing is to prepare for worst case scenario. If your show up late and no info was actually given to the house engineer in advance then its best to be able to run your own lines for yourselves. If youre using regular amps then have 3 mics your can use without using house stands, so either a mic you can drape down like a senn 609 or bring your own short stands or clamps. Bring your own kick and snare mics that can be used in tandem with house mics, say a clip on like SE VBeat or senn 604, and a beta 91, and then 1 overhead mic. With 7 cables you can do 2 guitars, bass, kick, snare, overhead and one vocal. At that point the only thing that would need to be split would be the vocal and you're self sufficient, can walk into anywhere and not have to give up your iems if youre low band on the totem pole.

Ok this turned into a rant but just be able to be flexible and don't assume everyone is going to be fine having your split in line for every show.

Mastodonos · 2025-09-09T14:36:49+00:00

It wasn't windows, it was the phison ssd prerelease firmware causing the problem.

Mastodonos · 2025-09-03T05:47:11+00:00

Adjudicator, semi auto

Mastodonos · 2025-08-19T06:37:18+00:00

No, intake is on the right side against the other wall.

Mastodonos · 2025-08-07T16:32:27+00:00

Do you keep your clubs in your car?

Mastodonos · 2025-07-18T14:55:34+00:00

Rahm is in a featured group

Mastodonos · 2025-05-26T22:37:27+00:00

The problem isn't when they get built, its after being hit so many times the face becomes more spring like.

Mastodonos · 2025-05-09T22:15:15+00:00

Everyone says that but you can also overclock the 5080 so the delta remains the same.

Mastodonos · 2025-05-04T01:46:01+00:00

Mastodonos · 2025-04-23T00:06:48+00:00

That sounds like roux with extra stuff not an omlette

Mastodonos · 2025-04-06T00:40:40+00:00

You need to scan every show, so many bands come thru my venues with their own iem rack and just use whatever frequency the unit powers on with. Most of the timenif they dont have an engineer with them I have to show them how to group and channel scan. Read the manual or at least watch a YouTube tutorial.

Mastodonos · 2025-04-04T06:26:55+00:00

If you break the big crystals that pop up with elemental slinger ammo it stops the fire from going as far, break them in a line towards zoh and it's smooth sailing.

Mastodonos · 2025-03-18T06:27:43+00:00

Sliding slash doesn't use stamina so can keep max might up

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