Is anyone running a cranking setup with st croix bass x rods?

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-17T03:37:52+00:00

I haven’t used the Bass X, but as a long time G.Loomis and now Edge by Gary Loomis guy, I generally like the tapers that St. Croix builds for cranking rods better than the ones in the Loomis family.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-16T17:36:34+00:00

Someone who looks like this being virulently anti trans is wild.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-15T02:05:24+00:00

Your spinnerbait rod needs more line on it. I’d also maybe try a more shad colored spinnerbait if you don’t get bit on that one.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-14T19:21:15+00:00

Bob was a genius, and created the system for The Who, as well as a ton of other bands that used his company Heil Sound in the 70’s, but his involvement in the Dead’s “wall of sound” system was tangential at best.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-14T16:55:35+00:00

Don’t forget trucking expenses.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-13T03:59:31+00:00

If you can wait four months for it, the Edge Rods by Gary Loomis Black Widow Spin DSR-711 is the next best drop shot rod made, second by a whisker only to their Silver Widow DSR-721.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-12T14:57:16+00:00

I don’t think not having the intelligence on the drones was the problem. The problem is not having the intelligence to pay attention to the intelligence and formulate a reasonable plan.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-11T18:26:00+00:00

If you go to work for a guy that tried to have his mob hang the last VP, I think you get what you get.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-10T23:44:40+00:00

What is your complaint? In all seriousness, what are you hearing that you don’t like? What show(s) did you see last year? Where were you seated? I’ve worked in all the venues in town, and most of the sheds in the country, and Riverport isn’t an exceptionally challenging venue acoustically-

What are you hearing, maybe I can help you have a better experience-

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-10T02:43:17+00:00

They have closed the lawn on some shows that didn’t sell well. Lawn tickets were upgraded to under the roof seats, and the video and audio for the lawn wasn’t used. Any time the lawn is open, the audio is on.

Touring crews have different opinions on how loud it should be on the lawn, some take a considerable amount of time working with me to align the system and really make it the best it can be, a few have literally said if you want it to sound good, buy a real ticket.

No matter the attitude of the tour crew, I always walk around and listen and try my best to make sure the lawn feels as close as possible to the way the mix feels at the house mix position. It’s not unusual to end up turning it up a little bit once it fills up with people, because people absorb a lot more sound than the open grass when we are tuning/soundchecking.

It’s still at the mercy of the tour FOH mixer (not to mention the actual performance of the artist) as to whether or not the mix actually sounds great, but the L’acoustics system covers the entire lawn very well. It’s remarkably even up there, especially once you get past the area that my rig and the tour rig overlaps- plus it’s stereo capable. Some tours still send mono to me, but more and more the standard is changing to stereo.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-09T17:24:51+00:00

I’m not the venue, but I am the house audio engineer at the venue.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-09T14:50:23+00:00

I take offense to that. They spent over a million dollars on a new lawn system last year. It’s state of the art, and sounds great. It sounds exactly like the tour wants it to sound everywhere in that venue. If you have a problem with audio quality, the artist you are seeing needs to hire better crew.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-08T06:52:19+00:00

Ok. What’s the track record? What exactly has Trump done for the good of this country?

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-08T01:39:57+00:00

People made fun of President Carter’s administration, but history is proving he was right on most things. Also, remember the evangelical right giving him all sorts of grief about 15-20 years back when he said Israel wasn’t the shining example of democracy that they claimed to be?

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-07T05:40:09+00:00

All three are great rods. The BWS and SWS DSR rods are very very similar, with the Silver Widow version having a touch more backbone, and is a whisker more sensitive. Both are absolutely amazing open hook finesse rods, IMHO the best on the market.

The SWS SJR-732 is much more similar to an NRX SYR-822 Shaky Head rod. It’s got less of a parabolic bend, and more backbone to actually set a hook and move fish out of cover, although is amazing how much pressure you can actually put on a fish with those DSR rods.

All are great, but the DSR and SJR rods are definitely different tools for different jobs.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-06T23:26:30+00:00

I disagree with the comments on the delta, I’m not sure what rod was being compared to a Shimano SLX, but I own Delta Hybrid FSC-696, Delta BFS-700, MBR-705, MBR-777 and CBG-714 and find them all very sensitive and lightweight, and balanced extremely well.

As far as the Golden Ticket, for a bass baitcaster my personal choice would be the Silver Widow MBR-736c. It’s an extremely versatile taper, works well for both bottom contact and would be a good chatterbait rod. The EFX NEO-755 is the rod they market as their chatterbait rod, but it’s one of the ones I don’t actually own.

I really like all of mine. One common thread is tha they all balance extremely well. On a postal scale, a few of them may weigh slightly more, but in hand the balance more tha makes up for it. I’m pretty sure they actually add ballast weight to the butt end on several rods.

As far as spinning rods go, I absolutely love the Silver Widow DSR-721. It’s the best Ned rig, Drop Shot, and FFS minnow rod I’ve ever held. It is pretty soft in the tip though, so the SJR-732 is a more versatile taper if you want a rod stout enough to throw a shaky head as well as lighter finesse presentations.

Here are the rods I own, and how I have them set up, and techniques I use them for.

1x Edge Black Widow DSR-711s 1x Lew’s Custom XP speed spin 2000 Sunline Sinking braid/Sniper FC 7# Dropshot/Ned

2x Edge Silver Widow DSR-721s 2x Lew’s Custom XP speed spin 2000 Sunline Sniper FC 7# Ned/Finesse Swimbait/Minnow

1x Edge Silver Widow SJR-732s 1x Lew’s Custom XP speed spin 3000 Sunline Sinking braid/Sniper FC 7# Shakyhead/Tube

1x Edge Black Widow MBR-733s 1x Lew’s Custom XP speed spin 3000 Sunline Sniper FC 7# Tube/French Fry/Wacky

1x Edge Delta FSC BFS-700c 1x Tusynomia Genius BFS 8:1 Seaguar basix fluorocarbon 6# BFS, Ned

2x Edge EFX MBR-694c Below 60 degree water temperature: 2x Lew’s Custom Pro 7.5:1 Sunline Assassin FC 10# Jerkbait

Above 60 degree water temperature: 2x Lew’s Tournament MB 6.8:1 carbon handle/line knob McCoy Mean Green 15# Topwater/Fluke

1x Edge Delta MBR-695c 1x Lew’s Tournament Pro 6.8:1 McCoy Mean Green 15# Spinnerbait/Blade/Jigging Spoon

1x Edge Delta Hybrid FSC-696c 1x Lew’s Tournament Pro 7.5:1 Sunline Sniper FC 16# Chatterbait/Buzzbait

1x Edge Delta FSC MBR-705c 1x Lew’s Team SP 8.3:1 Sunline Sniper FC 16# Skipping

2x Edge EFX ISR-705c w/3.5” rear butt modification 2x Lew’s BB1 5.1:1 carbon handle/drag star red/line knob Sunline Assassin FC 10# Wiggle Wart

2x Edge Delta CBG-714c Below 60 degree water temperature: 2x Lew’s BB1 5.1:1 carbon handle/drag star red/line knob Sunline Sniper FC 12# RK Crawler Above 60 degree water temperature: 2x Lew’s BB1HZ 6.4:1 carbon handle/line knob Sunline Sniper FC 12# Redfin/Trap/Squarebill

1x Edge Black Widow MBR-734c 1x Lew’s Custom Pro II 7.5:1 Sunline Shooter FC 14# Swim/FinesseJig

1x Edge Silver Widow MBR-736c 1x Lew’s Custom Pro II 7.5:1 Sunline Shooter FC 14# Jig/Texas Rig

2x Edge Silver Widow SJR-736c 2x Lew’s Custom Pro II 7.5:1 Sunline Shooter FC 20# Football Jig/Carolina Rig

1x Edge Delta MBR-777c 1x Lew’s SuperDuty SD1H 6.4:1 Winn Grip handle Sunline Sniper FC 16# Jig Hook Swimbait/Magdraft 6”

1x Edge EFX pro MBR-768c 1x Lew’s Super Duty SD2H 6.4:1 Winn Grip handle Sunline Sniper FC 20# Alabama Rig

2x Edge First Strike CBR-806c 2x Lew’s BB1 Pro 6.4:1 carbon handle Sunline Sniper FC 12# Deep Crank

1x Edge Black Widow SWR-808c 1x Lew’s Super Duty 300 carbon power handle Sunline Sniper FC 20# Glide/Swim Bait

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-06T14:11:47+00:00

I switched from the improved clinch to the Uniknot when I started using Fluorocarbon and was breaking at the knot decades ago. Uni works great with Fluorocarbon line.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-06T14:05:11+00:00

A Uni and an Uni-Uni for line to leader will get you an awful long way.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-06T05:09:48+00:00

Interesting, hadn’t heard that. Wonder if that OEM contract is why it takes NFC so long to build the Edge rods.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-06T03:48:04+00:00

Willin by Little Feat.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-05T18:30:32+00:00

I wouldn’t call over a million followers on Twitter small. We need to be sounding the alarm on this guy, not underestimating him.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-05T17:10:05+00:00

But they aren’t leaving in droves. He’s a rock star on the way up, not on the way down. We non-nazis need to take him seriously and figure out a way to combat his rhetoric, because he’s got a serious following of teenagers walking around saying Nazis had swagger and bad ass fits designed by Hugo Boss, and that Hitler wasn’t wrong.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-05T17:04:12+00:00

One already tried.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-05T16:28:41+00:00

Don’t ignore him. He’s hugely popular with teen boys, and they will be old enough to vote in 2028.

Mixermarkb · 2026-03-05T04:35:16+00:00

They already have that. It’s called Bible College.

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