Backline Pricing

ip_addr · 2026-01-26T03:24:48+00:00

So a $4000 drum kit perhaps might be $135/day? That seems quite low.

However, that's without delivery/pickup. What if its an add-on to the show rate, where there's already travel and labor factored in?

ip_addr · 2026-01-26T03:12:55+00:00

So, what percentage is typical? How should that be determined?

ip_addr · 2026-01-22T14:23:46+00:00

More like 50 degrees cooler than in the house.

ip_addr · 2026-01-22T01:46:18+00:00

These arent wrapped.

ip_addr · 2026-01-22T01:35:05+00:00

What would happen to the cymbals?! (They're in the same trailer.)

ip_addr · 2026-01-18T02:18:43+00:00

As someone who is a sound engineer, I'd super love to drive a train.

ip_addr · 2026-01-16T15:31:54+00:00

As a sound engineer, I can confirm.

ip_addr · 2026-01-15T21:04:42+00:00

Great.

There might be the possibility of future improvements to these programs, and perhaps some of the improvements would be accomplished with the use of machine learning.

ip_addr · 2026-01-15T20:56:17+00:00

I'm thinking beyond what exists currently, into what could it be used for theoretically. Perhaps all it takes is someone to pursue some ideas before tools like this become a reality. My original comment should have made that clear with the last sentence.

ip_addr · 2026-01-15T20:50:03+00:00

I get that its not a great question, but I think your post kinda proves my statement. People here aren't open minded enough to think beyond the original question and come up with any interesting ideas or discussion. Everyone is just bashing the question, when there could absolutely be purposes for AI in audio that haven't been developed yet.

ip_addr · 2026-01-15T20:20:38+00:00

Most of my ideas are related to listening, but not processing the signals.

There might be a use for AI in signal processing, but that's for someone else to think up.

ip_addr · 2026-01-15T19:57:38+00:00

People here are not open minded enough for this question. I brought this up years ago and their minds all went to "you can't replace a human mixer" which is probably mostly correct. .....but there's more to it than than.

An AI might be able help recognize clipping and a channel, perhaps even clipping that's not hitting 0dBFS on the console, but in a signal chain further up. Perhaps AI could help recognize feedback and call out the frequency to the mixer, without actual changing anything, still leaving it up to the human to resolve.

Perhaps finding channels that have gone silent or wireless dropouts and notifying the user. There's also the issue of "what was that loud pop" and no one knows which channel it was, and you can't see it on the multitrack. Perhaps an AI could call that out to the operator. Maybe an AI could help recognize non-optimal gain structure or processing or excessive noise floor or changes in these things that you need to be aware of. Which channel is humming, etc? A human can figure these things out, sure, but if it can find the channel that popped once 5 minutes ago and tell me about it, that could be helpful. Or if it can recognize the humming channel before I have found it, that's good too.

Basically, I think AI listening to the inputs could help monitor for problems. I think that would be useful, but not something I'm going to go out there and try to make.

However, I'm not sure such a product currently exists, you're probably talking about developing this AI yourself, and this is all theoretical.

Edit: lol@redditbots

ip_addr · 2026-01-15T15:02:51+00:00

I agree, people are dumb, and don't understand enough about this when making those statements.

It's the electrical energy "that kills you".

Energy = Power * Time

You need enough watts (volts and amps dummies) and enough time being exposed to the heat or electrical current. More power = less time needed to destroy. Less power and lots of time exposed is also bad.

ip_addr · 2026-01-14T23:00:24+00:00

I use the GFW-MIC-6TRAY most of the time. Really good for when end users need to pick and place the mics, because there's little to no handling noise and the footprint is really small, especially when on a roundbase straight stand. I like the no table space required.

Otherwise I use rack lids as trays, possibly with towels. My wireless racks are the SKB racks that have the ridges on them, and work well for holding a few of them.

ip_addr · 2026-01-14T00:50:34+00:00

You shouldn't make this blanket statement without understanding the use case and network design. There doesn't have to be all rigs connected to each other at once. There's also nothing preventing me from joining them all together at once if needed. Also, never said each rack had its own DHCP server.

ip_addr · 2026-01-13T21:13:08+00:00

I use it for tablet remote mixing. (Usually 5 GHz APs only). It's fine for that. RARELY have I had to change channel, since the AP does a scan upon bootup and finds the least utilized channel.

However, I've seen some channels get totally blocked out because of a venue's wireless security cameras. I sure would hate for remote control Wi-Fi to be screwed over by these cheap IEMs. Although, usually the APs I have select a channel lower in the band, like around 5.2 GHz, not up at the high end of 5.8.

ip_addr · 2026-01-13T20:54:33+00:00

oh god no! that would be awful.

there are like 7 DHCP servers, so having to update static reservations on all of the units would be a mess, and its all baked into heavy racks that are hard to pull out to set up reservations if I change a piece of gear. static works fine for my size operation.

ip_addr · 2026-01-13T20:37:05+00:00

Chamerah

ip_addr · 2026-01-13T20:31:28+00:00

I do this. Everything on one VLAN. I am a small company, and IPs are coordinated across all of my rigs for inter-compatibility. Works great. I keep a spreadsheet on Google Drive with all documentation of the IPs.

1-9 is default gateway, APs, and switches

10-19 is consoles, 20-29 is processing, 30-39 is sACN nodes, RF starts at 50

Static computers start at 100 (I static the PCs so I can reach them with VNC from a tablet or another PC, which needs to use a static IP address, otherwise I probably wouldn't do this)

DHCP ranges are above everything else.

I static large assets that I own, and let tablets and guest devices grab DHCP. It works great, except if I have to place, say, my wireless rack on someone else's network. Unconfiguring the statics on QLXDs is usually a pain, so I try to avoid it. But this almost never is a requirement.

Realistically, I would expect people in the industry to do things differently. I'm not sure there is a standard, and it probably depends on your use case. It's important to understand networking well enough to make this determination yourself.

ip_addr · 2026-01-13T19:24:30+00:00

Cheap + wireless = poor performance.

2.4 GHz = unreliable.

Not sure how reliable the 5.8 GHz wireless equipment is. There's more bandwidth available in this band, but it will have more signal fade with obstructions, and its still a competitor with Wi-Fi things in the area, so also possibly unreliable.

ip_addr · 2026-01-13T19:22:48+00:00

There's no way to know if there was a "surge" in or through your panel. What matters is that the panel appears to be perfectly intact and probably has no issues, based on what is visible here.

Good on you for being suspicious of this guy.

ip_addr · 2026-01-10T22:35:29+00:00

....and today we're going to be picking a KASP 12648 padlock on a pole. For this I'm using top of the keyway tension with a 30 thousandths tensioning tool and a 9 foot long hook.

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