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Post by roly on Dec 12, 2021 2:24:14 GMT -5
Quite late for me...1978.
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Post by mikem on Dec 12, 2021 7:34:30 GMT -5
1985 (or there about)
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Post by ninworks on Dec 12, 2021 8:30:07 GMT -5
1977 when rehearsing in an all original progressive band. Microphone feedback is probably responsible for a substantial portion of the decreased high frequency response in my hearing. That was before we had enough money to buy a multi-band graphic equalizer. All we had was a crappy little mixer with bass and treble controls, a power amp, and a couple speakers. It had to be loud. Our drummer was a framing carpenter and swung a 20 oz. framing hammer all day. He beat the bjesus out of his kit and cymbals. He would break chunks out of crash cymbals on a regular basis. Put all that energy in a living room with an electric guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals, and that will give you an idea of the volume we played at. You could hardly hear the monitors. Nobody wore earplugs back then. I'm paying for it now.
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Post by rdr on Dec 25, 2021 12:37:16 GMT -5
Never. Last gigging band I was in was 50+ years ago. We had a Shure Vocal Master for vocals, big amps, and the big Leslie for the B3. But no monitors.
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Post by Riff Twang on Dec 26, 2021 11:34:19 GMT -5
It would be the mid 70's for me I think.
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Post by Laker on Dec 27, 2021 10:36:00 GMT -5
I’m guessing around the mid ‘70s when I started running a tri-amped PA with individual Altec cabinets and horns. Going back to 1960 when I started playing in bands we would set the PA speakers behind the band to the sides of the stage. A little more feedback prone, but using quality speakers and mics aided a bit in reducing it to a minimum.
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Post by Bopper on Dec 27, 2021 11:03:59 GMT -5
These guys, never... (pretty much)
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Post by Davywhizz on Jan 27, 2022 12:28:45 GMT -5
1978 or early 79. In a band which developed some serious aspirations. We invested in a HH Concert PA with a 24 channel mixer, multicore, bins, mid cabs and horns...the whole deal. We used the old PA as the monitor system. Then split up six months later
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Post by Ragtop on Jan 27, 2022 15:52:24 GMT -5
My old band (2007-2010) had a decent PA, and the three of us that sang had those Hotspot monitors. They worked well; I could hear myself and they didn't take up much room.
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 29, 2022 11:52:55 GMT -5
Prolly 1973 or 4. Drummer had a Shure vocal masher and cut 1 cabinet in half. No joke. A couple years later I started working for a company that had couple sound shops, a couple studios, management Co etc. I spent most of my money upgrading to a triamped system with JBL 1-12 and Peavey 1-15 monitors...Crown and BGW power...the good old days.
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Post by twangmeister on Jan 29, 2022 19:39:33 GMT -5
1974
We upgraded our PA system to four Bose 800s powered by two Sunn Colliseum slave amp suspended ahead of the stage. So we needed monitors and a monitor amp.
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Post by mikem on Jan 30, 2022 15:44:37 GMT -5
My old band (2007-2010) had a decent PA, and the three of us that sang had those Hotspot monitors. They worked well; I could hear myself and they didn't take up much room. In my GB days (playing sax for different wedding/corp bands) in addition to my sax I'd bring an sm58 + Yamaha MS202 (Yamaha's version of a Hotspot) with the appropriate cords. My mic cable was 30' and my shielded 1/4 cable for the monitor was 25' in length.
I'd show up and ask: Where do I go?
Plug in, and be able to adjust the stand-mounted monitor's volume as needed.
Stand mounted personal monitors are great - btw: I still have mine - it's still kickin' even though I bought it in the late 80's/early 90's.
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Post by markfromhawaii on Mar 31, 2022 13:10:36 GMT -5
Back in ‘75 or ‘76. Originally our band had a Shure Vocal Master PA. When we got a mixer board with crossover speakers, the Vocal Master became our monitor system.
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Post by Duke on Apr 9, 2022 13:23:16 GMT -5
About the mid 70s.
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Post by twangmeister on May 31, 2022 14:27:48 GMT -5
1973.
We ran a line from our Shure VocalMaster to a small power amp for our monitors.
Unfortunately we overwhelmed the 100 watt VocalMaster.
So we upgraded to a Sunn Colliseum slave amp into Bose 800s the for main and a Sunn Concert slave for the monitors.
I find it funny that our original PA system of a 100 watt Bogen Challenger into two Showman cabinets with D-130s was tougher and may have sounded better.
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Post by Rick Knight on Jun 8, 2022 13:35:24 GMT -5
We didn't have monitors in the 70s and I wasn't in a band during the 80s and 90s, so my first band that had monitors was early 2000s. I owned the PA, but didn't have or want my own monitor on stage. I could hear enough from other people's and didn't want unnecessary cabinets taking up stage space.
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