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Post subject: Wish list
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:50 pm
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Aspiring Musician
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I love the Passport. That much is obvious.

I just spent another $250 to get an external mixer for one band I do sound for to make one musician shut tf up about his special need for his own, unique, specially tuned monitor mix. He plays three instruments and he wants each of them to have a different volume level in his monitor than should be coming out of the mains.

So, I'll put his three instruments through my new Mackie ProFX8, along with the stereo inputs for my wife on the piano, and run the output from that into one stereo channel on the Passport 500 Pro, and add the drums in there (at least two mics, maybe more), plus the caller. The Mackey monitor mix goes to the problem musician's monitor, and the Passport 500's stereo out is split by one adapter with one stereo out going to the Passport 300 into one of its stereo channels, and the other going through a monoizer-XLR adapter, into my wife's monitor with the house mix. My wife has her own in-line monitor, so she's happy with the house mix to hear the whole band and can turn her individual monitor up or down to create her own balance, and the drummer is happy overhearing whatever the others are listening to.

In a perfect world, Fender would make three units:

1. A Passport 500 with a row of monitor volume levels and a mono, line level Monitor Out (1/4"TRS or XLR), in addition to everything the Passport 500 already is.

2. A pair of powered monitor speakers that can plug in series with each other, mount at two angles (for standing or seated musicians) and snap-together-carry like a Passport.

3. A powered subwoofer designed to accompany the Passport 500. It would have a long-excursion, small speaker with a serpentine tube to vent it, in order to be roughly the size and weight of a Passport 500.

If Fender made such equipment, I'd be running all Fender all the time, and I'd be happy and annoyingly loyal.

Until then, I wrestle with compromises with a sound system with two Passports as the core, plus a Gemini subwoofer that I hate to lug around, and three Mackie SRM150 monitors on stands designed as table-top mic stands (for seated musicians) or regular mic stands for standing musicians, plus two spackle buckets full of cables and a large tool box full of power cords and adapters of various kinds.


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