KVR Audio

dvdvelde · Post by **dvdvelde** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:56 am

It's not supposed to be here. But i think you should check it out eventhough....

http://www.bose.com/controller;jsession ... ndex_2.jsp

I heard this one on stage and was blown away last night!

mn · Post by mn » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:07 am

I was reading about these a few months ago and they sound interesting. Nice to hear a personal review though.

It seems to be a downside would be that everyone in a band would need to use them or it kind of defeats the purpose. Would you agree with that, having heard them? Where did you hear them, a demo in a store, or a band using them, or what?

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:11 am

dvdvelde · Post by **dvdvelde** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:17 am

The upside,
No technicians! No Monitors! No Mixers! No No ,,
Same Quality of Sound Everywhere.
Each indidual player can have its own system, that's about it. No cables! Not paying for engineers...
And best of all, You Actually Hear ON STAGE , what the public is hearing!
Oh yeah...... i am just blown any.
Yesterday i was on stage and in the crowd, it really does not matter where you stand.. in the back, frontrow, middle on stage. There is virtually no difference in sound. Bose How did you do this ?
The sound was so good i got scared of it in the beginning, i am still XXX'd up...

I heard this in the Heineken Music Hall - Amsterdam.
They where testing it with an accoustic and electric concert just to try it out. I got a friend as engineer over ther and he invited me to listen.
If you are a live musician , at home or on stage, you could use this, it will change how we do concerts, i am sure.

I do think the this system is using the ROOM as accoustic speaker Box! It's lightweighted, you connect it with 2 cables, 1 main power, 1 line in.

Musicians can have a concert setup in about minutes, just drop the thingy on stage. Thats it!
It's so small (the smallest cheapest version and the large ones, can be taken apart and you can carry it in one bag!)

(the only thing that whent wrong , at first was that the microphones from vocals and drums needs adjusting, cause they pick up the sound and feeds it back, they needed the feedback-killer or else the vocal speaker it would scream feedback signals).

jtxx000 · Post by **jtxx000** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:20 am

I read about this a while back when Line6 added a new mode on the PODxt for specefically connecting up to one of these. It looked pretty interesting, if I ever do get around to performing live I'll have to look into getting one.

mn · Post by mn » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:26 am

Thanks for the details. You're whetted my appetite again. I'd have to play with one, I'm so used to tube amps...

btw, I've been trying to check out your AAMS but can't get it to launch. I'll post in the other thread.

Andywanders · Post by **Andywanders** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:14 am

dvdvelde wrote:It's lightweighted, you connect it with 2 cables, 1 main power, 1 line in.

So it must be mono..?

I usually use two or three synths -> small mixer -> srereo feed to FOH desk, and a mono feed to my monitor.

How would it work with a stereo setup..?

Anyway... I want one..!

Or do I need two..?

How much..?

dvdvelde · Post by **dvdvelde** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:33 am

(would it really be so , why not take 2 pair and put your mixer in the path ? Just an idea!

RTFM?

www.bose.com?

Paulie Phonick · Post by **Paulie Phonick** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:50 am

Wow!

I want to hear it live! How powerful is this system anyway? Can you do a big open air concert with those sticks?

@andywanders: As far as I can imagine, for a stereo sound you'd have to use two of them, placed on opposite sides of the scene. Wouldn't this be against the rule of this system, however? - the sound wouldn't probably be even in the entire acoustic scene anymore. Moveover, I think there could be interferences causing frequencies to amplify or cancel out in various spots of the room.

But I guess you should ask Bose engineers about that

warp x · Post by **warp x** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:46 am

I played a gig using this system 2 months ago. I think it maybe nice to listen to, but it's not nice to play with as a musician. It sort of feel like there's a duplicate of you standing behind you. Very unrealistic.

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:10 am

warp x wrote:I played a gig using this system 2 months ago. I think it maybe nice to listen to, but it's not nice to play with as a musician. It sort of feel like there's a duplicate of you standing behind you. Very unrealistic.

That could've been the dopes fault....

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:08 pm

warp x wrote:Very unrealistic.

That pretty much sums up the BOSE sound. BOSE has a very distinctive sound [which I could easily pick in a blind test] which cannot be a good thing, ever.

Ackelito · Post by **Ackelito** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:32 pm

BONES, i agree! there is something about them, dunno what, just something

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:40 pm

I don't see anything revolutionary about this:

How does that differ so much from a plain old speaker?

And also: beware all things Bose

Glooper · Post by **Glooper** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:40 pm

I'm not convinced it would work for a live band scenario.
generally everyone on stage wants to hear their own version of the band... normally with their own instrument higher (this is why guitarists should always have their guitar speakers pointing directly towards their ears.. otherwise they tend to turn the amps too loud and... thus everyone turns their amps up.. and you end up with a battle of the amps!). If you remove this kind of monitoring control away and the audience hears what the band hears.. well this will end up with the individual musicians competing with each other again.

I imagine it would work well for small acoustic sets though...

Ben

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