Topic: festival preparation

[cosmic charlie]

With DPA screens in hand, and no cash for the Phatty Shures, you may like to have a bit more wind cutting action than the DPAs provide.  Enter HANES!  or any other heavy cotton sock, black works, that when turned inside out will show the little looped fluffy insides that ordinarily would be wicking stank off the toes. 

 Cut the sock below the heal, turn them inside out, place them over the DPAs and you have at least another 5-7mph* protection.  If that doesn't cut it, reach in the bag and pull out a couple of Crown Royal bags and put that over the whole works.  Or swap socks for bags till you get the level of wind reduction that you can live with.  The highs will be pretty knocked down by this point, but if you're out in it, and it's that windy, you may just have something in the end, as opposed to nada.

I've got some pretty heavy duty cotton hiking socks - i wonder if these will do.  Thanks for the recommendation, I thought the DPA's would fly but obviously there seems to be some contention about them.


John - I might go ahead and grab some speaker grille fabric from radio shack just to be safe. thanks for your input guys.   

[rowjimmytour]

I just DIY myself some dead rat skin covers!!! Pretty easy project to pull off and I even used fabric glue for the seams and stiches.
Peace

[cosmic charlie]

rat skin eh?

wanna post a step by step DIY manual complete with pictures of the afforementioned rat, necessary slaughtering, skin removal, and application? that would really help me out... 


 

[CQBert]

JB3 is not a fan of a lot of heat...  find a way to keep it cool, out of sun and with ventalation if at all possible...

ACL '04 saw a few heat shut downs that peeved people..

CQBert

[cosmic charlie]

bert-

hopefully i can rig up some kind of storage for my pre- and jb3

i was at acl 04, and as usual it was hot as hell... i wonder if manchester in june will be as hot as austin in september...
i guess it has been gettin pretty hot around here lately.

[Tim]

manchester in june will be really hot with a lot humiidity

[John R]

manchester in june will be really hot with a lot humiidity

hence much patchouli

[Tyler McGhee]

i've been every year...and every year, it's a scorcher.
HOT, Hot, HOT!