Dehlia Low is a 5 piece band.
Playing Bluegrass/Country

Performing in Listening Rooms, Bars, Festivals, Music Venues for audiences of 5-2000
Show type: Varied

Using the L1® System since June 2008

Geographic location: Asheville, NC

Notes about Dehlia Low
Dehlia Low is a new Asheville-based band focused on early country, bluegrass, and original music. Their songs features hard-hitting vocals with tight harmonies backed up beautifully by masterful dobro and mandolin playing, lively fiddling, and a booming upright bass. Dehlia Low performs original songs as well as classic and modern bluegrass and
old country numbers influenced strongly by Hazel Dickens, the Stanley Brothers, James King, and others.



Bose L1® equipment
Two L1 towers, two Bass modules.

Comments about the L1® System
Still figuring it out. Love the crisp clear sound and the easy set up, still figuring out how to get the volume and mix we need.

Web Site: Band Website

The Players
Anya Hinkle: Fiddle and vocals.
Stacy Claude: Guitar and vocals.
Aaron Ballance: Dobro and vocals.
Bryan Clendenin: Mandolin and vocals.
Greg Stiglets: Bass and vocals.

Hi DLguitar,

Thanks for posting this and telling us about your band. Did you make to the L1® Owners Conference in Little Switzerland NC?


To all - you have to go to the website and listen to the tunes!

http://www.myspace.com/dehlialow

ST


PS
I posted a reply to your There's no dobro message.

Thanks! Didn't make the conference we are brand new to the L1 scene. We've used friends systems before and decided to invest in our own.. and we are definite newbies hungry to learn more.

PS thanks for the dobro heads up.

Ohh man, you guys and gals have found my soft spot.

I long for the day when an acoustic group of this caliber shows up for an L1 conference. The L1 "IS" the perfect tool to spread this kind of sound.

Great musicianship, vocals and harmony, I really like this band.

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Great musicianship, vocals and harmony, I really like this band.

You said it O. These people can play.

Just wanted to let you all know that it seems we've gotten the L1 figured out and are loving it! We put it to the test the other night in an awful room. Loud, narrow, high ceilings, with glass behind us. We used our big condenser mics, and still no feedback! and plenty of volume. We are VERY pleased! Here's a link you might enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP8ms3CmHac&feature=related

This isn't with the BOSE, but hopefully we'll have one with it up soon.

WOW! I like your sound! You put the "B" in bluegrass!!! I can't wait to hear a clip of you guys using your L1 system. Glad you got it figured out.

I noticed a nice (and different) mic arrangement in the video with the mandolin having it's own mic also. I bet that might be a little tricky working the condenser mic for the vocals, but you have obviously worked it out. A nice "overall" mix and sound for the band.

If you ever get out to the Midwest, let me know. I'll come listen to you guys do a "live" show!

John

Good traditional bluegrass is truly spiritual. You guys are wonderful musical soul food.

Chas

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We used our big condenser mics, and still no feedback! and plenty of volume.

Lots of posts around here asking about how to do just that!
I hope you can help those people out.
Loved your tunes.

I'm not sure if I can explain the technicalities appropriately, but I'll give it a try.

There are 5 of us, no pick ups, no DI's. We are using an AKG 440 for vocals, a Shure 81 right under that for mando and some guitar, a 58 for the bass, a C1000 for the dobro, and a Shure 81 for the guitar.

We are using a Mackie Mixer DFX 12. We plug into the mixer with XLR's. We pretty much start everything on the mixer at 12 o'clock. Gain, Highs, mids, and lows. And put the volume levers in the middle.

Keeping the L1 remote master volume turned all the way down, we go though each mic playing or singing loudly, and watch the lights. We turn as much up on the mixer as we can get before we see red lights on the tower. When we see red, we back off just a bit. When the lights are set, we take down the mids and turn up the highs across the board on the mixer to clear it up.

Then we don't touch the mixer again! We do all of our adjusting with the L1 remote. This has worked out great, and we really have had no trouble with feedback, in awful rooms. Plus plenty of additional volume to work with.

I'm sure this probably could be clearer. I know how to do it, but I don't know how to explain it in technical terms, so feel free to ask clarifying questions. Best!

Hi DLguitar,

That was really clear - and if you were to include a picture, this could be a great entry in the Share the Wealth Contest.

You could win a T1® or an Early-Bird Prize.

Follow the link above for more details, and you can ask questions about it here.

Share the Wealth Contest - Discussion

Hi DLGuitar ~

Thanks for sharing your mixer settings for stage performance. I have a couple of detailed questions for you, if you don’t mind.

On your SM81 mics, do you use them with 0 or -10dB attenuation set on them? Also, where are you running your low frequency response switch on each SM81? Are they flat, -6dB or -18dB of rolloff? Sorry for the detailed questions, but I have just purchased two SM81s for my group to use for instrumentation and we haven’t had a gig yet were I have been able to use them. We have similar instruments; mandolin, guitar, and a fiddle instead of Dobro. Up until now, we had been using the AKG C1000s mics for instrumentation, but I had the occasion to use both SM81s for the first time with another group I play with occasionally and was impressed by their ability to not color any of the instrument’s tones being played through them. Totally transparent, no EQ required, if you want the natural sound of the instrument! They are VERY nice microphones for acoustic work and I’m looking forward to us playing through them in some gigs coming up real soon. I’m just wondering what others might be doing with the optional settings on them.

Like you, we also use a Mackie DFX12 when everyone makes the gig! (5 of us) So, it would be really nice for me if you included a picture of your mixer settings, once it was configured for a gig as you described in your previous post. For similar groups like yours and mine, I find the Mackie DFX12 is a very well laid out and designed mixer. It’s great for the “on-stage” soundman (or soundwoman) of the group!

Jon-

I'm not ignoring your post- I just don't have the answers. We don't store the PA at my house, and I forgot to look at the 81's this week when we were gigging to see what we have the switch set on. I will find out though. I tried to put a picture up but it's too big. You can view our live set up at myspace.com/dehlialow

Hi DLguitar,

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Originally posted by DLguitar:
I tried to put a picture up but it's too big.

This should help. Posting pictures - resizing to fit

Hi DLguitar ~

Don't fret over it! I know I was asking for some "detailed" info and I certainly understand its not a priority for you when you're out at a gig! If you remember next time, that's fine. If not, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it! HA! I'll take a cruise by your myspace page. Thanks...John

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Originally posted by JohnNell:
Hi DLguitar ~
Don't fret over it...

Hee, hee... a fret-less bass player telling a guitarist to not "fret" over it!

Anyway ... check out Dehlia Low Settting up a 5 piece acoustic band over in the Wiki for details and pictures!

Dan - You caught that, huh???
DLGuitar - Thanks so much for the mixer photo in the Wiki! I will experiment and hopefully learn something here that will benefit our band's sound. Many thanks for your contribution.

Great- I hope it's helpful. It took us one feedback nightmare gig, and then lots of research and experimenting, but now I really feel like we've got it dialed in for us. We get so much great feedback at gigs on the sound quality--- so anything I can share to help out another band, I'd be glad to.

Hi DLguitar,

Nice sound, I liked the youtube post.
I'll be looking forward to hearing the group through your L1.

Here's a link to a video of us using the L1. It's made from a little hand held camera so it's not that great.
Dehlia Low with Bobby Hicks