Quest monitors: hear that tri-tone substitution

Every big city has at least one. A venue rock musicians go to see the best jazz/rock muso's play. Then they go home and practice their instruments knowing they'll never get to play there, no matter how many pop singles they sell.

Getting to play in these venues is pretty cool but one thing that is totally not cool, and yet most jazz/rock musicians have to tolerate, is fold-back monitors that can't reproduce the sophisticated sounds and harmonies of these bands. There are plenty of "loud" wedges on the market, but not many Hi-Fi sounding systems that can also deliver high SPL when required. The few that can are at the top of the expense tree.

Melbourne Australia's leading contemporary jazz and jazz rock venue is Spencer's Live which features an impressive line up of local and overseas Jazz Rock and Fusion performers.

A new performer at Spencer's is the new Quest QM12MP multi-purpose fold-back monitors. They made a quiet entrance as far as the audiences were concerned but after a few shows, they were an unanimous hit with the bands.

The guy with the lucky job of mixing these high quality acts is John McDiarmid who has mixed more rock/fusion on more continents than practically anybody. His comment was "I wasn't familiar with these new monitors but after a couple of shows, their ease of getting a high SPL smooth sound and sonic fidelity really sold me. Fold-back is one problem now I don't have to spend any time on, and the musicians and vocalists like them, and it makes for much quicker sound checks".

Quick sound-checks? Who wouldn't want that!